The last Belgian #Java User Group before the summer stop is in the books! Thank you again to @oniryx.be for hosting us every year in June since we started! A big massive thank you to @glycin.bsky.social and @ted.dev for presenting #spring and #eventsourcing See you all after summer! ☀️

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to @johanvos.bsky.social @ingstudios.dev Striking_Creme864 @dlemmermann.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be @foojay.io Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

My advice to junior developers wondering if they should write code: yes, please do! Write code, use whatever assist tools you want to, but most of all: learn! Make sure to understand every single line you write. When you fix an issue, understand why it failed, and why it works with your fix. (1/2)

Absolutely agree. As an OSS dev myself, I know how frustrating this is. I believe one of the problems is that the concept "open source" has been abused by big companies because it sounds friendly, and they make lots of $$ with it, creating different user expectations.

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I've spent most of today (and the past few days) on JavaFX 17/21/25 LTS. It's a lot of work, but almost a pleasure because the tools/procedures are so clear. Skara is extremely helpful with backports. And it's deterministic. JavaFX is very well maintained. #openjfx #openjdk

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to Ilmetallaro @leoxiong.bsky.social @brunoborges.bsky.social @rladstaetter.bsky.social Kareem @dlemmermann.bsky.social @foojay.io @frankdelporte.be Lee Wyatt Striking_Creme864 Matt Coley Florian Enner

Often, the real problem in software development seems to me comparable to fixing a system with 5 equations and 6 unknowns, or 6 equations and 5 unknowns. Once you have an equal amount of independent equations and unknowns, consider it done (writing the code is not the problem).

Years ago, I created RedFX, a Quantum Computer simulator in #Java (github.com/redfx-quantu...) and wrote a book about QC (with Java) (www.manning.com/books/quantu...) . My main goal was to understand QC, and writing (code/book) helped a lot. Now I want to move forward, and do more useful things.

Most recent Quantum Computing headlines focus on "breaking encryption" (negative framing). I wish there was more attention for the positive things QC can do, e.g. in drug discovery, using VQE. #quantumcomputing

Enjoy the latest and safest releases of JavaFX! And if you want to help us building/distributing these releases, consider our LTS support at gluonhq.com/lts

Excellent writing from Markus. "In real Java systems, the hard part was never mostly typing. The hard part is understanding what the system is allowed to do, what it must never do..." -> I absolutely agree.

Glad to see the Headless JavaFX Platform is being used. It really makes automated UI tests on CI much easier.

Understanding code is so much more important than writing code.

This was the thing (actually, it was the //c for me) that got me interested into programming. At different abstraction levels: from PASCAL to assembly (CALL -151). I loved the open, endless possibilities. Never had that feeling with a closed mac, so I moved to Linux later. Wozniak is a genius.

Excellent read. A sufficiently detailed spec is not far from code. I wouldn't be surprised to see a formal grammar for specs emerge, at which point we'll just have invented a higher level programming language or reinvented MDA. And then we'll just need a compiler, not an LLM.

Gluon continues to lead the OpenJFX project. Here is JavaFX 26.

JavaFX 26 SDK's are available, maven artifacts are being published (but it seems to be a busy publishing day ;) )

Just released CameraApp on #windows and #linux appstores! Check out this project which resurrects my old passion of doing work with #JavaCV and #JavaFX 🚀 github.com/rladstaetter... Download Binaries here github.com/rladstaetter... #snap #rpm #deb #msi

We’ve all been there. You’re working on a JavaFX application, and you hit that wall. You search the forums. You check Stack Overflow. You spend days tweaking code, hoping for a breakthrough. There is a faster way! Read more: gluonhq.com/why-spend-a-...

Remember Blackdown?

We're excited to spotlight a fantastic community-driven initiative: the "Java Education Catalog". It wants to bring #Java back into #education, where it belongs! An initiative by @igfasouza.bsky.social and @frankdelporte.be. github.com/foojayio/jav... foojay.io/today/bringi...

We can help you with your JavaFX Application. Contact Gluon if you want a quick scan, advice, troubleshooting,... It's not hard to create a UI in Java -- but it's often helpful to get tailored advice from the experts (we learned many things the hard way ;) )

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

First session is beyond secure messaging, starting with 'A Practical Wrapper Protocol for Metadata-Hiding in Messaging' #realworldcrypto

This sounds like a good initiative. I'll have to do more reading about the Commonhaus Foundation.

