Monday, January 19, 2026

New year reading - 2026

Wish you a happy and healthy new year! Enjoy some of my curated reading (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify, Twitter, Bluesky and my other feeds).

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ai2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy
aiClaude Code: An analysis | SouthbridgeAI
aiLLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
aiNo Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer - YouTube
aiSame Model, Different Results: Why Coding Agents Aren't Interchangeable | Pete Hodgson
aiWriting a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog
ai,java2025: A Year of Innovation in AI Tooling with Spring AI | LinkedIn
ai,javaBrokk: Under the Hood
ai,javaBrokk: an AI Native Code Platform for Java, in Java by Jonathan Ellis - YouTube
ai,javaBuild Better Agents in Java vs Python: Embabel vs LangGraph | by Rod Johnson | Nov, 2025 | Medium
ai,javaDriving a web browser with Gemini's Computer Use model in Java
ai,javaWhat's New in Embabel? AI Agents w/ Java - YouTube
apiPractical API Testing with OpenAPI and Citrus Framework by Timon Borter - YouTube
apiWirespec API design, actually spec first, in your ecosystem By Jerre van Veluw - YouTube
dataA Critique of Iceberg REST Catalog: A Classic Case of Why Semantic Spec Fails
dataAn introduction to Datalog
dataClarifying Rules Engines with Clara Rules - Mike Rodriguez - YouTube
dataInstant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 | boringSQL
dataLearn rule engines with minikusari - Francesco Sardo - YouTube
dataLogic programming with clara-rules - William Parker - YouTube
dataO'Doyle Rules at Bay Area Clojure meetup 2021-02-09 Zach Oakes - YouTube
dataPicnic calcite platform - YouTube
dataSemantic Search Without Embeddings
dataTrino, Spark, and Hive TPC-DS Benchmark Comparison
data,jvmGraphs Are For Stream Processing Now | RTA Summit 2025 - YouTube
data,rustA Practical Dive Into Late Materialization in arrow-rs Parquet Reads | Apache Arrow
data,systemColumn Storage for the AI Era | The Sympathetic Ink Blog
data,systemLitestream VFS · The Fly Blog
golangGopherCon 2025: My Protobuf Module is Faster than Yours (Because I Cheated) - Tom Lyons - YouTube
java1B Rows with the Memory API - JEP Cafe #25 - YouTube
javaA Java Developer's Quest for I/O Performance I David Vlijmincx - YouTube
javaConcurrent Hash Table Designs: Synchronized, Sharding, ConcurrentHashMap, and NonBlockingHashMap | Bluue Whale
javaFunctional Optics for Modern Java - Part 1
javaFurther Optimizing my Java SwissTable: Profile Pollution and SWAR Probing | Bluue Whale
javaHinse ter Schuur - Level Up Your Java Streams with Gatherers - YouTube
javaHow to Build an Executable from a JAR using ExecJAR - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
javaJBang for Java Developers: The Single-File Superpower You’ve Been Missing
javaJava's Plans for 2026 - Inside Java Newscast #104 - YouTube
javaJavaScript (No, Not That One): Modern Automation with Java - Modern Java, Quarkus & Angular: Full-Stack Development
javaJump-Start Your Data Science Learning Java & Jupyter Notebooks - YouTube
javaOpening up Iceberg for new File Formats - YouTube
javaQuickly Inspect your Java Application with JStall - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
javaSourcing Aliens and Lasers: An Eventful Journey Through Time and Space I Auke Haanstra - YouTube
javaValhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne'25 - YouTube
javaVirtual Threads in the Real World: Fast, Robust Java Microservices with Helidon - YouTube
java,systemGraphQL Performance Issues at Netflix Scale - Stephen Chambers, Netflix - YouTube
jvmHow a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap | QuestDB
k8sBeyond the Default Scheduler: Navigating GPU Multitenancy in the AI Era - YouTube
k8s,systemAWS re:Invent 2025 - Under the hood: Architecting Amazon EKS for scale and performance (CNS429) - YouTube
rustFrom trees to graphs: speeding up vector search 10x with Hannoy
rust,systemBuilding blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads
rust,systemFoyer: A Hybrid Cache in Rust — Past, Present, and Future | MrCroxx's Blog
securityA door with no locks? Let’s talk about threat modeling I Bárbara Teruggi - YouTube
systemBuilding WebSocket Protocol in Apache Iggy using io_uring and Completion Based I/O Architecture | Hyper-Efficient Message Streaming at Laser Speed.
systemCode Completion with ANTLR4-c3 - Strumenta
systemHow to Use ANTLR Pattern Matching - Strumenta
systemKafka Under Pressure: Netflix's Blueprint for Unshakeable Kafka Resilience - YouTube
systemMicroarchitecture: What Happens Beneath - YouTube
systemPromQL Meets Pinot: Building PromQL Natively in StarTree Cloud | RTA Summit 2025 - YouTube
uxAre we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 - YouTube

Until next time!

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