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I spent about two days learning and implementing atmosphere rendering for planetary views from space. The tutorials and other sources I found on it were prettty lacking in implementation details but I got there in the end. Too late now, but does anyone have any recommends? Should I write an article?
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I spent about two days learning and implementing atmosphere rendering for planetary views from space. The tutorials and other sources I found on it were prettty lacking in implementation details but I got there in the end. Too late now, but does anyone have any recommends? Should I write an article?
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another excellent eBay acquisition
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
another excellent eBay acquisition
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I interviewed @mattcoley.bsky.social about #Recaf and his #JavaFX libraries. But unexpectedly, I got a deep-dive course on #Java byte code, obfuscated code, and how JARs can be (ab)used to hide their real code...!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NIJ...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-10...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NIJ...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-10...
Matt Coley, diving into byte code and JARs with Recaf and JavaFX libraries (#22)
YouTube video by Frank Delporte
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I interviewed @mattcoley.bsky.social about #Recaf and his #JavaFX libraries. But unexpectedly, I got a deep-dive course on #Java byte code, obfuscated code, and how JARs can be (ab)used to hide their real code...!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NIJ...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-10...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NIJ...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-10...
If you're using the JavaFX "Flowless" library for virtualized controls and are observing sluggish performance, do not add stylesheets to the Virtualized Node. Add them to the Scene. I observed an immediate 10x performance boost by doing this.
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you're using the JavaFX "Flowless" library for virtualized controls and are observing sluggish performance, do not add stylesheets to the Virtualized Node. Add them to the Scene. I observed an immediate 10x performance boost by doing this.
I love reading these articles and thinking "Yup, that's us on the job. We're part of the industrial inefficiency complex"
Artifactory set up but nobody uses it? 👍
CI jobs with zero caching? 👍
+ they can recursively spawn other jobs? 👍
+ they can trigger from simple "fix typo" commits? 👍
Artifactory set up but nobody uses it? 👍
CI jobs with zero caching? 👍
+ they can recursively spawn other jobs? 👍
+ they can trigger from simple "fix typo" commits? 👍
Free isn’t free: the infrastructure behind open source has real costs, and it’s time we aligned usage with responsibility.
This morning we jointly launch a new blog and open letter on sustainable stewardship.
www.sonatype.com/blog/from-ab...
This morning we jointly launch a new blog and open letter on sustainable stewardship.
www.sonatype.com/blog/from-ab...
From Abuse to Alignment: Why We Need Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure
Open source relies on shared infrastructure. Learn why sustainable stewardship is critical to keep ecosystems like Maven Central strong.
www.sonatype.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I love reading these articles and thinking "Yup, that's us on the job. We're part of the industrial inefficiency complex"
Artifactory set up but nobody uses it? 👍
CI jobs with zero caching? 👍
+ they can recursively spawn other jobs? 👍
+ they can trigger from simple "fix typo" commits? 👍
Artifactory set up but nobody uses it? 👍
CI jobs with zero caching? 👍
+ they can recursively spawn other jobs? 👍
+ they can trigger from simple "fix typo" commits? 👍
Now Recaf 4X can inline return values of simple static methods (like a xor string decryption call in this case)
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Now Recaf 4X can inline return values of simple static methods (like a xor string decryption call in this case)
Reposted by Matt Coley
Recaf's interactive deobfuscation window now lets you specify how many passes to run. For some obfuscation patterns that can't be one-shot in one linear pass (opaque control flow leading to more opaque control flow repeated N times) increasing the pass count to N+1 reduces it completely.
August 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Recaf's interactive deobfuscation window now lets you specify how many passes to run. For some obfuscation patterns that can't be one-shot in one linear pass (opaque control flow leading to more opaque control flow repeated N times) increasing the pass count to N+1 reduces it completely.
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JavaFX now has a Headless platform.
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... is now Resolved!
Pfew, that took me 1 year, 5 months and 29 days. Goodnight!
#JavaFX #Java
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... is now Resolved!
Pfew, that took me 1 year, 5 months and 29 days. Goodnight!
#JavaFX #Java
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bugs.openjdk.org
July 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JavaFX now has a Headless platform.
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... is now Resolved!
Pfew, that took me 1 year, 5 months and 29 days. Goodnight!
#JavaFX #Java
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... is now Resolved!
Pfew, that took me 1 year, 5 months and 29 days. Goodnight!
#JavaFX #Java
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Australia's decision to require age/identity verification, including facial scans, in order to do a Google search is dystopian.
We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children.
We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children.
Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google
Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet.
www.abc.net.au
July 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Australia's decision to require age/identity verification, including facial scans, in order to do a Google search is dystopian.
We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children.
We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children.
Updates to how some of the transformers work has cleaned up the output on most obfuscated samples I have. Here's a demo on a Minecraft server plugin getting optimized back to almost perfectly legible source.
July 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Updates to how some of the transformers work has cleaned up the output on most obfuscated samples I have. Here's a demo on a Minecraft server plugin getting optimized back to almost perfectly legible source.
Honestly, fuck Hotspot sometimes. A method body can just *lie* about how long its data is. Obviously nobody who makes a class parser is going to be keen on this until they see it in the wild. Does the spec say anything about this? Of course not!
July 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Honestly, fuck Hotspot sometimes. A method body can just *lie* about how long its data is. Obviously nobody who makes a class parser is going to be keen on this until they see it in the wild. Does the spec say anything about this? Of course not!
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The slides from our @reconmtl.bsky.social talk, "Breaking Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Obfuscation in Real-World Applications" (CC @nicolo.dev ), are now online!