#Lottie4J, a new library, is now available on #Maven Central. With this library, you can load and parse @lottiefiles.bsky.social animations as #Java objects, and integrate them as a #JavaFX component in your application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1O... More info: webtechie.be/post/2026-03...

I don't have more marketing skills than this. But it's 100% honest.

Java and JavaFX apps are often long-lived apps, requiring Long-Term support of Java(/FX). Maintaining LTS releases is a complex, resource-intensive process. Gluon delivers JavaFX LTS builds for free, making JavaFX supported and safe on many configurations. Your company can support us in doing this.

Here is the new (and long!) #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to CommonGround_2048 @johanvos.bsky.social @gluonhq.com JabRef @tom-doerr.bsky.social @lidianycs.bsky.social @logorrr.bsky.social @hansolo.eu 1/2

I got #Java 25 running on the #RISCV #BeagleBoard BeagleV-Fire! After my initial struggles in a previous video, I succeeded in upgrading Ubuntu and installing Java! In this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08u... and blog webtechie.be/post/2026-02..., I share a step-by-step guide. #JavaOnRiscV

How can I filter away the "WOW, my LLM wrote some code that millions of developers wrote before and now I can do it too without being smart"-messages and instead focus on posts where humans tackle real, unsolved, hard and barely documented problems?

Maintaining LTS versions for a project like JavaFX is complex and resource-intensive. It requires a fair amount of the Gluon resources, but it is extremely important to keep JavaFX secure, modern and relevant. You can support us at gluonhq.com/lts #java #javafx #opensource

JEP 527, "Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3" now proposed to target JDK 27: openjdk.org/jeps/527 mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... #jdk #openjdk #tls #crypto #pqc

The virtual JChampions Conference 2026 (jchampionsconf.com ) organised by @jchampionsconf.bsky.social will start on Jan 22. Have a look at the schedule, there are many great sessions by recognized Java champions. Get your free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/jchampions... #java

My New Year's resolutions for my software development in 2026: focus even more on quality, sustainability and maintainability. #java

We have added a new tool called "FxTools" to the @jfxcentral.com website at www.jfx-central.com/tools/fxtools It is a toolkit that provides image processing, color picking, SVG path extraction, font preview, and more. Author is @leewyatt.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be

Agree. And I'd like to add: do what you believe needs to be done. Because you think it's important that it's done. Not to get a reward.

I highly recommend this book. Java is an excellent language/platform for embedded development. It is not focused on itself, but on doing the job. And it's damn good at that.

If you’ve felt safer sending a message because you sent it on Signal, please support our work. As a nonprofit, Signal exists because of your donations. In the app: Settings > Donate On the web: Signal.org/donate

Great post. It's a topic that I think about often too: what will happen (but especially, what should we do) after the bubble popped? I hope taxpayers won't be the victims of this circular deal game. I also hope some of the technology will then be used for good, human purposes.

This is a major issue indeed. On the plus side, I still believe that efficient, well-written software (running locally or in cloud) requires much less CPU(/GPU) power/RAM than most of the crap code running inside cloud containers today. So you can still save $ by not relying on cloud services.

How the creator economy destroyed the internet

Same for journalists. Unfortunately, even traditional media often simply quotes an X post. I prefer they directly speak to politicians, and ignore what they say on X. Don't feed the monster, but also don't ask the monster.

I strongly recommend the recordings of the JVM Language Summit 2025: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I watched the Leyden/Vector API talks this weekend, helpful to learn about experiments and lessons learned at core level. Understanding this makes you a better Java developer, imho.

I prefer to write software that I believe is needed, helpful and "ethical". Often that is associated with free/hobby/spare time, and indeed it often is. But that doesn't mean at all I'm against making money from software development (several friends have done great with it, and I'm happy for them).

Great article on Foojay: foojay.io/today/the-ar... Love this quote: "sustainability start at the keyboard, not in the billing dashboard" I totally agree. I often wonder how much CPU usage could be saved if all code running in clouds would be top-optimized. Pretty sure it's huge. Way more than 50%.

Strange API's need some love. I'm currently working on "named qubits": Qubit ctrl = new Qubit(); Qubit target = new Qubit(); Program p = new Program(ctrl, target); p.addSteps(new Step(new Cnot(ctrl, target))); Easier to work with then referring qubits by index only. #quantumcomputing #java

Quantum Computing and AI are completely different things (although there are synergies). The A in AI stands for Artificial. Quantum Computing, otoh, exists because of fundamental phenomena in Nature.

Such a good write-up of making Signal resilient to quantum-based attacks Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement arstechnica.com/security/202...