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.
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.