https://johanbasson.net/tags/kotlin/ Recent content in Kotlin on Johan Basson Hugo en-us Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200 https://johanbasson.net/posts/why-i-chose-http4k/ Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200 https://johanbasson.net/posts/why-i-chose-http4k/ Why I chose http4k over Spring Boot for my latest Kotlin project, and the trade-offs I considered. https://johanbasson.net/posts/discovering-railway-oriented-programming/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0200 https://johanbasson.net/posts/discovering-railway-oriented-programming/ A talk by Scott Wlaschin changed the way I think about error handling and composing business logic in Kotlin. https://johanbasson.net/posts/how-functional-programming-changed-the-way-i-write-kotlin/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0200 https://johanbasson.net/posts/how-functional-programming-changed-the-way-i-write-kotlin/ Functional programming didn’t change the language I use. It changed the way I think about designing software. https://johanbasson.net/posts/why-i-do-not-like-generic-repositories/ Tue, 13 May 2025 21:00:00 +0200 https://johanbasson.net/posts/why-i-do-not-like-generic-repositories/ I used to create a repository interface for every aggregate. Over time I found a simpler approach that makes dependencies more explicit and business use cases easier to understand.