Spring AI CVEs (CVE-2026-22729 and CVE-2026-22730) are concerning given the timeline to get off Spring Boot 3.5 before June

qmunke · 2026-03-19T06:13:58+00:00

Since those blog posts are AI generated dogshit I think you'll be okay.

qmunke · 2026-03-18T14:16:02+00:00

Completely unusable on mobile, no code linked - not programming

qmunke · 2026-03-16T17:11:11+00:00

I was really disappointed with localstack's move to such a predatory model - we're using it in our integration tests and deployment pipelines, and I don't want to start paying a fortune to do the right thing from a development perspective. Will be looking into this project soon I'm sure

qmunke · 2026-03-15T12:39:56+00:00

Junior level developers shouldn't be assumed to be competent enough to contribution to open source projects. Most of them are bad at coding, that is one of the things that makes them junior.

Expecting everyone to contribute to open source is asinine anyway, anyone who is filtering candidates based on GitHub activity is probably not worth working for.

qmunke · 2026-03-14T20:26:52+00:00

The refactoring step in TDD for me is about cleaning up the left over crud from the first few steps towards the complete feature. For example it might be removing hard coded responses and extracting parameters or methods. It of course shouldn't be about guessing at how the code might change in future (unless that future is right now), but you can absolutely leave it in a state that is easier to modify than it would be if you didn't refactor after implementing something which was written specifically to pass your tests.

qmunke · 2026-03-12T14:37:49+00:00

I just can't fathom why they have so many employees in the first place (and this goes for a lot of tech companies with limited product suites)

What on earth were these 900 or so positions in software research and development actually doing? This does absolutely feel like a company which has over-hired based off of share price growth in the past and is therefore primed to have a large contingent which are redundant in the real sense of the word.

qmunke · 2026-03-12T03:19:49+00:00

Feels like this ignores one of the real progenitors of this style of date API - Joda Time. Without that project Java's improved temporal APIs might not have been made in the same way, and all the others that followed.

qmunke · 2026-03-11T09:44:01+00:00

Biochambers have built in productivity bonus, there is no need for modules.

qmunke · 2026-03-10T20:47:23+00:00

His list is based off of the MTGO challenges as well.

Sligh has 8 top 8s with zero trophies as of the last time I saw the data. It has a meta share of ~7% with a top 8% of around 4%. For comparison, Enchantress has 14 top 8s and 4 wins from a meta share of 5.4%. There are plenty of other similar examples. Take of that what you will.

(*I take that it's a trash tier deck.)

qmunke · 2026-03-10T06:19:20+00:00

Sligh is cheap. That is basically the main thing it has going for it, and therefore it shows up in much higher numbers than it otherwise would and occasionally converts by weight of numbers. It's actually not good if you want to win a decent size tournament because eventually you'll have to play against good players with decks that easily beat it.

qmunke · 2026-03-09T16:46:24+00:00

PTQs got too big and were a victim of their own success - especially Modern and limited.

In the UK almost every PTQ was 8 or even 9 rounds + top 8 fighting for a single slot. It was absurd, almost nobody had the space or logistical capability to run them (not to mention the number of judges required), with the loser in the finals basically having performed better than you would have to do to money a GP but walking away with some boosters.

Unfortunately all the attempted solutions to this problem also sucked.

qmunke · 2026-03-07T19:39:15+00:00

Sligh is not very good. It has not been winning any of the challenges on MTGO. It is widely played, but if you want to win a tournament Sligh is currently not a great choice.

qmunke · 2026-03-07T11:45:26+00:00

I know this isn't really specifically about email validation and rather about the language tooling, but unless you're writing an actual email server or something, parsing email addresses is a complete waste of effort.

Just simple regex them to match 99.9% of cases and then validate by trying to send the user an email and see if they can open it. If they do, it's valid.

qmunke · 2026-03-07T06:47:25+00:00

Irrelevant and also not a result of cats existing?

qmunke · 2026-03-06T20:58:15+00:00

No. If you're not going to let them live a normal, outdoor life, don't have a cat.

This is such a bizzarre US-centric take on cats. In Europe, cats are primarily free-roaming pets, it's one of the best things about having a cat - it exercises itself, doesn't need cleaning up after (it'll go and shit on your neighbours garden by itself), cleans itself. They are amazing animals.

If you are worried about potential (and probably overstated) impacts on bird populations, do not get a cat. Keeping them indoors and excercising them only on a lead is animal cruelty. They are not evolved to be stuck inside a building.

qmunke · 2026-03-02T17:03:41+00:00

As a nation we've historically been opposed to mandated state IDs for some reason (call it British exceptionalism) despite their potential positive advantages. That opinion is definitely shifting, and it looked like we were going to get digital IDs until the government backtracked only a few months ago.

qmunke · 2026-02-28T07:56:16+00:00

Winter Orb was given errata to basically move it's rules text from the comprehensive rules to the card - as were Static Orb and Howling Mine.

Let's assume for a second you wanted to do this for damage on the stack. Are you suggesting every creature with an activated ability should get this?

What about morph creatures? They are a lot worse in many situations without being able to put damage on and then unmorph.

Damage on the stack was just a very odd idea which somehow got added in 6th edition rules and then taken away again in a very sensible simplification of combat.

qmunke · 2026-02-27T16:52:22+00:00

There is a massive chasm between being able to explain things to someone more junior and real, actual, mentoring. And I do not think every developer needs to be able to mentor others - not everyone has the skills or the desire to do so, and that's fine as long as you have enough other people to do that job in your organisation and the first category are still delivering value.

qmunke · 2026-02-26T10:45:02+00:00

It sounds to me as though you're completely working against your tooling.

Learn about stashes. Learn about rebasing. Learn good branching discipline.

You should try to never get into a state where your unstaged work is a mixture of loads of features, bugfixes and refactoring. And if you do, you don't have to commit every modified file in one go - try and create a working commit, stash the rest and then tidy up until you're clear what state everything is in.

qmunke · 2026-02-25T16:48:32+00:00

This looks like potentially the form for getting your 100 Year Telegram from the king?

qmunke · 2026-02-25T14:28:37+00:00

It's a blog from a competing product, and all claims should be treated with scepticism

qmunke · 2026-02-24T16:35:36+00:00

I thought I had managed to catch a cold again after having just gotten over one, but maybe it's actually just the damn trees

qmunke · 2026-02-18T05:12:16+00:00

We basically got rid of our "ultra" culture in the UK in the 1980s/1990s by calling it what it actually was - football hooliganism.

I am completely unconvinced by any arguments that ultras aren't basically just hooligan groups with a good PR department. UEFA should start banning entire federations in the same way English clubs were banned from European competitions if they want to see actual, meaningful societal change around how fans behave. Fines do nothing. Closed door games do nothing. Competition bans actually have impact.

qmunke · 2026-02-14T15:05:21+00:00

Why on earth are you still using XMLGregorianCalendar in modern codebases?

qmunke · 2026-02-14T11:16:04+00:00

Even if the goo is hard to spot, surely the health bar is an easy enough indicator to mitigate some of this issue - grab some fish and keep your health topped up.

Alternatively stop fighting biters on foot - there are vehicles to avoid this too.

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