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Tuesday, 1 September 2026 Reading Room

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The good ol’ days of building Java

Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete with Windows NT, and how applets were initially just an interesting demo.

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I'm Building an Open-Source MMORPG with Rust & Python — Join the Project

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A scraper isn’t a monitor: detecting new Telegram posts with Apify and n8n

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