In my project at work, I was forced to do one very painful refactoring, but hopefully, IntelliJ came to rescue! The task was divided into two steps. The first step was about extracting literal into a constant variable in about maybe 200 places. That step was easy by using Replace in Path (Ctrl+Shift+R). The second and final step was about making static imports to that new constant in every class. Making such a change by hand was too overwhelming for me, but expectantly, there is a tool in IntelliJ called Replace Structurally. That tool allows you to replace every import of your variable to be static import instead of normal field import by selecting the option Use static imports

At the beginning of October, a very interesting report was released by European Central Bank with the title Report on a digital euro. If this link is expired, you can check alternatively this one Report on a digital euro

As I am running some internal spreadsheet to track our cash flow, I had to find out a solid foreign exchange rates and currency conversion API. I have found that Fixer.io provides access without any cost for up to 1000 APIs calls per month which was enough for my needs.

Recently I had a desire to explore a little bit of how static websites are generated using modern stack like React. I choose at the time open-source framework called Gatsby

Just a few photos taken while being in Dun Laoghaire which is located in Dublin, Ireland. The exact location is here