As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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"NRF report acknowledges many retailers do not track retail theft. Yet NRF still issued report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years this sort of "pro-business" pseudo-science is part of the reason we spend all our fucking money on cops, and stores insufferable plexiglass prisons"

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics

For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...

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Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 9mo ago

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

🎯 JEP 401 proposed to target JDK 28 Title: Value Objects (Preview) Type: feature Component: spec Release: 28 See openjdk.org/jeps/401

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Full analysis of the 770+ received proposals for Devoxx Belgium 2026 📊👀 The program committee is now reviewing them. Meanwhile, we analysed the submission data: tracks, formats, countries, companies, and the topics speakers are bringing to the stage. blog.devoxx.be/2026/07/23/d...

🎓 JEP 540 moved to candidate Title: Simple JSON API (Incubator) Type: feature Component: core See openjdk.org/jeps/540

This is a truly hands-on workshop, not an extended lecture. Bring your laptops and/or pair with others as you learn about #EventSourcing from scratch.

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Curious about event sourcing but not sure where to start? 💭 Build a feature from the events up in this hands-on workshop with @ted.dev at #dev2next and see how event sourcing works in practice. 🔗 www.dev2next.com/schedule 🎟️ Get tickets: dev2next.com 📅 October 12-15 #EventSourcing #Java

I just finished watching @cultrepo.bsky.social 's documentary on #Java. They once again did an amazing job by capturing both #Java's evolution and the importance of the community therein. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...

The Java Story | The Official Documentary

YouTube video by CultRepo

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HireHumanArtists.com

Directory of No Gen AI Artists

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Dataflow spotted in the wild! recause.org

Board game designers who quit your day jobs, what did you do to allow you to do that? 🎲✂️

File under plus ça change... I wrote this in April 2022 and I feel like I am still making all of those arguments today, more than four years later. medium.com/@emilymenonb... (About the only thing I would change is avoiding using "human" as a noun, which has become icky.)

On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed

[Now available as an “audiopaper” on my soundcloud. (Please excuse occasional noise from airplanes overhead + my inconsistency about…

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I've been entering the heart of darkness lately, trying to understand the nature of AI-assisted software development. Here are some thoughts, three months in, to its promise and perils: medium.com/bits-and-beh...

Know thine enemy: A critical engagement with AI-assisted software development

A critical engagement with AI-assisted software development I have long been a skeptic of large language models, generative AI, and other forms of very large statistical models of surveilled human …

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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...

Out of 77 programs on Duke's Corner, this one here is still #1.

Donald Raab@thedonraab.bsky.social · 4w ago

OH: Limited, tapped resources. The side effect of GenAI PRs on open source projects. 😰 Reminded me of the podcast below. 👇 Thank you @grisanzio.bsky.social for chatting with me before my book was published. 🙏 oraclegroundbreakers.libsyn.com/donald-raab-...

A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

@Odddicegames @fightinabox @rocinante0o @ted.dev @eanderssonsunden @theop.games @theop.games @boardgamedesignuk @coreyyoung @travisdhill @marcelineleiman @vitallacerda

Java Conferences with closing CFP in the next 15 days: Devoxx Belgium Closes: 17 July 2026 If you want to add your conference, please submit it at https://javaconferences.org/

Just pushed out a small pitest release that fixes a nasty issue when using the quarkus jacoco extension, and should keep pitest working with Java 27 when it comes out. github.com/hcoles/pites... #java #oss

Release 1.25.6 · hcoles/pitest

#1481 Auto disable quarkus jacoco extension #1482 ASM 9.10.1

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It's a shame that JetBrains won't fix flaws in their "new" UI, and don't care enough about so many who've downloaded and use the "Classic UI" plugin. I've given up on hope that this will get better and resigned myself to being forced to use the "new" UI. youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-...

10 board game publishers who are seeking submissions—a walkthrough of their processes and requirements

These 10 board game publishers want to hear your pitch

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Nugget of wisdom about learning from HackerNews today : "One thing I wish this emphasized more is that adults often confuse learning with consuming material about learning, which is why my useful rule has become: if I'm not producing errors, I'm probably not practicing yet"

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And the same for authors and books

Designer Wanted to Improve Existing Game As you may know, I have a board game in production where I could use some help improving the design/layout of some of the cards (currently in Adobe Illustrator). You can see more info about the game at tdd.cards

JitterTed's TDD Game by Ted M. Young

Have fun while learning how to do Test-Driven Development with JitterTed's TDD Game!

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Many thanks to Gridfuse and Ferdi for hosting my talk at the Leipzig Software Crafter meetup! And thanks to those who came out despite the heat. It was a luxury for me to not only have time for my talk, but answer all the great questions, which is why I love giving talks live!

My answer to a lot of questions I get about #EventSourcing seems to be “well, what do you do now?” And then I add, “with event-sourcing, it’s probably easier to fix/recover/adapt/etc.”

Most developers expect a test to fail. Ted M. Young argues that the real value comes from predicting exactly how it will fail. When the result doesn’t match your expectation, you’ve uncovered a misunderstanding before it becomes a bug.

Great Dead Code episode with @ted.dev, on TDD and (what else!) Event Sourcing

Dead Code@deadcode.website · last mo.

Most developers expect a test to fail. Ted M. Young argues that the real value comes from predicting exactly how it will fail. When the result doesn’t match your expectation, you’ve uncovered a misunderstanding before it becomes a bug.