Tim Yates

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Manchester. Ex-gradle, ex-micronaut...

Sci-fi nerd me approves the use of poster-sized lenticular printing and They Live references

https://badtastegoodcause.com/they-live

They Live - Gaza Springs

Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge

Greg Olijnyk is back with a new collection of fantastic cardboard sculptures that juxtapose intricate architecture with otherworldly objects.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/greg-olijnyk-cardboard-monuments/

#art

From Tiny Strips of Cardboard, Greg Olijnyk Fashions Fantastical Monuments

A classical cathedral dome sports the base of a missile and a gothic tower is fitted with jet propulsion boosters.

Colossal
I know these clowns know exactly what they're doing and that they're intentionally lying, misrepresenting, etc, because it makes them money, but I still enjoy absolutely clowning on them:
The only sensible response to J.D. Vance‘s speech in Munich would be to shut down X in Europe. Because that seems to be the thing he was sent to fight, with threats and insults. He just said what Elon had told him to. If X loses Europe, it‘s decline to obsolescence gets steeper.
Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK

EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla.

Ars Technica

#JUnit 5.12 will support user-defined #Java versions in condition annotations.

This is useful when running tests on a JVM not yet supported by the JRE enum constants like JAVA_26. For example:

@⁠EnabledOnJre(versions={25,26})

@⁠EnabledForJreRange(minVersion=26)

https://junit.org/junit5/docs/snapshot/user-guide/#writing-tests-conditional-execution-jre

JUnit 5 User Guide

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

404 Media

🚀 New Blog Alert! 📚

Confused about 🤔 Gradle Version Catalogs vs Dependency Platforms? You're not alone! In my latest blog post, I break down:

👉 What each feature does
👉 How to define them
👉 When to use which

🔑 Key takeaway:
📜 Version Catalogs = simplify dependency declarations
🛠️ Platforms = align dependencies across your graph

📖 Read it now: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/01/24/version-catalogs-vs-platforms/

#Gradle #DependencyManagement #DevTips #Java #Programming

Choosing Between Gradle Version Catalogs and Dependency Platforms: A Guide for Application Developers

In this blog post we'll break down the differences between Version Catalogs and Platforms.

The font of knowledge that was the internet has decayed, and anyone that argues isn't paying attention. It happens to me dozens of times a week, but as a concrete example that just happened: my son asked me a specific question: what is the heaviest guava ever recorded. Esoteric, specific, but answerable. Searching for it? Garbage AI answers with terrible sources and sponsored results to buy guavas. It's a shame - we lost the human nuance that made it great for 15 years... it's all noise now.