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How Java Garbage Collection Works: A Quick Walkthrough

Java has no free() and no delete . You stop referencing an object, and at some point its memory quietly comes back. Someone is doing that work: the garbage collector.

  • Java has no free() or delete for manual memory management
  • Garbage collector identifies reachable objects from entry points
  • Reclaimed 600 MB of objects across 69 young collections

How one osFoundry note holds a document, a spreadsheet, diagrams and LaTeX

A product launch is three weeks out. The plan is a document in one app, the budget is a spreadsheet in another, the flow of the launch day is a diagram somebody drew on a whiteboard tool, and the…

  • osFoundry notes consolidate document, spreadsheet, diagram, and LaTeX into one note
  • Edits auto-saved, version history maintained for most tabs except Files and Sources

Three weeks of watching MCP advisories appear and disappear

Three weeks ago I published a single-night scan of the top 500 MCP servers. Then I left the scanner running: every night it re-ranks the official MCP Registry by last-week downloads, re-checks OSV…

  • Three weeks of MCP advisory fluctuations observed
  • 222 OSV records initially linked to 500 servers
  • By November 9, only 4 OSV records and 1 affected server remained

Godot 4 animation retargeting with free mocap: five traps that look like bad animation

I retargeted free CMU motion capture onto a humanoid character in Godot 4 with SkeletonProfileHumanoid . Most of the time I lost was not on the animation itself.

  • Wide legs caused by rest pose discrepancy between CMU skeleton and actor
  • Inverted arms due to rig orientation mismatch with motion capture data
  • Incorrect measurements from rest pose in headless runs due to stale global pose

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