foojay – Documentation as Code with AsciiDoctor, GitLab CI, and GitLab Pages
Writing documentation should be as low-key as possible to remove the pain from the process. One way to achieve this is through Documentation …
Friends Of OpenJDK Today
Every article on foojay.io, newest first: OpenJDK, the JVM, Java tooling and the ecosystem around them, written by the Java community.
The FFM API: How OpenJDK Changed the Game for Native Interactions (And Made Pi4J Better!)
The Pi4J project is a Java library that allows you to control the GPIO pins and electronic components connected to a Raspberry Pi with pure …
The Ultimate 10 Years Java Garbage Collection Guide (2016–2026) - Choosing the Right GC for Every Workload
Memory management remains the primary factor for application performance in enterprise Java environments. Between 2017 and 2025, the …
Pointer Arithmetic in Modern Java
How to perform pointer arithmetic using the Foreign Function & Memory API to achieve zero-GC memory access.
Why is my Talk selected? Reflections from a Program Committee Reviewer
If you are like me, get the adrenaline rush of getting up on stage and can’t wait to share things that you experienced and learned, then …
JC-AI Newsletter #12
First of all, Happy New Year 2026! This year is designated in the Chinese Calendar as the Year of the Fire Horse (starting on February 17.). …
Flaky Tests: a journey to beat them all
“Sleep is not a synchronization primitive.” Every test engineer, eventually What’s a flaky test? A flaky test is a test that sometimes …
From Cloudflare Zero-trust to Tailscale
I have spent some time last year implementing Cloudflare Tunnels on my Home Assistant and my Synology NAS. On Mastodon, I had not one but …
BoxLang Dynamic JVM Language Release 1.9.0
BoxLang continues to expand as more customers migrate to it’s dynamic JVM platform.
How to choose your LLM without ruining your Java code
In the AI LLM ecosystem (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, ...), if the code compiles and does what we asked is just level 1. I have been analyzing …