Stuart Marks

And The Economist’s word of the year for 2025 is… An unappetising symbol of a messy year

It's time.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

My sincerest thanks to this year's #JavaOne program committee who helped assess CfP submissions; folks like @richard.fichtner.dev @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social @cguntur.bsky.social @frankgreco.bsky.social @malagupta.bsky.social @mayers.io @matkar.bsky.social @dlemmermann.bsky.social & @danvega.dev!

🚨Announcement!🚨

#Java peers, registration is now open for the 2026 #JavaOne conference (Mar 17-19).

Don't wait, sign up now to reserve your seat ➡️ social.ora.cl/60117vBFh

(Oh, you just said that. Reverse-chrono order loses again.)

Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik.

The Queens Daily Eagle should report, “Queens Man Tries To Distract From Child Abuse Scandal By Launching Invasion”

Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...

Cool! Same family that used to run Cosentino’s markets. I would occasionally go to the one on Homestead. (It’s now Super Kyo-Po Plaza.) The markets all closed between 2007 and 2011 but I didn’t realize they still operated a farm!

www.cookingforengineers.com/article/183/...

Tom Stoppard (b. Tomas Straussler), 1937-2025.

What an interesting and talented playwright! On hearing of his death, I was struck by the thought that one should be grateful that he was given the time to write his last and perhaps most personal play, Leopoldstadt.

May his memory be a blessing.

Are these the same people who put peas in guacamole?

I figure playing Blackjack is like paying a coupla hundred dollars an hour for professional gambling lessons.

Timbale! Sounds like it’s going to be a big night! 😋

Hmmm… 🤔

Wow!!

Forget it Charlie Brown, it’s Chinatown.

Holy Fook? Wasn’t he one of the pilots on the Aseana airliner that crashed in San Francisco back in 2013?

It probably used a link shortener whose database got corrupted, so every link went to the wrong place. But I think you’re right about academic-style references. If author, title, publishing info etc. is given, there’s a hope of finding the original if — when — the link is broken.

Thanks for the mention! Glad to hear our conversation was helpful and that List.copyOf et. al. are working effectively.

#Java #OpenJDK

Proposed title: “Were things really better in the 1970s?”

I was gonna say… you can get sushi like that in Boise?!?

Oh man, you really kicked the hornet’s nest on this one. I’m not EVEN gonna ask you about Wilma vs. Betty.

📢Important Update 📢

Many have asked for more time to submit to the 2026 #JavaOne call for papers. We've extended the deadline until Nov 13th at 11:59pm PT. Be sure to submit your #Java proposal(s) before time runs out:

➡️ social.ora.cl/6013A7UXF

“Let’s just do it and be legends.”

✏️ JEP 8371379 was drafted
Title: Deprecate the UTF-16-only Internal String Representation
Type: feature
Component: core / lang
See openjdk.org/jeps/8371379

I was flying DFW-IAD one day and somewhere over NC I noticed the changing angle of sunbeams. Uh oh, what’s going on? Turns out ATC had put us into a holding pattern bc of congestion. Pilot flew a few lazy ovals, got bored, then did a figure 8. 😎 Continued w/o incident after 20 min. Blue skies!

Happy 29th Birthday to Squeak! This month marks 29 years since the birth of Squeak Smalltalk. That is nearly three decades of exploration, invention, and collaboration – all made possible by the ambition and generosity of those …

Happy Belated Birthday Squeak!
news.squeak.org/2025/10/01/h...

Oh, nice, I hadn’t heard about that! Looking forward to it.

I just ran across this elsewhere and thought, “I’ll message @hypervisible.blacksky.app to see if he’s still collecting these stories” and the answer is yes, yes he is. 🫠

“Kavanaugh Stop” needs to be elevated to a legal term of art like “Terry Stop”.

At every press conference, Mamdani is asked about Israel/Palestine… why is he so MONOMANIACAL about it??!?