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👻🎃 Philippa Amthorror 🎃👻 @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friedrich Merz bittet Merkel telefonisch darum, die bürgerliche Gegenwehr anzuführen. Sie sagt, sie sei gerade nicht in Berlin. Im Hintergrund ist die Ansage „Nächster Halt: Friedrichstraße“ zu hören.

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James Clarkson @jimbobc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Aurendil team is India-bound for SIGMOD 2026 🛫 Looking forward to some good conversations with the DB research community. Who else is going?

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Virtual graphs sourced from relational databases: this is what a great team and I have been working on @neo4j.com the last months. For me, it’s kind of full circle: #SQL, #Cypher and now SQL again behind the scenes. A journey way over a decade for me personally. neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...

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Introducing Neo4j Virtual Graph: Graph reasoning on the data you already have - Graph Database & Analytics

Over the past few quarters, we’ve seen tremendous growth in enterprise adoption of agentic workflows. Large enterprises are realizing that GraphRAG delivers more accurate results than traditional RAG,...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

All these guys out there just broadcasting to everyone what absurdly easy marks they are for any romance scam

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Two wonderful post about #Cypher, the #Neo4j #query language systay.github.io/posts/2026-0... by Andres Taylor and www.thobe.org/work/cypher/ by Tobias Lindaaker

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I Just Wanted a Query Planner | Conscious Incompetence

How a Friday side-project at Neo4j turned into a query language

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Wolfgang Weigend @wolfgangweigend.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A human in-depth discussion about various software technologies with Michael Simons @neo4j.com at the JCON 2026 conference in Cologne with coffee @jcon.one @rotnroll666.bsky.social

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Spring @spring.io · 17/04/2026

Behind every release are months of obsessing over details. 🚀 While you're building with Spring 7/Boot 4, we’re sharing the "why." This @infoq.com interview covers API versioning, Jakarta EE 11, AI, tooling, and what’s next. Full story: www.infoq.com/articles/spr... #SpringFramework #SpringBoot

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The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4

InfoQ recently spoke with key members of the Spring team about the significant architectural and functional advancements in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4. This conversation explores the strateg...

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tante @tante.cc · 13/04/2026

This Sunday I gave a talk at a conference and someone came to me afterwards telling me that my posts played a part in politicizing them. Still thinking about that. A lot of the time it feels like one is just yelling at the clouds but we can sometimes make a difference in each others' lives.

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Brigante Ozziplozzi @laplantulus.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Vermutlich sagt am Ende nichts so viel über die völlig kaputten Prioritäten und Diskussionen unserer Gesellschaft wie dieser komplett absurde Affenzirkus um diesen depperten Buckelwal.

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 02/04/2026

📝 "Hardwood Reaches Beta: S3, Predicate Push-Down, CLI, and More" Happy to announce Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta1, adding S3 support, predicate push-down for both local and remote files, Avro bindings, a CLI for inspecting Parquet files, a new website, and much more. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/hardwoo...

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Released version 1.0.1 of my #Native #Image #Config transformer plugin for the #Maven #Shade plugin that also deals with types defined in reachability-metadata-schema-v1.2.0.json format: codeberg.org/michael-simo... Useful if you need to shade stuff in ur projects that comes with #GraalVM config.

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native-image-config-transformer

Additional transformers for the Maven shade plugin dealing with GraalVM native image configuration files.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 30/03/2026

May I hold up the mirror a bit more? DevRel: most report into marketing. Which means they do marketing, aka the stuff they produce is there primarily to sell more products/services. Also: DevRel mostly writes sample apps, not production-grade. All tech looks awesome when writing hello-world apps.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 23/03/2026

📈 Today, we are releasing DuckDB version 1.5.1, a patch release with bug fixes, performance improvements and support for the Lance lakehouse format. ➡️ duckdb.org/2026/03/23/a...

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 22/03/2026

Think about that if you find yourself spending your times being angry online. Go outside, meet some real people with similar interests, and live your life instead of wasting it away. :)

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Richard Fichtner 💻☕ @richard.fichtner.dev · 18/03/2026

JavaFX is back — now part of the Java Verified Portfolio. Proper support again across Java versions. Big for desktop apps. Modern Java can do way more than people think — even AI and full stack with fewer moving parts. Also: great hallway track, Brian Goetz, Stuart Marks, and Duke 🙂

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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 18/03/2026

Excellent read. A sufficiently detailed spec is not far from code. I wouldn't be surprised to see a formal grammar for specs emerge, at which point we'll just have invented a higher level programming language or reinvented MDA. And then we'll just need a compiler, not an LLM.

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Toshiaki Maki @ik.am · 18/02/2026

github.com/making/nulla... A Maven plugin that configures ErrorProne and NullAway for nullability checking. It replaces the ~40 lines of maven-compiler-plugin boilerplate typically required to set up NullAway.

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GitHub - making/nullability-maven-plugin: A Maven plugin that configures ErrorProne and NullAway for nullability checking

A Maven plugin that configures ErrorProne and NullAway for nullability checking - making/nullability-maven-plugin

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Mark Paluch 👨‍💻,🎹&✈️ @mp911.de · 13/02/2026

Spring Data 2026.0.0-M1 released Be my typed Valentine: Spreading some love for refactoring- and type-safe queries. spring.io/blog/2026/02...

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Spring Data 2026.0.0-M1 released

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

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Manning Publications @manning.com · 30/01/2026

so, two cool things re: duckDB in action by @markhneedham.com, @mesirii.de, and @rotnroll666.bsky.social happened. 1. it was featured at @datadaytexas.bsky.social by @motherduck.com at their booth. 2. it was translated into japanese by impress. the book: hubs.la/Q0415RWM0

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

While I emptied my Twitter account a year ago and set it to locked, never logged in again, I decided to delete it today. You should do too. There is absolutely zero benefit hanging out with the filth.

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Carsten Reckord @carsten.reckord.de · 03/01/2026

Well excuuuuse meee, Robin! But, as far as save the world soundtracks goes, the Butthole Surfers would have absolutely slain! #StrangerThings

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

software development in 2026 is going to require some to loosen up a little
code doesn't have to be as perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-ai
call it slop if you want, but if you're still demanding perfection on every pr while your competitors are shipping "slop" that works.. you're fighting from a disadvantaged position
shipping velocity matters more than perfection

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René Schwietzke @reneschwietzke.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Just got accepted to a Java conference in 2026. My talk will be brand new and build upon my 1BRC presentation. It will try to solve the problem by using all available Java concurrency concepts rather than tuning the code into a C-like hell.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Let's talk about AI Hype and the Theory of Constraints. From a business perspective, the key metric is "lead time." The time it takes to get an idea to the point where it's producing revenue ("in the customer's hands"). 1/10

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Nice. I got accepted at @jcon.one 2026 in #Cologne in April. Hear my explaining everything you need to know about #Java and #Jspecify. Looking forward to it and thanks to @richard.fichtner.dev not minding my small rant in one of the submission text fields :D

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 05/12/2025

I bet anyone under him acting like this would have to take a mandatory drug test.

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 22/11/2025

📺 "Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft" Enjoyed this intro to the Raft consensus algorithm, part of a larger DistSys lecture series by @martin.kleppmann.com. The pseudo-code makes it actually digestible really well. Great watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEY...

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Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft

YouTube video by Martin Kleppmann

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Carsten Reckord @carsten.reckord.de · 22/11/2025

War is peace, freedom is slavery, we only fight the CO2, not its sources. What a delusional shit show.

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