"Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built" - by @fryrsquared.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR...

So, apparently, Markdown is the new Python 🤷

There is a kind of user that doesn't read the docs, opens tickets because they try programming using the force and fail and that, when you point out their error to them, just open a new ticket blaming your docs for not being good enough. You simply have to admire their determination in life.

I believe Patrick Wyman is one of the best communicators of popular history out there today. Whatever he has written in this book, if it is half as good as his podcasts, is going to be terrific.

AWS launches S3 Files, a new feature that adds native NFS file system access to S3 buckets, letting compute resources read, write, and edit data stored in S3.

The NASA #Artemis II tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... It includes a nice moveable visualization of the Moon, the spacecraft, the Sun, and the Earth, so you can get a feel for the relative positions of them all.

Everyone today: "Your password must be 18 characters long, contain upper case, lower case, two numbers 0-9, a punctuation mark, a musical note and a fifteenth century kanji letter." Meanwhile banks: "Maximum 8 characters, only A to Z upper case allowed."

Reorganizing development work stints in order to make the best use of the available AI credits before they top up the following month. The trend that no one saw coming.

I cannot find the words to express how much I dislike the file permissions mechanism in Windows.

✅ Blue Danube ✅ Radetzky March There we go then. Wishing you all a very happy 2026!

So apparently, if you are a huge software vendor and charge big money for support and consulting, you can sell rubbish software and ignore standards and specs, and then expect that your customers will force their OTHER vendors to adapt to your garbage because that will be much cheaper for them.

Automate repetitive UI tasks. The Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Model lets you build agents to handle forms, reports, and more. The model is trained with safety features and is now in public preview. Try it → goo.gle/Computer-Use-Model

OK, this is my first one. Let's build something! #raspberrypi

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

I wish Java had this.

🍃 From Beans to Boot, Aspects to AI by Rod Johnson / Juergen Hoeller / @starbuxman.joshlong.com @ Spring I/O 2025 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/i_fiHmg1qM0 #springio25

I've just asked 3 AIs about the way to obtain, using the "uv" command, which is the version of the python runtime that is being used for the active virtual environment. I know I can use "python --version", but I was curious to see whether I could do everything with "uv".

SQL was dead. Then Hadoop got the hype, and we put a SQL layer on top to improve it. Then noSQL got the hype, and we put a SQL layer on top to improve it. Then the Data Lake got the hype, and we put a SQL layer on top to improve it. I can't wait to see what SQL looks like on top of AI agents.

#java JEP 401 on value classes is submitted : openjdk.org/jeps/401

I keep moving my old "small" OSS projects to a new namespace, and so "op4j" (a fluent API for Java similar to today's streams, that I developed back in 2010) now has a new home. Though in this case I have not modernized the code because the project was deprecated by JDK8. github.com/arxila/op4j

This touches on two critical points most people miss: First that most OSS, even popular projects, get no relevant external contributions ever. Second that maintainers get NOTHING out of their effort besides a fancy line in their CVs that most companies ignore. OSS is 95% fueled by mere dev pride.

And another one of my "old" libraries gets refreshed and moved to a new namespace: JavaRuntype. JavaRuntype is a runtime representation of Java's type system. github.com/arxila/javar...

I've given my old "JavaTuples" library a new life, reimplemented as Java (JDK17) records. And I've also moved it to my new Arxila OSS project organization. Solo, Pair, Trio, Quartet… JavaTuples 2.0 is out! github.com/arxila/javat...

The AI revolution is slowly turning for me into wasting hours angrily debating with an LLM about class and variable names.

Even the smallest piece of software you want to try is now distributed as a 12-container docker-compose deployment or kubernetes cluster. Everything is so slow. It's incredible how good we are at making our new shiny supercomputers turn uncomfortable and cumbersome at every step of the tech cycle.

Oooh...what are these shiny new lock icons 🤔 That's right... Spring Modulith support landed in @intellijidea.com 2025.2. You don't have to run the test to know whether you are violating any module boundaries. IntelliJ IDEA tells you as you code 🔥

Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1 is available now: spring.io/blog/2025/07...

Hello summer. #sanxoán

I will happily admit Python shines in some scenarios, but whenever I find myself switching Java for Python for software development, it's quite a lot like trading a fully-equipped restaurant kitchen for a hotel room kettle.

This part of the year is really crazy.

The New GitHub Innovation Graph data shows the EU overtaking the US in git pushes. 📊 How else is the global developer landscape shifting? 🤔 Explore 5 years of trends ⬇️ github.blog/news-insight...

I've just published a new, very small Java open source library: AtomicHash. An implementation of java.util.Map that is fully thread-safe, atomic and non-blocking. Both for read and write operations, even including multi-element operations like "putAll" and "getAll": github.com/arxila/atomi...

Happy birthday to Spring Framework 1.0, which was released Monday the 24th of March, 2004! spring.io/blog/2004/03...

When everything is "high priority", nothing is.

To Scale: TIME www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVv...

Programmatic bean registration in Spring Framework 7.0 🤯 docs.spring.io/spring-frame...

That we worry about the amount of energy wasted worldwide on training AI models but not on executing "npm run build" is kind of unfair.

IEEE's Software Engineering Radio podcast published last week a very interesting episode with @pfrazee.com. Really useful to understand how the AT Protocol and Bluesky work: se-radio.net/2025/01/se-r...

I just acquired a mechanical keyboard and I'm 100% sure I type at exactly the same speed I was typing days ago on the old membrane one. But I feel much better because the click sound of the keys makes me think I'm typing at the speed of light 😂

This little thing is a big lot of fun. Especially with kids, but not only with them 😊

Blue Danube and Radetzky March already played in Wien, ski jumps in progress. Nice to see some bits of order still in place. Wishing all of you a very happy, healthy and hopefully peaceful 2025.

✍️ New blog 'Problems I no longer have by using Server-side rendering'. This one has been long in the making and finally got around to finish it. If you are thinking about choosing a technology for your next web application, be sure to read this first! www.wimdeblauwe.com/blog/2024/12...

I just got a new M4 Max MBP and, coming from my old 2015 MBP, I feel a bit like getting out of a VW Beetle and straight into a Ferrari. This thing goes like greased lightning. Starting IntelliJ is almost like a switch: off, then on. My test suites run so fast I'm unable to see what is being tested.

YourKit Java Profiler –great tool that I frequently use– is offering Personal Licenses at $99 / 99€ until 21 January: www.yourkit.com/purchase/#pe...

21 December 2024 Happy Solstice to planet Earth and all its residents. For the next half year, daylight gets longer north of the Equator and shorter south of the Equator. Confirming that yes, contrary to what many people think, days get **longer** in the Winter and **shorter** in the Summer.

Docker's algorithm for generating random container names might need some fine tuning.

Thymeleaf 3.1.3 has now been released! Learn more at the project's website: www.thymeleaf.org

I'm not scared of the AI because it will probably be implemented in Python. On the other side, I'm terribly scared of the AI because it will probably be implemented in Python.

absolutely incredible attack vector

An AI that reads StackOverflow and provides you with technical solutions based on summarizing thousands of answers to your question. I find this more terrifying than Skynet. github.com/marketplace/...