Slides: synthesis.to/presentation...
Plugin: github.com/mrphrazer/ob...
Slides: synthesis.to/presentation...
Plugin: github.com/mrphrazer/ob...
June 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The slides from our @reconmtl.bsky.social talk, "Breaking Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Obfuscation in Real-World Applications" (CC @nicolo.dev ), are now online!
Slides: synthesis.to/presentation...
Plugin: github.com/mrphrazer/ob...
Slides: synthesis.to/presentation...
Plugin: github.com/mrphrazer/ob...
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Getting tired of the "AI can generate code much faster than you" slogan. Most often, the problem is not generating code. The hard part is understanding the code. What is it doing, how and why? And is that what you expect it to do?
June 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Getting tired of the "AI can generate code much faster than you" slogan. Most often, the problem is not generating code. The hard part is understanding the code. What is it doing, how and why? And is that what you expect it to do?
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Headless JavaFX platform passes almost all tests, with remaining failures being understood.
Time to bring this to the next step: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/op...
Time to bring this to the next step: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/op...
June 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Headless JavaFX platform passes almost all tests, with remaining failures being understood.
Time to bring this to the next step: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/op...
Time to bring this to the next step: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/op...
Alright, I rewrote my #JavaFX docking framework, BentoFX, from scratch (again) after incorporating it into multiple projects and learning what the pain points were with the existing architecture.
Here's what Bento looks like in practice:
Here's what Bento looks like in practice:
June 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Alright, I rewrote my #JavaFX docking framework, BentoFX, from scratch (again) after incorporating it into multiple projects and learning what the pain points were with the existing architecture.
Here's what Bento looks like in practice:
Here's what Bento looks like in practice:
In more positive news, I've made a lot of progress on BentoFX. Its still not at a stable release point, but while working on porting Recaf to use it I noticed and cleaned up a lot of bugs and lacking capabilities.
May 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In more positive news, I've made a lot of progress on BentoFX. Its still not at a stable release point, but while working on porting Recaf to use it I noticed and cleaned up a lot of bugs and lacking capabilities.
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One of my favorite t-shirts. But also a broken promise by a large company.
I keep believing it's not too late though. Technically, we already have Java running on iOS. But we need more support, technical and marketing. And courage.
I keep believing it's not too late though. Technically, we already have Java running on iOS. But we need more support, technical and marketing. And courage.
May 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
One of my favorite t-shirts. But also a broken promise by a large company.
I keep believing it's not too late though. Technically, we already have Java running on iOS. But we need more support, technical and marketing. And courage.
I keep believing it's not too late though. Technically, we already have Java running on iOS. But we need more support, technical and marketing. And courage.
Ever try and put #OpenGL stuff into a #JavaFX scene? I have and was kinda disappointed by the built-in offerings, so I made a simple double-buffered canvas.
I also recently saw a comment about Shaders in JavaFX and also demonstrated that at the end too 🎨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7g...
I also recently saw a comment about Shaders in JavaFX and also demonstrated that at the end too 🎨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7g...
Drawing OpenGL to JavaFX
YouTube video by Matt Coley
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Ever try and put #OpenGL stuff into a #JavaFX scene? I have and was kinda disappointed by the built-in offerings, so I made a simple double-buffered canvas.
I also recently saw a comment about Shaders in JavaFX and also demonstrated that at the end too 🎨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7g...
I also recently saw a comment about Shaders in JavaFX and also demonstrated that at the end too 🎨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7g...
I'm working on a Docking Framework for #JavaFX - Its very much a WIP, but if anyone has a use for such a thing and has feature requirements/ideas I'd love to hear them.
github.com/Col-E/BentoFX
github.com/Col-E/BentoFX
April 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I'm working on a Docking Framework for #JavaFX - Its very much a WIP, but if anyone has a use for such a thing and has feature requirements/ideas I'd love to hear them.
github.com/Col-E/BentoFX
github.com/Col-E/BentoFX
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don't do drugs kids, you might end up working at Microsoft on flawless blazing fast products like Visual Studio
April 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
don't do drugs kids, you might end up working at Microsoft on flawless blazing fast products like Visual Studio
"JavaFX has a perception problem"
💯
People will say "Why not Compose?" before "Why not FX?" even though Compose doesn't have a functional context-menu component for desktop yet. Compose just has a much better PR department even though for desktop its a much lesser offering. FX needs a PR boost.
💯
People will say "Why not Compose?" before "Why not FX?" even though Compose doesn't have a functional context-menu component for desktop yet. Compose just has a much better PR department even though for desktop its a much lesser offering. FX needs a PR boost.
I talked with @hansolo.eu about his JavaFX libraries, but I also learned more about SVGs and the garbage collectors in the #JVM, thanks to the fantastic visualizations he creates with... JavaFX, of course. ;-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgH...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-04...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgH...
More info: webtechie.be/post/2025-04...
Gerrit Grunwald: Creator of Many Amazing JavaFX Libraries (#19)
YouTube video by Frank Delporte
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"JavaFX has a perception problem"
💯
People will say "Why not Compose?" before "Why not FX?" even though Compose doesn't have a functional context-menu component for desktop yet. Compose just has a much better PR department even though for desktop its a much lesser offering. FX needs a PR boost.
💯
People will say "Why not Compose?" before "Why not FX?" even though Compose doesn't have a functional context-menu component for desktop yet. Compose just has a much better PR department even though for desktop its a much lesser offering. FX needs a PR boost.