Stories by Brian Schlining on Medium

Integrate Ghostty with Your Mac’s Finder

Brian Schlining — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:57:31 GMT

As I’ve written before, I like a quick integration of my terminal with the Mac’s finder. I add a button in the finder that opens the…

Brian Schlining — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:01:06 GMT

Overview

Brian Schlining — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 05:06:27 GMT

These are apps I use regularly in my role as a software engineer.

Brian Schlining — Tue, 28 May 2024 06:01:31 GMT

Command Line Tools

Brian Schlining — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:14:42 GMT

When browsing directories in the Mac’s Finder, it saves a lot of time to have a button that will open a terminal window into whatever…

Brian Schlining — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:55:29 GMT

Yes, you read the title right.

Brian Schlining — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:24:56 GMT

Testcontainers is fantastic project for spinning up throwaway, lightweight resources for testing. Unfortunately, if you are developing on…

Brian Schlining — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:26:25 GMT

When was the last time you saw this comparison of why Java syntax is bad:

// HelloWorld.java
public class HelloWorld {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Hello World");
  }
}

# hello_world.py
print("Hello World")

With the release of Java 21, you can now do this:

// HelloWorld.java. Run with `java --enable-preview --source 21 HelloWorld.java`
void main() {
  System.out.println("Hello World");
}

BTW, the python example most folks show is almost always wrong. The correct form is actually:

# hello_world.py
def main():
  print("Hello World")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Brian Schlining — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:19:05 GMT

If you’re a Java developer, you’ve likely heard about project Loom. It delivers virtual threads and structured concurrency as preview…

Brian Schlining — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:06:56 GMT

Fluent logging using Java’s System.Logger