- Are you really wasting your time in Java without these 10 libraries?
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- Project Lombok
- MapStruct
- JUnit 5 & Mockito
- SLF4J with Logback
- Apache Commons Lang & Google Guava
- Jackson
- Hibernate Validator
- Spring Framework
- Apache HttpClient / OkHttp
- Liquibase or Flyway
- Zendesk Says AI Makes Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to "Absorption Capacity"
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One more article that confirms that AI makes code so easy to generate that the bottleneck is the review.
- Why I don’t chain everything in JavaScript anymore
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What would you use function chaining in a dynamically-typed language?
- OpenTelemetry Agent Skills
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Reusable agent skills for OpenTelemetry:
- manual-instrumentation
- sdk-setup
- sdk-versions
- semantic-conventions
- span-events-to-logs-migration
- telemetrygen
- weaver
- Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub "no longer a place for serious work"
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I encountered quite a few outages in the recent weeks myself. I don’t know if it’s the end, or the beginning of the end, but with European sovereignty added on top, it’s quite a blow on GitHub. Do you know about Codeberg? Less fluff, but the good stuff.
- The Hidden Challenge of Multi-LLM Context Management
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I have been bitten by this one. It’s refreshing to see we all face the same issues.
- Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for "any lawful" use of AI
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But the contract also says it doesn’t give Google "any right to control or veto lawful government operational decision-making," which would suggest the agreed restrictions are more of a pinky promise than legally binding obligations.
Who does feel the bullshit as well?
- How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
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I noticed many times that most so-called REST APIs weren’t RESTful at all, but this is another level.
- OpenTelemetry Ecosystem Explorer
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WIP. The OpenTelemetry Java Agent is the most complete one.
- GitHub does not have to be your only forge
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Federation could solve the issue. […]
I know GitLab and Forgejo are working on federation. We’ll have to wait and see what comes out of it.
- Token spend breaks budgets – what next?
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- Strategy #1: "let it rip and start measuring."
- Strategy #2: curb spending.
- The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality
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Super interesting framework for code review.
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Are you really wasting your time in Java without these 10 libraries? Zendesk Says AI Makes Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to 'Absorption Capacity'. Why I don’t chain everything in JavaScript anymore. OpenTelemetry Agent Skills. Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'. The Hidden Challenge of Multi-LLM Context Management. Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI. How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
