Jan Vladimir Mostert
@polyglotamus.io
idea incubator - chaotic random posts about mostly tech, startups, #Kotlin, #Rust, #TypeScript, #PostgreSQL, #Linux, or anything else interesting - will like your cat pictures
null as NodeFilter? --> Unchecked cast null.unsafeCast<NodeFilter?> --> 👍 Usually any problem in KotlinJs can be fixed with asDynamic ... looks under the hood of unsafeCast ... inline fun <T> Any?.unsafeCast(): T = this.asDynamic() 😂
Found an old email that somehow got snoozed till the year 3000
📢 Kotlin 2.3.21 is here! This release brings performance improvements and bug fixes. Changelog: ➡️ github.com/JetBrains/ko...
I never understood why this is a feature that's being marketed? Does anyone actually use their laptop this way?
when I used to do PC repairs as a student, every PC had a different BIOS key so I had to do something similar + try the delete key if that didn't work.
It's FOSS@itsfoss.bsky.social · 5mo agoComment if you have done this! 😂
Wow! 🤩 JSPI support in Safari Technology Preview 238! #WebAssembly #Wasm
Jen Simmons@jensimmons.bsky.social · 6mo agoDid you see what’s in Safari Technology Preview 238?! * Customizable <select> * Scroll anchoring * The :open pseudo-class * Threaded animations * JSPI for WebAssembly and more — including fixes for SVG, tables, WebRTC… webkit.org/blog/17848/r...
1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...
From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password
The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on ...
1password.com
📢 New KEEP published 🎉 We now have a proposal for sharing internals between modules ready for your review and comments. (Spoiler: The KEEP includes a very important explanation of why modules just can't be friends.)
KEEP/proposals/KEEP-0451-shared-internals.md at main · Kotlin/KEEP
Kotlin Evolution and Enhancement Process. Contribute to Kotlin/KEEP development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I thought the whole RAM prices thing was a meme; the same 128GB of RAM that cost me less than €500 now sells for over €2000 a year later 😱 Good thing I don't need more RAM!
I've translated a JavaScript library to KotlinJs so I can get rid of the external dependency on npm. The project has an ISC + MIT license: is it good enough to have the licenses copied and pasted into the .kt files and reference the original project in the README? This is for a non-OS project
It's been snowing for two days and several more days of snow predicted. Usually it snows for a day and then it just melts away. This was Saturday morning, got my first cycling on snow / ice experience.
Building a Kotlin compiler plugin is magic when it works, but getting it there is such a tedious process.
Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! My faves (no order) 😅 - Unused value checker - Improved Context Sensitive Resolution - Java 25 Bytecode - JS suspend function export - Better Swift Interop - Explicit backing fields - New Kotlin Uuid APIs and there is much more! Check it out: blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...
Kotlin 2.3.0 Released | The Kotlin Blog
The Kotlin 2.3.0 release is out! This version includes new language features, stable ones, and other features now enabled by default. This release also brings tooling updates, performance improvements
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We're back to the good old comments of the 90's except the AI is writting them this time.
![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga)
Madrid ↔️ Lisbon in just 3 hours – we're on board 🚄 Today, we adopted a plan to complete the Madrid–Lisbon high-speed rail connection by 2034. This is a key step in fully integrating Portugal and Spain into the European high-speed rail network. More → link.europa.eu/kqjJHM
So, we now have: - BigQuery - ClickHouse - Databricks - DuckDB - Exasol - H2 - Snowflake - Teradata (the inventor, I think?) And now also: - Oracle! I'm assuming MySQL will follow suit, soon? PostgreSQL, when!?
SQLDaily@sqldaily.bsky.social · 10mo agoApply the Oct 2025 Release Update and Oracle Database 23ai becomes Oracle AI Database 26ai This adds the QUALIFY clause QUALIFY filters window functions after grouping Like the HAVING clause does for aggregate functions SELECT ... FROM ... QUALIFY fn OVER ( ... ) > ...
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
Poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model size. In our experimental setup with models up to 13B parameters, just 250 malicious documents were sufficient to successfully backdoor models. www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
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"we have updated our Terms & Conditions" ... log into account, generate a proxy email service@myproxydomain, change email to service@myproxydomain, turn off email forwarding ... bliss
B-tree skip scans, UUIDv7, and AsyncIO are some of my favorite new features coming to Postgres18 www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-exc...
Get Excited About Postgres 18 | Crunchy Data Blog
New to Postgres 18, features like asynchronous i/o, uuid v7, b-tree skip scans, and virtual generated columns.
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Can kotlinx.coroutines outperform the GPU 🤯? Watch me getting humbled while trying to find out... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOS...
kotlinx.coroutines outperforming the GPU? 🤯
YouTube video by Sebastian Sellmair
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$3,000 to each author for each book, largest total copyright infringement recovery in history. This is massive win and a huge blow to AI companies—and this out of the case that otherwise allowed training as fair use. Other judges are already more sympathetic to authors. deadline.com/2025/09/anth...
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit
AI firm Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors. The sum, disclosed in a court filing on Fri...
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