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Testcontainers is a relatively new library that can help a lot with working with resources like databases by using containerization. From the website: "Testcontainers is an open source library for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container."

Over the last few years, I've been experimenting with some of the various note taking tools. I've used OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian and LogSeq. I've even installed Emacs to try Org Mode (multiple times!) and tried various Vim or NeoVim plugins! The tools that stuck the longest were probably OneNote, Obsidian and LogSeq.

I'd like to share how I have my dotfiles configured. Are you familiar with dotfiles?

Recently, I was telling my kids about this one time during college when some friends invited me to go check out a cave with them. It has been a long time, but I’m going to do my best to recall the experience here.

I've been going through some of my old code from college lately and I've been surprised by just how little I knew early on, even during my senior year. It made me think about the sorts of things that new programmers don't (usually) learn or that are learned best from mentors as opposed to from books or classes. In this post, I want to share concrete things that _I've learned_. No calling out other people here, this is all me.