Day April 6, 2026

Introduction Imagine a user opens your Android app, taps a button, and nothing happens. The screen freezes. After a few seconds, Android shows: Application Not Responding (ANR) Most users don’t wait. They close the app and uninstall it. That’s why…

Let me start with a confession. For years, I treated geospatial data like a messy closet—shove everything in, slam the door, and pray nobody asks for a “nearby” anything. Then came the project that broke me: a real-time delivery tracker…

This is a follow-up to Mandelbrot Set in JS – Zoom In. In that article we built a Mandelbrot renderer using Canvas and Web Workers, with click-to-zoom. This post covers what broke after ~16 zooms, why it broke (floating-point precision),…

The cloud was never abstract. It was always a building with an address — and on March 1, 2026, that address got hit by a drone. Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab…

I wanted a single interface where an AI agent could run WHOIS, pull SSL certs, enumerate subdomains, check CVEs, and query threat intel feeds — all from one prompt. So I built 23 security tools as an MCP server. Any…

It’s safe to say March was defined by one thing: Java 26. In this issue of Java Annotated Monthly, we’ve curated a rich selection of articles to help you get the full picture of the release. Marit van Dijk joins…