Maybe Idiocracy was right. Why do people stop craving for the exceptional. What's left: Dull content that instantly is forgotten. >>Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’<<

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uc-local-apex-dev now supports Oracle 26ai, including a guided migration path if you're coming from 23ai. No data loss. hartenfeller.dev/blog/upgrade... #orclAPEX #oracle #26ai

📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...

How to enforce PL/SQL naming standards with #dbLinter . We've build a UI where you can set and test you own regular expressions conveniently. youtu.be/s4VUPLJ22pc #orclAPEX @united-codes.com

Scripted migration from 23ai to 26ai for uc-local-apex-dev coming soon... It will (mostly) automatically migrate all your schemas, APEX workspaces, apps, and ORDS modules. #orclAPEX

Apple has become a joke tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Happy new year! youtu.be/jeYCyCaK_5k

Avatar 3 is such a mess and unnecessary. Cameron lost his mojo. I guess he wanted to create a big franchise like Star Wars. Seems like it only comes close to the sequel trilogy...

What the hell am I doing here?

dbLinter is released 🥳🥳 #orclAPEX blog.united-codes.com/post/dblinte...

I just release UC AI v25.7 with lots of new features: - New provider: xAI - New provider: OpenRouter - Embedding support for all providers - Toon format support for optimized token usage - Easier reasoning setings etc. hartenfeller.dev/blog/plsql-a... #orclAPEX #oracle #PLSQL

Does anybody know how to enable reasoning for GPT OSS in OCI? The model docs state that it has reasoning support (docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/C...) but in the documentation for the request format there is no field for reasoning (docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/a...).

The recording of my #orclAPEX UX talk from the APEX ACE Masters series is only now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lLh...

How I migrated my blog from Gatsby to Astro: hartenfeller.dev/blog/blog-is...

If I see "—" anywhere written and know that the author is not a professional writer, I will immediately devalue the text. Is it actually meaningful or dull and generated? If they did not even take the time to formulate it themselves, is it worth my time reading it?

I will host a 2-day AI with PL/SQL workshop in Feb. Starting with LLM basics and end w/ #agents reading/writing DB data. Focus is on data automation. Will be practical with slots for trying out the techniques and coaching. #orclAPEX #oracle #PLSQL www.united-codes.com/ai/training

🎉🎉🎉 Big news today and perhaps an early Christmas present. 👉 #Oracle AI #Database #26ai is coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises: blogs.oracle.com/database/ora...

This shows the massive power of Google. Own hardware department, big pool of talent, access to valuable data and platform dominance make it quite obvious that they would be a leader in the long run. But who loses first in the AI race? www.theverge.com/news/836212/...

I have been using dbLinter for half a year now and don't want to miss it. It is such a nice help for consistent code quality. I have written a blog post about what it is and how it works in this post:  blog.united-codes.com/post/what-is...

6 years on Hetzner: only downtime when I patched the server or messed something up. 3 weeks on OCI compute: over night the server is not reachable anymore. I had to force reboot via the admin console. No issues in the server logs. Could be bad luck, but not cool....

This is the last day to submit for APEX World 2026. CfP ends TODAY! So head to https://apps.nloug.nl/ords/r/nloug/abstracts now and submit. @nl_oug #apexworld #aw26 #orclapex See all Events and CfPs on www.clocwise.org.

Just submitted 3 abstracts for #apexconn26. You should submit as well :) !

Anthropic just dropped v2 (kind of) of tools/function calling for AI. I will look forward to implement it in UC AI: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

Adding an AI disclaimer to my blog.  I also think one way to keep blogging fun and meaningful is getting more personal. I often read others'  blogs because I value their thinking and personal touch. For an LLM, it is easy to just restate some neutral facts.

How to display markdown (including tables and more) with our free @united-codes.com #orclAPEX plug-in: youtu.be/d1jMp9IWFlo

Gemini 3 Pro is astonishing.

Blog is back up. A hard drive failed on the server 💀. Got a new one from Hetzner (thanks) and now RAID is rebuilding. This was not fun and I've been to depths of Linux I don't want to go again (initramfs).

Toon is a data representation format that is optimized for usage for LLMs. With UC AI's PL/SQL package, you can convert any JSON data to the Toon format. hartenfeller.dev/blog/oracle-... #oracle #toon #AI #orclAPEX

Working on Toon support in UC AI. Its a more dense (less tokens) format for displaying data. E.g.: [2]{id,active}: 1,true 2,false

Our lovely speaker group gathered for a nice group picture. Thank you all for helping us create a great event. #dcd25 #octemea25 #speakers #thankyou

New video showcasing how to do agentic AI from Oracle PL/SQL with UI. (If you attended the UC AI webinar, you have already seen the demos.) youtu.be/fxDYi0rLSJU

Join tomorrow for some #orclAPEX UX tips

It is such a shame that Frank Ocean does not make music anymore. Of course he does not owe it to anybody, but gifted talent on that level not being used is a bummer.

It's definitely a bubble. Claude Haiku 4.5 just calculated a simple subtraction wrong: 17-4-2...

Join me next week where I will talk about #orclAPEX UX: apex.oracle.com/go/ace-masters Also big thanks to the attendees of #HROUG, this UX session was voted best lecture of the conference :).

Working on a naming conventions page for #dbLinter. It previews the current regex with test values. I created a custom #orclAPEX plug-in for that. Definitely time-consuming, but it's worth it to build great experiences #UX.

Finally got to see One Battle After Another yesterday. Outstanding movie - great acting, cinematography, and hilarious. Completely got sucked in by the story and characters.

Nice, the new @github.com dashboard shows me a PR from a repo I have never seen before:

My #SQLcl stopped working: /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/sqlcl/25.3.0.274.1210/sqlcl/bin/sql: line 853: /usr/libexec/java_home -v 17/bin/java: No such file or directory Upgraded from Java 17 to 21 now it works again 👍. Weird error don't know if just my Java installation broke.

I am playing around with #ActivityWatch (FOSS) to track my computer usage and automatically categorize it by project. VS Code and browser plug-ins plus regex rules help with this. Quite powerful.

Call for Papers for APEX connect 2026 18-20 May in Heidepark has started! This is your chance to share your experience about what you have been building using Oracle APEX, SQL and/or PL/SQL! CfP ends on 2-DEC EOD. apex.doag.org/en/home/ #orclapex

The last days were splendid. First time attending the great #HROUG conference. It takes place on an island before Rovinj, Croatia. Great conference, but especially fun. Played tennis, went running and swimming, and enjoyed the parties.

Had it scheduled to be published but forgot to make noise about it 🤦‍♂️ #JoelKallmanDay nuijten.blogspot.com/2025/10/add-...

. @alexnuijten.bsky.social seems to be lost. You are in 🇭🇷 at the great #HROUG25 conference! Jokes aside great session about apple pies and spatial data.

For #JoelKallmanDay I am sharing a free plug-in for reactive Markdown preview. It auto refreshes, supports tables, alerts, etc., and comes with three themes. #orclAPEX hartenfeller.dev/blog/apex-re...

For #JoelKallmanDay I am sharing a free plug-in for reactive Markdown preview. It auto refreshes, supports tables, alerts, etc., and comes with three themes. #orclAPEX hartenfeller.dev/blog/apex-re...

New blogging achievement: somebody posted me on Hacker News 🤯

Let’s go #HROUG25

I'm in Croatia for the #HROUG25 conference this week. I'll be giving two presentations: - APEX Security Basics with @kthyssen.bsky.social - APEX UX: treat your users as you like to be treated Looking forward to meeting many new people, this is my first conference east of Berlin! #orclAPEX