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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Software design should be easy and neat, with no needless boundaries to meet. But when changes get tough, settle for “good enough”! Ship it Friday, rinse and repeat.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A developer pushed to main, with no desire to explain, keep up with his pace, 'cause reviews are a waste, he might break production again.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A NullPointerException was thrown from a piece of code that removed minutes from Instant variables... to use in a query for comparison. The database does that comparison equally well on the original value and now we have a bug 😔

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's so easy to write unreliable tests with Mockito. No guard against refactoring and describing situations that could never occur due to validation guards... only useful to increase code coverage

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"This graph clearly indicates that software is cheaper to make, Jason" It indicates that software nobody wants is cheaper to make. Yet again, we forget there's a speed limit on the feedback loop that really matters.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

People who start their message with a binary statement are missing knowledge, experience, or empathy. The world isn’t black or white, certainly not the tech world!

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Ky @ky.fyi · 09/06/2026

also, god, LLMs feel like kerosene for ADHD. something about the implicit push to multitask, or reams of text being generated faster than anyone can read. it’s not a calm feeling

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@sporza.be Groep K en L vallen onder de video-banner op sporza.be/nl/categorie...

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Implementing a feature in under 2h because BDD tests are easy to write 🥳 Vs. Being afraid to refactor a class because mocks are unreliable 😭

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026

Generative AI is a slop generation machine by default. You have to put in a lot of work to get something of quality from it.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

@javaadvent.bsky.social yesterdays post about pattern matching does not render code correctly

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The #Github setup-java action has a poor caching mechanism but I really like the way #Hibernate solves it with a daily cache created from the day before

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

First CloudFlare, now Github, why are we doing this Cloud-thing again?

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 07/11/2025

Having multiple copies of your data, specifically laid out for different access patterns, is completely fine. Desirable even. Just make sure to have one canonical source of truth and drive updates to all the copies from there.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I saw a coworker using his smartphone at a urinal and I can't even imagine why someone would think this is a good idea

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I have to admit that when the tutorials and blog post don't cover your problem, solutions proposed by AI often contain good elements. Don't just copy the suggested code though

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"We verhuizen want de parkeerdruk is hier te groot" zei mijn buur met 3 auto's

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

My company requires an approval for every pull request, so I started committing on Dependabot branches

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/08/2025

The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already: Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I've seen the 4th best Naked Gun movie. I've watched the old films 20-30 times, listened to The Lonely Island on repeat and ... read about Pamela Anderson and I had high expectations. Pam scatting Kid Rock lyrics was funny though

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is bad news for software developers who don't know WTF they're doing.

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Guillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev · 25/05/2025

It's good to reinvent the wheel sometimes! endler.dev/2025/reinven... Great post by Matthias Endler. It helps understanding how wheels work, how you can fix them when broken, how to make better wheels if really needed, or how to find creative use cases for wheels by thinking outside the box.

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Reinvent the Wheel | Matthias Endler

One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to …

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Bought myself a #Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra and boy is it addictive to manage VLANs

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Sunday project: creating parallel #Maven archetypes for #Quarkus and #Spring with @jetbrains.com Junie. So far a positive experience, Junie is a bit slower than other prompt generators but much more reliable. github.com/TomVanWemmel...

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Roy van Rijn @royvanrijn.com · 21/02/2025

Not a coincidence, not acceptable.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@simonbrown.je how does one determine the line for external dependencies? Is an API Manager external when it has a dedicated service for a System? I suppose it's close to pub/sub where you advise against a message bus container

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#Mockito I find you so funny You take all your directions from me But you only assure That my setup is secure I should have just written a Dummy

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#Spring and #Lombok, both easy to use. They extend your code by the annotations you choose. But once they are paired, you forget why they're there. And it's ever so hard to cut loose.

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The state of #AI: Every time I write my name at the end of an email, Outlook turns it into "Tomorrow_".

Email signature saying: Sincerely Tomorrow_

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

How do you confirm a pod is healthy for a simple #Java application? Use the HttpServer that ships with the JDK! gist.github.com/TomVanWemmel...

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JDK 21 health check server

JDK 21 health check server. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 01/12/2024

Streamlining Java Development with Backstage: A Guide to Software Templates - JVM Advent bit.ly/3Vl2Yl9 #Java #Backstage #platformengineering

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