Vite 8.0 is out - tooling has been revamped
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...
Latest Dispatches
Enhanced Local Variable Declarations in Java
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...
JSON, TOON, YAML, and more: considering data serialization formats
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...
ByteCode.news UI design concerns
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...
F-Bounded Polymorphism: Type-Safe Builders in Java
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...
Why I Chose 21 Matches in Nevet
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...
ByteCode.News is changing, getting better
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...
Diataxis
Diataxis is a way of thinking about and doing documentation. It establishes four needs, and four forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It solves...
So about this site...
Chances are, if you're reading this, you're seeing an HTML site that looks... primitive. Maybe even wonky. That's because the only site deployed right now (early March, 2026) is a reference UI and is...