As far as "tricks" go, my favorites are: * Recursive descent parsing, see https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/ for a great intro

As far as "tricks" go, my favorites are: * Recursive descent parsing, see https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/ for a great introduction * ConcurrentHashMap#computeIfAbsent() for a thread safe caching mechanism: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/concurrenthashmap-computeifabsent-method-in-java-with-examples/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/concurrenthashmap-computeifabs... * Using Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State (https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/ https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/ :)