DEV Community: Chris Kocel

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-09-30

Chris Kocel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:46:19 +0000

What Go Taught Us About Java Garbage Collection (7 min)🗑️
https://dev.to/codenameone/what-go-taught-us-about-java-garbage-collection-25ha

Decapsulation: Breaking Java Strong Encapsulation (27 min)🔓
https://wouter.coekaerts.be/2026/decapsulation

My love-hate relationship with Java formatters (3 min)🎨
https://foojay.io/today/my-love-hate-relationship-with-java-formatters/

Performance Improvements in JDK 27 (10 min)🚀
https://inside.java/2026/09/28/performance-update-jdk27/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-09-23

Chris Kocel — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:24:36 +0000

Releasing Spring for Modern Challenges (3 min)🌱
https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/21/releasing-spring-for-modern-challenges

Spring AI and TypeSafe Jev: Fast, Cheap, Structured Decisions (10 min)🤖
https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/21/spring-ai-typesafe-structured-judgment

Reflection-Free Serialization on the JVM: Four Formats In, Avro Out (10 min)📦
https://foojay.io/today/reflection-free-serialization-on-the-jvm-four-formats-in-avro-out/

Using multiple GitHub accounts on one machine (6 min)🐙
https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/blog/2026/09/14/using-multiple-github-accounts-on-one-machine/

A faster way to convert a timestamp ➜ Hour, Min, Sec (8 min)⏱️
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-time-of-day

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-09-16

Chris Kocel — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:12:38 +0000

The Arrival of Java 27! (9 min)☕
https://inside.java/2026/09/15/jdk-27-available/

Java 27 is only boring on the surface (13 min)🔍
https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/09/15/java-27-is-only-boring-on-the-surface/

Hello Java 27! Have You Been Working Out? (32 min)💪
https://hanno.codes/2026/09/15/hello-java-27/

Debug Past an HTTP 403 Without Breaking Spring Security (11 min)🐛
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/09/debug-past-an-http-403-without-breaking-spring-security/

When LLM Judges Agree, Should We Believe Them? (9 min)🤖
https://www.amazon.science/blog/when-llm-judges-agree-should-we-believe-them

On Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (10 min)📚
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-09-09

Chris Kocel — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:17:37 +0000

Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 1: Where AI Agents Add Value (8 min)🤖
https://foojay.io/today/building-an-agentic-warehouse-management-system-part-1-where-ai-agents-add-value/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-09-02

Chris Kocel — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:01:05 +0000

Module Imports (5 min)📦
https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue337-Module-Imports.html

Keep Testcontainers up to date with Dependabot (3 min)🤖
https://paramount.tech/blog/2026/08/26/keep-testcontainers-up-to-date-with-dependabot.html

JOOQ code from Flyway migration, with no database (5 min)🛫
https://medium.com/@behzodhalil/jooq-code-from-flyway-migration-with-no-database-0a9632430f69

TigerBeetle vs PostgreSQL Performance: Benchmark Harness, Cloud Tests (8 min)🐯
https://softwaremill.com/tigetbeetle-vs-postgresql-performance-benchmark-harness-cloud-tests/

Project Loom in IntelliJ IDEA: Virtual Threads, Scoped Values, and Structured Concurrency (12 min)🧵
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/08/project-loom-in-intellij-idea-virtual-threads-scoped-values-and-structured-concurrency/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-08-26

Chris Kocel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:40:57 +0000

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy (12 min)⚙️
https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/

Scripting in small apps: you don’t need a container for a macro (5 min)📜
https://foojay.io/today/scripting-in-small-apps-you-dont-need-a-container-for-a-macro/

Offline Crypto Address Validation in Java (3 min)🔐
https://foojay.io/today/offline-crypto-address-validation-in-java/

Gradle Is Going Agentic (7 min)🤖
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-is-going-agentic

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-08-19

Chris Kocel — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:33:36 +0000

Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration (2 min)🤖
https://blog.frankel.ch/gradle-metadata-renovate-integration/

Resilient Sync: Your IDE Keeps Helping even when your Build is Broken (4 min)🛟
https://blog.gradle.org/resilient-sync

