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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 08/10/2026
We had a crazy idea: a virtual Quarkus conference. Two half-days, Feb 2–3, 2027, free and online. In true open source fashion, you pick the name — voting is open for two weeks: github.com/quarkusio/qu... #Quarkus #Java
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Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watch this 🎬 with Martin Fowler and Eric Evans by Gien Verschatse on thirty years of collaboration, and what AI changed: buff.ly/2PtlMzI
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29/05/2026
New post: we should be more tired than the model vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/w...
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We should be more tired than the model
Adding deliberate friction back into development
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's here!! AWS SAM CLI now handles dynamic loops to generate resources! This and other CloudFormation language extensions are now live! I stinking LOVE this! builder.aws.com/content/3DiJ...
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Dynamic Looping Comes to AWS SAM | AWS Builder Center
AWS SAM CLI now supports CloudFormation Language Extensions, bringing Fn::ForEach, Fn::Length, Fn::ToJsonString, FindInMap with default values, and conditional deletion policies to your local developm...
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Jon Caruana @joncaruana.com · 05/05/2026
Links. Which order is text and URL? Which one gets which symbol? 4 possibilities. And I get it wrong 5 times somehow. It’s worse than USB orientation for me.
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's 2026 and people are still writing posts about cold starts being the reason not to go serverless. So I made a gravestone, built a benchmarker, and wrote about it. edjgeek.com/blog/lambda-...
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Cold Starts Are Dead — edjgeek
Lambda cold starts in 2026 are 200-400ms for Python, sub-100ms for Go and Rust, and 90-140ms for Java with SnapStart. The data says the argument is over.
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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 20/04/2026
I use AI every day, and I’m less convinced the real gain is productivity. For senior Java devs, a lot of the work just moved: less typing, more review, more judgment, more mental load. buff.ly/fyU31Vx
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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 18/04/2026
lckhd.eu/1UUTts #LoadTesting often gets glossed over before going live, but the article below shows how much signal you actually get when you treat it as a proper investigation. It describes four scripts, four questions, and a clear picture of where an AWS (Elastic Container Service) #ECS
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"The real problem wasn’t messy code. It was that no one on the team could explain why design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The theory of the system had evaporated." New #Radar article by @addyosmani.bsky.social: bit.ly/41tTNSh
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Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani's blog site and is being reposted here with the author's permission.Comprehension debt is the
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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 10/03/2026
Junie ranked top on SWERebench using Gemini 3 Flash, spending ~10x fewer tokens than other agents while maintaining high performance. We’re offering free access to Gemini 3 Flash for one week, until next Monday. Try it out and let us know what you think: jb.gg/ecer6x
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Junie by JetBrains
Junie by JetBrains. AI Coding Agent.
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Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk · 02/03/2026
Cognitive Debt: acairns.co.uk/posts/cognit...
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Cognitive Debt
The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It's not technical debt. It's worse.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/02/2026
I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account...
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 09/02/2026
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 26/01/2026
What is JBang? The Complete Guide to Java Scripting buff.ly/dkxg8FA #Java #Jbang
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What is JBang? The Complete Guide to Java Scripting - Marc Nuri
Learn what JBang is and how it transforms Java into a scripting language. Complete guide with installation, dependencies, native images, and examples.
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Guillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev · 03/02/2026
🚀Deploying datacenters in space 🛰️ is probably a terrible idea... taranis.ie/datacenters-...
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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works. - addyosmani.com/blog/code-re...
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AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works.
AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review f...
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Wim @wimsymons.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🙄 Let me guess... Copilot proposed the rename? 🤣
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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
AI can ASSIST your deployment pipeline, but it must never be allowed to define it. If you don’t understand how your pipeline works end-to-end, you’re doing hope-driven delivery.
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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 26/11/2025
Oooooh this is GOOD! You can now block public access to S3 buckets across the entire organization ❤️ Every org should consider turning this on by default. aws-news.com/article/2025...
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Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement
Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement through AWS Organizations, enabling you to standardize and enforce S3 public access s...
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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 04/11/2025
dev.to/dev_tips/ai-... There is a lot of talk about AI taking all our jobs away - especially software developers. AI is certainly changing the software landscape but there is a LOT of really bad code being generated (very quickly) by AI tools. The article below is a good discussion. (1️⃣/3️⃣) 🧵
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AI won’t replace you, but bad AI habits will
A blunt playbook for devs who don’t want to turn into autocomplete zombies. The first time an AI...
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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 20/10/2025
Ever pitched the perfect architecture — and watched execs nod politely, then ignore it? Turns out, it’s not the code. It’s psychology. Here’s what I learned the hard way: buff.ly/wPNxijs
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Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk · 03/10/2025
"How do you query an Event Sourced system?" You don't. Not directly. This is where CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) enters. Commands write events → void return Queries read → no mutations Separate concerns. Separate models. Separate scaling.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Generating tests based on your implementation is like setting exam questions based on your answers.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 15/07/2025
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey results are out! In it: - Most loved (and hated) tools - Most-used AI tools - IDEs and terminals - Version control, CI/CD Devs LOVE VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and... Cursor! (and tend to hate JIRA) Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragma...
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Wim @wimsymons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Spot on!
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/06/2025
I like this take by @kentbeck.com on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important From this interview with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...
So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said "90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up 1000x". And this is exactly what I'm talking about - having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now compared to knowing where to put the amperands and the stars and the brackets in Rust.
— Kent Beck, interview with Gergely Orosz
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/06/2025
Your weekly reminder not to build LLM systems that combine access to private data with exposure to untrusted tokens and exfiltration vectors (the "lethal trifecta"). This time it was Microsoft 365 Copilot (now patched, they closed the exfiltration holes) simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/...
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Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot
Aim Labs reported CVE-2025-32711 against Microsoft 365 Copilot back in January, and the fix is now rolled out. This is an extended variant of the prompt injection exfiltration attacks we've …
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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 16/04/2025
All JetBrains AI tools – including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier. Read the blog post for more details: 👉 jb.gg/jetbrains-id...
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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 02/04/2025
We've published the latest edition of our tech radar, where we share what we've learned in the latest rounds of technological change www.thoughtworks.com/radar
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Technology Radar | Guide to technology landscape
The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to today's technology landscape. Read the latest here.
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About #Microservices". 1) No one knows what a microservice Is 2) Microservices conversations are abstract & unrelated from business goals 3) Microservices without organizational change is pointless by Ian Miell blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-lo...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless
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Markus Westergren @maswen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Dependencies in Java projects are like garden weeds - they multiply quickly if not managed. In enterprise development, we need to prune regularly to prevent duplicate libraries, security risks, and version conflicts that can block Java upgrades. Keep your dependency garden tended! #Java
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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 20/03/2025
JDK24 is GA! buff.ly/2YoHgzr #Java #jdk24
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Wim @wimsymons.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Spot on!
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 11/03/2025
Good lord, this is going to be such a wonderful improvement to the TypeScript DX. Mid-2025 apparently. I can't wait. devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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Deno @deno.land · 04/02/2025
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored #FreeJavaScript deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...
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Vadym Kazulkin @vkazulkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations". Here are six unconventional defaults that, while unpopular, can help you build resilient, innovative, and truly impactful teams. by Aviv Ben-Yosef avivby.medium.com/unpopular-de...
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Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations
“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly, good things. In reality? Just the…
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