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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

But hey, maybe it's fixed in the next version!

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Steve is dreaming about shenanigans. He is having 'shenanidreams'.

Short description: Steve the otter is curled up asleep on a coarse, burlap-like fabric in a softly lit indoor setting, captured in a naturalistic wildlife photo style.
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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd be interested to see the intersection between people that like AI and the workload they have; i.e. if they work in really intense environments where speed is a major factor, possibly (probably) above quality.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nope. It was novel at first. It is still useful, but mainly because search engines are crap these days. Peak Internet was in the 00s, and it's been downhill ever since, IMO.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nailed it

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At premium rates. I've seen this a lot over the years.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's amazing how fragile our industry is and how it's propped up by well-meaning, smart and passionate individuals. I hope they've revised their position. If not, may I recommend temporary consultancy as a short term option, and you may get a fairer compensation when they realise they need you back;

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry to hear that. When businesses don't align with the technology that underpins them, there's a big problem. It's utterly maddening being in that position and I hate it.

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Lady with Schnauzers 🫘 @iloveschnauzers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yep. That’s me. Wrote the code that underpins everything the company built on top of it. And this is me after begging them to update/improve/replace my decades-old code bc it is no longer the most efficient or effective solution. (They declined.)

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Böhmermann: This Is Fine Meme

Alt: Böhmermann: This Is Fine Meme— a man in a suit and tie sits drinking a cup of coffee while everything around him is on fire.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PSFH - package structure from hell. I've been wrestling with an app today where this is the case. It has all the hallmarks: root package with controller, service, dto, mapper packages etc. with everything under there - it just invites spaghetti code. Tidying it is going to be a nightmare...

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm with you there! White wine vinegar is really nice too. Distilled white vinegar is OK for some circumstances. There are better options though IMO, but if that's all you have to hand, it does a job and I can't be snarky about that.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026

“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”

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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I worked in a restaurant, we'd set up a massive pan of water, break the eggs carefully (in batches) into one container and pour them in - because they were fresh, they had enough time to separate and form a skin, so we could then scoop them out and cool them and store them for service.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your tips are great (though I'll add, adding a little bit of vinegar *does* add subtle flavour which some prefer). I would also add though, fresh eggs are the best option, if you can get them. The albumen breaks down over time, which is why you end up with the loose bits and structural issues.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Homeless people are famous for having access to appliances. FFS.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pair that with the view that anything we do create which may have been inspired by other cultures being instantly dismissed as non-British food, and it shows we're in a bit of a bind reputationally.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think in the UK at least, we also don't tend to name recipies so well. They're are some iconic plates with names, but mostly we just come up with nice food, share a recipe with friends and relatives and don't put a name to it so it doesnt register as a UK "dish".

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, Grady has said it better than me, which is par for the course. I do feel a sense of vindication though, and I hope people listen and take note.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Without that, and just using AI for everything, you're basically a dumb meat proxy. We need to be better than this.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not worried at all about AI taking my job or more jr. jobs, but I am concerned about the impact on learning and the wider implications of that in general. People need to experience failure, they need bewilderment, they need to experience being lost and then finding a path. That cements knowledge

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so bad. Keep your mind and your tools sharp. AI might be here to stay, in one form or another, but it doesn't think in the same way humans can - if we can even call it thinking.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not talking Dolmeo though, that's sugary shite.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think rose harissa might be my new favorite condiment. It packs a load of flavour: you can add it to eggs, sauces, rice or use it as a marinade. Flavour wise, I do prefer Mr Naga chili pickle, but it's not for the feint of heart as its it is *hot*. Good jars of good things transforms cooking IMO.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 01/10/2026

In the face of generative AI coding agents, the role of human-led architecture becomes even more important in the crafting of software-intensive systems.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just when I think I can't like otters more, I find I like otters more.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Being online is hard. Or it can be, if you're empathetic enough to care about what you post. Heavy stuff aside, it was funny twice, and that doesn't happen often.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's really no need to apologise. You've accidentally taken a good joke and elevated it by accident. For anybody who doesn't see anything, it's fine. To anybody who does and takes some sort of offence at it, grow up. People just having a giggle at an accidental faux pas, good for them. 👏

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Decided to order in some food, and on our chow mein packaging, written in beautiful cursive writing it just said "noodle doodles". It tasted just that bit better for that little bit of extra whimsy.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just making it somewhat even would be a start.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd love to claim it as my own, but I heard it elsewhere - unfortunately I can't credit it either as I forgot where I first heard it. I still think it's a damn good idea though.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God I hope so... it's so long overdue. I just wish they would frame it as a "patriot tax" or similar just to highlight how much of a bad citizen they've been for either dodging or wanting to dodge it.

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Adam Bien @adambien.blog · 29/09/2026

"select, reject, detect, collect and inject"-an airhacks.fm podcast conversation with Donald Raab is ready to listen: adambien.blog/roller/selec... #java #podcast #eclipsecollections #airhacks

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/12/2024

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good point. I'm going to have a nap.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey, we have a failure. 65536 appears to be the limit. Why? I don't know yet. But you lombok users are probably OK for now.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think my poor laptop will fall over with an OOME before I find out, but I'll post back when I know.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, today I wondered, how many annotations can you stick on a method before something goes wrong. I set up a loop to test exactly that, and you'll be happy to know, you can go well into numbers you never would likely achieve. That being said, I'm letting it run, for science.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/09/2026

I can’t decide if people who assert that contemporary AIs can think or are conscious do so out of fear or out of envy. But I can say that any such people do so either out of emotion or perhaps driven by some pecuniary interest in it being true, not from any fully informed or defensible position.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And if you're a performance geek, you're aware closures aren't cached, and for loops are the only other option on a hot path - EC solves that.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No "bun" code. No `some Collection.sream()...` - the operations are available on the collection. As they should be. EC IMO, represents the best of what is possible from a Java collection API.

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Add to that, the level of symetry is what you really want to make your code easy to understand - negated filters are no longer a problem (and filter was always a poor name - inclusive or exclusive?).

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joesteel.bsky.social @joesteel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

100% this. JCA do well to encapsulate internals, but fail to deliver in the same way EC does. As an example, how many times have you resorted back to a loop just because you didn't have an index to work with?

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Donald Raab @thedonraab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Eclipse Collections Categorically" is a thinking book. What if you could tell your data structures to do work for you? What categories of things would you ask for? 🤷‍♂️👇 *Note*: $0 to buy Amazon Kindle version for few more hours. Search title on website, not mobile. donraab.medium.com/my-ten-year-...

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