The Java team at Oracle just gets better and better.

Gee, I wonder if that wifi network called "Cat Videos" at the airport is a scam.

The free wifi at Dulles has a typical infocap screen where they want your name and e-mail. It rejects any e-mail of the form "foo@something" as invalid, but that seems to be the extent of the checking. I wonder what the PM process for this feature looked like.

get/set - gone! 25 years after I embraced JavaBeans, I'm happy to see records killing JavaBean conventions. They're not needed any more. It's just a matter of time for APIs to evolve.

Since the app-ification, experience of walking into a Starbucks has nosedived. Often have to wait several minutes for someone to even approach the register to take walk-in orders; everyone is just working on drive-through and app pickups. Just close the doors if this is the plan.

Today I morn the passing of one of the greatest computer engineers who ever lived, and my hero, Gordon Bell May he rest in peace.

Project Loom early-access builds just dropped with changes to avoid Java object monitors (“synchronized”) pinning native threads and breaking the promises of virtual threading. Very exciting, try it with your JRuby apps today (JRuby uses Loom for Fibers)! jdk.java.net/loom/

survival tip that programmers DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Allen has said some pretty stupid things in the pursuit of engagement, but this takes the cake. You can’t be a team if you are not colocated or won’t mob? There are great teams that don’t work your favorite way. Saying those aren’t teams is disqualifyingly stupid. And insulting.

ObGrumpyOldMan: I am so tired of being "congratulated" by machines for trivial things like submitting a form, or being told "nice choice" for putting something in my shopping cart. (Does anyone get told "rookie move, bozo" for buying dumb stuff? I'd be less grumpy if they did.)

When receiving a cold inquiry (recruiter, conference organizer, random query for help), how many "I haven't heard from you" reminder mails is reasonable before it crosses over into rude?

For the people who answered "Infinite Pestering" in the below poll, could you expand a bit? x.com/BrianGoetz/sta…