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Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 7d

Agree.
And I'd like to add: do what you believe needs to be done. Because you think it's important that it's done. Not to get a reward.

Venkat Subramaniam @venkats.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t serve the community for reward. True reward is the satisfaction from serving, knowing you had a shot at lifting someone like someone else did for you in the past.

Those who serve for reward get served disappointments. Serve for the right reasons.

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 7d

I highly recommend this book. Java is an excellent language/platform for embedded development. It is not focused on itself, but on doing the job. And it's damn good at that.

Leanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · 7d

Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi - UPDATE 2025 leanpub.com/gettingstart... by Frank Delporte is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #RaspberryPi #EmbeddedSystems #Java #Messaging #HomeAutomation #InternetOfThings #Software #Diy

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Leanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · 7d

Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi - UPDATE 2025 leanpub.com/gettingstart... by Frank Delporte is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #RaspberryPi #EmbeddedSystems #Java #Messaging #HomeAutomation #InternetOfThings #Software #Diy

Find it on Leanpub!

Venkat Subramaniam @venkats.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t serve the community for reward. True reward is the satisfaction from serving, knowing you had a shot at lifting someone like someone else did for you in the past.

Those who serve for reward get served disappointments. Serve for the right reasons.

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Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder what will happen to those analysts who currently promise heaven if you invest in this bubble. I don't understand why renowned banks put a completely ridiculous price target on e.g. Tesla, "because it's now an AI company". Will taxpayers have to fix their mess once again?

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 15d

Great post. It's a topic that I think about often too: what will happen (but especially, what should we do) after the bubble popped?
I hope taxpayers won't be the victims of this circular deal game.
I also hope some of the technology will then be used for good, human purposes.

Tim Bray @tbray.org · 16d

˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.”

www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

After the Bubble

www.tbray.org

Tim Bray @tbray.org · 16d

˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.”

www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

After the Bubble

www.tbray.org

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 17d

This is a major issue indeed. On the plus side, I still believe that efficient, well-written software (running locally or in cloud) requires much less CPU(/GPU) power/RAM than most of the crap code running inside cloud containers today. So you can still save $ by not relying on cloud services.

Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 17d

Good summary of how high-end home computing is being made impossible because ownership is dead and every company wants to sell you a subscription, slurping money from you forever for basic functionality

The Corrupt
Memory Industry & Micron

WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia Micron has sold out consumers and terminated its consumer line of house brand memory products, Crucial, to focus on…

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 17d

Good summary of how high-end home computing is being made impossible because ownership is dead and every company wants to sell you a subscription, slurping money from you forever for basic functionality

The Corrupt
Memory Industry & Micron

WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia Micron has sold out consumers and terminated its consumer line of house brand memory products, Crucial, to focus on…

www.youtube.com

The Verge @theverge.com · 18d

How the creator economy destroyed the internet

A series about the devil’s bargain between the people who make things on the internet, the platforms that distribute them, and the way we consume content

buff.ly

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

Same for journalists. Unfortunately, even traditional media often simply quotes an X post. I prefer they directly speak to politicians, and ignore what they say on X.
Don't feed the monster, but also don't ask the monster.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 18d

This absolutely needs to be a campaign. The UK and the EU (Germany especially,) need to get all government business OFF of X. Start with that and charities and other organizations will follow.
Come to BlueSky. Cut off the oxygen at X.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

Yep, we can agree on that :)

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

I strongly recommend the recordings of the JVM Language Summit 2025: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I watched the Leyden/Vector API talks this weekend, helpful to learn about experiments and lessons learned at core level. Understanding this makes you a better Java developer, imho.

JVM Language Summit 2025 - YouTube

The JVM Language Summit (JVMLS) is a unique event that brings together Java and JVM architects and OpenJDK developers to discuss the evolution and future dir...

www.youtube.com

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

What sometimes saddens me is how a thin layer of non-technical polish can determine whether software is considered valuable, while the underlying (code) work is taken for granted (and not paid for accordingly).
And often, that non-technical layer is less ethical than the software was meant to be.

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

I prefer to write software that I believe is needed, helpful and "ethical". Often that is associated with free/hobby/spare time, and indeed it often is.
But that doesn't mean at all I'm against making money from software development (several friends have done great with it, and I'm happy for them).

