My fourth blogiversary

Taking a quick break to reflect on some highlights of my blogging journey.

Photo by Michal Balog on Unsplash

Three blogs a season, for no particular reason

Today, August 7th, marks my fourth year of blogging on Medium. I have written at least one blog a month on Medium during that time. This takes discipline. Blogging regularly is one of the best long term decisions I have made in my life and career.

Four Fan Favorite Blogs

The following four blogs have accumulated the most fans over the past four years. Thank you for reading and clapping for these blogs!

Java Streams are great but it’s time for better Java Collections

Immutable Collections in Java using Sealed Types

Eager is Easy, Lazy is Labyrinthine

What I learned about COVID-19 from Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Four Frequently Read Blogs

The following four blogs, all published in 2021, have had the most reads so far this year. Thank you for reading them!

Stream.toList() and other converter methods I’ve wanted since Java 2

The missing Java data structures no one ever told you about — Part 1

Filtering a Java Collection by type

My 25 favorite methods from the Eclipse Collections API

Four Bloggers to Follow

The following four bloggers have shared some great content on Medium. I’m looking forward to them publishing more content!

• Sirisha Pratha
• Dave Thomas
• Helen Scott
• Nikhil Nanivadekar

Four Words for Friends

Please. Start. Blogging. Now.

Thank you, and enjoy!

I am a Project Lead and Committer for the Eclipse Collections OSS project at the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse Collections is open for contributions. If you like the library, you can let us know by starring it on GitHub.