Sometimes, especially during debugging, it would be helpful to mark single lines in the log in colours. There is a simple way to achieve this with Spring Boot and logback. With this dependency in place you can extend your logger to achieve this. Here a sample setup: This allows you to mark a resource in […]
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Spring Boot contains a quite nice configuration for logback with color coding and good readability. But it lacks logging MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) content. I tried around and found a way to append MDC to every logged line by setting the console pattern in my application.properties/yml under logging.pattern.console to Without any MDC set this adds
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On macs you can open multiple projects in tabs instead of single windows with IntelliJ thanks to an OS functionality. Set the System Preferences > General > Prefer tabs to always. Then try to open multiple projects in IntelliJ. You will see them opening in tabs :) I haven’t found this functionality under Windows or
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The file list in projects gets quite long most of the time but most of those files aren’t really used on a daily base. The FoldableView plugin allows you to just hide these files behind a dropdown menu. So they’re still there and easily accessible if you need them but hidden during normal work. In
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In the last weeks I dig deeper into Angular and how to structure such an application properly incl. the tools needed. So I want to share my first steps I take starting a new Angular app: Prettier What is Prettier? An opinionated code formatter Supports many languages Integrates with most editors Has few options Installation
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As a big fan of postgresql I’m following latest releases based on the stable updates channel. But every time a new major release comes our you end up with two running instances on your machine and you have to upgrade your data from the old to the new one. Here some steps how I did
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While creating my new homepage on https://mbo.dev I was looking for a command line tool to optimise images. Best tool for the job seemed to be imagemagic in combination with mozjpeg. Here the command I used which brought the images down very very much: The quality may change but I couldn’t see the difference without
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I installed a raid1 with two 3.5″ sata disks in one of my machines. Instead of using mdadm as usual I decided to go with btrfs this time. Here the commands I used for that (as root): This was already working properly and I was able to copy my data on the newly created raid.
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All my virtual machine hosts are using networkd bridging to announce IPs of their vms in my network and now I just found the easiest way to configure this without manually changing any config files like I always did before. Here is how I added a bridge br0 to my physical interface enp1s0: Works already
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It’s quite easy to mix up spring-boot-start-cache with 2nd level caching in hibernate. In this post I want to take down how to enable both and being able to run tests from within intellij and gradle (which isn’t the default if you just follow most tutorials). To have proper dependencies for this i added the