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πŸ“£ Woohoo!
A proper real #TUI library for #java!!!! Big Day!
Congrats @melix.champeau.me and @maxandersen.xam.dk πŸ₯³

18.02.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She was on Letterman β€” you can find it on Youtube!

18.01.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bootstrapping JVM languages

In addition to the issue I think you are referring to, there is this:

bootstrappable.org/projects/jvm...

20.12.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope so. Keep us posted!

17.12.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With native-image and FFM, writing nice TUIs in Java becomes interesting. But when I last looked, I did not see a ratatui-like library for Java.

17.12.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sparrow is a beloved desktop wallet powered by JavaFX. A very well-done interview that covers a number of interesting topics in security, UX, and software development along with an introduction to Bitcoin transaction details using the Sparrow UI.

20.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#opensource #opentowork | Andres Almiray Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland (...

Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.

I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...

11.11.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

I think they disable it because typically the UX sucks. Of course they could put effort into improving the desktop experience, but better to disable then to have an annoying desktop experience.

07.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're working on it!

03.11.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes!

31.10.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m still unsure if a colleague years ago was exposing his cultural illiteracy by mispronouncing β€œso crates” or mine because I had not (yet) seen Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure…

05.10.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

03.10.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3977    πŸ” 2409    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 140
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Java 25 Support Tracking Issue Β· Issue #430389 Β· NixOS/nixpkgs This issue is for tracking and discussion of Java 25 support in 5 critical JDK packages: openjdk temurin-bin zulu graalvm-ce graalvm-oracle "Available" status by package: openjdk temurin-bin -- DRA...

Nixpkgs JDK 25 Tracking Issue for 5 critical JDK packages making their way into (hopefully) Nixpkgs 25.11:

github.com/NixOS/nixpkg...

17.09.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Making sure you're not a bot!

It's on Nixpkgs `master` making its way to `nixpkgs-unstable`:
nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.h...

17.09.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWho Are You” is not a great album?

16.08.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unless something has changed, there's no simple, built-in command-line tool to print the bytecode version of a JAR.

14.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let them wed There is no compelling reason to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, and several compelling reasons to include them

I still remember reading and being convinced it was the right thing to do by this 1996 article: www.economist.com/news/1996/01...

That was about 16 years ahead of the Democratic Party. So don't feel too bad.

13.08.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The really remarkable thing is that with his tariffs, Trump has imposed the largest tax increase U.S. history.

He did this unilaterally, with zero input from Congress. And nearly every elected Republican supports it.

07.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

There’s a PR with a Java 24 Oracle GraalVM and I made a PR for 25-EA.

05.08.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And when you say all other distros, I assume you’ve tried graalvm-oracle?

05.08.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

x86_64-linux? Have you tried aarch64-linux or darwin?

05.08.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚠️ Schedule and speaker bios for #NixVegas at #DEFCON are up on our site and Hacker Tracker!

nix.vegas/schedule
nix.vegas/speakers

While you're at it, check out our artwork by Kenz Tobias and grab some stickers while you're watching talks:

nix.vegas/blog/artwork

03.08.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Think different!

25.07.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least they fly!

28.05.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Kinks have 50 songs!? 🀣

27.02.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You know, if our schools actually taught this stuff, we’d have a much better educated electorate β€” in both of the major parties.

20.01.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would say that the ones who’ve actually read (and understood) Hayek, or even β€œI, Pencil”, have not fallen for the strongman argument.

I think many Republicans never really understood _why_ the free market works. They just paid lip-service because they associated it with American patriotism.

20.01.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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