I just stumbled across a job posting which describes the typical interview process as a 5 stage process, 5 individual interviews! How insane is that, where does it end? Hard pass.
Austin Lehman
@cupofcode.bsky.social
Dad, software developer, knife enthusiast, tinkerer, maker of things.
New #aussom cli v 1.2.2 is available with support for Java Build Tools. So you can now script your Java build programmatically in Aussom for your #java project. For more info check out the doc here: aussom-lang.com/docPage?prod...
#aussom is to #java as Python is to C. Ever need to script things around Java, or provide a scripting interface inside your Java app? If so this is for you. dev.to/cup_of_code/...
Why Aussom?
You have a Java application, and now you need it to do something Java is awkward at. Maybe you want...
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Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to Kevin Rushforth @frankdelporte.be @rgiskard7.bsky.social @dlemmermann.bsky.social rrangelox markehammons @cupofcode.bsky.social Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!
Released Today: New book “Introduction to the Aussom Programming Language” is now available for free download at aussom-lang.com/books and a new version of Aussom CLI 1.2.1 is available on the site. #aussom #java
Aussom Lang - Books
Books and guides for learning Aussom in depth, including Building Desktop Applications in Aussom with JavaFX.
aussom-lang.com
Almost at 3 million downloads of JBang! 🎉 Screenshot the counter when it hits it in the next week! Thank you to everyone who uses, contributes to, and shares JBang. You make this happen. www.jbang.dev/usage/downlo...
Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to Marius Hanl Michael Strauß Kevin Rushforth @gluonhq.com @frankdelporte.be Nice Application 1 (Udit) @cupofcode.bsky.social Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!
The Java Story is a film that brings together the voices and experiences of the Java community - developers, contributors, and users who've shaped this ecosystem over nearly 30 years. Written by @payaracommunity.bsky.social foojay.io/today/the-ja... #Java #Community
The Java Story: A Film About All of Us - foojay
The official Java documentary premieres July 17 on YouTube. Watch the trailer, meet the guests, and join the live chat with James Gosling.
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Aussom CLI 1.2.0 is now available for download along the first free PDF book “Building Desktop Applications in Aussom with JavaFX”! #aussom #java #javafx aussom-lang.com/books
Aussom Lang - Books
Books and guides for learning Aussom in depth, including Building Desktop Applications in Aussom with JavaFX.
aussom-lang.com
I ported Aussom interpreter to C, and what I found was surprising. The Java version overall was faster. What I found is that JIT was providing a lot of performance that simply porting to C couldn’t beat without optimizations.
Brillant, and what I've been saying since vibecoding emerged: "From the bottom: no juniors entering the pipeline, so no new seniors. From the top: existing seniors slowly losing the depth that made them senior. The pipeline is collapsing from both ends simultaneously." (via @spinscale.bsky.social)
AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did | Andrew Murphy
AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the ...
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The Github hack is ironic to me since I left Github for Gitlab because of their militant 2fa BS. Clearly it didn’t make their platform any more secure.
After more effort than I initially anticipated, I completed the package manager for my pet project Aussom-Lang. It ships with the latest Aussom CLI desktop installer. #aussom #java aussom-lang.com/news
Aussom Lang - News
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Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to JabRef @davidcalculin.bsky.social @p-duke.bsky.social @dlemmermann.bsky.social @cupofcode.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be Phil Race Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!
Aussom-Lang now has support for JavaFX, GTK4, a Java native interface with dynamic Jar loading, and native library interface via Panama. Quite a bit that can be done with it now. #aussom
Crypto isn’t useful for what it was created for and little else, AI is a big joke and 99% hype. Can we get away from these wastes of time/money/energy/environment and get back to the regular work of solving business problems and incremental improvement.
The Fastmail Desktop App is here! For macOS, Windows, and Linux — with full offline support, native notifications, and default email integration. Goodbye browser tabs 👋 Hello focused productivity 💪 🔗 Learn more: www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop... #Fastmail #EmailMadeBetter #DesktopApp
Introducing the Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
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Beta version of browser Javascript alternative Aussom-Script is now available to try. It’s an interpreted OOP language that is used to program in the browser. #aussom #aussomscript #programming #programminglanguages open.substack.com/pub/austinle...
Aussom-Script, Browser JS Alternative
Aussom-Script is a new interpreted OOP for the Browser. If you're looking for a Javascript alternative this may be for you.
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. CALL YOUR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSPEOPLE. ASK THE ACLU TO FORM A CLASS ACTION SUIT.
Call them want they really are: HACKERS This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit! They are boy hackers! Plain and simple This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids
The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.
The FDA calls for at-a-glance nutrition labels on the front of packaged foods
The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.
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Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch. Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.
Like 98% compute/bandwidth is bare metal. The cloud is great for small projects (costs are low) and highly profitable projects (costs matter less). But it fails projects that need to scale as efficiently as possible. Moving Bluesky to bare metal reduced costs by 10-100x and saved many millions.
Is Bluesky on AWS? https://isitonaws.com/discover?name=bsky.app
If you are not sure what is happening in your Apache Maven build, then run the following command to find out: mvn buildplan:list-phase You will get a nice list of plugins/goals and in which phase they are running.
Basic was my first programming language, I think I was about 10 when I started with it on our family 386. ❤️ computerhistory.org/blog/in-memo...
In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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Me listening to Baroque tinkering on my programming language for the next 4 years.