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This is where I jot down things related to the profession I follow…

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A Weaver’s Tale, Part 1

My first post in the Weaver’s Tale series will be a brief recap of Threads in Java with attention paid to the history of Project Loom. Java has been publicly available since at least 1995. This was, at the very least, when I first became aware of and started playing around with it. One of…

Up and running!!

After umming and ahhing for donkeys years about blogging I have finally taken the plunge and started a blogging site!! You can all blame Trisha Gee from JetBrains for giving me the final motivation I needed to do this!! Not just her fault, I have many others to thank for nagging me into doing this…

A sad way to start…

I didn’t envisage having this as my first post… Last night, Charly, our constant companion and chicken thief of over 13 years passed away in our company after a short illness. As cats go, and I have had cats around me for most of my life, he was one of the best. His exploits when…

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