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Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard? (via) Entertaining rant about complexity in APIs.

Posted 29th March 2004 at 5:49 pm

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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs - 11th January 2026
Fly's new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time - 9th January 2026
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