Benjamin Marwell ☕
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Benjamin Marwell ☕
@bmarwell.de
#JakartaEE-Dev, Musician & Tech-Blogger.
Uses #Linux. @maven.apache.org PMC and ASF member.
IBM Champion 2022.
🏙️ are my own.
Happy learning 😃
In practice, no one uses $ in variables, but I never even knew you could use them!
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm not going to miss java.awt.List;. 😃
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Ah, I had to google it. That's not something a non-native speaker typically knows 😁
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
How do we know it leads to the toilet? 🤔
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ne, nicht wirklich. Aaaaber.... Wir haben eine Barrista-Bar mit Siebträger. Da gehe ich gerne hin und hole mir für €1,- einen Spitzen-Cappuccino. Hafermilch ohne Aufpreis. 🙂
Also ist es mir inzwischen ziemlich egal, 😅
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
😱
/ban animo
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
2019, (what the) heck24? 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The UI is great, best of all apps. I still refuse to install it. None of the chats are encrypted unless you activate it. And even then, it's insecure: can be decrypted without your device on, plus the encryption is self-made.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It should have. Much worse is: no custom DNS resolution rules, which is why *I* use the Apache http client.
Many reasons not to use the default, sadly
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What? 😂
It's waaaaay too early for that!
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Happy to hear!

Blog post: I'd write a new one and add a disclaimer to the old one. However, jfmt is not "decent" yet.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Was this made with AI? Yes, GitHub actions, reviews. When I did let it code, I gave very exact architectural directions and reviews, so it didn't really save a lot of work and time.
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Next blog post: Mastering #java code format for readability.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
And no shores where pickers count them as "we picked up two pieces of plastic".
Probably an Urban Myth that this is the reason, but politicians modifying statistics? That's not unheard of....
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sadly it's not "can magically speak when drinking a beer".

That said...
*Opens up Duolingo*
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
But there is..?
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM