Got the cover design for the second edition of DDIA from the publisher. Now just need to finish the effin’ manuscript…

Java may be 30 years old, but it is in its lane, focused, and flourishing. ✨ Let’s take a look at how it’s evolved over the decades and why learning Java could be good for your career. ⬇️

If you missed (or want to revisit) @gwenshap.bsky.social's 🔥 P99 CONF keynote "High Performance on a Low Budget," here's your chance. thenewstack.io/high-perform... via @thenewstack.io

"I don’t need an agent, I want to maintain my own agency." "Can we get back to building a web where people have agency instead of inhuman agents?" This ties into much of what I was thinking about earlier today. Pondering what kind of web *do* we want? www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/t...

I’d say probably more like Joffrey Baratheon

If you change your code and it starts working 10 times faster, you started doing something clever. If you change your code and it runs a hundred times faster, you stopped doing something stupid.

New post: "Can We Retain the Benefits of Transitive Dependencies Without Undermining Security?" tratt.net/laurie/blog/...

Reluctantly spent part of the weekend trying to interpret the DeepSeek R1 manic panic happening on the hell site. Took a minute, but wrote myself notes to clarify the basics: maggieappleton.com/2025-01-deep... TLDR; a cheaper, higher-quality, open-source reasoning model for everyone. Net good.

“Celebrated are the minimal dependencies, the humble function that just quietly does the job, the code that doesn't need to be touched for years because it was done right once.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/bu...

Must-read: AI copilots as Option Value by the ever-brilliant @realgenekim.bsky.social 1. Build things faster 2. Tackle more ambitious projects 3. Build things yourself 4. Have more fun 5. Explore more options Guaranteed return on the ~15 minute investment! itrevolution.com/articles/gen...

Misty views from today’s Boxing day walk in the Peak District, England

So excited to announce the preview launch of S2! s2.dev/blog/intro

You see, it turns out observability is pretty useless because it doesn’t do anything. Yet... Somehow? It’s this thing that we’ve been able to grow into a multi billion dollar industry composed entirely out of “get a bunch of data, and then…” That’s it?? hazelweakly.me/blog/the-fut...

Ringo has entered the building. Can’t believe we get to see two Beatles. 🔥 Paul McCartney at the o2 London. Wow.

Fully in Schengen - where you belong. europa.eu/!jrMWXC

Bravo Romania - its court annulled the 1st round of elections due to online interference by russia bc 1 candidate received “preferential treatment on social media platforms, which … distort[ed] … voters’ expressed will.” Does anyone doubt the same thing happened here? apnews.com/article/roma...

This obituary for the award-winning costume designer of Peaky Blinders, Stephanie Collie, is a wonderful tribute to her research process and skill. It’s easy to criticise costumes in TV historical dramas, but historical inaccuracies are rarely errors, they’re often storytelling choices

The major cause of bad software is constantly solving imaginary problems

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

The best explanation of floating point I came across, really helps understanding fabiensanglard.net/floating_poi...

Let’s get this show on the road!

Spring Boot 3.4 is here! spring.io/blog/2024/11...

Hehe, no more poking fun at the name allowed, they stepped up 👏 buff.ly/3YWbU1j

Great explanation of how binary quantization works. Give this a try if you have large vector datasets, gains seem impressive (at expense of small retrieval accuracy degradation) emschwartz.me/binary-vecto...

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

Let’s give this a try!