When you've got an itch but can't stop snufflin' 🤣 #hedgehog
joesteel.bsky.social
@joesteel.bsky.social
Java developer and enthusiast. Late to the game, but > 10 years in. Enthusiastic cook, with some professional exp, occasional musician. He/Him
Reposting. It's fun. It's an artistic. It's a fantastic creative outlet. Also, the entire point of software is making the human experience better, which can't be done meaningfully or well when you take people out of the picture.
LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 3w agoDon’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine? You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?
"I've carpeted your t-shirt with hair, and now I'm stealing your thumb".
#EclipseCollections is the FOSS collections library in #Java with Smalltalk-level productivity. The book, "Eclipse Collections Categorically", is available on Kindle Unlimited. There's a Kindle book offer in the blog below.👇 No FOMO. Get EC and ECC. Mark the date.🗓️ donraab.medium.com/level-up-you...
Level Up Your Programming Game with a Java Book and Smalltalk
A Java Book and the Smalltalk that helped it happen
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Too hot today - she made it 2-3' from her bed to my shoes before deciding to have a nap. I know the feeling.
And a band I found just post lockdown. youtu.be/vFHBOKa_ZG0?...
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
YouTube video by SleepTokenVEVO
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In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.
We're forgetting lessons of the past, so I updated this blog with links to four blogs from Nikhil Nanivadekar that explain why the Map, Set, Bag, and Multimap types in #EclipseCollections are more memory-efficient than the alternatives available in standard #Java. donraab.medium.com/save-memory-...
Save Memory in Java by Making Memory Efficiency Your Top Priority
Leverage Java libraries and frameworks which focus on memory efficiency.
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I'm missing being on holiday. It's nice to be home, but nonetheless I'm missing the sun, the pool, the food and the cats. We named this one Chaplin - he was a bit of a character.
This track has a load of significance for me. It was a track on a "free" magazine CD that introduced me to Opeth. youtu.be/cGPRoszjnWA?...
Opeth - Hope Leaves (Audio)
YouTube video by OpethVEVO
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I'd forgotten how much I loved this track. It's an odd one to play on guitar, too - not that I played much acoustic guitar, but it had some really interesting chords and changes throughout. youtu.be/gAJY80FSFzM?...
Opeth - Harvest (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by OpethVEVO
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Blog: Level Up Your Programming Game with a #Java book and #Smalltalk. In 25 years, I'll look back at this blog and smile. Smalltalk-76 will be 75 years old. My book will be 26 years old. How we code may change, but our coding history will not. Write. Remember. 🙏 donraab.medium.com/level-up-you...
Level Up Your Programming Game with a Java Book and Smalltalk
A Java Book and the Smalltalk that helped it happen
donraab.medium.com
Ending rough sleeping should be perfectly achievable if Burnham has the will to achieve it. Official figures suggest there are fewer than 5,000 people sleeping rough on a typical night across England. A problem that one of the richest countries in the world really should be able to fix
When I see a problem in #Java, I don't jump ship and move to another language. I blog. I explain. I propose alternatives. I advocate for a solution. When I believe in something, I am persistent. See something. Say something. Prove something. Do something. donraab.medium.com/traveling-th...
Traveling the road from Idea all the way to OpenJDK
See something. Say something. Prove something. Do something.
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If (and it'll never happen) I rise to power - talking on speakerphone in public places would be banned unless there's a good reason. Come to think of it - speaking as if the person you're talking to is on the other side of the room when they're a few feet away at most should also be curbed.
I got Puss-in-Boots-ed out of a not insignificant portion of salmon
Well, it's been a nice vacation, but it's gone over way too quickly. So much so, I'm considering trying to see if I can live on the hotel grounds for another couple of weeks without being noticed. I get on with a few of the staff members, I recon I could have a decent run...
Cat of the night, possibly the best cat photo of the whole vacation: Jimmy the Cranky Cross-Eyed Cat. Great posing skills, but pretty darn hostile.
Apparently, this one goes by the name of "fat baby" - in an affectionate way.
England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup
This really shouldn't be shocking to anyone by now.
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 3w agoWith every new model, I put it to the test in writing - to see if I could do what I do - I give it a bunch of interviews I did on a topic, and ask to write an article in my style. The models fail spectacularly, Fable and GPT-5.6 no different. Lots of words, but no understanding