Front page from Hacker News. My blog post "Dev Services for Spring Boot Using Arconia" is #10.

Wow, this is the first time I make it on the front page of Hacker News! I'm glad so many people are reading my blog post announcing the open-source Java project I've been working on, Arconia, and one the main features: the Dev Services for Spring Boot. www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-...

jbang.dev/try got a refresh providing samples AND ability to open jupyter lab where you can run .java AND make notebook using Java.

Read more about it on www.jbang.dev/learn/java-i...

Super write up on BCE design @adambien.blog . Very clear explanation. Will be super useful instructions for my agents too :) bce.design

Inspiration

Exposing Spring Shell to MCP Clients A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Command line tools make good contracts for MCP servers. Here’s an approach to expose a Spring Shell application via MCP robintegg.com/2025/08/25/e... #java #springai #mcp

Easy Maven Publishing with JitPack.io A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

jitpack.io is a great service to help #java developers to publish their libraries and tools. I’ve written a quick start example here robintegg.com/2025/08/02/e....

Thanks. Will give it a try ❤️

Haha. 😝 I trust your deterministic output more :)

Is there any particular use case template documented on that wiki that you follow? Im starting to navigate this path and it’d be great to have an idea of where to start :)

once we manage to wrap them in enough scaffolding to make them predictable, we risk stripping away the very thing that makes them valuable in the first place- quote.

as I engage more with an agentic workflow I often think a ideal scaffolding tool would generate the code I want but deterministicly

Hey Spring friends!

I’m putting together a “Spring Community” starter pack, with friends of Spring, external contributors and prominent voices in the community.

If there’s folks that you think I should include, please let me know :)

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Create iPhone shortcut for sharing links A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Using iOS shortcuts to natively share a link to my web service without an app #java #automation robintegg.com/2025/05/11/c...

A carved vegetable is perhaps more appropriate? 😝

It certainly feels that way to me too. I can’t help but doubt myself as there seems to be quite some gap between my experience so far and what is being marketed / hyped elsewhere.

I share your sentiment @martinelli.ch. Is it the tools or is it us that are the slow ones? I’m hoping I get faster with practice or perhaps less bothered about the output?

GitHub - fabriciorby/maven-surefire-junit5-tree-reporter: Tree view console report for Maven Surefire JUnit5 plugin. :^) Tree view console report for Maven Surefire JUnit5 plugin. :^) - fabriciorby/maven-surefire-junit5-tree-reporter

If you are a Maven Surefire user and ever wanted a fancy tree output for your tests instead of a bunch of logs, you absolutely should try this.

Having spent a little time thinking on the library and its usages I can see this being a neat way to complement jbang when wrapping other command line tools 🧰

This looks very helpful @maxandersen.xam.dk 📌 thanks

Nice summary. Thanks Josh

Are we working the same codebase. I feel like I’ve just asked the same question and still none the wiser! #maven forever ❤️

Maven 4 incoming A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Bumping the progress update #java #maven robintegg.com/2025/04/04/m...

Pretty command line apps with added JBang. A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Pretty command line apps with added JBang. See ConsoleUI and AsciiTable in action #java #jbang #picocli robintegg.com/2025/04/01/p...

B(ai)tch from Scratch: Building a Spring AI Project Tutorial A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

🔥 Hey all, check out my new Spring AI tutorial for a guided walkthrough of the awesome features available now 🚀 #java #springai #spring robintegg.com/2025/03/26/b...

Quick Start with Spring Boot CLI A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Lightning fast project creation with Spring Boot CLI #java #springboot robintegg.com/2025/03/11/q...

Spring Shell alternative to picocli for JBang A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

Spring Shell is a nice library to add command line features into your JBang script - robintegg.com/2025/03/07/s... #java #jbang #spring #tools #cli

How to Handle Multiple Git Accounts The easy way to get your Gits together

Useful tips for managing work / personal git accounts on one laptop. medium.com/expedia-grou...

NanoHTTPD - A mighty tiny webserver A Java developer. Based in Leeds, England. Has interest in Software Architecture, Testing, Automation, Tooling and UI design.

A useful Java lib - NanoHTTPD - robintegg.com/2025/03/01/n...

Cheers Josh. Will take a deeper dive look at those platforms and pricing 👀

This looks great but I can’t tell if it’s a paid for enterprise offering or not? Can you confirm either way @starbuxman.joshlong.com ? Thanks

Personal preference is not to return the full reference but a list of actions that are permissible on the root resource or links to further resources, that may include a link to a reference such as an open api ref. The open api ref imo should be in a standard resource path like a robots.txt file