Small tools sometimes travel much further than you expect. <strong><code>jfmt</code></strong> and <strong><code>BetterBranch</code></strong> both did that for me. What matters here is not which repository they came from. It is that Java still makes good CLI tools, especially when they are compiled to native binaries and easy to pass around. People did not just repost a link. They packaged the tools, compared them with related projects, and added context of their own.
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BetterBranch is a tiny Git helper that lists local branches with ahead/behind counts and the age of each branch tip. I rewrote it in Java and compiled it to a native binary so it stays fast and self-contained.
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<strong>JavaLand 2026</strong> schloß am Mittwoch, den 11. März ihre Pforten für die Vorträge und Aussteller, und Maarten Mulders und ich <a href="/talks/accelerating-maven-builds.html">hatten viel Spaß mit unserem Talk »Accelerating Maven Builds«</a>. Wir haben praktische Tipps und Tricks zum Thema <a href="https://maarten.mulders.it/2024/03/measure-your-maven-build/">»wie messe ich meinen Build«</a> und wie beschleunige ich meinen Maven-Build geteilt. Von den Fragen aus dem Publium haben wir geschlossen, dass es viel Interesse an diesem Thema gibt.
<strong>JavaLand 2026</strong> closed yesterday, and Maarten Mulders and I <a href="/talks/accelerating-maven-builds.html">had a blast presenting our talk »Accelerating Maven Builds«</a>. We shared practical tips and tricks <a href="https://maarten.mulders.it/2024/03/measure-your-maven-build/">how to measure</a> and speed up your Maven builds. From the questions from the audience we concluded that there’s a lot of interest in this topic.
Last year I found out I got completely deindexed by Google. My blog is still not indexed, despite all the work I put in. So I decided to write a follow-up to <a href="/2025/12/30/how-i-got-deindexed-by-google.html">How I Got Deindexed by Google</a> where I analysed what was wrong with my blog. Less surprisingly, there was more to fix. Those silent bugs in the blog’s structure and markup were present since 2022, when I migrated my blog to jbake.
When Google’s algorithm decides your site isn’t worthy anymore, it happens fast. One day you’re ranking for your content, the next you’ve dropped from 400 indexed pages to just 10. Zero clicks, zero impressions.
You can register and log in into many websites using your email address as login ID. But what happens if you cannot enter your valid email address into the form? The root cause of this often is that some developers did not read RFC 2822. Many web services do not allow email addresses which are valid, according to the specification.
<a href="https://jqno.nl/post/2024/08/24/why-are-there-no-decent-code-formatters-for-java/"><strong>Why are there no decent code formatters for Java?</strong></a> – a great question asked by Jan Ouwens one year ago. I found myself asking the same question after palantir-java-format stopped working for me.
Recently, I saw this post about <strong>hosting a Maven Repository</strong> on Reddit:
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Tired of <strong>sluggish Apache Maven builds</strong> slowing down your development cycle? Maven Reactor Modules allow you to split a project into smaller, independently buildable units. Discover how strategically breaking down your application into Maven Reactor Modules can <strong>dramatically accelerate build times</strong> through parallel execution and improve your overall software architecture.
A common question among those new to Apache Maven and Java is how to create an application distribution. This article guides you through creating an application distribution using <a href="https://maven.apache.org/">Apache Maven</a> and the powerful <a href="https://jreleaser.org/">JReleaser tool</a>, including its Maven plugin.
I recently encountered a Maven multi module (reactor) project where each module had one annotation processor defined, but the database project had two defined. This can be done easier using the lesser known <code>combine.children="append"</code> attribute in a <code>pom.xml</code>. This article will give you a hint how to do this.