I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.
Today, March 21 (or rather tonight) is the spring equinox 2023. I celebrate end of winter by starting this years count down of the 91 days until the summer solistice, documenting gardening and spring/pre summer progress.
This is what it looks like today … #sarasspringcount23
Tales from the jar side: JVM Weekly is great, AI tools for Java devs, Spring office hours, and the usual assortment of toots and skeets, by @kenkousen #Java#AI#GPT#midjourney#spring
"Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish." - Charlie Chaplin #Quote
Maybe once every 10 yrs, a boom in Jellyfish comes up the harbour. Kids & adults were up the river tubing. When they reached the mouth of the river, they were trapped by 1000s of small jellyfish.
I used my boat to rescue a few, stingers were everywhere.
I'd never seen so many, that make it to the river.
Yesterday, we went on a day trip to #Oxford by #train. No other means of powered transport was used as we #cycled to and from our local #RailwayStation.
Here is the #countryside zooming past the train window.
A springtime scene that I hope you may enjoy. Our first flush of spring has passed already but it's my second favorite season so I'm dragging it on in my head a bit. LOL (Fall is my favorite).
What's the weather in your part of the world looking like today?
Here in Winston Salem, NC, it's going to be a decently hot day as you can see. We'll get up to about 82F, which for me is about 40 degrees way too hot!
I have just learned that "#Java Bean" has two completely different and incompatible definitions.
One is a dumb, badly designed data object with getters and setters.
The other is... a service object managed by the Spring framework IoC container.
Holy hell. This is 10x worse than #Laravel "facades."
Am I wrong here? This is what I'm finding from online tutorials. Is there more nuance that is not coming through, because for now I just hate #Spring even more.
After lunch yesterday, we went to the #HistoryOfScienceMuseum in #Oxford. It’s not very big but contains some really fascinating exhibits. It is right next to the #SheldonianTheatre and well worth a visit.
I recently read a post on "6 Ways To Pass Parameters to #Spring#REST API". Though the title is a bit misleading, as it’s unrelated to REST, it does an excellent job listing all ways to send parameters to a Spring application. I want to do the same for #ApacheAPISIX; it’s beneficial when you write a custom plugin.
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
#Jasmine is blooming again. We keep them indoors for 3/4 of year & move outside for late Spring-Summer. Good indoor natural air purifying #plant. Flowers are #edible & used to make tea & fruits used in #Chinese#TraditionalMedicine.