- The state of JVM desktop frameworks: SWT
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SWT originates from the Eclipse project, an IDE. For Eclipse, the developers built a dedicated framework to build their graphic components upon. Swing and SWT have widely different designs. Swing implements the drawing of widgets in Java from scratch. On the opposite, SWT is a thin wrapper API that relies on native graphic objects. This has two main benefits:
- Widgets look native to the platform
- Rendering is faster
- This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur Rust Developers
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Despite a click-baity title, the article makes a good job of explaining the
SendandSynctraits. - Stop Using the Wrong CNI in 2025: Flannel vs Calico vs Cilium
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Solid overview of CNI in Kubernetes, for newbies like me. I have only ever used the default Flannel one.
- New Rust Client Enables Building Safe, High-Performance Apps with Aerospike
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I know nothing about Aerospike, but it’s interesting to see more and more products offerting Rust clients.
- Soft Assertions with AssertJ
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I love AssertJ. About soft assertions, I’m of two minds. Don’t they break the principle of test having to fail for a single reason only?
- I Built a Ballistic Missile Defense Simulator in a Browser
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This is so cool and so sad at the same time.
- EU Commission Reactivates Bug Bounties
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Organizations in general, and government bodies in particular, have a huge influence on the level of safety regarding software. I wish for more initiatives like this this.
- Sneaky git commits
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I wouldn’t have expected such thing from Git. Live and learn!
- No digital sovereignty without open source, warns OSBA
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The question of digital sovereignty is crucial in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Leaving software in the hands of other nations, especially if they are unreliable allies, is a lack of strategic foresight that we will soon pay the price of.
- Announcing Crossplane 2.0
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I barely had a look at the v1, and I must now check v2.
- Looks Good to Me
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I know nothing about the book’s content, but the title is genius!
- Purity: A Kotlin Compiler Plugin for determining and enforcing Pure and Readonly functions
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The project is interesting in two aspects:
- The idea itself is pretty neat
- It can serve as template for your own Kotlin compiler plugin
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The state of JVM desktop frameworks: SWT. This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur Rust Developers. Stop Using the Wrong CNI in 2025: Flannel vs Calico vs Cilium. New Rust Client Enables Building Safe, High-Performance Apps with Aerospike. Soft Assertions with AssertJ. I Built a Ballistic Missile Defense Simulator in a Browser. EU Commission Reactivates Bug Bounties. Sneaky git commits. No digital sovereignty without open source, warns OSBA. Announcing Crossplane 2.0.
