Portugal among EU countries with most people working 50 hours per week A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.

A recent Randstad analysis indicates that only Greece, Cyprus and France have a higher percentage of employees habitually working 49 hours or more per week than in Portugal.

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The State of Java 2025 This report draws on insights from the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 to explore who Java developers are and how they work.

👥 Who uses Java today
⚙️ The tools and frameworks they rely on
🤖 How AI is changing Java development
Find out now! jb.gg/yb1xhj

Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...

‘The hand could be read because your body was marked with cosmic meaning in a not yet disenchanted world.’

Steven Shapin on what’s written on the hand.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“The tech industry has done a great job of scaring reporters into thinking that having a negative opinion is somehow “not supporting innovation,” and I want to be clear that refusing to criticize the tech industry is what’s actually stopping innovation.” 👇

So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and toolin...

New frameworks & libraries promise better performance, cleaner code, and happier teams.

But a #TechnicalMigration is expensive and raises questions.

In this #InfoQ video, Sophie Koonin explores the realities of technical migrations, using Monzo’s 2-year #TypeScript migration.

🎬 bit.ly/4bdx8Oy

TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉

🔶 Temporal
🔶 Map#getOrInsert
🔶 RegExp.escape
🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports

New defaults!
🔶 --target=ES2025
🔶 "use strict"
🔷 --strict

Deprecations!
🗑️ baseUrl, outFile
🗑️ import assertions
🗑️ `module` namespaces
🗑️ module: amd
🗑️ moduleResolution: node
🗑️ target: ES5

That’s what she said 😅

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Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data

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a hand is reaching for a button on a machine that says hi Alt: A compilation of anime clips of various techie disks and cds being inserted

Booting up with greets for lovely peeps; good morning, y'all. 💜

AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions | Amazon Web Services AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through...

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For the good of Europe, Orban must fall.

The center of Europe…

Outside the window,it's the 21st century: artificial intelligence,mobile internet,cars that park without driver assistance…

At the same time, outside the window, there is war.

📹 Putrivka, a village in the Fastiv district, Kyiv region /Radio Liberty

An we all agree to game on Linux now? Windows gaming is pretty much done

IGN: Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss www.ign.com/articles/phi...

Spencer’s retirement is effective on Monday, February 23

So.. it’s over now

And your point is…?

Don’t traumatize your kids 🙏🏼

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EU unveils strategy to shield bloc from malicious drones The European Commission's new strategy includes new investments in technological development to integrate surveillance capacity.

The European Commission's new strategy includes new investments in technological development to integrate surveillance capacity. #EuropeNews

Thomas Jones · Lords of the World: Keeping Up with the Caesars As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula are true, their common thread is the sadistic pleasure he took in rubbing everyone’s noses in the power he had over them.’

@moonjets.bsky.social on a new translation of ‘The Lives of the Caesars’.

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Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools. And how they learn which ones work… and whic

I can now name that this company is Wealthsimple. Their CTO pulled the trigger on Claude Code. So far good response and results.

Deepdive on them and 9 other companies: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social.

To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

GitHub - antonbabenko/terraform-skill: The Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu - testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns The Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu - testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns - antonbabenko/terraform-skill

This is what AI-assistance should look like 🥹
No "least effort / making it work code", but things you can safely ship.
At least with my the experience I have with it so far!

Link to the skill 🔗
github.com/antonbabenk...

Big thanks, Anton! 💪

When Your Database Can’t Explain Itself: Auditing with Quarkus, Panache & Envers

How to build a production-grade audit trail in Java that survives incidents, compliance reviews, and uncomfortable questions.

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