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 18d

Well, that implies that you use the indirect revenue model, and have sales people promoting that, thereby making it hard for individual devs or non-profit orgs to contribute/improve. And that is what slows down innovation. Abandoning FX would be a big win for this money-focused approach.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 18d

This absolutely needs to be a campaign. The UK and the EU (Germany especially,) need to get all government business OFF of X. Start with that and charities and other organizations will follow.
Come to BlueSky. Cut off the oxygen at X.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.

Thomas Mohr @thomasmohr.bsky.social · 19d

First, leave X. Leave X. Now.

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 28d

Great article on Foojay: foojay.io/today/the-ar...

Love this quote: "sustainability start at the keyboard, not in the billing dashboard"
I totally agree. I often wonder how much CPU usage could be saved if all code running in clouds would be top-optimized. Pretty sure it's huge. Way more than 50%.

The Art of Performance Tuning: Why Saving 30% in the Cloud Means Nothing if Your Code Wastes 1000× More

foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More.

foojay.io

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 23

It is about identification indeed. All calculations are done based on indexes, so it's the mapping between index-Object that was missing. e.g. instead of

Program p = new Program(2);
new Cnot(0,1);

it now almost support
Qubit ctrl...
Program p = new Program(ctrl, target);
new Cnot(ctrl, target);

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 23

Strange API's need some love. I'm currently working on "named qubits":

Qubit ctrl = new Qubit();
Qubit target = new Qubit();
Program p = new Program(ctrl, target);
p.addSteps(new Step(new Cnot(ctrl, target)));

Easier to work with then referring qubits by index only.

#quantumcomputing #java

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 22

Quantum Computing and AI are completely different things (although there are synergies). The A in AI stands for Artificial. Quantum Computing, otoh, exists because of fundamental phenomena in Nature.

Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · Nov 22

Such a good write-up of making Signal resilient to quantum-based attacks

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement arstechnica.com/security/202...

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

arstechnica.com

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 19

Keep in mind that the Gluon LTS releases of JavaFX 17u and JavaFX 21u are free to download and use. We do offer an LTS service (gluonhq.com/lts) but the releases themselves are really free. We don't want to charge people for creating JavaFX applications.
No reason to pay unless you need support.

JavaFX Long Term Support - Gluon

Java FX Long Term Support

gluonhq.com

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking for feedback:
The JavaFX Properties/listeners approach if really powerful to bind UI components to changing values.

But it is often over-used and the main source of performance issues. It's very easy to kill performance by adding a listener to a property that is modified during layout.

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 13

JavaFX developers using Windows: please help the development by doing some performance test for Direct3D 12: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/op...

JavaFX Direct3D 12 - Call for performance testing help

mail.openjdk.org

Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · Nov 11

The impact of openjdk.org/jeps/510 is huge. Developers using OpenJDK now have many more tools/convenience to work with KDFs. They can more easily take major parts of security/encryption in their own hands, instead of relying on proprietary (cloud-vendor specific) implementations.
#openjdk #java

JEP 510: Key Derivation Function API

openjdk.org

Official account of jfxcentral.com @jfxcentral.com · Nov 7

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
Paul Krill
Bruce Haddon
@abaddongtz.bsky.social
@frankdelporte.be
@johanvos.bsky.social
@steveonjava.bsky.social
@devoxx.com
Troels Mortensen
@foojay.io

Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

Wolfgang Weigend @wolfgangweigend.bsky.social · Nov 5

A great conversation with Adam Bien at the W-JAX 2025 in Munich about his existing blog posts aligned with LLMs to ask the system about his own achievements for current projects: „What would Adam Bien say?“ @adambien.blog @jaxkonferenz.bsky.social

Devoxx Belgium @devoxx.com · Nov 4

Part 6 : Java on Mobile - #JavaFX

At #Devoxx Belgium 2025, @frankdelporte.be took the camera and microphone to talk with several speakers and visitors. This time with @johanvos.bsky.social and Stephen Chin...

youtu.be/OrhGyTGJgOg

Java on Mobile - JavaFX

YouTube video by Devoxx

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