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I had a free day, so I made coffee and sat down to read my own documentation against the code. I hate errors in documentation. I expected to fix a few stale sentences and move on.

I run three static sites - this blog, a relocation guide, and a sandbox. All Hugo. A few smaller things sit on Next.js and SolidJS.

The generator turned out to be the least important decision in all of it.

I have worked remotely from two countries. Last summer I moved between them.

The work did not change. Everything else did - the tax system, the language, the price of groceries. My wife’s paperwork is still in progress. But the job came with me, and that is the only reason the move was possible at all.

The build plan for my last project allocated 90 minutes to a task called “Integration tests with testcontainers”. It sketched the directory layout. It named the file.

The library was never installed. Not once, in the whole repository.

I run a blog, a relocation guide and four sandbox sites. All of them are free, and they stay free. I am careful about it.

I got careful the hard way.

I don’t use Meson. I have never used Meson.

I have a Makefile in every project I own. Not one of them builds anything.

I was surprised that Spring Test library doesn’t support standalone acceptance tests format out of the box. Here’s how I tackled this issue and why standalone tests are useful for modular Spring applications.