I'm not much of a lover of sweet food, but that looks like something I should be jealous about not having.

Why I switched from #Markdown to #Asciidoc for #technicalwriting.

Markdown is good, but Asciidoc is much more! It natively handles file includes, admonitions, spans in tables, and even diagrams—perfect for books, docs, and workshops.

Time to level up!

My latest blog: Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box

I've programmed in Java for half of my life. I stopped waiting for language features when I knew lambdas would arrive. We got to work and solved collections problems together in OSS.

No regrets, just thanks. 🙏
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My book, "Eclipse Collections Categorically", is available on Kindle Unlimited (KU) again. It is available for free to KU subscribers from today through January 16, 2026.

Read the review from @waynebeaton.bsky.social to learn about what is in the book. 👇
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Lovely time In Linlithgow and what skies to welcome me

SD: "But the ticket says..."

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Spoke too soon! They've moved on.

Hmm, this is odd. Normally they pass through. Happy for the wee critter to stay here, but I think I may need to create some lodgings.

The "power shuffling" mole will forever be a favorite, though

Hedgehog sighting! Love these little creatures. The only thing that makes it more wholesome is tapping on the window for my wife to come out and seeing how happy she is.

I've been using RandomAccessSpliterator for years in #Java without realizing it. I wrote about this default spliterator years ago. I wrote about it again after learning it is used by immutable Lists created by List.of() and Stream.toList(). Deja vu all over again.
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My latest blog: Spliterating Hairs Results in Spliterating Deja Vu

The story of a four day accidental rabbit hole self-extraction. I've fallen down this hole before. Who knows, maybe the blog will prove useful and lead to a small change in the #Java ListN class. 🤷‍♂️
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I was watching a tutorial today (I do this a lot) and I have some advice for you:

Watch your screen. If there are red squiggles underneath some of your lines of code, don't ignore those. Fix it. Even if they're wrong, you want your editor to be able to spot real problems.

Same with grey underlines

Clegg was such an ineffective entity when he had a reasonable position to effect change, this really isn't much of a surprise. He's just another politician who played the game for financial interests.
The only alternative I see to break the mould are the Greens at this point.

The thing is, AI is being baked into already widely adopted services, so people get it whether they want it or not. Surely that stews the metrics. As an example, Google and many other SEs provide an AI overview by default.

For me, this is it. I've felt I've had to keep up with it, but I don't think I've had a huge amount out of it. It's quite good for finding out about some things sometimes, but that's about all I've found to be useful for.

to such a fine degree that effectively, I have to try and take on the context of the AI, which, for me, defeats the point. I'm not sure at this point if I'm foolish for not getting the right answers from using *AI or smart for not accepting the answers given as right.

By far, the most pragmatic approach I've seen so far. I have seen equivalent takes, mind, for a while, but nevertheless.
That being said, I still think it's easier and faster to just write the code myself. Any time I've tried the above approach, I still feel I need to check over the output -

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Gem of a track. youtu.be/oRkRwL0vjOg?...

A project template is halfway round the world while a design principle is putting its boots on.

Borderline blissful! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate scaling comes with complexities and frameworks do a fantastic job of making this easy(ish), but I'm just enjoying the moment :)