Why Optimizing Java Stream Makes Sense for Eclipse Collections (5 min)🌊
https://donraab.medium.com/why-optimizing-java-stream-makes-perfect-sense-for-eclipse-collections-885289a3b12c

JEP 540 Proposed to Target JDK 28 with a Simple JSON API (3 min)📄
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/java-native-json-api

When Escape Routes Become Toll Roads: Mapping How Developers Move Between Programming Languages (12 min)🛣️
https://blog.jetbrains.com/research/2026/08/programming-language-migration/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-08-12

Chris Kocel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:40 +0000

Hacking in the nameOf (4 min)🕵️‍♂️
https://committing-crimes.com/articles/2026-08-04-java-nameof/

ADTs (Algebraic Data Types) in Java (22 min)📐
https://rockthejvm.com/articles/algebraic-data-types-in-java

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes (3 min)🗑️
https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/08/10/jdk27-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html

Allocation Hungry Any/All/None, FindFirst, and Count Methods on Java Stream (5 min)🍔
https://donraab.medium.com/allocation-hungry-any-all-none-findfirst-and-count-methods-on-java-stream-e3ca6d66b265

I accidentally became Google AI’s main resource for GraalVM vs OpenJDK (4 min)😅
https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/07/31/i-accidentally-became-google-ais-main-resource-for-graalvm-vs-openjdk/

Introducing Isolated Projects (4 min)🏝️
https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-isolated-projects

Writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore, reading is (7 min)🍾
https://threedots.tech/post/understanding-code-is-bottleneck/

Don't be a meat proxy (2 min)🥩
https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

Does code quality still matter? (4 min)💎
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/07/23/does-code-quality-still-matter/

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical (4 min)💥
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/20/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/5275089

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-07-15

Chris Kocel — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:40:40 +0000

The Java Story (video, premieres July 17)🎬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA

Java 27: What's new? (4 min)🚀
https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/informatique/java-27-whats-new/

Nulling Out References Won't Help Your Garbage Collector (8 min)🗑️
https://foojay.io/today/nulling-out-references-wont-help-your-garbage-collector/

Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? (5 min)⚡
https://chronicle.software/insights/blogs/why-low-latency-java-still-requires-discipline

Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 2 (10 min)🐘
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-on-ephemeral-ci-2

Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 3 (10 min)🐘
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-on-ephemeral-ci-3

Making ServiceLoader usable: a provider factory (6 min)🏭
https://blog.frankel.ch/serviceloader-provider-factory/

What's New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience (5 min)🐙
https://foojay.io/today/whats-new-in-actions-setup-java-5-4-and-5-5-signature-verification-kona-jdk-and-a-better-maven-experience/

A New Home for Spring Cloud Contract: Transitioning to Stubborn.sh (1 min)🌱
https://spring.io/blog/2026/07/06/spring-cloud-contract-transition-to-stubbornsh

Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars (10 min)📊
https://matduggan.com/clickhouse-is-winning-the-observability-wars/

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-07-08

Chris Kocel — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:57:54 +0000

Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 1 (15 min)🐘
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-on-ephemeral-ci-1

Worse is better: JSON versus XML (5 min)🥊
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/07/06/worse-is-better-json-versus-xml/

Kotlin tricks: Non-exhaustive enums (6 min)👻
https://ivan.canet.dev/blog/2026/06/29/kotlin-non-exhaustive-enum.html

Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-07-01

Chris Kocel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:49:35 +0000

CopyOnWriteArrayList.subList() ConcurrentModificationException (5 min) 🧵
https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue336-CopyOnWriteArrayList.subList-ConcurrentModificationException.html

You Are Probably Already Running gradle/actions (7 min) ⚙️
https://blog.gradle.org/running-gradle-github-actions

So You Want To Define a Well-Known URI (5 min) 🧭
https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris

Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice (8 min) 🐌
https://yusufaytas.com/old-software-was-fast-because-it-had-no-choice

7 New Vulnerabilities in Jackson in One Day: This Is What AI-Assisted Security Research Looks Like (5 min) 🔓
https://foojay.io/today/7-new-vulnerabilities-in-jackson-in-one-day-this-is-what-ai-assisted-security-research-looks-like/

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