Today I learned changing random stuff until your program works is “hacky” and “bad coding practice” but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning and pays 4x your current salary

Your team's Util library #programming

Three Important Patterns for Building Microservices #Java dzone.com/articles/3-mos…

Legacy is a positive thing. If you find that a legacy system drags you down, the problem is not it. It’s you.

I really want to stop being the internet's Sun historian -- but I really need the internet to become slightly less ignorant of Sun's history news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201255…

UnitTesting Spaghetti code. #programming

Java’s top ten libs have had 162 vulnerabilities in them over their lifetime (in direct deps) - make sure you’re on safe versions! snyk.io/blog/162-secur…

I don’t usually comment my code, but when I do:

Ever wanted to know what to do to backport a fix to OpenJDK 11 or 8? Read this: wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpd… Thanks Aleksey Shipilëv for inspiring and polishing this Wiki 👍

A brief history of the Gartner Hype Cycle

a comic about bikes and brains

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Elon Musk @EV_Stevee Tesla Owners Silicon Valley CGP Grey 🐝 Do you still stand firmly on not requiring college degrees?

Grateful for the yearly holiday bring-to-reality that kicks me soundly out of this peculiar AI tech bubble. Windows is a thing. Most people have no clue what a gradient is, and no interest to learn. C++, Java, FORTRAN, and legacy systems run the world, with no plan to migrate.

You can optimise for low latency. You can optimise for high throughput. You can optimise for memory occupation. However 90% of times the most precious thing you should optimise for is maintainability.

SSDs are getting crazy performance. We so need async IO to overcome the syscall overhead. tomshardware.com/uk/news/samsun…

👀😬😂 Via: ow.ly/9umQ50xRyUn #devhumor

My incredibly long overdue blog post about Super Silly Hackathon is finally done. always enjoy building stuff with my best retro buddy Yeo Kheng Meng 😀 one day we will figure out sound ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #win31 #retrotech chenhuijing.com/blog/building-…

YouTube is full of teachers who will happily repeat themselves until you get it. A rewindable instructor has infinite patience. One of the great resources of our time.

Java 2077 - The year is 2077, the Java version is 128. It's not LTS. Here's how Loom, Valhalla, Panama, Leyden, Amber, and Jigsaw destroyed humanity. javaadvent.com/2020/12/java-2…