In a number of applications I work with, I use JSON everywhere, as a sort of lingua franca. I typically do this with Jackson, and with Spring Boot 4's primary use of Jackson 3, it hit me that I might...
I've been trying to think about access control and data access patterns for ByteCode.news. One of the initial designs was based around having pluggable UIs. The actual app is a set of REST endpoints...
In F-Bounded Polymorphism: Type-Safe Builders in Java , author fbounded addresses what he calls a fundamental inheritance problem in Java's fluent builder pattern. When a base builder class returns...
I chose 21 matches in nevet, the bot that accompanies bytecode.news, deliberately. It's a command, triggered with 21 matches, and it wants you to take between one and three matches every turn; the...
We're starting to get there! The site and bot keep having new issues identified - I'm not tracking issue propagation or distribution, but since the first slightly-broken deployment online a few weeks...
Diataxis is a way of thinking about and doing documentation. It establishes four needs, and four forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It solves...
Chances are, if you're reading this, you're seeing an HTML site that looks... primitive. Maybe even wonky. That's because the only site deployed right now (early March, 2026) is a reference UI and is...
This is a site that is built around information - information aquisition (ingress) and information dispensation (egress). It's connected to IRC on Libera.chat as nevet, on two Discord guilds, and on...