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• Post #2453041

  I recently had a "heart-skip-a-beat" moment with a legacy Java project. The project depends on some old Maven repositories that are long gone. The only reason it still built was because the dependencies were cached in my ~/.m2/repository. I had never updated the dependencies, and that had kept the project alive. Then my hard drive died. No backup of the Maven cache. The project stopped building. Dependencies were suddenly "unresolvable". #java #maven #pom #b...

• Post #2453040

  Want Git to challenge your sanity? Just name a branch the same as a top-level folder. It’s a great way to meet ambiguity face-to-face. #Git

• Post #2453039

  Java turned 30 on May 23! To celebrate, JetBrains included a special splash screen in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2025.1 - and it looks nice. You can find the image here if you're curious: ~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/intellij-idea-ultimate/lib/product.jar, file idea_logo_java_30.png; there's a higher-resolution version, too. I've been using Java since day one, though admittedly, not as much in recent years. Happy 30th, Java! #java #birthday #jetbrains

• Post #2453038

  #GoAccess website (goaccess.io) and APT repository (deb.goaccess.io) seem compromised, returning suspicious HTML/JS instead of expected content (like "gnugpg.key"). This is causing "apt update" signature errors on Ubuntu/Debian. Recommend disabling their APT repo and avoiding downloads from their site until resolved. Stay safe. #security #vulnerability

• Post #2453037

  @rridley Sounds plausible! They did get it back quickly; everything's working normally on my end now. It's a strong reminder why auto-renew and pre-expiration alerts for payment methods are crucial for domains.

• Post #2453036

  Today is #Bloomsday: the day Joyce sets his modern Odyssey in the Dublin of 1904. I raise a cup of tea to Bloom’s wanderings and to the magic of everyday moments. #Ulysses

• Post #2453035

  25 years ago, I started running my own personal email server. In the tech world, they have a name for people like us: "masochists." And honestly, they have a point. It's a constant battle with deliverability, spam, security patches, and late-night maintenance. So why do it? For privacy. For control. For the freedom of not having a corporation reading your mail. Attached is a look at the front lines: my spam filter's stats for the last year. After two and a ha...

• Post #2453034

  The Jujutsu (jj) logo was designed by J. Jennings and depicts two Blue Jays. Probably the most **committed** branding pun in version-control history. #git #jujutsu #jj

• Post #2453033

  "Binary encoding formats often make the mistake of not having a version field. One byte is probably enough, but two bytes is cheap insurance. Having no version field is a major screw-up." -- The Primeagen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-qMzxxtYs

• Post #2453032

  For years I had random 1-2s black screen dropouts on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS X11 box (Quadro P2000 driving an LG 32" 4K via DP). Tried many things: NVIDIA driver versions, DPMS, suspend settings, new cables, different GPU ports, ... nothing. Today I turned off the LG monitor’s built-in power saving and so far: zero dropouts. Might finally be it? #blankscreen

• Post #2453031

  Day 7 of AoC 2025 in Rust: Part 1 was easy, but Part 2 took me a long time with DP. Hyperfine measurements are for both parts (Precision 5820 Tower 2018, Intel Xeon W-2145 (16) @ 3.70 GHz). #aoc2025

• Post #2453030

  End of an era for my last legacy project: just finished migrating it from Rocket to Axum. I still love Rocket's DX, but with the long-term maintenance silence, it was time to move to the more active tokio_rs ecosystem. Axum feels solid, but I'll miss Rocket. #Rust #Axum #Rocket