jbang.dev/try got a refresh providing samples AND ability to open jupyter lab where you can run .java AND make notebook using Java. Read more about it on www.jbang.dev/learn/java-i...

New blog entry: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web". www.bobdc.com/blog/stopsem...

Bookmarks are here, they’re private, and there’s a migration tool for the bookmark feed!

Free Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Coll...

LLMs have perfected the art of being confidently wrong, but they didn't invent it. For 13 years, Merriam-Webster included the word "dord". Never heard of a dord? It's not a thing. Why was "dord" in a dictionary? A chemist told Merriam-Webster researchers "D or d" were synonyms for "density". 🤦

New blog entry: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples www.bobdc.com/blog/updatin...

Apache Jena project releases v5.5.0 lists.apache.org/thread/9dtbh... ✅ Improved alignment w/ RDF v1.2 standards ✅ Fuseki fixes/enhancements for SPARQL & GeoSPARQL ✅ Deprecations/removals for upcoming major Jena v6 release #KnowledgeGraph #LinkedData #OWL #RDF #SemanticWeb #Semantics #SPARQL

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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

I'm super happy that I can share that the FREE FULL VERSION of Quarkus in Action continues to be available until January 16, 2026!!! Download and share! developers.redhat.com/e-books/quar... Thanks to Red Hat developer!!!

I told you we’d be back

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop. Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats. signal.org/blog/signal-...

Apache Jena project releases v5.4.0 lists.apache.org/thread/j8qx6... This release includes experimental RDF/SPARQL v1.2 support #KnowledgeGraph #LinkedData #OWL #RDF #SemanticWeb #Semantics #SPARQL

The Autistic urge to arrange all the jelly beans by color 🤣

First Draft Note of RDF 1.2 Primer is now available from the W3C at www.w3.org/TR/2025/DNOT...

"We’re Not Going to Mars Anytime Soon—Despite What Musk Says" Paul M. Sutter's opinion piece in SciAm www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

hey folks! we're hiring for the goose AI agent team. Both roles are remote. Design Engineer, Open Source Design block.xyz/careers/jobs... Product Designer, Open Source Design block.xyz/careers/jobs...

Make sure you read Emil Lefkof's cool blog post explaining how to use LangChain4j to analyze PDF documents. https://buff.ly/41k6VKq

say it again louder for the people in the back: Don't mistake terse for concise.

Testcontainers for Java 1.20.5 released! * New modules (ldap, scylladb, pinecone) * New implementations for Azurite, Service Bus and Event Hubs * Fixes for clickhouse, couchbase, kafka, rabbitmq, solr Thanks to the community for all your contributions! Release notes: github.com/testcontaine...

PrimeFaces team releases v15.0.0 🚀 github.com/primefaces/p... #JakartaEE #JakartaFaces #JSF #PrimeFaces

the @rockylinux.org AltArch SIG (read: @angelsofclockwork.net) has been fighting for the past few weeks with a number of package build failures for the RISC-V port of Rocky Linux 10. Today they've finally got the latest nodejs LTS built for riscv64gc. One down, a few to go. Happy Valentines Day!

Apache Jena project releases v5.3.0 lists.apache.org/thread/4gk0k... This release includes a reorganized modular Fuseki server, a preview of the new RFC-3986 IRI provider, and more #KnowledgeGraph #LinkedData #OWL #RDF #SemanticWeb #Semantics #SPARQL

I am starting to think the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in the Aliens movies is basically the model for where Elon wants to take things.

DFLib dataframe library for java v1.0 GA released: github.com/dflib/dflib/...

The #W3C ARIA in HTML specification has been updated: www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/ These are the authoring rules for using #ARIA when #HTML is the host language.

yeah... yes

Folks, if you are on a modern AArch64 machine (e.g. M4), using any sandboxes (e.g. Docker), and are seeing JVMs crashing with SIGILLs, this is likely related to bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8.... We are working on getting this fixed :)

Are You Missing a Data Frame? If you don't know, then you might be missing a Data Frame. Do yourself a favor, and don't miss a Data Frame in Java in 2025. Come see @zakhav.bsky.social and me illuminate the world of Data Frames in Java at the one and only #JavaOne in March 2025. #Java 🙏

just sitting here wondering if @aoc.bsky.social is familiar with Advent of Code 🤔

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities https://buff.ly/40HKH5g #macos #cmd

Apache Cassandra v5.0 GA has been released cassandra.apache.org/_/blog/Apach... ✅ Java17 support ✅ Storage Attached Indexes ✅ Trie Memtables and Trie SSTables ✅ Vector datatype and ANN search

For folks who never could quite get accustomed to drinking monorepo koolaid 😋

Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension motherduck.com/blog/pg_duck...

ZIP compression parallelization in Java and Kotlin Greg Shrago's POC: github.com/gregsh/paral... (posted on mastodon by Tagir Valeevi - mastodon.online/@tagir_valee...)

Apache Jena project releases v5.1.0 jena.apache.org/tutorials/in... This release brings enhanced OWL2 support, RDF dataset prefix management via SPARQL server endpoint, and more #KnowledgeGraph #LinkedData #OWL #RDF #SemanticWeb #Semantics #SPARQL

we need an HTTP header for "A/B test opt-out", like DNT

Bloom Filter xkcd.com/2934

AI and inferencing: Today I mentioned the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” while making a note on the my phone and the speech-to-text thought I said “Venus Infers”.

A blog article from Alexandre H. T. R. Bonfitto - "HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained" alexandrehtrb.github.io/posts/2024/0...

It's really cool that people are slowly starting to notice RIFE2 and bld, and recognize why they matter in the Java ecosystem. Thanks Leonardo for the great blog post: sombriks.com/blog/0070-bu... #java #webframework #bld #buildtool #maven #gradle

Maciej Walkowiak blogs a bit about UUIDs: "PostgreSQL and UUID as primary key" maciejwalkowiak.com/blog/postgre...

Supabase (The open source Firebase alternative) moves to General Availability. supabase.com/ga

xkcd 2347 updated

very sad to hear of Simon Riggs passing www.postgresql.org/about/news/r...

Apple has released macOS 14.4.1 update which appears to fix java crashes, USB hubs, et al support.apple.com/en-us/109035 It seems to be working much better for me so far 🤞

meme updated 👍

Very interesting. Apple opensources Pkl, a programming language for configuration. pkl-lang.org/blog/introdu...