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From Java Advent to Legionella: Standards, Specs, and LLMs--airhacks.fm podcast

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes The #408 airhacks.fm episode with Olimpiu Pop (Olimpiu Pop) about: Enterprise Java LLM inference, grounding LLMs against normative Java and Jakarta EE…

The Codename One JavaScript Port Is Now Free and Open Source

Codename One's JavaScript port is now open source, available on every plan, and buildable locally without an account. ParparVM is the default, while TeaVM remains available through a build hint. The post The Codename…

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, GraalVM, TornadoVM, Micronaut, Quarkus, JobRunr, Maven

This week's Java roundup for July 27th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 28; the GA release of GPULlama3.java 1.0; point releases of Micronaut, Quarkus and JobRunr;…

MCP Gets Its Biggest Rewrite and Other Python News for August 2026

MCP drops sessions and renames FastMCP, Claude Opus 5 turns thinking on by default, and Python 3.15 ships its final beta.

GopherCon US 2026

Quiz: Bypassing the GIL for Parallel Processing in Python

Test your understanding of the GIL, process-based parallelism, and the ways to run Python threads in parallel across multiple CPU cores.

Podcast: WebAssembly on the JVM: Feature Evolution, Performance, and the Transition to Endive

Andrea Peruffo discusses the evolution of WebAssembly beyond the browser and its growing role on the server-side JVM. He covers performance advancements in Wasm runtimes, moving from interpreters to efficient JIT…

Notes from week 31

A big week, with a couple of long-running efforts finally wrapping up: the Source Cooperative mirror is essentially complete now that we have direct write access, and the three-week Ceph resize has converged. Elsewhere,…

Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0

Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to define agents as typed domain objects. Built on Spring AI, Embabel supports multiple model…

Python: how time-machine is O(1) where freezegun is O(n)

A benchmark shows Python’s time-machine library stays O(1) when mocking time, while freezegun scales O(n) with the number of loaded module attributes and becomes dramatically slower as projects grow. The difference…

Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Rust maintenance (June-July 2026 report)

eve: AI agents without the plumbing

The same agent, built twice: once without eve, once with it. Before a support agent answers a single customer, you need a Slack app with tokens and webhooks, auth for your billing providers, somewhere safe to run code,…