Mattias B.
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Mattias B.
@mbergander.bsky.social
Programmer, contributed to Java 6
Plays table tennis
Long distance trail runner
Likes physics, cosmology, astrophysics, ...
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The idea of delivering something specific that was decided months ago "on time" strikes me as nonsensical. A traditional project manager would be baffled by what I just said :-).

Of course, to pull this off, you need an organizational culture of trust and respect.

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March 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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To work effectively with agentic coding assistants, Birgitta Böckeler found she needs to intervene, correct and steer all the time. She describes examples of these interventions indicating the skills we need to correct the tools' missteps

martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
March 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#java 24 is out and here is a summary of the performance improvements we made:

inside.java/2025/03/19/p...
Performance Improvements in JDK 24
Java is constantly evolving with ever increasing performance. JDK 24 comes with significant performance improvements compared to previous versions including improved virtual thread handling, reduced s...
inside.java
March 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Remember, there is an intrinsic feedback availability imbalance: we deal with bad stuff daily, and it is more visible than good stuff. For every ugly customer support ticket, there are likely hundreds of customers who never told you things were great.
March 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM