I started a software research company notes.eatonphil.com/2026-02-25-i...

I did some OpenJDK commit exploration and I thought I could blog about it too. Here it is: questdb.com/blog/jvm-cur...

#Java "Magic" types: The ones you can't name (non-denotable types) https://www.linkedin.com...

github.com/ibraheemdev/... A collection of "modern" #Unix tools

My machine froze when I connected async-profiler and I wrote an article about it. It involves debugging a half-dead Linux kernel, performing live surgery on a frozen CPU with GDB, pulling off a questionable resurrection and other party tricks :) Read the full autopsy: questdb.com/blog/async-p...

TIL: Early exit makes 'javac' to duplicate 'finally' blocks. Interesting read: www.benf.org/other/cfr/fi...

📝 Blogged: "On Idempotency Keys" Discussing several options for ensuring exactly-once processing in distributed systems using idempotency keys, from UUIDs to monotonically increasing sequences. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/on-idem...

Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...

My new bug: Race between stdout and stderr causing CI builds to fail. questdb.com/blog/azure-p...

My new blog post: questdb.com/blog/rust-fe... If you like seeing how high-level code becomes low-level reality, then you will like it. Enjoy!

Jestli chodíte v Brně na obědy do restaurací, tak vyzkoušejte tuhle novou stránku www.lepsimenu.cz s přehledem poledních menu. www.reddit.com/r/Brno/s/qA4...

TIL: Columbia (US places) and Colombia (South American country) have different spellings, though they sound identical. Both named after Christopher Columbus but spelt differently in English vs Spanish, I guess?

Oracle Hint of the Day: INDEX_FFS for a Fast Full index Scan. When you're really trying to tell the optimizer how you feel about that full table scan suggestion😂 SELECT /*+ INDEX_FFS ( o order_pk ) */ COUNT(*) FROM order_items l, orders o WHERE l.order_id > 50 AND l.order_id = o.order_id;

Modern microprocessors, a 90-minute guide: www.lighterra.com/papers/moder...

Breaking news: Archaeologists discover ancient scroll revealing Satan's proudest invention wasn't fire or sin, but 1-indexed arrays.

🚨📝 Blogged: "Let's Take a Look at... KIP-932: Queues for Kafka!" Kicking off a new blog series to explore all sorts of interesting technologies, projects, and services in the data and streaming space. Up first: the new #ApacheKafka 4.0 API for queue semantics. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/kip-932...

Interesting issue in OpenJDK's UUID.compareTo(): It uses signed comparisons, which leads to unexpected sorting when the highest bit in either word is set. It can't be fixed since altering a sort order between versions is a big no-no.