Tech book sections in retail book stores may have all but disappeared, but you can still find tech books in your local library.

I was happy to find my first book in the tech section of my local library. My bookshelf at home is full of old and new tech books, including two that were on the library bookshelf next to mine.

Donate books to your local libraries. 🙏

Today, March 16, 2026, is the 1️⃣ year 🎂 of the "Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game" paperback release. 🎉

Just a few more hours left to find the "$0.00 to buy" offer of the Amazon Kindle book version in your Amazon marketplace website. 👀
https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Collections-Categorically-Level-programming-ebook/dp/B0FFM5MHBV/

Blog: Some Benefits of Enabling Compact Object Headers in Java 25 for Streams

There are signs. You just have to learn how to look for and read them.
https://donraab.medium.com/some-benefits-of-enabling-compact-object-headers-in-java-25-for-streams-8df8b2037e05?source=friends_link&sk=b949a7c0d75e4f6cdadebffc7227b3d2

I inspected a blind spot I haven't seen before. Charts show throughput for filter().map().sum() and filter().count() w/ Stream, LazyIterable, and 2 eager EC approaches for small list sizes up to 100. Unit of measure is ops/ms so all are "fast." Some are faster. 🤔

Details in blog link.👇
https://donraab.medium.com/performance-of-lazy-and-eager-iteration-patterns-on-small-lists-in-java-f4234bef50a5?source=friends_link&sk=7bcfc9eabedfecf965b6566eb082ee04

Want to learn Eclipse Collections? There's a free Amazon Kindle book offer for "Eclipse Collections Categorically". Current offer ends the 12th and runs one day more on 16th. 1️⃣ Year 🎂

Empty should be empty!

The shock and surprise when I saw the memory cost of a Stream created from an empty List in #Java was audible.
https://donraab.medium.com/empty-should-be-empty-c09e21edc205?source=friends_link&sk=c7809f108441527f48b2ef173bc7fbda

For folks who haven't looked at #EclipseCollections because they don't use the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Collections (EC) and the Eclipse IDE are both independent projects at the Eclipse Foundation. 💡

Note: I created EC and have coded with IntelliJ for 24 years. 🙏
https://donraab.medium.com/explaining-the-eclipse-prefix-in-eclipse-collections-1d9850d20047?source=friends_link&sk=e6ee8d28bda7a66e2125083de49e8fa4