David Abreu

In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.

My latest for @wired.com: I tried exercising my data access rights over 100 times and almost lost my sanity during the process. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...

‘A modern-minded middle class with nationalist aspirations was challenging the established order, and Joyce, however reticent and heterodox on the national question, was born out of this conflict.’ Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nevermind, found it pretty easily! www.keithparkinson.com/product/gods... Definitely going to have to check this out, for the art alone

Booting up for a new week with greets; good morning, y'all 👋🏼 Hope the week ahead treats you kindly 💜

📣 TypeScript 7's Release Candidate is now out! 📣 The new native rewrite is almost here. Try it out on your codebases, and make sure your team is ready for the upcoming 7.0 release!

Phenomenally impressed with exe.dev so far. Moved a few of my sites over to it. It’s definitely early, some bumps and blips here and there, but I completely see the vision. Not sponsored but I do have invites for a free month if you wanna try it. Don’t think I get anything for you using them.

This is actually some pretty good shit. youtu.be/DUwDddBzIgk?...

Boring but functional post on something I think more leaders need to address: guidelines for respectful use of AI medium.com/@skamille/gu...

I had a wonderful time chatting with @kantrowitz.bsky.social about #forecasting this week! Check it out! #Prophecy #books #authors #podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbg...

A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.

Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/

👥 Who uses Java today ⚙️ The tools and frameworks they rely on 🤖 How AI is changing Java development Find out now! jb.gg/yb1xhj

‘The hand could be read because your body was marked with cosmic meaning in a not yet disenchanted world.’ Steven Shapin on what’s written on the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“The tech industry has done a great job of scaring reporters into thinking that having a negative opinion is somehow “not supporting innovation,” and I want to be clear that refusing to criticize the tech industry is what’s actually stopping innovation.” 👇

New frameworks & libraries promise better performance, cleaner code, and happier teams. But a #TechnicalMigration is expensive and raises questions. In this #InfoQ video, Sophie Koonin explores the realities of technical migrations, using Monzo’s 2-year #TypeScript migration. 🎬 bit.ly/4bdx8Oy

TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉 🔶 Temporal 🔶 Map#getOrInsert 🔶 RegExp.escape 🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports New defaults! 🔶 --target=ES2025 🔶 "use strict" 🔷 --strict Deprecations! 🗑️ baseUrl, outFile 🗑️ import assertions 🗑️ `module` namespaces 🗑️ module: amd 🗑️ moduleResolution: node 🗑️ target: ES5

🔥 #JavaLand 2026 Hot Topic "Local LLMs to Enterprise AI: from your laptop to production" with Marta Blaszczyk and Marco Klaassen | Wednesday, March 11 2026 | 1:00 pm to 1:40 pm | Dome ⭐ More information & favorite lecture: scomp.ly/1AwgwBe

Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data spring.io/blog/2026/02...

Booting up with greets for lovely peeps; good morning, y'all. 💜

📰🚨 AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions

The center of Europe… Outside the window,it's the 21st century: artificial intelligence,mobile internet,cars that park without driver assistance… At the same time, outside the window, there is war. 📹 Putrivka, a village in the Fastiv district, Kyiv region /Radio Liberty

IGN: Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss www.ign.com/articles/phi... Spencer’s retirement is effective on Monday, February 23

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The European Commission's new strategy includes new investments in technological development to integrate surveillance capacity. #EuropeNews

‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula are true, their common thread is the sadistic pleasure he took in rubbing everyone’s noses in the power he had over them.’ @moonjets.bsky.social on a new translation of ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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ICYMI: Why Retries Break Your Java APIs (And How Idempotency Fixes It) buff.ly/z1AC7Qk

I can now name that this company is Wealthsimple. Their CTO pulled the trigger on Claude Code. So far good response and results. Deepdive on them and 9 other companies: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-...

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is what AI-assistance should look like 🥹 No "least effort / making it work code", but things you can safely ship. At least with my the experience I have with it so far! Link to the skill 🔗 github.com/antonbabenk... Big thanks, Anton! 💪

How to build a production-grade audit trail in Java that survives incidents, compliance reviews, and uncomfortable questions. www.the-main-thread.com/p/quarkus-hi...

Good morning/afternoon, y'all 💜

Today, the EU and Mercosur take a huge leap forward. With this Agreement, we are not creating spheres of influence, but spheres of shared prosperity. For more than 700 million citizens. For thousands of companies. For our joint future. Together, we are stronger.

'Only in Japan can you see this!' Nabana no Sato's winter world lights

It's fantastic to see yet another project pick #micrometerio as the entry point to their observability story! I'm so proud to have co-authored the observation api. Remember: "instrument once and have multiple benefits out of it" hc.apache.org/httpcomponen...

Retries don’t fail loudly. They fail silently. I wrote a practical guide on idempotency keys, grounded in the IETF standard, with a full Java + Quarkus implementation that handles retries, concurrency, and in-flight requests correctly. buff.ly/lyuIhaE #Java #DistributedSystems #Quarkus #APIs

This is a nice intro to Skills if you haven’t dug into them yet claude.com/blog/buildin... > Skills give Claude Code access to your procedural knowledge through progressive disclosure, revealing information in layers only when needed, rather than flooding the context window

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Robin Tegg wrote a few reasons to give @jbang.dev and @jreleaser.org a try for your next project. robintegg.com/2026/01/04/j...

Happy new year! As my #blog got de-indexed by #Google, I created an extensive write-up of what I did to get back into the index! It's full of typical information, and I think it's an interesting story, too. Let me know what you think! blog.bmarwell.de/2025/12/30/h...

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

This Brazilian woman hates AI

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

medium.com/@g.jalaghoni... LLMs don't inherently understand trust boundaries or business rules - they are really just text token prediction machines. Without explicit controls, they can generate sensitive data, follow malicious instructions, or ignore policies entirely. Guardrails can.. (1️⃣/3️⃣) 🧵