I built a terminal AI agent in Java 25 to explore LangChain4j and modern Java features like sealed classes, pattern matching, and text blocks. It's named after my dog who also needs better training.
How to properly code sign jpackage applications to avoid CrowdStrike quarantine on macOS.
Finding games for kids that are slow, thoughtful, creative, and void of dark patterns in today's digital landscape.
As I use AI tools to solve time-consuming things, I find myself becoming less and less aware of how those things work under the hood.
What I find interesting in this example is this trend towards, what I'm calling to myself the Individualized Creator Economy, or ICE for sure.
I wanted to write a blog post about some OpenCV stuff I did in Java using the Foreign Function & Memory API, but then realized, I didn't have a blog. I couldn't bare using some Javascript engine, so I built my own in Cursor. It's called Arc. This post is both about Arc, and the experience of building it in a few hours.
I needed another blog post to show that Arc works, so here it is.
The story of how we created the original boom emoji in 2012 for HipChat that eventually became global across Slack and other platforms.