Gunnar Hillert

The enshittification of tech jobs Our last line of defense has fallen.

The enshittification of tech jobs

Diese Dummheit tut schon echt weh. Lass uns einfach diesen Planeten voll an die Wand fahren 😥.

I have long declared that Josh Johnson is a national treasure

I was wrong. He is a treasure for all humanity!!

You absolutely MUST watch this - Josh summarizes the terrifying reality of the fascist takeover of the United States better than anyone in three minutes

If you prefer following the Spring team on BlueSky instead of or in addition to X/Twitter, make sure to follow @spring.io where we start to communicate like we do on SpringCentral.

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

😞

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

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Will #SouthPark release 49 more Public Service Announcements #PSA? #HeTrumpedUS dot com.

Refreshed vaccinations (COVID + measles) right before our summer trip, just to have that "active" protection (COVID) for a few weeks. In this RFK-age, make sure your measles vaccination is good as well 🙃.

South Park > Columbia University

The General Theory of Enshittification It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more

As software developers we are well-aware of #enshittification. Here is (my favorite) economist @pkrugman.bsky.social ‬'s take on the subject. And +💯 for: "Twitter is a somewhat different story, but this post is about enshittification, not Nazification".

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-genera...

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

The paperback, with new preface, coming next month. Preorder now!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

Pause unused application contexts in the TestContext framework · spring-projects/spring-framework@dbe89ab Since the introduction of the Spring TestContext Framework in 2007, application contexts have always been stored in the context cache in a "running" state. However, leaving a context runn...

🍃 #Spring Framework 7.0 will provide built-in support for pausing & restarting unused application contexts between test classes.

This ensures that background processes in the context are not actively running while the context is not used by tests. 👍🏻

github.com/spring-proje...

This is what 50 Republican Senators just passed.

A Big Beautiful Bill to Big Beautiful Kill You with even more Big Beautiful Big Oil Pollution.
www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

The German train system has become a topic of great ridicule over the past two decades 😞. In May of 2025 only 62% of long distance trains were on time.

ASF Members, let me know who you are!

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No kidding...the news is going from bad to worse. Also a good reminder: if you or your spouse have a #EU 🇪🇺 passport (or you can get one e.g. via parents) you and your spouse can live/work in any other EU member state.

For perspective: a recent study suggested that economic savings from just a *single* well-predicted hurricane, thanks to NOAA research advancements, are on order of *$5 billion.* That exceeds NOAA's *entire proposed annual operating budget.* So much for government efficiency.

I got an 80% 😬
I hate to sounds like a pessimist, but we're cooked.

Sure, you can do the extra work of searching, verifying, etc for each video you come across, but people aren't going to do that.

If we cannot distinguish reality from AI, how can we trust anything at all?

It looks like we have to establish a trust chain of journalists, like in the olden days ... Wich we destroyed in the early 2000s 😞.

#JUnit 6.0.0-M1 is ready for testing!

✨ Require Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2
🌄 JSpecify nullability info
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛫 Integrated custom JFR events
🚅 FastCSV-backed Csv{File}Source
🧹 Remove deprecated APIs and behaviors

junit.org/junit5/docs/...

Café entrance with the second floor of a building visible with several windows at night. Logo and name "Café Java" and "Java" between the door and windows above.

#Java ☕ in #Porto 🇵🇹 #Portugal.

The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China.

It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.

How China made electric vehicles mainstream The world's second largest economy is both the biggest producer and buyer of EVs.

"I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor," says Lu Yunfeng, a private hire driver, who is at a charging station on the outskirts of Guangzhou in the south of China. www.bbc.com/news/art...