GraalVM 25 has a lot of great new features for native compilation: ✅ Better developer experience 👩‍💻 ✅ Simplified migration 🚀 ✅ Even faster and smaller executables with ML 🤖 ✅ Enhanced security 🛡️ ✅ New tooling 🛠️ Here are my favorite new @GraalVM features:

The optimal known packing of 17 equal squares into a larger square - i.e. the arrangement which minimises the size of the large square.

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.) It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public. 🧵

Did you know? ⚓️ 🚢 🧵 1/7. The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result.

Twelve years ago, I found a coin that only ever flipped tails. 🧵

🎉 polybar just reached 10 backers! Thank you @_patrickziegler, @volpegabriel87, +8 🙌 Support them too! https://t.co/eSBOHFHRSR

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 We’ve touched the Sun! 👉☀️ Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona. Flying so close is revealing new things about our star, like where features called switchbacks are born. Learn more: https://t.co/Eaq0CJXvu1

If everything you're taught about your country's history makes you feel proud, you're not learning history. You're absorbing propaganda.

Fun article: What Rust could learn from Kotlin https://t.co/hTLoWBKU7T

So, Twitter's new font has some Private Use Area glyphs (logos) available in general text. This is bad. This is turning the text into an ephemeral experience. This text will lose meaning off of Twitter, or after Twitter gets rid of Chirp. "I like to use "

All set.

Polybar 3.5.0 is now out! #polybar https://t.co/NKGNlXi0xt

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Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

Someone figured out how to name Wallet Island on Google Maps and people are leaving reviews....

@kaludiasays Also, there’s a really great sequel to Holes called Small Steps that addresses Income inequality and the very real socioeconomic divide on both sides of I-35 in Austin, TX