What does the intense, rapid-fire chaos of foosball have to do with being a good software developer? A lot, actually.

How Foosball improves my problem-solving skills: A new blog by @de_thoom

https://jdriven.com/blog/2025/10/foosball-life-lessons

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Kotlin is null-safe, a quote I hear often from Kotlin developer. And yet, I still managed to get a NullPointerException while converting a java.util.Optional to a nullable Kotlin value…​

https://jdriven.com/blog/2025/10/java-vs-kotlin-nullability/

A blog by @de_thoom

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Java 25 (the new Long Term Support version) was released on September 18th 2025, and with it, some new cool features have been released. Which features are available to help improve my code? A brief introduction to the released features which you can use directly as a developer (previews, experimentals and incubators are not included).

A blog by @de_thoom

https://jdriven.com/blog/2025/10/java25-lts-to-lts

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