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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It looks like the following is the simplest way to read a file in #Java on Windows if its name ends with spaces. And it's insane.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was wondering if there's a Java program where `<String>super();` call compiles but produces a different result than `super();`. It looks like it's possible!

static class Super {
private final String name;

@SafeVarargs
<T> Super(T... arr) {
name = arr.getClass().getComponentType().getName();
}

@Override
public String toString() {
return name;
}
}

static class C1 extends Super {
C1() {
super();
}
}

static class C2 extends Super {
C2() {
<String>super();
}
}

void main() {
IO.println(new C1());
IO.println(new C2());
}

Result:
java.lang.Object
java.lang.String

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Overheard: - What is this button? - Some AI stuff, I don't know. This conversation is literally applicable to any modern UI.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Java27 is already available in your copy of IntelliJ IDEA (Project Structure -> SDK -> Download JDK). You don't even need to restart it!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It was available in ICU4J library, but now you can create user-readable lists without third-party dependency!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Other languages work as well: > ListFormat.getInstance(Locale.GERMAN, ListFormat.Type.OR, ListFormat.Style.FULL).format(Arrays.asList("Java", "Kotlin", "Scala")) "Java, Kotlin oder Scala"

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Totally missed a very cool API appeared in Java 22, ListFormat: > ListFormat.getInstance(Locale.ENGLISH, ListFormat.Type.OR, ListFormat.Style.FULL).format(Arrays.asList("Java", "Kotlin", "Scala")) "Java, Kotlin, and Scala"

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's a good idea to check your code for numeric overflows. You might think that overflow is impossible, as the number should be ridiculously big to overflow. But this may actually happen!

Screenshot from Flightradar24 showing AIB35LR Melbourne → Toulouse flight with the flight time of 0:25 instead of 24:25.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Released StreamEx 0.9.0. Main change: JSpecify annotations on the library. It should be more null-safe and more Kotlin-friendly now. Bugs are possible, feel free to report. github.com/amaembo/stre...

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GitHub - amaembo/streamex: Enhancing Java Stream API

Enhancing Java Stream API. Contribute to amaembo/streamex development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Single log formats time in four different ways. Computers were a mistake.

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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

YouTube video by CultRepo

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 24/06/2026

Null pointer exceptions are the billion dollar mistake. With Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 now fully on board with JSpecify, it's time to fix them for good. @0.5ritter.de from the Spring team shows you how. 👇 youtu.be/tpz-FSs6oO4

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Nulls are dead - Moritz Halbritter | IntelliJ IDEA Tech Talks

Null pointer exceptions have been called the billion dollar mistake. They are a common source of bugs and frustration. JSpecify aims to fix that, and with Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 now…

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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 21/05/2026

Today is the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD. In honor of it, we want to share recent improvements to compatibility with assistive technologies across different platforms, keyboard navigation, and non-visual feedback in JetBrains IDEs: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202...

blog.jetbrains.com

Improving Accessibility in JetBrains IDEs: What’s New and What’s Next in 2026 | The JetBrains Platform Blog

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing recent improvements and what’s next for assistive technologies, navigation, and non-visual feedback.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The code in question should not be compilable, according to the specification! This is fixed in Java 26, so your code may become broken there.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thanks to bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8..., I can now close several long-standing issues in #IntelliJIDEA bug tracker as 'third-party issue'. People reported that IntelliJ erroneously highlights compilable code as red. But it was not our mistake.

bugs.openjdk.org

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 17/03/2026

Big day for #Java – Java 26 is here! ☕ IntelliJ IDEA already supports it, so you can try the new features right away. Read more in our blog post: jb.gg/avyjks. Visiting JavaOne? Stop by the JetBrains booth to talk about Java 26 and IntelliJ IDEA with us in person.

jb.gg

Java 26 in IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Java 26 was released on March 17, 2026. At JetBrains, we are committed to supporting the latest technologies in IntelliJ IDEA and adding useful enhancements for both stable and preview features. In…

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We communicated during the translation, and I was really pleased to see how dedicated he is. He found a few problems in the original text (I added them to errata), he updated links, which became outdated since English edition. His questions show deep understanding of the topic.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

LLMs can replace a human translator in many cases, but this level of quality is still impossible for LLMs out-of-the-box 😄

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

He followed the instructions to do what I'm saying (e.g., create structural search template) in the Japanese-localized #IntelliJIDEA and took the new screenshots. All inspection names match our official translation, he actually looked how we translated them in our localization.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I've received a copy of Japanese translation of my '100 Java Mistakes' book. I love the work done by translator Yoshiki Shibata! He didn't just translate the text.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Now, you'll get an inspection warning with a quick-fix proposing to use the deconstruction pattern! void print(List<Point> list) { for (Point(int x, int y) : list) { System.out.println(x + ":" + y); } }

Inspection warning: "Can be replaced with enhanced 'for' with a record pattern"

Resulting code screenshot (available in the post anyway)

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Fun fact: #IntelliJIDEA still supports this feature! Use language level 20 (Preview). Write code like: record Point(int x, int y) {} void print(List<Point> list) { for (Point point : list) { int x = point.x(); int y = point.y(); System.out.println(x + ":" + y); } }

Language level selection dialog in IntelliJ IDEA

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Enhanced Local Variable Declarations #Java JEP draft is published! bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... Do you remember that the "records in for-each statements" feature was previously a part of JEP 432 and delivered to Java 20 (preview), but dropped since Java 21?

bugs.openjdk.org

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

Glean answer:

In building ... today’s siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave
your workplace while it's running.

