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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org It doesn’t take a big amount from each of us to make a big difference for freedom of information (I signed up for donating the equivalent of just 31 US $ or 27 Euro a year).

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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation

Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve been missing and hoping for this one in #lilypond. It’s introduced in version 2.26.0.

Screen shot describing and showing a Bach schleifer ornament in music set by Lilypond.

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Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski @kto.so · 22/08/2026

Who said men can't coordinate fashion? 😜

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s become a sport to plan my train travel so well ahead that I can get the cheapest fares. Very often I pay a third of the standard fare or less. #DSB #orangebilletter #train

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I reviewed a pull request where a colleague had converted several immutable #Java classes to record classes. *Soooo* much terser! It hurt to tell them that for backward compatibility we still need getters with names that start with get. #JavaRecords #Java17

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why do so many software engineering teams see their development speed slow to a crawl? In this week's video, I explore the single biggest challenge in modern software engineering and programming: coupling. Now on @modernswe.bsky.social 📽️ ➡️ youtu.be/grPtnrOTP_4

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Software Architecture's Biggest Enemy (Not What You Think)

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Jason Parker (he/they) @handle.invalid · 27/06/2026

@mullvadnet trying to gaslight the #Fediverse about "free speech" and fascism, and posting the same obviously PR-approved response to multiple negative posts about their co-CEO / co-founder donating money to fascists sure is a choice.

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Write Once. Run Forever: The Java Story" is coming July 17th! Check out the trailer now: youtu.be/8jrKl4teAjY The full film premieres on YouTube on July 17th at 7pm UTC. James Gosling, Java's creator, and other cast members, will join in the chat.

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Write Once, Run Forever: The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

De Niro: Loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents… I can’t love a country that’s led by a xenophobic tyrant. I can’t love a country that’s led by Trump

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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 03/06/2026

The rainbow is here all year long, so we don't need to change the profile for June. But it is a good time to remind everyone that LGBTQIA+ rights are under attack all year long as well. And to steal @haskell.org's message: there would be no Gleam without trans people 🩵🩷🤍

pink star looking in the mirror with text "I'm going to be brave. I'm going to be myself", with rainbow pride and trans pride stickers on it. The background is rainbow

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 28/05/2026

A human-centric AI Manifesto. I've seen a few AI manifestos recently, but this is one I can get behind. ronanberder.com/ai-manifesto/ github.com/hunvreus/ai-... cc @monkchips.com @cote.io

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AI-Augmented Software Development Manifesto

A manifesto for building software with AI without surrendering human taste, judgment, and ownership.

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Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @frankel.ch · 23/05/2026

#Java records & compact constructors mikemybytes.com...

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#Jira is blocking me from doing my work. The question pops up at semi-unpredictable times, and there is no way around it and back to Jira page I wanted to work on. It’s a pain.

Screen shot of question “Hvad arbejder du med?” (What are you working on) with 14 answer options.

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Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @frankel.ch · 25/04/2026

I Used to Love #Coding. Now I Just #Prompt dev.to/harsh2644...

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I spent the day playing with #EclipseCollections. First impression is it can advantageously replace 75 % of #JavaCollectionsFramework. For a few classes, like LinkedHashMap, I didn’t find a good replacement. Luckily the two libraries interoperate surprisingly well. #Java

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A good colleague of mine, @knudaage.bsky.social , finally embarked on weeding out the use of Date, Calendar, SimpleDateFormat, TimeZone and XMLGregorianCalendar from what may be our largest open-source code project, #bitrepository, github.com/bitrepositor.... #Java

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GitHub - bitrepository/reference: The code for the Bit Repository reference platform

The code for the Bit Repository reference platform - bitrepository/reference

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I am keeping this coin as a little symbol not only of me belonging in the #Java community but also of the mark that @sharatchander.bsky.social set on the Java community and on myself. Shar gave this coin to me on my birthday at #Jfokus2026 in Stockholm.

Photo of coin with a jumping Duke and text “30th Anniversary Oracle”

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This makes no sense to me, it can’t be true, yet it is. :-(

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

First time I coded a #sealedInterface in #Java. A method could return 3 different results, each with its own supplementary information. A sealed interface and three implementing record types seemed right.

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I admit that before coming to #Jfokus2026 I thought virtual threads in #Java sounded like a good idea, but it was unclear what I wanted to use them for. After the talks and lab in the conference I have a very clear picture.

