If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

Pocket debugger...

One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

Eli Lilly’s obesity pill outperforms Novo Nordisk’s oral drug in head-to-head diabetes trial www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...

On US healthcare score (spending/outcome): miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fi...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Wow. John Mulaney is absolutely great live. Killing it at Vancouvers comedy festival (GOCF)

Once again, I'm struck by the fact that the one thing all these shooters have in common is, uh, the guns?

pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/v... -- good as always

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

What? bsky.app/profile/sank...

So twice they've now claimed they caught the shooter only to backtrack and say they had the wrong person? Twice? Really inspiring confidence.

Welcome to Road Rules, I'm Sean Duffy. *shows prospective astronauts a term minute video of elon's rockets exploding* This could be you, if you're man enough.

The best one-line criticism of these sort of Democrats that I’ve heard is “they believe they deserve an A in politics.”

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

When the Spring team works on leveraging new versions of popular open source libraries, that’s not very visible, but a significant part of the work is sometimes collaborating with the maintainers on refinements that will benefit to the wider community. Jackson 3 is a great illustration of that.

They don't make 'em like they used to? Older coders are more in tune with vibe coding, study claims www.techradar.com/pro/they-don...

Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.

Wrote a bit about 3.0.0 RCs, including rc9: cowtowncoder.medium.com/towards-jack... -- getting close to 3.0.0!

One more release candidate: Jackson 3.0.0-rc9 released (see github.com/FasterXML/ja... ) -- getting very very close to 3.0.0 final! Help with testing urgently needed :) #java #json #jackson #xml #csv etc

Makes sense: ai.gopubby.com/who-loves-ai...

Good read: martinfowler.com/articles/202...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

I Blogged Again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-2-20...

Jackson 2.20.0 released -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... #java #json etc

What's with this "lakehouse" buzzword...

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Ugh. Beach Boys just cancelled their show at Chateau Ste Michelle. Might have been the last chance to see....

Also: good software is easy enough to change and maintain. THIS is something us developers learn very quickly. Those new to software always assume building is the most difficult part of creating software. Well, it rarely is! (Another counter-intuitive characteristic!)

Who'd have thunk :-p pub.towardsai.net/new-study-ai...

TRUMP: President Stubb of Finland. He's uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh? STUBB: I'm right here TRUMP: Oh.

One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc

Interesting question raised in a q&a today: what do we do about the fact that engineers don't feel like they're learning anything on the job except how to use AI now because that's all anyone in leadership is focused on

(Attenborough voice) “The North American goon is a fascinating creature. Here we see a pack defiling a watering hole, marking the territory with their sign — a dick.”

”To keep our DNA strong”?!? Worst of corporate mixing metaphors 😬

Sometimes I surprise myself by figuring out obscure edge cases failing. Today is one such day: this github.com/FasterXML/ja... has been tricky to figure out. But I got it, almost.

True as ever

NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In 2016, before Trump secured the GOP nomination, the Boston Globe made a fictional dystopian front page of what a nightmare world it would be if Trump won. And those just pretty much are our actual headlines now.

If you’re a cable host interviewing a Republican this week and you don’t come prepared with the crime stats from their home state or city, you’re missing the easiest dunk imaginable.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Did you know PostgreSQL has built-in enum types? I use them in all my business applications with jOOQ. jOOQ automatically creates a matching Java enum, so you get compile-time checks and IDE support. www.postgresql.org/docs/current...

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.