DEV Community: Chris Kocel

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-06-24

Chris Kocel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:33:45 +0000

Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun (3 min)🔫
https://neilmadden.blog/2026/06/23/javas-sslcontext-protocol-name-is-a-footgun/

Don't measure elapsed time by subtracting timestamps (4 min)➖
https://ivan.canet.dev/blog/2026/06/15/measure-time.html

TIL: Statement vs Expressions (3 min)📢

https://kinya.medium.com/til-statement-vs-expressions-108d20f48588

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-06-17

Chris Kocel — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:59:42 +0000

Can Java Microservices Be As Fast As Go? A 2026 Benchmark Update (9 min)🚀
https://medium.com/helidon/can-java-microservices-be-as-fast-as-go-a-2026-benchmark-update-e16a2e262fc4

Introducing opt-in requirements for Java APIs (2 min)✅
http://osmerion.github.io/OptIn/blog/welcome/

The Four Kotlin Versions in a Gradle Project (4 min)4️⃣
https://blog.gradle.org/three-kotlin-versions-in-a-gradle-project

Ternary, Predicate, and Pattern Matching for FizzBuzz with Java 26 (5 min)🐝
https://donraab.medium.com/ternary-predicate-and-pattern-matching-for-fizzbuzz-with-java-26-646c812a137b

double, BigDecimal, or Fixed-Point? (5 min)🔢
https://blog.frankel.ch/bigdecimal-vs-double/

Did AI Just Break Software Security For Ever? (4 min)🤖
https://foojay.io/today/did-ai-just-break-software-security-for-ever/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-06-10

Chris Kocel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:43:11 +0000

Performance Improvements in JDK 26 (6 min)🚀
https://inside.java/2026/06/09/jdk-26-performance-improvements/

The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using jj (4 min)🚫
https://blog.gradle.org/the-petty-reason-we-didnt-end-up-using-jj-at-gradle

Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector (4 min)🔧
https://blog.vanillajava.blog/2026/06/why-you-should-tun-code-before-your.html

Exploiting GPU Tensor Cores from Java using Babylon (5 min)🔢
https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-tensors/hat-tensors

You can fork a package, but can you own it? (12 min)🍴
https://event-driven.io/en/you-can-fork-a-package-but-can-you-own-it/

Kotlin 2.4.0 Released (3 min)🎉
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/06/kotlin-2-4-0-released/

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (3 min)🤑
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-06-03

Chris Kocel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:21:37 +0000

Why I Banned ThreadLocal from the Exeris Kernel (And What Replaced It) (4 min)🚫
https://foojay.io/today/banned-threadlocal-java-scoped-values/

Snow Leopards and Tribbles in Java Heaps (13 min)🐆
https://donraab.medium.com/snow-leopards-and-tribbles-in-java-heaps-a3f20fd5520c

How Gradle Is Javamaxxing (3 min)🚀
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-is-javamaxxing

AI gateways: why and how (2 min)🚪
https://blog.frankel.ch/ai-gateways/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-05-25

Chris Kocel — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:30:02 +0000

How soon is now in PostgreSQL? (8 min)⏳
https://event-driven.io/en/how-soon-is-now-in-postgresql/

Counting and Collecting Collectors (8 min)🔢
https://donraab.medium.com/counting-and-collecting-collectors-d69b7c9aaca0

“Fat-Free” Lambdas in Java (11 min)🍔
https://donraab.medium.com/fat-free-lambdas-in-java-bf228da0613b

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-05-20

Chris Kocel — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:39:44 +0000

Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules (10 min)🏛️
https://netflixtechblog.com/scaling-archunit-with-nebula-archrules-b4642c464c5a

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-05-13

Chris Kocel — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:48:57 +0000

JEP 532: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fifth Preview) (3 min)🔢
https://openjdk.org/jeps/532

JEP 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview) (3 min)📁
https://openjdk.org/jeps/533