If you're unsure or something seems off (e.g. smoke, smell, people evacuating), call Munich building emergency number ... or ask at reception immediately.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just seen on a code review: > .groupBy({ it.second }, { it.first }) People may think it's short and concise. I think, it's cryptic and unreadable. You have to go several lines above and find `to` inside one of previous lambdas to finally understand what is `it.first` and what is `it.second`.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Fun with #Kotlin: a pair of parentheses may cost you a lot!

import kotlin.system.measureTimeMillis

fun main() {
val set = (0..10000000).toCollection(linkedSetOf())
repeat(5) {
val time1 = measureTimeMillis { set.last }
println("set.last call took $time1 ms")
val time2 = measureTimeMillis { set.last() }
println("set.last() call took $time2 ms")
}
}

set.last call took 1 ms
set.last() call took 71 ms
set.last call took 0 ms
set.last() call took 63 ms
set.last call took 0 ms
set.last() call took 58 ms
set.last call took 0 ms
set.last() call took 61 ms
set.last call took 0 ms
set.last() call took 57 ms

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In today crazy #Java series: this code works (with Java 25): <T extends Integer> void test(T t) { t++; //t+=1; IO.println(t); } void main() { test(10); } But if you replace t++ with t+=1, it stops working! Main.java:3: error: incompatible types: int cannot be converted to T

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Nice commit github.com/stack-auth/s...

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 08/12/2025

The IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 release has landed! This version brings several significant updates, all of which are described and demoed on our What’s New page. Check it out! 👇

jetbrains.com

What's New in IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Explore IntelliJ IDEA's latest features and updates to elevate your professional Java and Kotlin development experience.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Think positive. You have a good chance now to become the longest living person in your town or even state. You can also compete in a local running event in the M75 age category with good chances to win!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I don't know what is sadder: AI that thinks up the things in the absence of reliable information, or people who blindly trust it without checking the sources (there aren't any).

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The funny thing is that a person today tried to convince me that this is true. While I don't know your real age, I was like 'huh? Can't be true'. He showed the Google search result as a proof.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Will you expect this code to be JSpecify-compliant? If not, then how to fix it? @NullMarked public final class Demo { List<String> removeNulls(List<@Nullable String> input) { return input .stream().filter(Objects::nonNull).toList(); } }

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You can find the discussion here: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-3...

youtrack.jetbrains.com

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 12/11/2025

Don't miss my new blog post in the Road to GA series to learn how the Spring team empowers Spring developers to make their Spring Boot 4 application null-safe, to reduce or remove the risk of NullPointerException and to solve "the billion dollar mistake"! spring.io/blog/2025/11... #spring #java

spring.io

Null-Safe applications with Spring Boot 4

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

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Oh, we had this in my previous job! I can tell you what can go wrong: the limited size of the class constant pool! We actually started hitting it when tried to add more stuff into that huge Utils class.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A user reports wrong highlighting in IntelliJ IDEA: the code is red, but both javac compiler and ecj compiler compile the code successfully, using any version of compiler. Next you read the spec and realize that IntelliJ IDEA behavior is correct, and both compilers are wrong. Weird feeling.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Days since I mixed 'ExpressionUtils' and 'ExceptionUtils': 0

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Is it official now to call the taskbar notification area as 'tray'? I remember Raymond Chen saying that this is wrong 🤔 devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Fixed a static analysis warning in a Java file in the repo . . . It was a demonstration Java file used to onboard users and teach them about IntelliJ IDEA inspections and quick-fixes. The warning was there to illustrate how inspections work 🤦

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

TIL: In #Java, List.subList() and List.reversed() are implemented smartly. You may call these methods as many times as you want and in any order, but you don't get a long chain of references which leads to StackOverflowError. The longest chain of views is two: reversed -> subList -> original list.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Implemented Comparator.min/max for the Java standard library. Should be available since Java 26. ❌comp.compare(a, b) >= 0 ? a : b ✅comp.max(a, b) bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8...

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 16/09/2025

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/ #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

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Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 16/09/2025

Java 25 LTS is here! 🚀 Ready to tap into the latest #Java features? #IntelliJIDEA supports Java 25 from day one. Let’s dive into what’s new and how your IDE has you covered! 👇 #Java25IntelliJIDEA jb.gg/r70wns

jb.gg

Java 25 LTS and IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Full support for Java 25 is available in IntelliJ IDEA!

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