Why do people start with a possibly good straight-forward idea, but then complify specification and fux0r it up? See github.com/toon-format/... -- smells like YAMLng. :-p ("hey....... wouldn't it be cool to add like, say, path folding!!! yea let's add that")

Good (not brief but good) explanation of why Stock Buybacks Suck: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

What. The?! " Would you like me to: 1. Revert my changes and document the findings? 2. Continue investigating with a different approach? 3. Keep my current partial fix and note it as a work-in-progress? > 1 ⏺ Let me continue investigating with a different approach "

Does anyone know if JD met with Dick Cheney lately?

Ugggh. Today is the day I hate Git. 💩

Still rather impressed by Claude Code: 5 Jackson bugs/RFEs fixed in as many days, and all but 1 kind that I just hadn't found time to tackle. F.ex this PR github.com/FasterXML/ja... for issue filed in... 2014. Thinking of Blogging about "Tatu's Simple Stupid Claude Code Workflow For E-Z Bug Fixes"?

Jackson 2.20.1 patch version -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- released. #java #json #csv #xml

Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices

Jackson 2.19.4 (github.com/FasterXML/ja...) patch release out -- 2.19 branch now closed (leaving LTS 2.18, and 2.20 as open 2.x branches). #java #json #jackson #xml etc

Finally managed to squeeze the follow-up (to "Jackson 3.0 released") blog post out -> cowtowncoder.medium.com/why-upgrade-...

Finally managed to squeeze the follow-up (to "Jackson 3.0 released") blog post out -> cowtowncoder.medium.com/why-upgrade-...

ICE: thug trash.

Jackson 2.18.5 release out, see github.com/FasterXML/ja... . (NOTE: 2.18 is the first LTS (Long-Term Support) Jackson version -- will stay open longer than 2.19 and 2.20)

Customers who saw Ring doorbells as a convenient tool in the fight against porch piracy have effectively (if unintentionally) teamed up with Amazon to build “a crowd-sourced, nationwide, neighborhood surveillance network to which the government now has a set of keys.” nymag.com/intelligence...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Planning to expose data store via MCP, but in a dynamic way: DB entity owners need to explicitly "open up" resources. Java has MCP server functionality (Quarkus f.ex has really nice extension), but all seem to be static. Anyone familiar with more dynamic Java libraries/frameworks?

I have updated the blog post after Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1 release, which restores in a deprecated form the Jackson 2 auto-configuration to help migrating, and Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1 one that leverages "safe default typing".

This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."

Ok. With furious urgency, I tried FOURTH fix -- third hardest so far, for github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- and things went well until I... Pro Subsciber... finally ran out of tokens :-) So time to take a break. This has been fun. And scary. And.... transformative.

Another One Bites the Dust! Claude slayed github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- once again something I'd have figured out, but didn't have time to dig into. Impressed by Claude reading brief desc (I thought I had added failing test but I hadn't), grokking it all. Asked to write test; did so...

Ok: upping the ante quite a bit -- this -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- seems def non-trivial... let's see how Claude does cracking that nut.

Getting serious about gen-ai coding by playing with Claude Code. Begin genuinely impressed by even just initial introspection it does for a github project like, say, jackson-jr (hoping to vibe code one of issues today -- earlier gen-ai provided (contributed by a user) not quite there but...

ChatGPT being honest: ---- Option 1: Command-line flag Run your Java program (or Gradle build) with: -Djava.lang.stringCompression=none However — this does not exist. There’s no public system property for disabling Compact Strings.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Oh no, Imma….

Jackson 3.0.1 patch release out: github.com/FasterXML/ja... #java #json #jackson

He’s going to answer the question “where did all the money go?” www.axios.com/2025/10/16/o...

Putinilla ei pitäisi olla mitään asiaa EU:n maaperälle. EU:n häpeäpilkkuna profiloitunut Unkari toki irtautui tänä vuonna Kansainvälisestä rikostuomioistuimesta - mutta päätös tulee voimaan vasta kesällä 2026. Eli Putin on syytä laittaa rautoihin ja roudata oikeuteen, jos Budapestiin tulee.

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Interesting! Another hockey team in Seattle www.thepwhl.com/en/teams/sea... !

Interesting! Another hockey team in Seattle www.thepwhl.com/en/teams/sea... !

Seems like it is not common knowledge that Jackson Hibernate module is deprecated (as per github.com/FasterXML/ja...) -- due to missing active maintainer -- so absence of 3.0.0 version surprise.

Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase. /1

Good read (as usual), this time on Non-Compete clauses, economic impact etc: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world Founder2: ok that works

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

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

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

‪“Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring” — @seb.deleuze.fr‬ sharing some insights on the new Jackson 3 support in Spring Boot 4 and related Spring portfolio projects and the guidance for migrating to Jackson 3: spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Liking this idea a lot: bsky.app/profile/ltro... but don't know too many artists, alas. But for what it's worth, Jackson project (and I) would be super happy to get a mascot not unlike Avatar I use. :)

Interesting. But is it too simplistic? cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be... (many/most hallucinations due to IDK answer being penalized by evaluations)

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

It's how everyone should preface every comment: "Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so we're going to go get pizza."

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

TicketMaster. Is. THE. Worst.