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blog.gaijinpot.com/what-are-sel... In east #Asia, many countries have very heavy restrictions on self defence, and in many cases you can expect to also be arrested and maybe charged if you cause injury to your assailant. It’s much better to run away.

One thing AI has been very helpful with is helping me very concretely understand the impact of CVEs on my software, in a very very short amount of time. For instance, the exact conditions required to exfil victim data in a request smuggling vulnerability. github.com/advisories/G...

Neat article on Quarkus throughout performance quarkus.io/blog/new-ben...

Last 2 releases of enumeratum have been made using GH-hosted Copilot. Not saying AI-all-the-things, but it has its usecases... esp for small, unpaid open source libs. github.com/lloydmeta/en...

Come for cameras leave with wisdom.

This weekend, I used AI to close out 2 issues in enumeratum. All within Github. What a world. * github.com/lloydmeta/en... * github.com/lloydmeta/en...

TFW a new version of #Quarkus web framework is released, with just your fix, when the normal cadence is once a week. Thanks @quarkus.io team. github.com/quarkusio/qu...

I honestly haven’t noticed any issue with build times. But then again I come from Scala and Rust….

Kids are overrated. Showed my 10 yr old a live concert from the 90s and remarked that there was no one with a smartphone recording instead of enjoying the show. She asked me if the band were still alive.

Found some odd behaviour (regression?) in MDC handling in the latest (3.30.5) Quarkus release. If you're using MDC, might want to tread with caution. github.com/quarkusio/qu...

Happy new year !

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What on earth…. Apparently Rust on Lambda was experimental until ~a month ago aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput... Didn’t know that when I wrote bsky.app/profile/beac... I usually try to avoid that stuff these days…

If you buy freshly made taiyaki, and want to eat it in the comfort of your home instead of while walking, but are afraid of it getting soggy by the time you get home. Put it in the toaster when you get back.

Late-late 30s seems to involve wondering if that white hair is mine or my dog’s or trying to figure out why there’s a bruise there.

Interesting. There are possible breaking changes for Quarkus *extensions* (not applications) in Quarkus 3.30 due to the migration to Gizmo2, if they use the low level ArC APIs. quarkus.io/blog/arc-mig...

TIL 5G (+/SA) is fast as hell. www.speedtest.net/result/i/682...

Revisiting this email that resulted in the withdrawal of string templates (preview) at the 11th hour. Still makes sense to me and I can only hope I can do the same if put in a similar situation in the future. mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/am...

Techniques like DiskBBQ that allow performant vector search in memory constrained situations are neat www.elastic.co/search-labs/...

Interesting ... upgrading to Tahoe seems to have been good for my x86 Mac...

Ported an old Scala app to #Rust , now running it as a #lambda, wrote about it beachape.com/blog/2025/10...

When you take *3* chopsticks out of the dishwasher. #odd

If your auto-merged Dependabot PRs don't build after merging into `main`, this is why. Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action. david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/gith...

Played around with Veo3 #AiVideoGeneration . Made something I thought my kid would like. It's hard with the current limits , but the results are impressive (esp. with music too...)

Successfully set up a repo where I test behaviour in a framework, with Dependabot auto-opening PRs for newly released versions of the framework and merging them. #canary github.com/lloydmeta/qu...

TIL "deepwiki"... I ran it on frunk and was quite impressed, at least by the diagrams that it was able to generate... Makes me wonder why I went through the trouble of *writing* blog articles about this on beachape.com! deepwiki.com/lloydmeta/fr... for instance. #GenAI

Did some super light coding this weekend with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic mode. To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).

Panini wrote the first recorded systematic formal study of #grammar in the world in ~5th to 6th century BC. www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sa... A day late here in Japan for #AsianHeritageMonth but hopefully still ok for *some* parts of the world :p #india

I think the long game of AI is that they will come with insurance (or insurance companies will run time). In other words, if you want full autonomous driving / coding, etc. the provider of that service/model will provide insurance for fuckups (and bill accordingly).

Prompt engineer is the new witch doctor / tribal medicine. Things are always shifting, It kinda sorta works, and most practitioners aren't really sure, and don't begin to _really_ know why. #allDueRespect #gutFeeling

I'm definitely not a visual guy, but this is the first time I was able to hear today's kewl-kidz music with my eyes arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

TIL #FlipBoard was still alive and kicking ! medium.com/@mmccue/flip...

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Apropos of nothing ... I love that Cloudflare does this kind of thing. Though, I wonder if this has long term consequences on AI itself (eg teaching “weird things” that harm mankind in the long run). arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...

Not sure if this is what a "hot take" (a la kewl social media kidz) is but: IMO in practice, #Go's "error as return values" doesn't really offer much advantage over #Java's checked exceptions. You handle it or pass it on (wrapped). Please feel free to change my mind.