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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · 1d

Exactly one week ago, I gave my #Devoxx Belgium opening keynote on Vibe Coding: The Developer Renaissance. You can watch it here 👇🍿
youtu.be/lba2uEaRLcs?...

Opening Keynote: Vibe Coding by Stephan Janssen

YouTube video by Devoxx

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 2d

At the #IRONMAN #Kona 2025 Mahalo party for the race volunteers.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating article on Marvin E. Lewis, the father of San Francisco's BART.

Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 2d

Also in today's Marc Benioff column:

1980s photo of a teen Benioff looking adoringly at his grandfather Marvin Lewis, S.F. supervisor & father of BART.

Lewis walked to work from Sea Cliff each day — a touch grass ritual his grandson sorely needs.

Gift link 🎁

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 3d

Bananas 🍌 - You open the #GitHub #Copilot chat in #IntelliJ IDEA and your fancy Macbook Pro (M3) turns into a space heater. It is an open Copilot issue for months 😳. It seems that accumulating a fairly large #AI context triggers this. Starting a New Agent Session helps.

github.com/orgs/communi...

Copilot IntelliJ plugin using 100% CPU · community · Discussion #154926

Select Topic Area Bug Body I am using the latest version of the Copilot IntelliJ plugin in CachyOS and the CPU usage quickly goes to 100% and never goes down. I tried with IntelliJ 2025.1 Beta, Int...

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 5d

I blogged again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-3-0-...

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) released

(October 3, 2025)

cowtowncoder.medium.com

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 5d

Living on the Big Island of #Hawaii, this article was so depressing on so many levels. 😢 #sad

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5d

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 6d

Electrotech, which includes solar, EVs and batteries, is quickly displacing fossil-based technologies.

Ember's Kingsmill Bond joins Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins at Heatmap News to discuss how this #ElectrotechRevolution is reshaping geopolitics 🌏

loom.ly/OprqM_I

Nobody in the West Knows How to Respond to the ‘Electrotech Revolution’

Rob and Jesse talk to Ember’s Kingsmill Bond about how electricity is reshaping global geopolitics.

loom.ly

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 8d

Did a magnificent 2km swim @ Kailua Bay this morning. A school of dolphins passed directly below me + saw a small ray swimming by. Visibility was fantastic! Doing a swim during the #Kona #IRONMAN week is always an experience. ❤️ #Hawaii 🌴🤙

Pier in downtown Kona. Starting point of the Kona IRONMAN. A tiny bit of beach sand is visible to the right. A few people are standing in the turquoise water towards the left. Lot of people on the pier. Mostly blue sky and a few palms in the background.

View of the ocean. Several yellow and black IRONMAN swim buoys visible in the water. A bit of coastline and clouds visible in the background. Some swimmers visible in the distance.

View of the sea wall towards the left in downtown Kona. A street is visible to the right. A huge green tree is visible in the middle of the picture with a hotel building to the right. Blue sky above.

An art installation of some sorts in a lawn area showing the logos of IRONMAN events in years past. Blue sky with some white clouds above.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11d

One important improvement in #Kamal 2.x is that #curl is no longer required for your #Docker images in order to perform health checks. That way way you can use slim base images, e.g. @bellsoft.bsky.social 's Alpaquita based image for Liberica #Java, e.g. jdk-25-cds-slim-musl ☕.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 11d

Finally upgraded my #SpringBoot app from #Kamal 1.x (Traefik based Proxy) to Kamal 2.7 (uses Kamal Proxy). Was battling a bit with some weird SSL Handshake errors but it is working now 🎉. Configuration looks much simpler. "kamal deploy" using cheap VPS hosts rocks 🤘. #java

github.com/basecamp/kamal

GitHub - basecamp/kamal: Deploy web apps anywhere.

Deploy web apps anywhere. Contribute to basecamp/kamal development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 12d

Don't be evil they once said.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12d

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 13d

As a German that word pops through my head a lot lately 😢.

Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 13d

Can every university considering signing on please look up “Gleichschaltung, 1933”

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 14d

Next week I will be doing the 🇩🇪 #German-language race briefing session for the 2025 #IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, #Hawaii. 🏊‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ #volunteering 🤙

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 15d

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –- "

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Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de · 17d

Oh yeah, a new video of one of my favorite Springfluencers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep8I...

@starbuxman.joshlong.com

Resilience Features in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4

YouTube video by Coffee + Software

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 19d

W/likely persistence of highly anomalously warm nearshore & offshore ocean surface temperatures in NE Pacific for at least another couple of weeks, days & esp nights will continue to be mild in places w/coastal influence & any inbound storms may have more moisture vs usual. #CAwx

Map from NOAA Coral Reef Watch depicting sea surface temperatures across the NE Pacific Ocean. Along the CA coast and far to the west, they are depicted as being far warmer than average.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 19d

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world
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#Java

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world

Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3].…

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23d

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 22d

Yikes! What is going on in the #Ruby community? 😬

Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 22d

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

joel.drapper.me

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25d

OMG. Tom Homan was reportedly under FBI investigation for taking $50,000 in cash allegedly in exchange for a commitment to steer government contracts to a specific company. The entire thing was recorded, as it was an FBI sting operation.

The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.