Real life review: Universal player Sony UBP-X700

It’s been some time since I’ve posted about Yamaha BD-S681 universal disc player which I returned after all. I like Yamaha as a brand, by the way - mostly for their musical instruments. I’ve got a keyboard, a bass guitar and a couple of recorders by Yamaha and I like them. But instead of this …

Spring Boot and HTTP message converters – no Jackson, no defaults

I’m afraid this post will get a tad longer - if for nothing else then for the code and output listings. So let’s state what we are to achieve here: Implementing custom HTTP message converters for custom content type and class.Avoiding default converters altogether or adding them at the end of the converter list to …

One Git config for all company projects

If you work with Git on multiple computers for multiple parties (yourself, company, another company) you’ve probably committed something with the wrong name/email already. Whenever I clone a company repository on my home computer, I have to go there and enter those notorious commands: git config user.name "My Normal Name, not fancy nickname" git config …

WordPress blog – to block or not?

I’m not sure exactly how new is the WordPress block editor, I’ve been using it for some time, but being with WordPress for over 12 years now I can say it’s new for me. I’ve decided to go over my older post and fix whatever is broken. As I often wrote about technical topics related …

Real life review: Universal player Yamaha BD-S681

After starting my hi-fi quest with an AV receiver Pioneer SX-S30DAB I quickly became dissatisfied with our old Samsung BD-E6100 - especially as a CD player. With a previous microsystem everything worked, it was super easy to play CD and the controls were intuitive. Samsung blu-ray player could play CDs but it was way too …