Notes, projects, and technical writing from Mateusz Haligowski.https://mhlg.io/https://mhlg.io/projects/personal-blog/https://mhlg.io/projects/personal-blog/An Astro-powered home for notes, projects, and technical writing.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/its-not-easy-writing-a-title/https://mhlg.io/blog/its-not-easy-writing-a-title/Investigating title case rules while trying to generate better blog post titles from filenames.Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/visual-studio-code-snippets/https://mhlg.io/blog/visual-studio-code-snippets/Creating Visual Studio Code snippets to make drafting new Markdown blog posts easier.Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/css-formatting-in-jekyll/https://mhlg.io/blog/css-formatting-in-jekyll/Using kramdown attributes in Jekyll to add Semantic UI classes to Markdown-generated elements.Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/playing-with-alfred-workflows/https://mhlg.io/blog/playing-with-alfred-workflows/Building an Alfred workflow for focus sessions, including timers and macOS background sounds.Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/hosting-statics-on-github/https://mhlg.io/blog/hosting-statics-on-github/Hosting static websites for free with GitHub Pages and connecting them to a simple custom workflow.Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/top5-tools-for-rapid-web-app-development/https://mhlg.io/blog/top5-tools-for-rapid-web-app-development/A personal toolkit for quickly building and testing early web app ideas without spending much time or money.Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/assertj_collections_cookbook/https://mhlg.io/blog/assertj_collections_cookbook/A practical cookbook for testing Java collections with AssertJ, including ordering, containment, and object extraction cases.Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/scheduled-cloud-function-execution/https://mhlg.io/blog/scheduled-cloud-function-execution/Scheduling Google Cloud Functions by combining App Engine cron jobs, Pub/Sub, and serverless handlers.Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/serving-functions-express/https://mhlg.io/blog/serving-functions-express/Showing how HTTP Google Cloud Functions can be shared with or migrated from an Express application.Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/java-assertj-exceptions-testing/https://mhlg.io/blog/java-assertj-exceptions-testing/Testing Java exceptions cleanly with AssertJ and avoiding brittle patterns around thrown errors.Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/demonstation-of-private-modules/https://mhlg.io/blog/demonstation-of-private-modules/A follow-up on Guice private modules that shows how to reduce repeated binding code with a reusable helper.Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/hello-cloud-functions/https://mhlg.io/blog/hello-cloud-functions/A first hands-on walkthrough of Google Cloud Functions and the serverless programming model.Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/guice-private-modules/https://mhlg.io/blog/guice-private-modules/Using Google Guice private modules to encapsulate dependency bindings and make Java modules easier to reuse.Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/template-for-react-application/https://mhlg.io/blog/template-for-react-application/Creating a React and Express template for serving a frontend application from Google App Engine.Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/reuse-release-principle/https://mhlg.io/blog/reuse-release-principle/Introducing the Reuse/Release Principle and its implications for packaging, versioning, and reusable code.Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/cloud-functions-template/https://mhlg.io/blog/cloud-functions-template/Introducing a reusable Google Cloud Functions project template with Gulp tasks for testing and deployment.Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/intro-to-guice-scopes/https://mhlg.io/blog/intro-to-guice-scopes/An introduction to Google Guice scopes and how dependency lifetimes work in Java applications.Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/cors-in-cloud-functions/https://mhlg.io/blog/cors-in-cloud-functions/Solving CORS errors in HTTP-triggered Google Cloud Functions by handling preflight requests and response headers.Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/on-serving-js-applications/https://mhlg.io/blog/on-serving-js-applications/Thinking through the tradeoffs of serving JavaScript applications from cloud storage, App Engine, and similar platforms.Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/appengine-and-go-dependencies/https://mhlg.io/blog/appengine-and-go-dependencies/Exploring how to organize dependencies between multiple Go services running on Google App Engine.Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/dependency-inversion-in-go/https://mhlg.io/blog/dependency-inversion-in-go/Applying the dependency inversion principle in Go with interfaces, package structure, and testable boundaries.Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/task-queues/https://mhlg.io/blog/task-queues/Using Google App Engine task queues to coordinate work between services and handle asynchronous processing.Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/new-extracting/https://mhlg.io/blog/new-extracting/Trying AssertJ collection extraction features to make Java assertions clearer and less repetitive.Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/programmer-know-thy-tools/https://mhlg.io/blog/programmer-know-thy-tools/A reflection on the everyday tools programmers should master, from keyboards and IDEs to libraries and build systems.Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/rakefile-for-asciidoctor/https://mhlg.io/blog/rakefile-for-asciidoctor/A short Rakefile setup for generating Asciidoctor output with a simple Ruby-based workflow.Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/mockito-with-both-constructor-and-field-injection/https://mhlg.io/blog/mockito-with-both-constructor-and-field-injection/Working through Mockito injection behavior when constructor and field injection appear in the same tested class.Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/mock-verification-in-spock/https://mhlg.io/blog/mock-verification-in-spock/A note on surprising mock verification behavior in Spock compared with familiar Mockito patterns.Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/developing-grunt-plugin/https://mhlg.io/blog/developing-grunt-plugin/Building a custom Grunt plugin to fix an AngularJS distribution workflow and automate project-specific build steps.Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/a-curious-case-of-angular-js-injection/https://mhlg.io/blog/a-curious-case-of-angular-js-injection/Debugging an AngularJS unknown provider error caused by filename casing and minification during deployment.Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/book-review-well-grounded-java-developer/https://mhlg.io/blog/book-review-well-grounded-java-developer/A review of The Well-Grounded Java Developer and its coverage of Java 7, concurrency, bytecode, and JVM languages.Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mhlg.io/blog/gnu-makefile-not-your-grandpas-build-automation/https://mhlg.io/blog/gnu-makefile-not-your-grandpas-build-automation/A draft look at GNU Make as a flexible automation tool beyond traditional compile-time build scripts.Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT