I'm a fan of Gradle, it is super powerful and ultimately flexible and I can code my way into and out of trouble with it.
I like maven for its simplicity, although I do dislike XML for the build configuration language, seems to verbose and outdated. Mavens plugins are elsewhere (eg published jars), but with gradle I can also specialize and have local plugins kept with the code as well as use published plugins. I like that flexibility.
All said, Gradle has changed a lot of over the years and with that its best practices, so many of my projects are way behind the new standard way of doing things. But with either tool once its all up and running maintaining it is relatively simple.
Perhaps the new Amper project by Jetbrains (Gradle configuration via YAML) will simplify things for the 95% of cases and still allow users to extend and fall back to kotlin / groovy configuration where specialization is needed.
My wife has chronic cancer* and one day when talking to the doctor at the hospice after a period of grueling treatment she talked about only having so many "spoons" in a day. The doctor liked the analogy as it was a fun way at looking at a real issue.
I'm pleased I now know where it comes from! This analogy helped us both come to terms with managing her lower energy levels.
* I use the term chronic cancer as she has Stage 4 cancer. The term terminal cancer to describe her cancer has been so incredibly unhelpful, its taken me years to frame where we as a family fit into it and how we can live. Essentially, the term has caused more fear than was warranted at the time. So until she needs end of life care, I won't call it terminal even though that is the expected outcome. That maybe 6 months from now or 6 years from now.
Breast Cancer HER2+ Currently being treated with Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab every 3 weeks. Seems to be doing its job keeping down the cancer growth rate. She also used to have Zoledronic acid at the same time but that caused osteonecrosis of the jaw, so has been stopped.
Strangely, we're relatively happy with the bone mets. The two times the cancer hit soft tissue it grew alarmingly quickly. First in the breast, then when it came back and broke out the L2 vertebrae and wrapped the nerve. At least in the bone it grows slowly. When it eventually starts to break out, the next treatment is Trastuzumab emtansine, which is a chemo drug, so will have many more side effects to manage.
My wife has had full body scans every 3 months for the past 3 years. She currently has multiple active sites of bone mets, from the spine to shoulders and hips. A single scan is much more convenient and keeps the oncologist up to date with the state of her cancer.
In our experience sometimes a new cancer site isn't diagnosed quickly, especially if it's asymptomatic and slow growing. Having past scans and reviewing them overtime has found multiple tumors so far.
Seems the radiographers err on the side of caution when feeding back to the Oncologist. Her last cancer in her neck (c2) had been tracked over 3 scans (because it was small and slow growing), before it was reported back to us and subsequently treated with cyberknife.