Rating 26 years of Java changes(neilmadden.blog)

191 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 209 comments

A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library(neilmadden.blog)

209 points by itsadok 1 year ago | 131 comments

I don't use LLMs for programming(neilmadden.blog)

34 points by ms7892 7 months ago | 20 comments

Compiling Pattern Matching(compiler.club)

110 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 17 comments

The square roots of all evil(neilmadden.blog)

53 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 34 comments

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Java 21 makes me like Java again(wscp.dev)

352 points by wscp-dev 3 years ago | 587 comments

Blog post on Java 21's record patterns in switch expressions and how they enable functional programming styles comparable to Kotlin, Rust, or C#.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Formal methods and the future of programming(blog.janestreet.com)

322 points by eatonphil 4 months ago | 99 comments

Jane Street Blog post on formal methods and their role in the future of programming, illustrated with OCaml-style specification code.

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition(minecraft.net)

944 points by SteveHawk27 1 year ago | 405 comments

Official Minecraft news article announcing that Mojang is removing code obfuscation from Minecraft: Java Edition.

JavaScript dates are about to be fixed(docs.timetime.in)

328 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 237 comments

Blog post from TimeTime.in explaining the ECMAScript Temporal proposal and its ZonedDateTime object as a fix for JavaScript date handling.

Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

323 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 119 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post by Graydon Hoare with notes on Rust, mutable aliasing, and formal verification; the capture shows only a captcha check page.