The Github hack is ironic to me since I left Github for Gitlab because of their militant 2fa BS. Clearly it didn’t make their platform any more secure.

After more effort than I initially anticipated, I completed the package manager for my pet project Aussom-Lang. It ships with the latest Aussom CLI desktop installer. #aussom #java aussom-lang.com/news

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to JabRef @davidcalculin.bsky.social @p-duke.bsky.social @dlemmermann.bsky.social @cupofcode.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be Phil Race Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

Aussom-Lang now has support for JavaFX, GTK4, a Java native interface with dynamic Jar loading, and native library interface via Panama. Quite a bit that can be done with it now. #aussom

Crypto isn’t useful for what it was created for and little else, AI is a big joke and 99% hype. Can we get away from these wastes of time/money/energy/environment and get back to the regular work of solving business problems and incremental improvement.

The Fastmail Desktop App is here! For macOS, Windows, and Linux — with full offline support, native notifications, and default email integration. Goodbye browser tabs 👋 Hello focused productivity 💪 🔗 Learn more: www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop... #Fastmail #EmailMadeBetter #DesktopApp

Beta version of browser Javascript alternative Aussom-Script is now available to try. It’s an interpreted OOP language that is used to program in the browser. #aussom #aussomscript #programming #programminglanguages open.substack.com/pub/austinle...

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. CALL YOUR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSPEOPLE. ASK THE ACLU TO FORM A CLASS ACTION SUIT.

Call them want they really are: HACKERS This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit! They are boy hackers! Plain and simple This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids

Finally 👏🏻 Enough is enough! Thank you.

The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch. Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.

Like 98% compute/bandwidth is bare metal. The cloud is great for small projects (costs are low) and highly profitable projects (costs matter less). But it fails projects that need to scale as efficiently as possible. Moving Bluesky to bare metal reduced costs by 10-100x and saved many millions.

If you are not sure what is happening in your Apache Maven build, then run the following command to find out: mvn buildplan:list-phase You will get a nice list of plugins/goals and in which phase they are running.

Basic was my first programming language, I think I was about 10 when I started with it on our family 386. ❤️ computerhistory.org/blog/in-memo...

Me listening to Baroque tinkering on my programming language for the next 4 years.

@brandonepicmiller.bsky.social randomly got a code today. 👾