§ BLOG
Articles from real projects.
What worked in my projects and what didn't: Hibernate under load, Once UI day to day, a full rewrite, and why beauty studios don't need WordPress.LATEST ARTICLETHOUGHTS · 8 MIN READ
Aveiro: a website, blog, and newsletter without a developer
I write software for a living and built a no-code publishing platform anyway. Here is why, and what it actually takes to handle subscribers, email templates, and compliance so the person publishing never has to.Justin EiletzJune 22, 2026
More articles
- GUIDE · 9 MIN READBuilding a website for your beauty studio: what the first site really needsA guide for studio owners before their first website: which content and legal notices belong on it, how clients book online, and when a site builder, WordPress, or a custom site fits.May 24, 2026
- BACKEND · 10 MIN READPerformance at 10,000 concurrent players: what actually bottlenecksWhat really happens when a Minecraft server serves 10,000 active players: where Hibernate, the main thread, and the JVM actually stall, and which architectural decisions avoid it.May 17, 2026
- UI / UX · 9 MIN READFrom Vite to Next.js 16: what actually broke during the rewriteThree weeks of migration, a new stack, a few good lessons: what produced real friction when moving from Vite + Tailwind to Next.js 16 with Once UI, and what was surprisingly smooth.May 10, 2026
- UI / UX · 7 MIN READOnce UI in practice: how a backend engineer finally builds frontends he wants to look atI was never a designer. Tables, forms, service layers, fine. But the moment it came to spacing, hierarchy, and colour, I started guessing. With Once UI that guessing stopped overnight.May 3, 2026
- BACKEND · 11 MIN READJEHibernate 4: Hibernate 7 without the boilerplate, from Paper to Spring BootVersion 4 turns my plugin library into a modular persistence toolkit: HikariCP, Flyway, multi-tenancy, Envers auditing, tests against real databases, and a Spring Boot starter. What’s new and what breaks on upgrade.April 26, 2026
- THOUGHTS · 5 MIN READSeven years of code, and why it gets better every yearA short, honest checkpoint: what changed in my engineering day-to-day since 2017, what I do differently from 19, and what I keep telling beginners.April 19, 2026