Psychologically, almost every listener decides what you mean before you finish saying it, and decades of writing advice can’t fix that, because that's an aspect of the listener and the advice is aimed at the speaker. A language model is the first listener that takes instructions... and that gives us a way to fix the way we interact with the models.
Testcontainers, a project that uses OCI to provide, well, containers for testing for modules, has a reuse feature that lets a multi-module Maven build share one Postgres container across all test JVMs. This requires creating a separate database per JVM to maintain isolation and avoid migration conflicts.
By dreamreal
BCN now runs on three front ends, a new Primate landing page, animated mastheads, and a backend that is finally becoming the stream aggregator it was meant to be.
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Nolan Lawson explores why developers often build custom solutions instead of using native APIs, largely looking at JavaScript, but it's something that shows up in most languages and environments, for good reason.
Alex Martsinovich argues that agentic coding causes four unavoidable harms - slop, alienation, deskilling, and team breakdown — but these aren't technological inevitabilities, they're the results of specific choices about how to use AI coding tools.
Kerry Ivan Kurian's 'Exponential Failure' says AI agents multiply parts faster than they improve them, so projects fail by arithmetic. He's right about the math and wrong about the fix: the answer isn't fewer parts, it's parts you can describe.
Paul Parks has released PUDL, the "Pleasantly Usable Design Language," a specification and toolkit for applying consistent and usable application design for applications.
Git 2.56 has been released, with some major improvements in rebasing support.
Midden is a single-binary heap dump analyzer for the JVM, written in Rust. Tested against two deliberate leaks and checked against MAT, it found both and got the sizes right, from a shell prompt rather than a workstation, and very quickly.