Beer Money: Extra for non-essential payments, available for spending on luxuries, hobbies, or a fresh pint of your favorite draft. — The equation at stake is really simple. Earnapp is a tool to earn a passive income by sharing a little bit of your unused network from devices at rest. The Amazon Firestick is usually always on and connected to the internet. Earnapp provides an APK installer for Android devices. …

In this tutorial, we will use the Goole Form Java Client API to create, update and read responses from a Google Form configured as a Quiz. Code Provided. — Why? Google Form API has been published recently after extensive usage and testing in beta from several early adopters. Those APIs are really powerful. In several projects I’ve worked on there was the need for a configurable user input form. For lots of projects, I had to build a custom “form-builder”…

In this simple tutorial, we will see every step to run a SpringBoot Kotlin application inside Minikube. It took me 2 /3 hours to run everything locally, I wish I had a battle plan like this when I started. So here it is, hoping that helps. …

Today I discovered Java’s TextBlock. It was love at first sight. — Apparently, It’s an old feature of Java previously called RowString, that wasn’t ready to be shipped because during the testing phase showed several problems. It was finally delivered in JEP 378 and included in the JDK 15 in September 2020 as a FINAL and PERMANENT feature. Goals: Simplify the writing…

We transformed the solution and made it a little less stateless. — 1- Introduction Last week we received a WAPT (Web Application Penetration Test) report with a HIGH vulnerability warning: Insecure Session Termination. The JWT token used for authentication it’s still valid after the user logs-out. Let’s provide an example of how to exploit this vulnerability. A user might access a website from a…

JEP 421 announces the end of Java Finalizers. Adios to an ancient Java feature, born together with Java 1.0 and its Garbage Collector. — “Finally” and “Finalize” We need those keywords only for specific cases, namely, releasing the operating system’s resources. In those cases, the Garbage Collector is insufficient; the program must release OS resources programmatically. Let’s provide a classic example of a “finally” block used to close an InputStream:

Its size and simplicity could make it a wildly used library in the next future. — The first version of TinyBase, released under the MIT License, is a beautiful and smart way to manage the state of an application with JavaScript. TinyBase is still fresh in the ecosystem of open-source software and still not used in critical web projects. But its size and simplicity, together with…

Yes, it’s possible. — For the core implementation, I needed two main external libraries: IoHook and NodeMailer. "dependencies": { "iohook": "^0.9.3", "nodemailer": "^6.7.2" } The first step is to start IoHook listener on keyDown events, reading the actual character from a custom input map defined ad-hoc. In fact, unfortunately, the code of the key…