2026-06-19

• JDK 28 introduces Project Valhalla bringing inline classes and primitive types to Java, improving performance and memory usage.
• DuckDB's columnar storage and vectorized execution make it exceptionally fast for analytical workloads.
• Researchers are defining well-known URIs for resource identification, MIT built a custom OS to study chip behavior, and ML research is adopting Zen-inspired mindfulness approaches.

💻 Daily Snippet

# Check installed JDK version
java -version 2>&1 | grep version

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Originally published on Shell Signal