David Abreu

A circle of illustrated children, each wearing a yellow star, surrounds the text “Our little stars shine bright, because of you. Thank you, teachers!” in the centre. In the bottom right corner is a small European Union flag.

On #WorldTeachersDay, we thank educators across Europe and beyond for making a difference in our lives.

We’re proud to support them through:
🏫 Erasmus+ Teacher Academies
📱 SELFIE for Teachers tool
🏆 EU Innovative Teaching Awards
📒 A toolkit on fighting disinformation for students

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

‘Chinese Gen Z-ers don’t want their parents or colleagues to know what they say, watch or read in the virtual world. Plus, cyber violence is rife: who wants to be doxxed over a silly comment?’

Yun Sheng: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Seiken Densetsu clean artwork by Hitoshi Yoneda, most likely used on a book. Image depicts the two main characters, Sumo and Fuji, staring at a vast green valley where a castle can be seen at the end of a winding road. Further back in a mountain, a fortress can be seen up top. Sumo is pointing in the direction of the castle.

A piece of #SeikenDensetsu artwork by Hitoshi Yoneda, most likely used on a book. Removed the text (which refers to Chapter 1), applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process. If anyone has some info on this, please share!

I already made my peace that most of new Java goodies won’t be stable until Java 33 (next LTS after 29)

a hand is holding a remote control with the letters dd on it Alt: An anime gif of someone spinning around and inserting a cyberpunk-ey looking hard case disk into a drive

Booting up with Friday greets; good morning, y'all. 💜

GitHub - jabrena/cursor-rules-java: A collection of System prompts for Java that help software engineers in their daily programming work. The available System prompts for Java cover aspects like Build system based on Maven, Design, Coding, Testing, Refactoring & JMH Benchmarking, Performance testing with JMeter, Profiling with Async profiler/OpenJDK tools, Documentation & Diagrams A collection of System prompts for Java that help software engineers in their daily programming work. The available System prompts for Java cover aspects like Build system based on Maven, Design, C...

A collection of System prompts for Java that help software engineers in their daily programming work.
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#Java

The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night 🦇 Happy Anniversary Castlevania 🖤

Dragon Quest I & II HD Remake's Brand New Underwater Region Is Beautiful I sea you

Dragon Quest I & II HD Remake's Brand New Underwater Region Is Beautiful.

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3]. De...

Enjoy my new, artisanal blog post about #JSpecify and #NullAway, a fresh take on null safety in the #Java world. Be warned, may contains #Lombok. Happy weekend you all.

info.michael-simons.eu/2025/09/26/j...

Finally

Europe is ready to take on cyberbullying and the addictive designs that trap children in endless scrolling.

We need to protect our children.

We'll assess what steps we can take at EU level.

So @albomp.bsky.social, we will learn from Australia’s best practices.

link.europa.eu/3hWJc8

That’s so cool!

hiring-embedded-rust.md GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Occassionally folks reach out to me to ask "how do I hire embedded rust folks for contract/full time work?", and this is generally the answer I give folks:

gist.github.com/jamesmunns/c...

Feel free to share/etc., I'm all about more folks finding good full time gigs in embedded rust :)

🚨 My new video on Spring Debugger is published 🚀

Want to impress your colleagues with your debugging skills? 😎

Take a look at this video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjVy...

With @springboot 4 moving to GA, @intellijidea adds first-class support for Spring MVC API versioning. See endpoint versions right in Structure and get help if versioning isn’t configured.
Sneak peek 👇

Well, guess I’ll have to visit Amsterdam again just for this gym 😅
Thanks for sharing!

wow! Where is it?

I just completely vibe coded a python scrapper for glassdoor using @warp.dev and scrapfly api.
123 pages of structured data, it was amazing to see.

YouTube video by Marco Codes Solving Java’s 1 Billion Row Challenge (Ep. 1) | With @caseymuratori

Seen this series (in progress) @gunnarmorling.dev ?

youtu.be/n-YK3B4_xPA?...

I’m extremely satisfied with Claude code with max subscription, best 100 bucks I’ve spent. But was reaching limits often. It improved a lot since basically all ai code editors migrated to gpt 5 due to costs 😅

OpenAI argues that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline.

"Why Language Models Hallucinate"

Building a Serverless WhatsApp Chatbot with Twilio, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Bedrock Introduction In today’s digital landscape, conversational interfaces have become an essential part of customer engagement strategies…

aws.plainenglish.io/building-a-s...

Using serverless AWS tools like Lambda, API Gateway, and Bedrock is a great way to get started experimenting with GenAI apps. With Bedrock you can get access to over 100 foundation models using a consistent interface and pay as you go and using Lambda... (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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Animations | AWS Fundamentals Learn visually with our animated guides to AWS services.

🏗️ I'm Tobias, a full-stack engineer who's built and broken my share of AWS setups. We put together some free animations that break down how the main AWS services actually fit together. Worth a look if you want the big picture, fast.
awsfundamentals.com/animations

Adding memory to your agentic applications using AgentCore Memory When building agentic applications, context is key. I previously wrote about how the various agentic frameworks, e.g. LangGraph, CrewAI…

heeki.medium.com/adding-memor...

Most new AI tools are interesting to play with but not really ready for real deployments. With AWS a really interesting one is AgentCore. It is a group of tools you can use to build production ready Agentic apps. AgentCore Memory is a super useful one. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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YouTube video by Java Ahead-of-Time Computation in Java 25 #RoadTo25

Hey #Java Developers, ☕️

The next video in our Road to 25 series is coming out tomorrow, hosted by yours truly! Learn how Project Leyden will be introducing the concept of Ahead of Time caches to Java to reduce startup and warmup times! 🚀

Catch the premiere 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Pl...

People need to understand that the folks running these companies are culturally diseased from tech bro culture and American narcissism. Poor judgement, no sense of public responsibility, no emotional intelligence. They are 10 year olds running a ketamine-laced lemonade stand.

AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old

If you want to read the full article, here's the link 🔗
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in...

Record of lodoss war for the win! 😅

The cover of a Basic Beginners Guide for D&D with a cute anime adventuring gal wearing a skirted green tunic and breastplate with a hand gesturing toward a darker fantasy piece of artwork with skeletons and a creepy staircase and looming gargoyles.

"Welcome to the D&D World!"

All the beginner's advice you needed to begin your D&D Basic Set adventures in Japan. TSR quested to make inroads there in the mid-80s, bolstered by the serialized play sessions of what would become Lodoss.