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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 · 30/09/2026

Great stuff that one, I use its converters all the time

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Funny thing: I had to read "As a developer, I prefer not to repeat myself" three times before the article started

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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 · 31/08/2026

I remember when I discovered CSS Zen Garden and saw what you could do with just a style sheet, my mind was blown away

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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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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The question remains: are you going to use it to generate JOOQ code?

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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 · 24/05/2026

A much appreciated and underused feature!

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

What do you mean by this? "The code uses Quarkus idioms, not Spring habits with a namespace change"

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Exactly how I think this could work. Isolate the layers/slices and the smaller context will help you avoid bulky pieces of code

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It feels like merely swapping some issues for different issues. Dunking on flattened-pom and needing to exclude inline-pom

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

How cool is this! Thanks for sharing

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Cool! I did not know about .git-blame-ignore-revs

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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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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I like the Hibernate approach (original from Quarkus) where the cache is created from the previous build in the same month. It works well for small pom changes

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Have you considered changing the cache setup? When the pom changes regularly, the average build is slower

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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 · 29/01/2026

Happy to see that configureReadAbsentAsNull from Jdk8Module returns as a config parameter. Perhaps it should be mentioned in the migration guide?

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Isn't that the Musk philosophy? When the outcome is success and production costs are low, people will applaud "failing fast going forward"

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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

It was #Quarkus that did this before apparently, kudos to them!

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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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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I do the same but cross my fingers during "Run tests"

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Shouldn't be a surprise. A lot of *people* write "good enough" code for a living without a bigger picture in mind.

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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 · 07/11/2025

It feels like they started the migration unprepared and encountered the consequences. Having to opt-in on extensions (health, kafka) isn't a bad thing

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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 · 25/10/2025

For me only Jackson is a no-brainer for anything that needs JSON parsing. Keeping up with library releases costs time too

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The time gained by the person generating code is largely compensated by the time lost during reviewing/refactoring

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Really interesting, I might change to the var-side after seeing this 😀 About Optional, how do you express the difference between: - value is there - value explicitly set to null - value is missing

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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 · 08/10/2025

The Valhalla video isn't showing and the homelab link isn't correct. Besides that, it's a fine list of resources once again. Thanks!

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The effort you put in is very much appreciated!

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I like to add the mvn-jlink-wrapper to execute the cache-jdk goal. It's helpful for reproducible builds. github.com/raydac/mvn-j...

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Tom Van Wemmel @tomvanwemmel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Every time I write my name in an email, Outlook turns it into "Tomorrow" 🙃

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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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