Mastodawn

I've just submitted a port for OpenJDK 26 to the FreeBSD ports tree.

This release includes relevant fixes for FreeBSD from mainline development, but
is otherwise identical to the upstream release.

Release notes for the upstream release is here:
#^https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/26-relnote-issues.html

FreeBSD related fixes on top of the upstream relese:
- Serviceability Agent: fix stack traces in threads.
- Serviceability Agent: simplify implementation of procadd_read_data to
read memory from process being traced.
- Serviceability Agent: symbol lookup would occationally fail for native
symbols in shared objects.

Let me know if you find any issues with this release.

Thanks to @FreeBSD Foundation for supporting my work on OpenJDK for FreeBSD.

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #mywork #java #FLOSS #softwaredev

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Chaincoder 1d ago

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.

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ewan

2d ago

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

poetry from £10
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everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

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Chris Woody Woodruff 3d ago

Asked AI to design a payment system.

It returned 14 files, 3 abstraction layers, a service registry, and an event bus.

The requirement needed 1 file and 47 lines.

AI has learned from every architecture post that celebrates complexity. It gives you all of it, every time.

The 2 AM Test does not care who wrote the code. It asks whether a tired engineer can debug it.

AI gives you speed. The Three Filters give you direction.

https://simplicity-first.dev

#softwarearchitecture #softwaredev #ai

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️3d ago

AI Benefits - But at What Cost? | by Steve Smith

https://ardalis.com/ai-benefits---but-at-what-cost/

#ai #developers #trends #softwaredev

AI Benefits - But at What Cost?

In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives way to realistic and profitable business models, where will the real costs land?

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️6d ago

The Hanselminutes Podcast - Agentic Workflows with Don Syme and host Scott Hanselman

https://www.hanselminutes.com/1039/agentic-workflows-with-don-syme

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Agentic Workflows with Don Syme

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️6d ago

Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code | by Addy Osmani

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/comprehension-debt-the-hidden-cost-of-ai-generated-code-285a25dac57e

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 16

Refactoring the heart of PowerToys from C++ to C# | by Noraa Junker

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Robert Kingett Mar 15

I’m probably just now noticing something that’s really old news to other people, but I became a little tired of having to go into the advanced Safari settings to briefly turn on JavaScript for the very brief moment I needed it on my iPhone. I generally keep it off except for those times when I absolutely need it on my mobile device. Today, I thought I could find it quicker by searching for it. If I go to the settings app and I explicitly look for JavaScript, no results show up at all. I think if you’re a developer of any operating system, and you have a search function, I think that should be able to find advance options as well as surface level options. #Apple #SoftwareDev

Jeff Bailey Mar 15

You didn’t build a product. You built a haunted house that your future self has to live in.

Learn how technical debt traps teams and how to escape it.

https://jeffbailey.us/blog/2026/02/22/fundamentals-of-maintainability/

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Fundamentals of Maintainability

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