GitHub agentic workflows and Renovate
I've been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and …
Week in review: 3 August 2026
New authors
Welcome to Youssef Ben Henda, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
The Codename One JavaScript Port Is Now Free and Open Source
Codename One's JavaScript port is now open source, available on every plan, and buildable locally without an account. ParparVM is the …
Idempotent Spring Boot: Safe REST with One Annotation
An idempotent Spring Boot starter that replays duplicate requests instead of re-executing them. One annotation, Redis or JDBC, atomic …
Jakarta Agentic AI Hits Its First Milestone
Jakarta Agentic AI hits its first milestone - 1.0.0-M1 is live on Maven Central, with a draft spec defining annotation-driven AI agents for …
Sheetmusic4J 0.0.3: ABC Notation, Guitar Pro, Engraving Improvements
Last week I introduced Sheetmusic4J, a Java(FX) library to render and interact with sheet music. That first 0.0.1 release was really a …
Embedding DuckDB in a Maven App (and Using It for Things That Aren't Databases)
DuckDB is described as "SQLite for analytics," which is true: it's an in-process database engine that runs inside your application, with no …
Push V3: One Message From Your Server to Every Surface
Codename One Push V3 adds typed messages, managed credentials, segmentation, analytics, and Surface updates. Existing push apps should test …