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

At #Jfokus @josepaumard.bsky.social gave the inspiring hands-on lab on structured concurrency and virtual threads. The learning material is good, so I am looking forward to digging still deeper after the conference. #Java

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The first day of #jfokus, the hands-on day, so where you learn and end up tired. @timtebeek.github.io and @rickossendrijver.bsky.social presented "Break your testing habits", advocating #AssertJ, but also a scary eye-opener how much many of us still stick to obsolete habits we learned with #JUnit 3.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100. Like, within the lifespan of your kids. Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this. agupdate.com/agriview/mar...

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Climate change will devastate crop yields

A sweeping new analysis finds that warming global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Of the people praising IntelliJ IDEA (for instance of the occasion of its 25th birthday), how many have been given a license they don’t pay for? How does this contribute to the amount of praise? And how many of them mention the gift along with the praise (I haven’t seen any yet)?

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

A thread 🧵 of _terrible_ design decisions for the internal APIs of the two Italian high speed train operators, Italo and Trenitalia. Hardcoded passwords, terrible translations, spelling mistakes, xml in json (but utf8 encoded and transmitted as an array of numbers), it's all here. Enjoy!

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

If you need to get up to speed with null safety in #Java with #JSpecify and @manu.sridharan.net's #NullAway, watch @seb.deleuze.fr's excellent presentation from @springio.net 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lbx...

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Null Safety in Java with JSpecify and NullAway by Sébastien Deleuze @ Spring I/O 2025

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A colleague objected to using the assert keyword in production Java code. He thinks it will only ever be checked during running unit tests and prefers to have the assertion in the test. 1/2 #Java

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My teenager and a friend asked who invented, owns and develops Java. I gave them the very short story from memory. Java was developed by a group lead by James Gosling and was launched by a company named Sun Microsystems Inc. (1/4) #Java #techhistory

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I have secured my ticket for Jfokus, Stockholm February 2–4. Looking forward like a little kid.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

#SaveSpeech Opposition to Chat Control within Denmark is growing. If you are a Danish citizen, please sign this petition: www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-... At 50k sigs, it is submitted to the parliament and undergoes the standard leg process, including potential debates, review, and vote.

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Nej til EU’s “Masseovervågning” beskyt vores privatliv, digitale sikkerhed og ytringsfrihed.

Vi beder Danmark om at stemme nej til EU’s “Chatkontrol” en lov, der pålægger masseovervågning af alle borgere ved at scanne private beskeder, e-mails

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

errorprone.info/docs/time for programmers, and people who like to know things. By @kevinb9n.bsky.social . Thorough, knowledgeable, a sound read for all programmers, entertaining, practical. Recommended.

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How to Think About Time

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 09/08/2025

First JDK 25 Release Candidate: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/ #JDK25 #Java25 #OpenJDK #TestItNow

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

When they don't have a case, they lie.

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My friend @arvind-avinash.bsky.social invited me and my girl friend to his house when we were in London last week. We had a good and inspiring time together. (I originally know Arvind from Stack Overflow.)

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Not sure exactly how it fits, but I’ll take it. #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27445...

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

They say my official age of retirement will be in 8 months. I couldn’t care less. I have an interesting and lovely software development job, and i am not letting go of it.

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Dad, I want to run a Minecraft server for my sibling and a friend. Have I got Java on my computer? (My home field.) How do I configure port forwarding in the router? (Not my home field, also not hard.) Why don’t the Minecraft mods I got work? (Fortunately a friend helped with that.)”

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

On March 31 the Danish Broadcasting Corporation archive at Royal Danish Library will open to the public. As software developer I am preserving broadcast radio and TV and in this way will contribute to the archive. (Press release in Danish: kum.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...)

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Millioner af DR-udsendelser på vej til danskerne

Kulturministeriets væsentligste opgaver består i ministerrådgivning og lovgivningsmæssige initiativer. Kulturministeriet består af Kulturministeriets departement, en styrelse og ca. 20 statsinstitutio...

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Ole Vedel Villumsen @olevv.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Crazy: playing the piano during work hours. The Århus branch of Royal Danish Library invites users, employees, everyone interested, to join us singing two songs every Thursday at 9:30 AM Danish time. We’re three employees taking turns accompanying. How I enjoy it.

Users and employees singing with piano accompaniment in the Royal Danish Library

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/02/2025

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

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