Ben - @[email protected]

Starve the ego, feed the soul.
Writing a book about functional Java.

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

Production for my book, "A Functional Approach to #Java," is complete, and it's off to the printers, meaning it will be available in digital form soon 🎉
Paper books should follow in about 3-4 weeks.
https://t.co/AIC4PKaLVI

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

Twitter went down the drain, so I won't post here as much as I used to.
If you want to follow me, check out https://t.co/5d0MZu3dOE or my blog at https://t.co/mxGsp5wDtB

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

purpose

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

new thing

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

But I ran into so many small issues while trying to use it in a toy project with only a handful of Views, how am I supposed to work around edge cases and problems in an app with dozens of screens in a sensible manner?

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

Is it just me or is SwiftUI a hot mess?
Finally found some time to play around with it, and everything feels a little off... why are previews so slow, and why can't they be stopped, even if the canvas is no longer visible in Xcode?

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

I'm planning to upgrade an app from iOS 12 to 15, and it looks like I will only use SwiftUI sparsely throughout.
I understand that it's a new approach and requires a new way of thinking.

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

nothing to lose

[yoshitomo nara / 奈良美智 @michinara3]

LEGOで魚をさばいて刺身にする方法を学び中。

[meshenka @meshenka]

Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, often with the same outcome. -- Neal Ford. Thanks for the reminder @KevlinHenney 👍

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

Email vs. Chat

P.S. Newsletter November is ON! I'm posting comics on exclusively my newsletter EVERY DAY! Join now, link in bio.

[the Awkward Yeti (Nick Seluk) @theawkwardyeti]

Subscribe to https://t.co/5eCIIM6L0r to see a new comic with my most requested, yet most controversial character ever (so far)!

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is what happens to aluminum when a 1/2 inch piece of plastic makes contact at 15,000 mph in space.
That's some serious impact! Just imagine what a heavier object could do traveling at the same speed.

[Gerrit Grunwald 🇺🇦🇹🇼✌🏻 @hansolo_]

Now that #JDKMonitor has a #JEP selector, I thought it might also be nice to add a #JSR selector…1.23 is already in review in the #Apple App Store 😁 #java #openjdk

[TwistedDoodles @twisteddoodles]

Costumes to scare scientists #Science

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

I really like their products, but the shopping/support experience so far is abysmal.

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

Avoiding Amazon can be a real PITA... I ordered from the German @Ankerofficial a week ago, and it still hasn't been shipped yet.
Support sends AI-generated response, human response is still MIA, and the escalation form isn't working.

[Ben - @[email protected] @mcarth]

Finally finished my #Java 21 article about "Structured Concurrency" to be published next week.
After that, it's either about "CRaC" or the current state of the available JDK ecosystem, revisiting an article topic from 2020.

[monkeyUser @ismonkeyuser]

AI Assistant [https://t.co/R0u67RojN4]