“Commit created” — but it isn’t: why the agent’s word needs external verification, and what the mistake costs
A detailed report reads like proof. The agent lists the files it touched, names the branch, quotes a commit hash, adds a test count and …
Java Core
Did Your AI Agent Ever Run a Debugger? One JVM Bug, Two Agent Runs
Java developers reach for the debugger without thinking about it. Set a breakpoint, run the failing test, look at the variables, then decide …
BoxLang 1.16.0 Released!
BoxLang 1.16.0 is here, closing 50 issues across new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The theme running through this release is …
Offline Crypto Address Validation in Java
Backend validation often starts with simple questions. Is the input empty? Does it have the expected shape? Can it be parsed? Does it belong …
New Between-Quarters Security Updates for Java: What CSPUs Mean for Your Release Pipeline
In an announcement on the OpenJDK Updates Mailinglist on July 20, 2026, Rob McKenna explained a change in the Oracle security release cycle …
Azul Zulu July 2026 Quarterly Update Released
Every three months your production JDKs fall further behind on security patches. Azul closes that gap today with the July 2026 quarterly …
Your Loom App Quietly Became a Thread Pool Again: A Field Guide to Virtual Thread Pinning
The incident that taught me to respect pinning looked like nothing. A service freshly migrated to virtual threads, a load test that …
BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …
Endive 1.0 Is Here: Wasm on the JVM Ships Under the Bytecode Alliance
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a new generation of Java libraries powered by WebAssembly. SQLite, QuickJS, Protocol Buffers, the Ruby Prism …
BoxLang 1.14.0: BoxSet is Here, BoxLang's New First-Class Set Type
BoxLang 1.14.0 ships BoxSet: a native Set type with literal syntax, union/intersection operators, functional pipeline, and deep Java …