Robin Stocker

GitHub finally copied one the best little features from Bitbucket (which I added in 20% time/innovation week 😛), showing a link for creating a pull request when you push:

@headius @detoklastah Also, you can’t return an existing object instead, e.g. a static “empty” one.

@detoklastah In Java, the standard new MyThing() forces two limitations on you. First, that the resulting object must be exactly a MyThing... a subclass is not acceptable. And second, that the instantiation logic forever live in a MyThing constructor and match the incoming arguments exactly.

Public constructors continue to be the worst long-term choice when designing a Java API. They forever bind you to a single specific way to instantiate and initialize. Prefer simple factory methods (e.g. Ruby's Class#new) that can be reimplemented and overridden.

@suburban_melb Nice read! +1 for PIDs, in Switzerland even buses show next stops and connections. Also, fact check: Zurich has double decker suburban trains: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich_S-…

I was in Sydney and rode everything* - metro, light rail, ferries, even a replacement bus - here’s my slightly chaotic, deeply opinionated transit diary 🚅💅 open.substack.com/pub/highcapaci…

@jwrowls @SydneyMetro Haha. At Central the platform screens were just empty. The one at Martin Place was like this for a bit.

@niborst @SydneyMetro 100%, makes no sense at all. Not to mention “change at Barangaroo” - change from what? To what? How do you GET to Barangaroo? Is it even possible to change or are we predestined to be however we are?

Due to a metro requiring mechanical repairs at Barangaroo, change at Barangaroo to complete your journey towards Sydenham. Listen to announcements and check information displays for service updates.

@lukaseder sɯǝlqoɹd ɓuıpoɔuǝ

TIL about text fragments, to link directly to some text on a website (without there needing to be an ID): developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

And here's the pull request that added it: github.com/openjdk/jdk/pu…

My Java library for Markdown (commonmark-java) … is now used by Java itself (OpenJDK)!

@boyter +1. I like to have explicit JSON property name annotations, even if they could be automatically inferred from the code (e.g. foo_bar from fooBar).

morizbuesing.com/blog/greppabil… making code greppable is one of the reasons I embed unique codes into logs, so I can find what spat out the error very quickly.

Interesting. I used to be team “*” because it’s closer to a bullet but now I’m team “-“ because it’s easier to type and looks nicer in the source.

In Markdown or WYSIWYG editors, when you want to start a bullet list, what do you type?

@lukaseder It’s like programmers with “iff”.

Just used `git restack` for the first time after doing a `git commit --amend`, and it just worked :chefkiss: github.com/arxanas/git-br…

When you can finally use List.of instead of Arrays.asList/Collections.singletonList because your Java library no longer has to support Java 8.

@burntsushi5 The docs for Instant are here: docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase… TaiInstant: #of(java.time.Instant)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threeten.org/threeten-extra… UtcInstant: threeten.org/threeten-extra… And @jodastephen if you want to nerd out about time :)

@niborst Oh yes absolutely! Thank you!!! ThreeTen was not on my radar. Also the 1998 and 59.001Z results when not using TAI are interesting. I wonder if that is using the NTP approach? Not sure. #Leap_seconds" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time… But that looks like it's coming from java.util.time, not ThreeTen.

I've got leap second support working in Jiff. Both for roundtripping through datetimes and for computing correct intervals. Does anyone know of other datetime libraries that would pass the same asserts? N.B. `Instant` is a 96-bit timestamp. TAI is "International Atomic Time."

Kudos to the devs of the Notes app on Mac: It supports column/block selection using Option+Drag! I used that key combination out of reflex today, not expecting it to work, but was pleasantly surprised.