SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2026
Programming News & Technical Writing
An IRS engineering lead put out article saying "XML is a cheap DSL," defending XML's structure and verbosity as absolute gains: it's hard to misunderstand documents when their purpose is baked into their structure.
JohannaWeb's Project Falcon is a Discord-style desktop client built on top of the Bluesky AT Protocol. The concept is: what if Discord's UX wrapped a decentralized social graph instead of a proprietary one? Built by one person, it's an impressive piece of work.
By dreamreal
Vite 8.0 has been released. Vite is a frontend build tool for JavaScript, and is in the same space as tools like Webpack, Parcel, esbuild, and turbopack. The major change here is in the tooling, with...
By dreamreal
For Java, JEP 8357464, Enhanced Local Variable Declarations , is an extension of JEP 441, Pattern Matching for switch . It provides local declarations and value extraction in strongly-typed code. JEP...
In a number of applications I work with, I use JSON everywhere, as a sort of lingua franca. I typically do this with Jackson, and with Spring Boot 4's primary use of Jackson 3, it hit me that I might...
I've been trying to think about access control and data access patterns for ByteCode.news. One of the initial designs was based around having pluggable UIs. The actual app is a set of REST endpoints...
In F-Bounded Polymorphism: Type-Safe Builders in Java , author fbounded addresses what he calls a fundamental inheritance problem in Java's fluent builder pattern. When a base builder class returns...
I chose 21 matches in nevet, the bot that accompanies bytecode.news, deliberately. It's a command, triggered with 21 matches, and it wants you to take between one and three matches every turn; the...
We're starting to get there! The site and bot keep having new issues identified - I'm not tracking issue propagation or distribution, but since the first slightly-broken deployment online a few weeks...