"the bigger problem is cultural: it's hard to restrain metadata addiction"

"Decode semacode tags with your own phone."

next event

"java.net.URL class officially sucks! The equals method on this shining example of the JDK API mess actually does a blocking DNS lookup on the host string to resolve to an IP address and then compares the IP addresses rather than the host string."

"it’s starting to look like type declarations are one of those accidental difficulties that good programming languages can eliminate"

Recruiters respond to resume featuring 15 years Java experience (in 2000), teleportation technology for Amazon in 1989, and a history of producing industry-leading vaporware

how daring!