A developer built grounds, an experimental static analyzer for Java written in Rust that runs as a Claude Code hook to catch errors after each agent edit in roughly 0.1 to 0.3 seconds, without needing…
A developer built a local MCP server in Kotlin/JVM using Robolectric that renders Android XML/View layouts and returns both a PNG and the real View tree from the same post-layout pass, so a coding age…
A principal engineer ran a nine-feature experiment comparing hexagonal architecture against a flat, architecture-neutral implementation for an AI coding agent, finding the hexagonal version took 38% l…
A developer released a Spec Driven Development kit that encodes the rules of the HexaLayered Architecture into a Claude Code-readable .claude directory, including a constitution.md of testable constra…
JetBrains' September 2026 Java Annotated Monthly highlights the release of JDK 27, which includes nine JEPs, with compact object headers enabled by default (JEP 534) reducing heap usage by 10%–20% and…
Kamero, an AI-powered event photography platform, has industrialized its Flutter white-label release process to manage 70 flavors. The team uses flutter_flavorizr for declarative native configuration,…
JetBrains announced that IntelliJ IDEA's Java and Kotlin intelligence is now available as a preview extension for third-party editors, starting with VS Code and its forks such as Cursor. The Java & Ko…
A developer argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools are safer and more auditable than shell access for coding agents, citing Simon Willison's warning that giving an agent a shell with internet …
Jerry Orr's essay argues that development pipelines, including CI/CD and QA environments, should be treated as production systems with outage-level urgency, a view echoed by Hacker News commenters. Th…
A developer built a starter 'Hello World' AI agent using Kotlin and Google's native Kotlin Agent Development Kit (ADK). The agent uses Gemini to decide when to call a tool discovered from a local Kotl…
A developer modernizing a 20-year-old Java 1.5 codebase found that large language models initially produced plausible but incorrect answers, such as hallucinating dependencies and assuming a non-exist…
Nuru launched Ipek, a visual workflow builder for desktop automation that lets non-technical teams run API calls, Excel/CSV parsing, OCR, and LLM tasks locally without server-side dependencies. The JV…
Engineers face 'cognitive debt' as AI tools write code they don't fully understand, warned by a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint. A developer recounts two debugging sessions on the same Android codebase: o…
Integration tests for JVM web services should be placed in a separate module to keep fast unit tests fast and ensure honest dependency boundaries. The environment—including databases, message brokers,…
ImageToolbox, a free and open-source image editing tool developed by T8RIN, offers over 310 filters, AI-powered background removal, and batch processing for photographers and developers. The app is av…
NobodyWho released Kotlin bindings for its on-device LLM inference engine, allowing Android and JVM developers to add the library as a Gradle dependency and run models entirely on users' devices witho…
At Devoxx UK, software engineering veteran Trisha Gee warned that AI will not fix broken development pipelines but will instead accelerate their failure by exposing existing weaknesses. Gee argued tha…
The article documents two solutions to Java development issues. The first problem, where jdtls crashes with status code 13, is resolved by deleting the `~/.cache/jdtls` cache directory. The second pro…