Month January 2026

Hashtag Jakarta EE #315 Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The 27th of January, the date for Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12, is fast approaching. You can check out the status on the Jakarta…

Adoptium 2025: A year of momentum, innovation, and trust in open source Java runtimes As we begin the new year, it’s a great time to reflect on what the Adoptium community accomplished in 2025. From ongoing releases and a redesigned…

Hashtag Jakarta EE #314 Welcome to issue number three hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Happy New Year! My first post of 2026 will be very similar to the last of 2025. I hope everyone has had a wonderful couple…

I’ve recently refreshed the animated graphics on my website with a new theme and a group of pioneering characters, putting into practice plenty of the techniques I shared in this series. A few of my animations change appearance when someone…

This article is a sponsored by Penpot Imagine that your Penpot file contains a full icon set in addition to the design itself, which uses some but not all of those icons. If you were to ask an AI such…

As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year ahead. And as I speak with colleagues and friends at the time, it typically…

A new year is the perfect opportunity to break free from routines, reset habits, and refine how you do things. And while you may have made plenty of New Year’s resolutions, sometimes it’s the small changes that work wonders —…

Has work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite the same anymore. Maybe the work has become too routine, or maybe you’ve grown…

You’ve probably seen this error before: ReferenceError: Cannot access ‘myVariable’ before initialization Or wondered why this works: console.log(x); // undefined (not an error!) var x = 5; But this doesn’t: console.log(y); // ReferenceError! let y = 5; The answer lies…

Modern adapters promise convenience: one brick, multiple ports, everything charging at once. But if you have ever noticed a laptop slowing down, a phone dropping to normal speed, or a device briefly disconnecting when another one is plugged in, the…