Week in review: 6 April 2026

6 Apr – 12 Apr 2026 · 8 posts.

Published this week

Luis Majano Apr 6, 2026 1,030 views

It's been a while since we've shipped something this big. BoxLang AI 3.0 is a ground-up rethink of how AI agents, models, and tools work in …

David Vlijmincx Apr 7, 2026 3,374 views

Thread-safe native memory access covering Plain, Opaque, Acquire/Release, and Volatile with JCStress tests to prove each guarantee

Nicolas Frankel Apr 7, 2026 16 views

I like to analyze codebases I start working on, or that I left for months. I ask my coding assistant, case in point, Copilot CLI: "analyze …

Tim Kelly Apr 7, 2026 1,106 views

Spring Session MongoDB is a library that enables Spring applications to store and manage HTTP session data in MongoDB rather than relying on …

Luis Majano Apr 9, 2026 815 views

BoxLings gives you 129 progressive exercises across 28 topics from the basics of variables and functions all the way to async programming, …

Steve Poole Apr 9, 2026 2,299 views

AI coding tools sound confident even when they're wrong. Here's the psychology behind why Java developers accept bad suggestions — and …

Ricardo Mello Apr 9, 2026 1,578 views

In this tutorial, we will learn to build an application in Kotlin that utilizes full-text search in a database containing thousands of …

Angelo Rubini Apr 10, 2026 2,396 views

AWS Nitro and CPU Graviton Meets Unikernels: Java and Quarkus on ARM64 AWS Graviton with Nanos Unikernel Java and Jakarta EE Truly Meet …