Thoughts and Code

Maven Credential Helper

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0100

As a longtime Maven user, I have quite often been annoyed by one particular feature: Repository authentication. Since the beginning of Maven 2, this has been done the same way, by having a <server> node in the $HOME/.m2/settings.xml. This post will explore a new Maven extension I have created that attempts to avoid hard-coding these credentials in a static xml file. Before we get into that, however, we will take a look at how this works today.

with a little --help from my friends

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:29:58 +0100

Working with the command line

I have been a developer for quite a few years now, and I have been using Linux for most of the time. Being a Linux user I am not afraid of using the command line, in fact, a lot of the time is spent using the terminal. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal, and there’s still a lot of things I don’t remember by heart.

Deno scripting

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Have you ever felt like you’re making too many shell scripts? Some may say that every line of bash is too much bash. An example of why bash may be not the best solution for writing scripts is shellcheck. There are too many possible mistakes.

In the last few years I have been experimenting with different scripting languages, and I think I have found a few good ones.

A non-exhaustive list is: