Gunnar Hillert

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Obrigado, Brasil! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🤙🎉

Kind of stoked to have discovered the "font-variant-numeric" #CSS property with the value "tabular-nums" to make your number look better in #HTML data-grids.

Went to the amazing 45,000m² (11.25ac) palm garden of David Davenport & Robert Welsch in #Kalapana as part of the #Hawaii island palm society #HIPS. The impressive garden features 90 distinct taxa (species level and below) across 54 genera.

My Saturday - after a 10km cross-country race in the morning, converting a #Java Project to Rust (for fun and experimentation) #AI

And the #NoKings Instagram account got partially suspended.

I had to stop at a gas station to fuel a car. What a medieval mess. Dirty. Smelly. Unhealthy. Expensive. Crass. Outdated. Embarrassing.

Who would have thought that one of the most-starred #Java #OSS applications on #GitHub (~86k ⭐) was developed by the #NSA? 😳 Meet #Ghidra, the Software Reverse Engineering Framework. And apparently, Swing/AWT is hot again 🫠 github.com/NationalSecu...

#IRONMAN Mahalo party 2026 for the volunteers #Kona #Hawaii

Not too busy at the finish line of the #Kona #IRONMAN #Hawaii. Waiting for the winner.

It’s April Fools’ Day… or is it? 😬.

WTF?? Solis says Belgal still "had a bullet in his body."

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Best thing to watch on Friday at 5pm (Hawaii time). Hilarious!! #LGTM

My mother -- otherwise very polite and cultured, a Green-voting Christian -- never called the man Schröder. She always said "Schröder that political whore". I was puzzled back then, he was the centre-left, modern, reformist hero of the late 1990s. I was 18. Mothers. Always right.

It is #Kona #IRONMAN week. Time to get the bike 🚴 out after a while for a 30km ride right around sunset. #Hawaii.

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

The fossil fuel share of final energy has already peaked across most of China’s industrial sectors. In light manufacturing, electricity now supplies THREE-QUARTERs of the sector’s final energy consumption ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

🧵You cannot make this shit up. Michael Velchik, alum of Harvard and Harvard Law, lead DOJ lawyer arguing Harvard tolerated antisemitism, is exposed as a fan of Mein Kampf and Hitler. He was the sole lawyer arguing before Judge Allison D. Burroughs forward.com/fast-forward...

I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism

When the Cincinnati Post shut down, it oddly had an effect on local elections. Fewer people ran for office, voter turnout fell, and incumbents became more likely to win. That's useful context for Trump's choice to ban 3 news orgs from the White House newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-econo...

Doing some #SpringIntegration work this morning and stumbled upon a nostalgic Spring Integration / Oracle #Coherence presentation by John Davies (then at C24). I still wish C24-iO Studio’s graphical mapper had been open-sourced back in 2013, with its its channel adapters for the financial industry.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

One of the best technical talks I have ever seen—period. Cliff Stoll is killing it in “Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 Years Later” at #DefCon34 @defcon.bsky.social. It totally made my day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6560...

I upgraded #EclipseCollections builds immediately to JDK 28 EA the same day JDK 27 was released because every version of #Java needs Eclipse Collections running with it. Next week is climate week. Are you using Eclipse Collections yet? More features, less waste. 👇 donraab.medium.com/save-memory-...

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

Excellent State of the Union speech by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu. It would be quite a strategic move if Canada 🇨🇦 became the first associate member of the European Union 🇪🇺! Lots of brownie points for delivering the speech in three languages!! #French #German #English www.youtube.com/live/trxiYZ3...

Java 27 is only boring on the surface. - Mostly nerdless

One cool thing about #AI-assisted software development is that I can use my software “in the field” and, when I encounter functional gaps, address them immediately—without having to endure much context switching. The speed at which you can round-trip between using the software and improving it is 🔥.

A piece worth reading, featuring photography of nineteenth-century Tehran’s gardens and showing how older Iranian horticultural traditions evolved alongside new technologies, plants and influences arriving from across the world.

If you speak #German (via VPN) - www.ardmediathek.de/serie/babylo...

Wirklich informatives Interview mit Christian Bauckhage vom @fraunhoferiais.bsky.social / @unibonn.bsky.social über #KI, geführt von Daniel Jung. #MaschinellesLernen #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5c...

As someone who grew up in East-Germany: This @quietriotpod.bsky.social podcast episode with @annettedittert.bsky.social is the best English-language explanation I’ve seen yet of WTF 💩 happened in #SaxonyAnhalt #Germany. #fascism

>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

Burning through almost $1/4B in one night ... 😬.

How many palms 🌴 fit into a crew cab 🙂? My annual pilgrimage to Jeff Marcus of #Floribunda. Jeff is THE leading authority on cultivating palms on this planet. Bill Baker, John Dransfield & colleagues from @rbgkew.bsky.social even named a palm after Jeff: Chrysalidocarpus marcusorum. #plantcollector

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In country after country we start to see EV sales up and ICE down. The lines cross in an X typical for transitions. Norway in 2019. Sweden and Nepal in 2023. Denmark and Singapore in 2024. Belgium and the Netherlands in 2025. Finland is crossing now. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...

TornadoVM 6.0.0: JVMCI-Free, JDK 21–27 Compatible, Zero JNI, and a Leaner Core #ai #cuda #gpu #hpc #java #jdk #opensource #tornado www.tornadovm.org/blogs...

I hope this is not what I think it might be. This definitely needs clarification, as the wording in the article is highly ambiguous!