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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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.

github.com

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 6d

Don't be evil they once said.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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

Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world
buff.ly/DmeUMJa
#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].…

buff.ly

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 16d

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

Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 16d

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 · 19d

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.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

www.msnbc.com

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 19d

One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!

Jackson Release 3.0

Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 20d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 20d

"$100,000 application fee for H-1B visa applications". Just FYI: The EU 🇪🇺 has the Blue Card.

RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 20d

apnews.com/article/h1b-...

Trump to sign proclamation imposing $100K fee for H-1B visa applications, White House official says

President Donald Trump is preparing to sign a proclamation that will require a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visa applications.

apnews.com

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21d

India has broken my graph.
30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024.
robbieandrew.github.io/india

Graph showing: Annual net additions of generation capacity in India

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 22d

🌟Spring AI 1.0.2 is out now! Packed with stability improvements & fixes — including GPT-5 support, MariaDB vector similarity, Kotlin data class schema, better null safety, and updated docs. 🔧📚
Check out the full release 👉 spring.io/blog/2025/09... #SpringAI #Java #GenerativeAI

Spring AI 1.0.2 Available Now

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 21d

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · 23d

Oracle detaches #GraalVM from the Java SE train 👀
• JDK 24 = last with Graal JIT / GraalVM in Java SE
• Native Image discontinued for #Java SE (-> Leyden)
• GraalVM team pivots to non-Java (GraalPy, GraalJS)
👉 Java devs: migrate to C2 JIT & track Leyden AOT work
blogs.oracle.com/java/post/de...

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BellSoft @bellsoft.bsky.social · 23d

Java 25 LTS is out 🎉
18 new JEPs, covering everything from startup speed and profiling to GC and syntax simplifications.

Want the full picture without scrolling through specs? Here’s a clear breakdown of all 18 features: youtu.be/On0BHZY59do

Java 25 LTS: The New Features in JDK 25

YouTube video by CyberJAR

youtu.be

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 23d

What a treasure trove by @ember-energy.org:

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

The Electrotech Revolution | Ember

The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.

ember-energy.org

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 23d

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk...

Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/

#Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability

mail.openjdk.org

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 24d

I've been working on #climate issues for years, but every now and then I step back & think how unbelievable (and sad) it is that scientists have shown for decades we're literally changing — in a bad way — the climate of the entire planet and yet society refuses to deal with that existential threat.

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