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Programming by contract on the JVM. The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities. How to understand/retain complex concepts 10x better. Maintaining code should be easier than writing it. The Many Facets of Coupling. Just Use PostgreSQL, a Quick-Start Guide. Jepsen test of jetcd. Don’t write Rust like it’s Java. JSpecify 1.0.0 and Nullability in Java.

You’re running untrusted code! SQLite 35% Faster Than The Filesystem. Why can Spring Boot jars run directly? Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification. The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins. Good Bye CRUD APIs, Hello Sync. Functional programming languages should be so much better at mutation than they are. SQL Murder Mystery, can you find out whodunnit? Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill 3rd-party cookies. 2023 Security Audit. Movable tree CRDTs and Loro’s implementation. Turns out REST APIs weren’t the answer.

Discuss the problem, not the solution. My take on databases with Rust. Demystifying cookies and tokens. Types as Interfaces. Announcing Rust 1.80.0. Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes. Why Go is the worst language you could ever learn. Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes. Splitting and Merging Partitions in PostgreSQL 17. .local.

The Flatten Maven plugin. Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers. pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. You Still Retrieve Logs from the Server? Isn’t Setting Up Log Collection More Convenient? Why German Strings are Everywhere. Why I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything. Panic! at the Job Market. SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers’ cloud environments and private AI artifacts. You’ll regret using natural keys. Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project. Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications. DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon. Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications. Optimizing java base docker images size from 674Mb to 58Mb.

Microsoft ditches OpenAI board observer seat amid regulatory scrutiny Dedockify Time, the Silent Exploit: The Unseen Enemy in Every Codebase Using S3 as a container registry Measure Your Maven Build ]@property: Next-gen CSS variables now with universal browser support Vall-E 2, a neural codec language model for speech synthesis The Threads Creator Paradox gRPC Decoded: The API Protocol That’s Changing Everything Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming

Extending third-party APIs in different languages. Throwing the towel. Why I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust. Lua: The Easiest, Fully-Featured Language That Only a Few Programmers Know. How AI is Impacting Developer Skills and Coding Quality. From dotenv to dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management. The Open Home Foundation. Free Database Hosting Providers. I’ve retired. Dirty writes. Scout, a modern web crawling programming language. Deactivating an API, One Step at a Time.

Distributing webapps via Homebrew. Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC. 3 Example Use Cases for Arazzo Descriptions. Farewell MongoDB: 5 reasons why you only need PostgreSQL. A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work. MERC, The MErcilessly Redundant Config language. Home Assistant. Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only. Maven Central and the tragedy of the commons. Scaling Explained Through Kubernetes HPA, VPA, KEDA & Cluster Autoscaler.

Choosing a cache. Why we can’t have nice things in Kotlin. Functional builders in #Java with #Jilt. Autism as the Kolmogorov Complexity Phenotype. Follow the money: The financial background of OpenSource in the Java ecosystem. Mergeable: A better inbox for GitHub pull requests. Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money. Redpanda’s official Jepsen report: What we fixed, and what we shouldn’t. From the 80’s to 2024 - how CI tests were invented and optimized. Hitting the wall with Rust’s borrow checker. api-catalog: a well-known URI and link relation to help discovery of APIs. Dioxus Labs + "High-level Rust".

Handling null: optional and nullable types. Statement on Vavr’s Future. Mastering Kubernetes: Service and Network APIs. Feynman’s Razor. Linamp, The IRL Winamp. DuckDB: The Awesome Tiny & Powerful Analytics Database. Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200’s doors for first time. Moving Quarkus to a Foundation. Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please. State of the Postgres Extension Ecosystem. Spring Boot 3.3 Release Notes.

What’s the version of my Jekyll site? What’s a lesser known open source Java project you think deserves more publicity? Moving Beyond Type Systems. Mastering Caching in Distributed Applications. OpenLineage, an open framework for data lineage collection and analysis. Python’s many command-line utilities. Interpretation of Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1. Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now. Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach. What is Google Zanzibar? The Building Blocks of LLMs: Vectors, Tokens and Embeddings.