Java NIO and NIO2 interfaces bring some improvements to the file/stream interfaces. Let’s see what has changed since the dark ages of the inter-blago-tubes of the 90ies. Here is a brief history of the java I/O interfaces:

• The first one is Java I/O that is introduced in 1996 in the very first version of the JDK.
• The second, Java NIO has been added to the JDK in 2002, Java 4.
• The third, in 2011, in Java 7, Java NIO2 was introduced.

Over time, the following improvements have been added: Buffered readers/writers, bidirectional channels, off-heap buffering, proper support for charsets and asynchronous operations.

Probably the biggest difference between java.io and java.nio is, however, that java.nio can be used in non-blocking mode. This means that multiple streams can run in the same process/thread. This should, in theory, speed up performance because task/thread switching comes with some cost.

For testing it is sometimes very tedious to always compile and run the small C programs I use as utilities. So I thought, why not use the shebang for this. After investigating how the shebang mechanism works I figured a small bash script would do the trick.

In HTML 5 a series of new tags were introduced. I would put the new tags into the following caregories:

• Document Structure: <article>, <aside>, <command>, <figure>, <footer>, <header>, <hgroup>, <nav>, <section>
• Multimedia: <audio>, <canvas>, <embed>, <video>
• User Interface (for Web applications): <details>, <datalist>, <meter>, <output>, <progress>
• Highlighting/Layout: <mark>, <ruby>, <time>, <wbr>

Why is it so hard to find a combined list of all the “twitter files” threads?

Interestingly wikipedia.com makes it extra complicated by only citing any source but twitter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Therfore I am compiling a list of twitter threads:

Have you ever needed to know what executable is binding to a specific port on windows?

The way Apples Time Machine works is really admireable. It is a fascinatingly simple solution in principle: Every incremental backup is a collection of hard links to the last backup. Then only the Files that have been changed are replaced with and updated copy.

Me got an Interblag again … a new one. The old one is … old.

Back in the day … when the internets were just a «series of tubes», they where not yet clogged and Ted Stevens knew it!