Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 10/01/2026Shame that @intellijidea.com can't complete this refactoring itself. Not ideal that the refactoring takes compiling code and creates code that fails to compile. #java 111
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/01/2026Trying to identify this bird. LLMs like insisting it's various varieties of Californian bird but this is taken in Scotland. White Tailed Eagle? Buzzard? Osprey? 111
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/01/2026It was at this moment I realised that slick tyres may not have been the optimal choice this morning #cycling 070
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 13/12/2025Discovered there's a setting to change #intellij 's default infuriating behaviour of opening seemingly random tab when you drag/split editor views. I really wonder why "Most recently opened tab" is not the default. 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 06/12/2025I like parameterised tests but find #junit 's EnumSource/MethodSource etc dissatisfying. Here's how you can parameterize tests with #java records gist.github.com/benjiman/e9f... 042
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 06/10/2025The trouble with these electronic wing mirrors on buses now is one can't see if the bus driver is paying attention when #cycling. Why wouldn't the bus driver be paying attention you ask? 020
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 04/10/2025I'm not sure this email marketing was targeted at engineers. 030
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 01/07/2025Github has got Gemini disease of popping up offering Copilot "help" in front of whatever you're trying to read or click on. Doesn't seem to matter how many times you dismiss it. 110
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 20/06/2025One of the most frustrating things with Android Chrome is how you: • Open a link in chrome • Switch to something else • Go back to chrome -> It shows you what you wanted to continue reading for a split second, only for it to vanish into the ether, never to be seen again. 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 20/06/2025I've noticed macbook users look horrified when I do this with my Framework. 120
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 19/06/2025Increasingly find myself reaching for duckdb over jq. SQL and JSON Path is a powerful combination. 040
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 10/06/2025Adding shoes to my growing list of busted carbon. Isn't it great how carbon fails by fraying into shards of ultra sharp nano splinters. 020
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 10/06/2025Didn't have much success debating this with support. "the reason for the price increase is because of Gemini being part of the core services *for the betterment of service* "if you wish to turn off the Gemini features … *turning off the feature doesn't change the current pricing.*" 3574
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 20/05/2025Amazon busy making their product worse. I used to be able to read this book that I "purchased", now it can't be opened. 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 03/04/2025This button in Slack always amuses me (It does do something). 020
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 17/03/2025It's that time of year when the birdsong alarm wakes one up early enough to be greeted by the robots with "Good Evening" 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 07/02/2025Now that reMarkable have added basic shapes, the ubiquitous Box-Box-Cylinder architecture is now Neat-Neat-Messy. I wonder if that's appropriate 🤔 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025"As a software developer, at first you think the others can't code; ultimately you realize that no one can." Philipp Stanner ['s anonymous colleague] #fosdem 051
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025The devrooms that believe in ventilation are so much more pleasant. Whether masking or not. #fosdem . I wonder what it would take to have air purifiers in the infectious and stuffy H rooms. 041
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025Kohei Tokunaga demoing qemu emulating raspberry pi in browser #fosdem 041
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025"consent crisis, people don't want AI harvesting the data but blocking them restricts everyone access to data for all purposes" #fosdem 110
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025Looking forward to this one. What can we learn from Formula 1 incident management by @mccricardo.bsky.social #fosdem 181
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025Challenges of ClickHouse for observability "SQL is not PromQL" I'm not seeing the problem ¬_¬ @joshleecreates.bsky.social #fosdem 011
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025Time to learn about detecting supply chain attacks like the xz backdoor in Debian #fosdem 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 02/02/2025Fascinating lightning talk on building open source wind generation with kites #fosdem kitesforfuture.de 021
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 01/02/2025Lennart Poettering's talk the busiest yet, packing Janson. 010
Benji Weber @benjiweber.com · 01/02/2025Standing room only for "How Browsers Really load Web Pages" by @programmingart.bsky.social #fosdem 0133