Mark Paluch 👨‍💻,🎹&✈️

An IntelliJ Plugin That Started With a Prompt 😱 Join my talk to learn how you can benefit from LLM strengths and how to prevent the vibe. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202... #DependencyAssistant

Using Spring Modulith? There is a new validation that spots the classic Async + Transactional + TransactionalEventListener combination and includes a quick fix that turns it into a single ApplicationModuleListener annotation - less boilerplate, same behavior 🥳 🚀

Let's see how this goes #airgrep

Ramping up for Halloween. Good, old Python, I2C, UART. Wifi and sound are still hard for me on a Linux command line, even after all these years.

Jackson 2.21.8 patch version being released: github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- 22 fixes, including 7 CVEs #java #json #xml etc

Spec-driven is the new old name for waterfall development. Welcome back in the 1980s.

AI-generated pull request descriptions, implementations, and tests can agree with each other without establishing that they solve the original problem Deception and DDoS at the expense of project maintainers.

🚀 R2DBC Proxy 1.1.7.RELEASE is out! 🐛 Bug fix: Fixed query completion callbacks for “Result.filter”. 📋 Changelog: github.com/r2dbc/r2dbc-... #R2DBC #Spring #Java

Learned today about defining time vs. labelling time. Exciting to use GPS PPS as when a second starts and the actual parsed GPS message to say which second it is. This reduced the delta from 70-80ms to a few nanoseconds 🤗

Starting Jackson 3.3.0 (and 2.23.0) release planning -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... -- ambitious goal; do it in 3 weeks.

🤩 #ADSBee

RollBack or Rollback? Commit or CoMmit?

ASF Maven is out, read about it here: maven.apache.org/docs/3.10.0/... #asf #maven

Spring Data 2026.1.0-M2 released spring.io/blog/2026/09...

Let me quickly...oh, wait, why am I designing a PCB now 🔋?

Someone escaped their GIF

Helping my wife with the laundry 🧺 . Now the dryer has a progress bar.

AI coding makes it possible to build a substantial codebase before learning enough about the problem

Back on track making software development boring

Hey Spring fam 🍃 My early access book "Testing Spring Boot Applications" with @manning.com is Deal of The Day. Get 45% off the book, and a selection of other testing books, here: hubs.la/Q03-d27Y0 First 4 chapters online, the 5th is coming out soon, and putting finishing touches to chapter 6.

A new episode of IJ Tech Talks is out! 🎙️ @antonarhipov.bsky.social sits down with Mark Pollack to discuss the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and how it enables AI agents to communicate with clients such as AI Chat in IntelliJ IDEA. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/9yiRYrQAPv0

Checking dependency upgrades is now a tool-tip away #DependencyAssistant 1.0 is GA now plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30958... #Maven #Gradle #NPM #GitHubActions

It's about time #DependencyAssistant

🚀 Datasource Micrometer v2.3.0 and v1.5.0 are out! Highlights: • Customize when DataSource beans are instrumented • Cache JdbcConnectionInfo per DataSource Release notes: github.com/jdbc-observa... #SpringBoot #Micrometer #Observability #JDBC

Release angst: When something appears ready to ship, but you fear a major bug is still hiding.

Artificial Impediments

Is it just me or are coding agents not able to come up with proper abstractions? Or is this rather an issue of available training material?

🍃 Spring Data JDBC - Taming the Beast by Mikhail Polivakha @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/qxrGs5p5PXI #springio26

I-don't-care-ware, cognitive exhaustion, mental overload: Great AI use-cases Also good: "Go review that pile of code" resulting in a wall of high severity findings of which half is hallucination, half is not applicable and the remaining 10%...look, squirrels 🐿️!

A bit of security.

Fable tried to convince me of broken hardware after a change insisting the problem is somewhere else. Sol follows a specification and creates more problems than functionality while all tests are green. Reminds me of assertTrue(true) and testing getters and setters to pretend test coverage.

I am convinced that AI will not take away developer jobs. Instead, it will require even more developers to clean up the mess.

Opening release notes and filing a new bug report: Only one Alt+Enter key press away #IntelliJ github.com/mp911de/depe...

Gradle doing Gradle things

Agents doing agent things. #NoShortcuts

Did you know? Spring Boot 4.1 brings Spring Data 4.1's type-safe property paths enabling devs to use method references instead of strings in data access code: Sort.by("lastname") ➡️ Sort.by(Person::getLastName)

Today’s office

Jackson 3.1.6 patch release out now: github.com/FasterXML/ja... with 30+ fixes (including vuln fixes) Next up: 3.2.2, then 2.21.6, eventually 2.18.10 and 2.22.2 #java #json etc

Jackson 3.2.2 and 2.21.6 patch releases out too: github.com/FasterXML/ja... , github.com/FasterXML/ja... with over 20 fixes each. 2.18.10, 2.22.2 to follow #java #json

The more AI I use for writing code, the more I come to the conclusion that this is doing the wrong thing faster. AI Coding for prototyping, learning, reviewing is great. For everything else, it leaves developers with complex indirections, hand-rolled duplications and an unmaintainable blob.

What if @github.com actions SHA pinning and upgrading had no cognitive overhead?

Was @martinlippert.bsky.social und @ralfdmueller.bsky.social über die #BEDcon zu sagen haben. Tickets gibt es hier: bed-con.org/2026/tickets

Make the most of Spring development in Eclipse IDE by combining Spring Tools MCP and GitHub Copilot. - save on tokens - increase accuracy - version-aware suggestions - stereotype awareness - feedback loops And more! devblogs.microsoft.com/java/smarter...

Borkum island vibes