Ben Hale

@nebhale
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Distinguished Engineer and Architect for Tanzu. Creator of Cloud Native Buildpacks and R2DBC. Often found cycling in either Marin or the Dolomites.
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@marcoarment Sometime in the last couple of months on ATP you mentioned replacing fluorescent tubes with LEDs and endorsed a particular company. What company was that? I can’t seem to search for it in the ATP transcripts.
I returned from holiday today and in the 7h of travel the temperature swung 115°F (64°C). It was -25°F (-32°C) in Fairbanks when we left and 90°F (32°C) in Marin when we arrived.

My mom (in her 70s) is always asking me questions about AI, so last time I was home I showed her how Claude Code works so we could vibecode a Wordle clone together. I also showed how I would normally write code in an editor to make a few final tweaks.

When we were done she said, “I had no idea what you did for a living was so boring.”

Garmin “Autoland” aka “Safe Return,” has been used for the first time, successfully.

Autoland is an emergency system, where a passenger can hit a big red button if the pilot is in incapacitated, which causes the airplane to make emergency radio calls, navigate to a nearby airport with a long runway and medical facilities, and conduct an instrument approach and landing, followed by a full shutdown when the aircraft comes to a stop on the runway. Large screens and voice announcements keep passengers updated along the way.

The nature of the medical emergency on Saturday, involving a King Air with an unconscious pilot, has not been disclosed.

https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/ #avgeek

Autoland Saves King Air, Everyone Reported Safe (Updated) - AvBrief.com

Aircraft landed safely at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver on Saturday afternoon.

AvBrief.com
Unpopular opinion, apparently: companies like cloudflare and Amazon provide very high quality services people and enterprises actually need, with a level of uptime and security vastly superior to what most of their customers would achieve on their own or using traditional providers. Their downtimes being so visible is a consequence of their success.
irregularly reminded again that the use of 'just', 'simply', and other minimization words - especially in technical areas - is always a sign that there are unexamined assumptions that need to be carefully considered.
NGL, I’ve accidentally become a HUNTR/X fan and would possibly go to a live concert for their six songs 😅
How much trouble would I be in if Skymall still existed after I made elite status on airlines?
Amazing results shown at #devoxx by @mhalbritter and @ammbra1508 - the Leyden project hugely benefits to Spring Boot applications with AOT.

One of my first major contributions to Spring, RestTemplate, is finally going away after more than fifteen years of service.

Not a bad run. https://mamot.fr/@bclozel/115292757354076056

Brian Clozel (@[email protected])

"The state of HTTP clients in Spring", the latest blog post in our "Road to GA" series for Spring Boot 4.0 in November. This one really captures the entire journey starting with `RestTemplate` and finally its deprecation announced in this blog. https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/30/the-state-of-http-clients-in-spring

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