Coding News

• lastmod is the cheapest crawl optimisation you are not doing
  19 September 2026 · One tag per URL, and the crawler stops guessing what changed.
• How I read a JDK release note in ten minutes
  18 September 2026 · A filter for release notes that keeps the two sections that matter.
• I counted the dependencies in a service I inherited
  17 September 2026 · Nine direct, four hundred and six transitive. A note on what that costs.
• Stack traces got shorter and nobody told the logs
  14 September 2026 · An older note, kept here to show what falls out of the news window.