"The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself." - Alan Cooper

I’ve asked this in interviews at my nuclear power plant for 30 years: What reactors do you build at home? Many answer they dont have time. Wrong. Refine uranium at home. Every day. If you dont have that passion, nuclear engineering isn't really for you. Build small centrifuges.

Just 2.5 more hours until James Gosling is going to answer all your questions at the final day of J-Spring Digital! You already blocked your agenda right?! If not, go download this agenda (ics) file: jspring.nl/wp-content/upl…

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. ... A complex system designed from scratch never works & cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” - Gall's Law

"Vanity, definitely my favourite sin"

Some guy shouted “Apache Kafka is just a message queue” and then this happened

JSON is terrible. YAML is terrible. Period.

Woo! 🍾 📢 New RSocket 1.1.0 is GA. 🧾It includes: - 10x better performance than before 🏎 - reworked loadbalance API and impl 🏋️‍♀️ - new RSocketClient for a better experience 🏂 - fixes for memory leaks that we had before! 📝 to learn more see github.com/rsocket/rsocke…

"Programming is a good job if you want to spend all of your time at the absolute limit of your capacity to understand things." - Tom Francis 🔜🪦

Starting the new year with a new project: The Dao of Functional Programming. Here's a short intro.

Our first fully online #GodotCon will be this Saturday, January 23rd! It's a YouTube Premiere with over 7 hours of #GodotEngine talks, and we also created a dedicated chat platform to host Q&As and discussions between attendees. As usual, it's free! ✨ godotengine.org/article/online…

I believe this a false dichotomy: coding *is* communication (from programmer to programmer, and programmer to machine).

Developers don't ask "can one person make a difference?" because most of them have single-handedly taken down the production environment.

“while we understand that there might be a desire to move things forwards, we felt moving to preview (or finalize the API) at this point would have been simply premature.” #ProjectPanama #OpenJDK mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-…

Are you proud of your published or in-progress Godot game? Want it to be shown? If so lets us know! Submissions are now open for 2021 Godot showreel! godotengine.org/article/submis…

This should be EVERYONE’S stance on abortion. Every single word of it.

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Java enjoying multiverse of factories and verbose language #imagen