🎉 JBang just passed 3 MILLION binary downloads! A 2019 experiment to make Java easier to run — `jbang hello.java` — has quietly become Java infrastructure. ~1,000 downloads/day, 130+ countries, Java 8 → Java . Thank you 🙏 https://www.jbang.dev/learn/somehow-jbang-just-passed-3-million-downloads

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...

CLI Assured is a Java DSL for testing or executing command line applications. Release 0.1.0 brings some API enhancements and a proper documentation published at cli-assured.org

🎉 The BaselOne 2026 Program is taking shape! Curious who’s taking the stage in Basel this October? 👉 baselone.org/en/baselone-... 🎟️ Regular tickets are now available on baselone.org #BaselOne26 #SoftwareArchitecture #Java

BaselOne 2026: Program Takes Shape - BaselOne

Speakers for BaselOne 2026 have been selected. Regular tickets are now available. Workshops and the full schedule will be announced soon.

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Wrote about the migration to Aesh in JBang at https://www.jbang.dev/learn/from-picocli-to-sh-how-porting-jbang-s-cli-made-everything-better/ Yet again we see what impact reflection vs build time processing can have on even the small things!

🚀 JBang 0.139 is out! ⚡ picocli → Aesh: 2-5x faster startup 🖥️ Native binaries (early access) 🔍 Smart tab completion for scripts, GAV, GitHub URLs 🔎 New deps search TUI 📦 Multiple JDKs per major version https://github.com/jbangdev/jbang/releases/tag/v0.139.2

ÖBB, das unfriendly captcha in Ihrer App ist ganz schön nervig. Warum um Gottes Willen auf jedem Screen 🤦

Nach dem Vorfall in den Niederlanden denke ich, dass es definitiv Zeit für einen Ausstieg aus Microsoft 365 ist. Ich habe diesen vor zwei Jahren vollzogen und sehr zufrieden und vor dem Willkür der USA geschützt bei @infomaniak.bsky.social www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/8725...

Cloud Act in Aktion: Microsoft händigt Daten von Beamten an USA aus

Microsoft beteuert, europäische Kundendaten möglichst gut vor unerwünschten Zugriffen durch die US-Regierung zu schützen. Wie viel dieses Versprechen wert ist, zeigt nun die Weitergabe von Daten niede...

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Working on picocli to aesh migration the last few weeks for JBang. The startup difference is amazing: 2-17x faster. JVM mode is now amazing but native mode is even faster. lesson learned again and again - reflection is a startup killer; build-time makes all the difference!

I am very happy to share that I will speak at @baselone.bsky.social 2026 on October 15 in Basel. My session: Wenn Spezifikationen den Takt vorgeben #BaselOne #BaselOne2026 #SpecDrivenDevelopment #AIUnifiedProcess #AIUP #SoftwareArchitecture #Java #AI

Just learned that EUobserver joins Slovak journalist-owned publisher Denník N. Good journalism, good tech and good business model. Congrats to both! euobserver.com/203123/euobs...

EUobserver joins journalist-owned publisher Denník N

EUobserver, the independent online media covering European Union affairs, on Tuesday announced that it is joining journalist-owned Slovak publishing house Denník N, in a bid to strengthen its long-ter...

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I always liked JBoss Logging due to its performance driven design. Although it works well out of the box when doing the usual Quarkus stuff, making it work outside of its native ecosystem has often been hard...

JBoss logmanager backed logging does not work in stock JUnit tests, when `quarkus-bootstrap-runner` is in classpath · Issue #53870 · quarkusio/quarkus

Here is a minimal reproducer: https://github.com/ppalaga/reproduce-quarkus-53870 Note that quarkus-bootstrap-runner is a direct runtime dependency. It could also be a transitive dependency or a tes...

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TIL about the GPS-UP metric for comparing software energy efficiency and quite interesting.

GPS-UP: A Better Metric For Comparing Software Energy Efficiency | Green Software Foundation

Learn about Greenup, Powerup and Speedup (GPS-UP), an easy to use energy metric that helps developers, students, and researchers understand the energy efficiency of their optimizations in order to mak...

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Next week Zineb and I are hosting "Meet with Quarkus". It's my first Devoxx France so looking forward to it and especially since Markus Eisele brought me a few gifts to share :) https://youtu.be/6zFla1JpKBU

Shibboleth Maven repositories are returning 403. Posted at Wed Apr 15 03:07:56 UTC 2026: "at least the block will stay in place while we see what happens. I don't know what our next steps will be ... shibboleth.net/pipermail/an...

In "better late than never", I decided to write about @voxxedzurich.bsky.social maritvandijk.com/voxxed-days-...

Voxxed Days Zürich 2026: Another great event! - Marit van Dijk

For the third time, I had the pleasure of speaking at Voxxed Days Zürich. This was also my third Swiss Voxxed Days this year!

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I ported nanocode, a minimal AI coding agent, from Python to Java. 261 lines, one file, zero frameworks. Just JBang, Jackson, and a loop. Want more try quarkus.ai https://xam.dk/blog/nanocode-coding-agent-in-260-lines-of-java/

"10 or more reasons to not use JDK’s HttpClient" by @bricedutheil.bsky.social I agree, the JDK HttpClient is horrible, buggy and incomplete (multi-part encoding anyone?). blog.arkey.fr/2026/02/08/t...

10 or more reasons to not use JDK’s HttpClient

Java mostly, and general tech

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Meet the amazing team behind Voxxed Days Zürich 2026. We are so happy to have them ❤️ They are making everyone welcome and do the all the heavy lifting behind the scene. It's a real community effort 🙏 #VDZ26 #itwillbefun

Alessio Soldano & Stefano Maestry tried it for us m.devoxx.com/events/vdz26...

. @forked-franz.bsky.social confessing ❤️ for Java virtual threads and claiming a need for a custom vthread scheduler

Going agentic in Room 4 with @kevindubois.com and Mario Fusco at #VDZ26

Unleash @quarkus.io with Roberto Cortez in room 8 at #VDZ28

#WorkingWhileOthersAreSnacking #VDZ26

Don't miss Create Intelligent MCP based applications with @quarkus.io by Dimitris Andreadis at 11:05 in Room 4 at #VDZ26

Maven Daemon 1.0.5 is being released. Functionally equivalent to 1.0.4, you want it only if you need Linux Arm64 native support. #maven #mvnd #asf

Don't miss us at Voxxed Days Zürich next week! github.com/quarkusio/qu... #quarkusworldtour

Heads up: Maven 3.9.14 and its MavenDaemon 1.0.4 twin are out, grab them while hot! (Publishing on sdkman, brew is a bit delayed... Pls be patient). maven.apache.org/download.cgi #maven3 #mvnd #asf

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