I have to say, semgrep.dev is quite a nice tool at first look. Much more accurate than others, way less false positives.

Due to the Liquibase license change to the FSL, I've deprecated the LiquibaseDatabase, which is used for jOOQ code generation: github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/is... Going forward, the recommended way to integrate Liquibase with jOOQ is by using testcontainers: blog.jooq.org/using-testco...

So, I learned that as a senior developer working at #Neo4j I am basically a #Neolith. Love it.

Good morning. If you care about #database #ops with the #graph database @neo4j.com you got: Either use Neo4j-Migrations github.com/michael-simo... based on the bolt driver OR the @redgate-software.bsky.social #Flyway plugin based on the JDBC driver: github.com/michael-simo...

Ofc I am in the process of bumping all build pipelines to #Java25 while still releasing for 17… Why postpone this and get all the problems at once (that is, if any, hasn't been an issue for a while). #Java

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.20.1 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.20.1

I guess I am finally an #AI developer, sorry for that. #Neo4j #database #migrations now supports the #MCP server of #Quarkus when running in dev node. See release notes for an example. cc @myfear.com github.com/michael-simo...

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.20.0 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.20.0

@samaaron.bsky.social did you see this? I think you like this… dmkskd.github.io/sql-shader/ You can change the query in real time and play around. @duckdb.org WASM in the Browser

Dafug. dmkskd.github.io/sql-shader/ A #SQL Shader. Running in a Browser. Wow.

Spring Data 2025.0.5 and 2024.1.11 released spring.io/blog/2025/10...

New #Java #JDBC bits for #Neo4j github.com/neo4j/neo4j-...

Absolute fantastic conversation between Marco Behler and @axelfontaine.bsky.social about #Flyway #Database migration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwF2...

#Neo4j #embedded on #Java 25 and I find that #GoL actually quite relaxing… gist.github.com/michael-simo...

Folks saying: "With a coding assistant I can finally focus and design and specs. This makes me x more productive." Serious question: How were they not doing that before? They just jumped into IDE without doing any design whatsoever? Whacking code together they gobbled from SO and hope for the best?

I blogged again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-3-0-...

Writing Friday: On #JEP506, #ScopedValues What are they and how can they be used? michael-simons.eu/p/JEP506_wha... #Java #Java25 #JEP

You build parks and town squares and things because, ultimately, people are going to want to congregate and just hang out, so you might as well give them a pleasant place in which to do it. Otherwise they just sit around wherever.

Data is the hardest part of enterprise apps. Quarkus makes it easier. A journey from filtering to migrations, told as building a house buff.ly/G0l1jVL #Java #Quarkus #Persistence #EnterpriseSoftware #Developers

Announcing new-java-project… My Maven / Java best practices that helped me over the last couple of years and that I don't want to copy & paste anymore distilled into a Maven archetype: codeberg.org/michael-simo... #Java #Maven #Archetype

OG Antifa.

Please don’t use AI to write PR descriptions. They add noise, not clarity. A few honest sentences in your own words > a generic wall of text. Code quality speaks loudest.

Highly-recommended reading: The state of HTTP clients in Spring by Brian Clozel spring.io/blog/2025/09... « This is also a good time to reflect on the state of HTTP clients in Spring, so we will use this opportunity to explain an important announcement: we are officially deprecating RestTemplate. »

Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

📢 Gatherers4j v0.12.0 is out! - Now built with #Java 25 - Support for modules - Parallelization now supported in UniquelyOccurringGatherer - Several internal organizational and testing changes github.com/tginsberg/ga...

After trying @duckdb.org with terabytes of parquet I'm hardly going back for data exploration to anything else. Hell, I'm now spawning DuckDB for analyzing even .csv and .json files due to how ergonomic its SQL is.

Enjoy my new, artisanal blog post about #JSpecify and #NullAway, a fresh take on null safety in the #Java world. Be warned, may contains #Lombok. Happy weekend you all. info.michael-simons.eu/2025/09/26/j...

In a world in which ur library cannot know if it's used in an environment with NullAway, you will need to add checks like this still with JSpecify: Objects.requireNonNull(summand, "One summand is required"); Or just throw in an additional `@lombok.NonNull` to have the above check generated ;)

Gelesen / Read: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant: Feeding the Machine. Hinter den Kulissen der KI-Imperien This book kind of blew me out of the water. More in the commit message linked below codeberg.org/michael-simo...

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.19.2 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.19.2

In Österreich erleben wir jetzt Lohnabschlüsse weit unter der Inflation. Nach Leistungskürzungen bei der Krankenkasse, unfassbaren Preissteigerungen bei Lebensmittel, Gas und Strom, Gebührenerhöhungen, Kürzungen bei Familien und Pensionist_innen nun das. Wie stellt ihr euch vor, dass das endet?

Enjoyed #TheLongWalk on my birthday a lot. Nice happy good mood movie at the verge of global fascist rise. Next #RunningMan, which seems to be much closer this time to @stephenking.bsky.social 's book. Thanks for the fear, Mr. King and congrats to your birthday, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKg-...

Remote ≠ Office ≠ Work From Home. I’ve lived all three for 20+ years. Here’s what they actually mean, why trust & “assume good intent” matter most, and some lessons you can apply today. Read here: buff.ly/jNSUAmK #RemoteWork #WorkFromHome #OfficeCulture

A lot of journalists see part of their job as helping to mainstream tech bros’ eugenicist talking points.

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.19.1 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.19.1

With a good chance, a friend of mine and myself are going to take over writing a column for a German #Java related magazine from two other friends and while individually planned, it was not planned together and I do love this coincidence.

Ahead of Time Repositories for Spring Data JDBC and Cassandra, Vector Search support for Neo4j, Jackson 3, and much more!

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.19.0 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.19.0

While I do like idea about #JSpecify for #Java, here's my reason number one not to ship in one of my libraries as dependency until someone forces me… The annotations' retention policy is runtime time, hence the lib ships with your lib and than this obviously is gonna happen…

Congrats @nipafx.dev @billykorando.bsky.social @ammbra1508.bsky.social and @sharatchander.bsky.social for an outstanding series of #Java #RoadTo25 videos. Can't wait for the rest! Macht es, jetzt! Schnell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Pl...

Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat heute mal eben im Vorbeigehen seiner eigenen Bevölkerung den Krieg erklärt

Ich werde im September auf dem Entwickler-Summit von @entwicklerde.bsky.social in Berlin sein und freue mich, alte Bekannte und Wegbegleiter:innen dort wieder zu sehen…

"Growing the #Java language" by @briangoetz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7O...

Quite happy about 5 years of #Cypher #DSL for #Neo4j github.com/neo4j/cypher...

Nein, muss sie nicht. Auch als sächsischer Innenminister sollte man zumindest wissen, dass der Kapitalismus nicht im Grundgesetz steht. Aber ja, bezahlbare Mieten, gute Löhne und ein Gesundheitssystem, das Menschen vor Profite stellt, das ist die wahre Gefahr in diesem Land. 🙄

Would anyone in the #Java and #Maven bubble know whether I can get download statistics out of the new #Central publishing portal like I was able to with the old #Sonatype?

🚀 Neo4j Migrations 2.18.2 has been released! https://github.com/michael-simons/neo4j-migrations/releases/tag/2.18.2

Ever wonder which #Spring project versions map to the latest Spring Boot release? 🤔 There is no more guessing if you navigate to spring.io/projects/gen...

If you prefer following the Spring team on BlueSky instead of or in addition to X/Twitter, make sure to follow @spring.io where we start to communicate like we do on SpringCentral.