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Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java

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Performance tuning has a reputation for being part science, part black magic. @ogkittylyst.bsky.social argues it doesn't have to be in his #YOW26 full-day masterclass - Java Performance: Beyond Witchcraft, Pseudoscience & Folklore.

I had so much fun writing this talk. It covers important topics such as poo throughput ("pooput"!), whether teaching COBOL should be considered a crime (Dijsktra thought it should), why Quarkus is so efficient, and what AI is going to do to the job market. www.infoq.com/presentation...

The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZI...

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After weeks of inspiration-free-blankness, inspiration STRUCK, and I've just submitted something for my final Devoxx CFP slot. I'm so excited about each talk I've put in, I don't want to see any of them rejected 🥹 [s/talk/baby]

Just spotted I'd submitted a Devoxx proposal that included the phrase "like that thingy tool". Luckily, it's not too late to edit, so my secret is safe.

Should sustainability be treated like performance, reliability or security? Andres Almiray speaks with Patrick Baumgartner about green software and measuring the environmental impact of applications - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BN... . #JNation #Java @andresalmiray.com @patbaumgartner.com

Patrick Baumgartner on Green Software, Energy Consumption and Sustainable Development | JNation 2026

Can software be measured not only by performance and reliability, but also by its environmental impact? In this interview recorded during JNation 2026, Andres Almiray speaks with Patrick Baumgartner…

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Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological

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Sad that these people died in their beach chairs.

More than 2,700 deaths linked to May and June heatwaves, study suggests

The analysis found that 42% died as a result of the extra heat caused by human activity - mostly burning fossil fuels.

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Captured! @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social in action at #RivieraDev, photographing Roberto Cortez

Argh. For my seven-demo talk, I use desktops to keep everything tidy. Mac doesn't allow naming desktops, but I arrange them in the order I need them. Then, when I do the live demo, I get lost finding the right window. I thought it was just demo-brain, but no – by default Mac rearranges windows.

Riviera Dev is the first conference I've been to which has a full program of physical activities (yoga, pilates, shuffle dance, "footing") alongside the tech talks. As you'd hope, given all that, it also has attendee showers. 🚿

This is the way. Working while running is the best working.

Matthew Skelton@matthewskelton.com · last mo.

Achievement unlocked: on my 30-min run, I wrote a keynote talk - in German - in my head, all about prerequisites for success with AI augmented knowledge work, how Team Topologies is the foundation, etc. Small problem: remember it and deliver it fluently while on stage 😭😁 #WishMeLuck

In this week's episode of tech podcast Asynchronous and Unreliable, @hollycummins.com and I chat about Lightswitch Ops, operational efficiency, security, Cloud Native architectures and the unexpectedly emergent superpower of turning things off and on again

Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

UK heatwave live: Rare red weather warning issued as Britain braces for 40C heat

Britons have been warned to stay out of the sun and to avoid exercising between 11am and 3pm

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Happy Father's Day. Here's an excerpt from a 2002 essay by my dad, Vincent Mosco, who passed away two years ago. It's about how tech bros ignore history and repeat it again and again. carleton.ca/ces/wp-conte...

This is amazing and I want one. On the other hand, since I've used my Cricut cutting machine machine twice in six years of ownership, I'm not sure my "doing the cool things" keeps pace with my "acquiring the cool technologies."

Mara Bos@mara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone made the mistake of getting me a UV laser engraving machine. ... (It was me.)

Ahhh, @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social brings the magic from @devoxxpl.bsky.social, as always.

I've built a thing - thanks @quarkus.io, @kevindubois.com, @hollycummins.com and @hanno.codes!

At J-Spring, @felienne.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther King, quoting Thoreau, who apparently anticipated much of modern technology: "Improved means to an unimproved end." Maybe it's kind of comforting that complaints from 200 years ago are still relevant in these uncertain times?

Shall we have some accountability, and start calling them Farage-queues? #borders

Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Fragments: June 2

fragments 02 Jun 2026

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📣 I've created a new #quarkiverse extension - quarkus-flags, a lightweight and extensible feature flags/toggles/switches #quarkus extension: github.com/quarkiverse/... Feedback, feature requests and contributions are welcome🙏.

Announcing Endive, a WebAssembly runtime built natively for the JVM, now a Bytecode Alliance project. Zero native dependencies. One JAR, every OS. Check it out: endive.run bytecodealliance.org/articles/end...

JVM native WebAssembly runtime | Endive

Endive is a JVM native WebAssembly runtime with zero native dependencies.

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I was playing around with #ClaudeCode and thought I'd see how it handles creating a new #SpringBoot project vs a @quarkus.io project. Prompt: I'd like to create a new <quarkus|spring boot> project Spring: $1.83 - 7m21s Quarkus: $0.4364 - 2m39s Look at the tokens counts!

Honored to be listed in the Top 5 for @nljug.bsky.social's upcoming #JSpring conference alongside these legends: @hollycummins.com @nipafx.dev @garnier.wf @jamesward.com

Ohhh, making an attack show only on Windows is clever - visible to most users, invisible to most developers. 😳

Julien Lengrand-Lambert 🥑👋@lengrand.fr · 3mo ago

Turns out my blog had been hacked after all... And Claude actually helped tremendously to find a solution (after being wroung about its early conclusions though 😬). TY all for your help yesterday! lengrand.fr/my-blog-... #claude #security

I'm starting to think I need to put image attributions on my slides. I've been reluctant to do that, because it seems self-aggrandising to waste space crediting myself. But, based on the questions I get after every talk, I'm starting to realise it's non-obvious that I'm doing my own illustrations.

An antimeme. No matter how many times monads are explained, nobody ever retains what it is.

qntm@qntm.org · 3mo ago

What the hell is a monad

Remember, kids, think carefully about your targets. If your leading indicator is "burn as much money as possible" your lagging indicator may not be what you think it is.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo ago

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink