Pitest is looking for additional corporate sponsors.

If you work for one of the thousands of organisations that contribute to the millions of downloads it receives each year, why not make the case for giving something back?

pitest.org/sponsorship/

#java

The reviews are in!! 👇 And I'll be chatting with @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social for #ukteenchat on here tomorrow at 8pm if you want to find out more about Undercover Angel!
@tinytreebooks.bsky.social #ukkidlit #kidlituk #eduskyprimary

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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1/25

Having not used Word for years I expected to hate returning to it, and I was absolutely right. Unfortunately it's the only way to interact with the publishing industry.

I do have some hand rolled markdown <--> docx code, but it would need a lot of work before it could fully handle change history.

Now I'm discovering that MS Word is in some way non deterministic. Opened my edit this morning and it was full of erroneous format changes.

Went back through my backup versions trying to find the point where the file had been corrupted only to find that re-opening the current version fixed it.

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed The Plaza Prizes offered 10 awards in 2025 but some judges say they were not paid, while a number of winners hit back over AI accusations

The particularly galling bit of this is the attempt by the organiser to avoid paying the winners with claims of AI use (including for a poem already published in 2018).

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Thank you Gus, much appreciated!

Just made a contribution here—very small compared to how great Pitest is!

Sponsor @hcoles on GitHub Sponsors Henry is an Oracle Java Champion and has spent the past 15 years making mutation testing popular on the JVM and beyond. He&#39;s the creator of PIT/pitest - relied on by thousands of companies worl...

Happy to add Henry Coles (pitest) to my list of folks/projects that I sponsor! Are you (or your company) supporting the projects you rely on? If not, why not? Join me at: github.com/sponsors/hc...

Sharing this again, as the first postal votes are dropping through letterboxes.

Don't fall for the fashy fake greens - look for the logo and vote for the real @scottishgreens.org to demand better for Scotland!

It's like a study that looks at how much more the labour would cost if you built your house out of gold bricks without ever mentioning the material costs.

Reading a paper that compares LLM based mutation tools to rules based tools like pitest.

It discusses mutant generation time, but for some reason ignores analysis time completely.

This gives a *wildly* misleading picture that masks how hugely more efficient existing rules based tools are.

Thank you to @ted.dev, pitest's first sponsor!

Mutation testing | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks Mutation testing remains the most honest signal for evaluating the real fault-detection capability of a test suite. Unlike traditional code coverage, which only tracks line [...]

Pleased to see mutation testing and pitest on the ThoughtWorks radar

www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techni...

As they point out, it's more relevant than ever in the era of AI generated code and tests.

And of course the way to use it most effectively on the jvm is

www.arcmutate.com

#java #kotlin #ai

Sponsor @hcoles on GitHub Sponsors Henry is an Oracle Java Champion and has spent the past 15 years making mutation testing popular on the JVM and beyond. He's the creator of PIT/pitest - relied on by thousands of companies worldwid...

If anyone would like to help a hungry developer out (and support the development of pitest) I've just setup a GitHub sponsorship link.

github.com/sponsors/hco...

#java #oss

BBC News headline "Pink door woman faces new Edinburgh council colour complaint". Beneath a picture of a glum-looking woman with pink hair sitting on steps outside a Georgian townhouse whose door is painted light pink.

📣Your attention please!
🚪🩷The Pink Door House is up for sale.
🚨This is not a drill, I repeat, the Pink Door House is up for sale!
cc : @spurtle.bsky.social
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Alfred Hitchcock's got nothing on this video of a cat desperately trying to get back to his friends.
#suspense #cats

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan

It’s publication day for WE ARE DRAGON, by #WhiskyTheDog (and me!) 🐉🐉🐉

@nosycrow.bsky.social #WeAreDragon #IAmWolf #KidLitUk

For a limited time only, we're offering a new flat rate pricing tier for new startups.

Just $15 for industrial strength mutation testing for teams of up to 5 developers.

subscribe.arcmutate.com

#java #kotlin

Mutation testing doesn't compete with TDD. It can be used to complement TDD, or it can be used without it. All mutation testing does is provide feedback on the code and tests. It doesn't care how it was written.

I've just discovered postmarketos.org and it looks to be insanely useful - alpine linux for old phones.

Now an old Moto G5 Plus that would otherwise be junk running as a low wattage docker server.

Current status

I think this is doubly true for children's literature.

Check this space tomorrow for the incredible trailer to #WeAreDragon, the final chapter in the #IAmWolf trilogy!

I'm SO excited about this book. The whole series has been so much fun and everyone working on it has been amazing. Not long to go now!

@nosycrow.bsky.social #bcemercer #kidlituk

Please everyone, don't. I'm not in the mood for it today.

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated.

I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

I can (dimly) remember reading this. A career in video games did not follow.

I need to remember to never engage with things on LinkedIn.

I'd be nervous turning yew due to the toxicity. Do you use a ventilator/something, or am I just over cautious?