If you have a tool that can produce stuff faster than before BUT at lower quality/worse customer experience: when would you use that tool?
Personally, I'd use for prototyping + throwaway (quality unimportant)
Def not for customer-facing stuff... until quality is as good or better vs before
How does #Java Vector API accelerate parallelizable computations?
I explored it in my new article (with an example):
Estimating value of pi (Ο) using Monte Carlo Simulation and Vector API
Read it here:
www.balarawool.me/Vector-API-P...
I'm usually not that much into rap, but this is very well done π€© www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpvd...
In the end it took close to 90 minutes, previously that was below 10 π Guess the hamster in their server was taking a diner break π
Maven central status: publishing, created: 1 hour ago π
If you havenβt listened to @rdehuyss.bsky.social βs interview on the Marco Show yet, stop what youβre doing and get the episode: youβre in for a treat!
Ronald is a wonderful human being, smart and funny. He runs a fascinating OSS project @jobrunr.bsky.social and β¦ he βmakes money selling a .jarβ π
@glycin.bsky.social "Please RickRoll me"
P.I.P.: Certainly π€©π€£
Getting ready for @glycin.bsky.social at @jugnoord.bsky.social sharing his AI pair programmer P.I.P.
I don't always have time to watch Ted's streams, but it's great to see him following up with a blogpost on what he encountered and learned each episode - such as migrating Spring boot 3.5.x -> 4.0.3 π
Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2026? See Balkrishna Rawool at #JCON2026 in Cologne talking about '#VirtualThreads, Structured #Concurrency and Scoped #Values: Putting it All Together'
Project #Loom brings lightweight concurrency to #Java with β¦
ποΈ 2026.europe.jcon.one/tickets
Free for #JUG members
Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2026? See Johan Hutting at #JCON2026 in Cologne talking about 'Have You Gone #MADR?'
We all know the #challenge of #remembering why a certain decision was made and why we decided not to go for a specific alternative β¦
ποΈ 2026.europe.jcon.one/tickets
Free for #JUG members
If you were in Coimbra last May, youβll remember it.
Two days of technical depth. Sharp questions. Packed rooms.
JNation returns to Convento SΓ£o Francisco on 26β27 May.
A new edition is in the making!
Last yearβs highlights below.
#JNation #Java #Coimbra
Let's talk about #Java's checked exceptions - smartly. Not whether we should have them (that ship has sailed) but where the friction comes from and what could be done to reduce it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99s7...
Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2026? See Nupur Agarwal at #JCON2026 in Cologne talking about '1. From #Bytes to Brilliance: #Optimizing Large File Delivery in #REST APIs with #SpringBoot'
In this talk, weβll walk through a real-world journey of ...
ποΈ 2026.europe.jcon.one/tickets
Free for #JUG members
AssertJ quote from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: "We shifted security from a stretch goal to a core requirement."
π’ AssertJ joined the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program that leveled up security across 67 open source projects.
What changed for us: SHA pinning, immutable releases, incident response plan, and a mindset shift toward security awareness π
The impact? More robust JVM assertions π
Java Conferences with closing CFP in the next 15 days:
JJUG CCC 2026 Spring Closes: 1 March 2026
DevBcn Closes: 28 February 2026
Devoxx Poland Closes: 28 February 2026
If you want to add your conference, please submit it at https://javaconferences.org/
We are happy to have JUG Noord back as a partner of #JCON2026!
For all #JUG members we offer 1,000 free #JavaUserGroup tickets!
First come, firste serve!
#JCON #Java
Free JUG ticket: pretix.eu/impuls/eur...
Become a partner JUG: jcon.koeln/#partner
Had an extensive conversation with Marco at @jetbrains.com about the future of @graalvm.org, the benefits of ahead-of-time compilation, and whether AI is going to take over compiler development π.
So, Antropic released a 42s promo video of Opus 4.6 generating a working C-compiler π
Impressive, but if you're looking for details and some more nuance by the 'conductor', this is a good read: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
"Now I can show you how to do this on Arch, btw." π€£
www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sn...
Organise an internal meetup with three great speakers π€©
Have everyone in the building evicted just after the third session starts π«€
There's a first time to everything, and at least now we'll have an excuse to organise the next meetup on short term π
The JCON shirts are true gems every year - and as a speaker, you'll even get one for free π€©
Lazily initializing fields in #Java is error-prone and undermines constant-folding. JDK 26 comes with JEP 526, which previews `LazyConstant` - the remedy to this malady.
More details in Inside Java Newscast #106 - join me for the premiere tomorrow morning, 0700 UTC:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlX...
Meet the #JUnit team in Cologne, Germany, in April at #JCON!
@marcphilipp.de will give a talk about the road to JUnit 6 and Christian and Rien will be attending as well.
Please use the following link to support JUnit (10% of the proceeds will go back to the project):
pretix.eu/impuls/europ...
The Loom Lab JDK 26 V1 edition is out! Comes with Timeout management and Scoped Values. You can grab it here: github.com/JosePaumard/...
This is a @josepaumard.bsky.social appreciation post.
There's a reason I don't use self check-out unless I only have 2-3 things to purchase. If more customers would do that, more people would be hired as cashier again.
Plus waiting in line is a great moment to disconnect/think π
What Iβm hearing: large open source projects are being absolutely hammered by AI-generated security reports. To the point of not being able to handle them.
Feeling is lots of ppl want an easy way to put a CVE on their CV and collect $$ for bug bounty.
Super bad for maintainers
HTTP/3 support is coming in #Java 26. ππΎ