The Road to Name-Based Destructuring (7 min)🛣️
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/05/the-road-to-name-based-destructuring/

Collection Literals in Kotlin (2 min)🗃️
https://kt.academy/article/collection-literals

Two schools of TDD explained (4 min)🏫
https://blog.allegro.tech/2026/05/two-schools-of-TDD-explained.html

Teaching an AI Agent to Debug Flaky Tests (12 min)🤖
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/05/teaching-an-ai-agent-to-debug-flaky-tests/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-05-06

Chris Kocel — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:45:28 +0000

What if Java Consistently Used Intention Revealing Names for Inner Classes? (16 min)🤔
https://donraab.medium.com/what-if-java-consistently-used-intention-revealing-names-for-types-7b9cbc39f65f

Honey, I shrank the JARs (7 min)🗜
https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/04/30/honey-i-shrank-the-jars/

Make Java Safer with Flexible Constructor Bodies (7 min)🤸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmUt__lxPY

Why JOIN USING Can Lead to Errors in SQL (2 min)👥
https://blog.jooq.org/why-join-using-can-lead-to-errors-in-sql/

Before GitHub (5 min)👋
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub (3 min)👋
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions 📚
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-04-26

Chris Kocel — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:37:58 +0000

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching (5 min)🦭
https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/

I Used Five Command Line Java Tools This Week and I Feel Good (7 min)🖥️
https://donraab.medium.com/i-used-five-command-line-java-tools-this-week-and-i-feel-good-a07531fefb02

ArrayList vs LinkedList Puzzle (4 min)🧩
https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue334-ArrayList-vs-LinkedList-Puzzle.html

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-04-22

Chris Kocel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:36:11 +0000

You Must Avoid Final Field Mutation - Inside Java Newscast #110 (10 min)🧫
https://nipafx.dev/inside-java-newscast-110/

Distributed Cache Invalidation Patterns (7 min)🚫
https://foojay.io/today/distributed-cache-invalidation-patterns/

Yoda Principle for better integrations (5 min)🌌
https://event-driven.io/en/yoda_principle_in_command_design/

Making illegal state unrepresentable (2 min)🤷‍♂️
https://blog.frankel.ch/illegal-state-unrepresentable/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-04-15

Chris Kocel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:53:49 +0000

How I Automated Weekly Twitter/X Posts With Java, JBang and GitHub Actions (4 min)🤖
https://foojay.io/today/how-i-automated-weekly-twitter-x-posts-with-java-jbang-and-github-actions/

Why Java Developers Over-Trust AI Suggestions (5 min)🤝
https://foojay.io/today/why-java-developers-over-trust-ai-dependency-suggestions/

A GitHub agentic workflow (2 min)🕵️‍
https://blog.frankel.ch/agentic-github-workflows/

Secret agentic AI (2 min)🕵️‍
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/04/13/secret-agentic-ai/

Mythos and its impact on security (5 min)🛡️
https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/14/mythos-and-its-impact-on-security/

The Physics Of GPS (6 min)📡
https://perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps-work

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-04-08

Chris Kocel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:29:50 +0000

Thread-Safe Native Memory in Java: VarHandle Access Modes Explained (12 min)🧠
https://foojay.io/today/java-native-memory-access-modes/

Fake It Till You Make It: Fault Injection with Spring using Headers and Baggage Propagation (8 min)💉
https://trifork.nl/blog/fault-injection-with-spring/

Introducing Floci: A High-Performance, GraalVM-Powered AWS Emulator (2 min)☁️
https://foojay.io/today/introducing-floci-a-high-performance-graalvm-powered-aws-emulator/

Choice, Clarity, and the Future of Caching in Gradle Actions (3 min)🪶
https://blog.gradle.org/choice-clarity-future-caching-gradle-actions

Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code. (8 min)🤔
https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt

S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There’s One In Front of It) (10 min)🗂️
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-is-not-a-filesystem-but-now-theres-one-in-front-of-it/