David Abreu
@davidabreu7.bsky.social
Software engineer having fun with AI. ☕️ Java | Kotlin | Typescript LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidabreu7
‘A modern-minded middle class with nationalist aspirations was challenging the established order, and Joyce, however reticent and heterodox on the national question, was born out of this conflict.’ Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics
If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the...
lrb.co.uk
Nevermind, found it pretty easily! www.keithparkinson.com/product/gods... Definitely going to have to check this out, for the art alone
Gods of Lankhmar (18″ x 24″ Giclee)
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Booting up for a new week with greets; good morning, y'all 👋🏼 Hope the week ahead treats you kindly 💜
Noriko Takaya Piloting Gunbuster Mech
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📣 TypeScript 7's Release Candidate is now out! 📣 The new native rewrite is almost here. Try it out on your codebases, and make sure your team is ready for the upcoming 7.0 release!
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC - TypeScript
The Release Candidate for TypeScript 7.0 is now available!
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Phenomenally impressed with exe.dev so far. Moved a few of my sites over to it. It’s definitely early, some bumps and blips here and there, but I completely see the vision. Not sponsored but I do have invites for a free month if you wanna try it. Don’t think I get anything for you using them.
Boring but functional post on something I think more leaders need to address: guidelines for respectful use of AI medium.com/@skamille/gu...
Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI
As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle…
medium.com
I had a wonderful time chatting with @kantrowitz.bsky.social about #forecasting this week! Check it out! #Prophecy #books #authors #podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbg...
Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz
youtube.com
A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.
Portugal among EU countries with most people working 50 hours per week
A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.
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Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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👥 Who uses Java today ⚙️ The tools and frameworks they rely on 🤖 How AI is changing Java development Find out now! jb.gg/yb1xhj
The State of Java 2025
This report draws on insights from the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 to explore who Java developers are and how they work.
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‘The hand could be read because your body was marked with cosmic meaning in a not yet disenchanted world.’ Steven Shapin on what’s written on the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand
The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...
lrb.co.uk
“The tech industry has done a great job of scaring reporters into thinking that having a negative opinion is somehow “not supporting innovation,” and I want to be clear that refusing to criticize the tech industry is what’s actually stopping innovation.” 👇
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5mo agoPremium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To Adobe, a company built on innovation in digital design that's turned into a parasite that monetizes monopolies and customer exploitation. Its AI play is a big money loser, and can't hide that Adobe is on the decline. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-adobe/
New frameworks & libraries promise better performance, cleaner code, and happier teams. But a #TechnicalMigration is expensive and raises questions. In this #InfoQ video, Sophie Koonin explores the realities of technical migrations, using Monzo’s 2-year #TypeScript migration. 🎬 bit.ly/4bdx8Oy
So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration
Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and toolin...
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TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉 🔶 Temporal 🔶 Map#getOrInsert 🔶 RegExp.escape 🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports New defaults! 🔶 --target=ES2025 🔶 "use strict" 🔷 --strict Deprecations! 🗑️ baseUrl, outFile 🗑️ import assertions 🗑️ `module` namespaces 🗑️ module: amd 🗑️ moduleResolution: node 🗑️ target: ES5
TypeScript@typescriptlang.org · 5mo agoThe Release Candidate for TypeScript 6.0 is now available! Read up on what's coming up with 6.0 & 7.0, and try it out on your codebase today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
🔥 #JavaLand 2026 Hot Topic "Local LLMs to Enterprise AI: from your laptop to production" with Marta Blaszczyk and Marco Klaassen | Wednesday, March 11 2026 | 1:00 pm to 1:40 pm | Dome ⭐ More information & favorite lecture: scomp.ly/1AwgwBe
Booting up with greets for lovely peeps; good morning, y'all. 💜
a hand is reaching for a button on a machine that says hi
Alt: A compilation of anime clips of various techie disks and cds being inserted
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📰🚨 AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions
AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions | Amazon Web Services
AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through...
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The center of Europe… Outside the window,it's the 21st century: artificial intelligence,mobile internet,cars that park without driver assistance… At the same time, outside the window, there is war. 📹 Putrivka, a village in the Fastiv district, Kyiv region /Radio Liberty
IGN: Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss www.ign.com/articles/phi... Spencer’s retirement is effective on Monday, February 23
The European Commission's new strategy includes new investments in technological development to integrate surveillance capacity. #EuropeNews
EU unveils strategy to shield bloc from malicious drones
The European Commission's new strategy includes new investments in technological development to integrate surveillance capacity.
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‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula are true, their common thread is the sadistic pleasure he took in rubbing everyone’s noses in the power he had over them.’ @moonjets.bsky.social on a new translation of ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Jones · Lords of the World: Keeping Up with the Caesars
As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...
lrb.co.uk
ICYMI: Why Retries Break Your Java APIs (And How Idempotency Fixes It) buff.ly/z1AC7Qk
Why Retries Break Your Java APIs (And How Idempotency Fixes It)
How to make retries safe, prevent duplicate writes, and implement idempotency correctly with Quarkus
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I can now name that this company is Wealthsimple. Their CTO pulled the trigger on Claude Code. So far good response and results. Deepdive on them and 9 other companies: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-...
Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools
Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools. And how they learn which ones work… and whic
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Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
washingtonpost.com
