Flaky GitHub Pull Request builds are an annoying reality in many projects. Just when you think a change is complete and good to merge, you are greeted with an ❌. To unblock your PR, you need to rerun lengthy test pipeline just because of one rogue test.

If you have a Java project on GitHub, TestLens can help you:

https://testlens.app/blog/2027/05/07/reuse-test-results/

Drop me a message, if you would like to join or beta program.

#Java #JUnit #Gradle #Maven #GitHub

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TestLens control buttons in a comment on your GitHub Pull Request. They offer a 'Only rerun the tests that failed or were muted before' checkbox to activate before triggering a rerun through the 'Rerun job' checkbox.

RE #JSpecify and #Nullaway…

This #Maven plugin works as promised, nice:

https://github.com/making/nullability-maven-plugin

#Java

@xilerk Good catch! This command did the trick:

$ mvn -D versions.outputLineWidth=${COLUMNS} versions:display-dependency-updates

Of course, ${COLUMS} could be set to some arbitrary huge value to help better ensure single line per dependency.

Thanks a bunch for the suggestion! :-)

#Maven #Java #Programming

This is not easily parsed by machines (or even humans). Some version numbers are on the same line, others are on a separate line.

There's extraneous and unneeded info.

And there's no way to influence the appearance of the output. For example, the ps command as the -w flag to explicitly set wide text output mode.

#Maven #Java #Programming

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Screenshot of `mvn versions:display-dependency-updates`

I really dislike how #Maven outputs text during a build. Gonna be extremely difficult to automate my next task because Maven's output is definitely not even meant for human eyes, let alone machine.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@voxxedzurich/116277623680448319

On my way to @voxxedzurich to speak with @aalmiray about Getting more out of #Maven - There will be #IntelliJIDEA tricks too ;)

Almost 2 weeks ago @aalmiray and I spoke at @JavaLandConf about getting more out of #Maven and #IntelliJIDEA together.

It was fun doing this talk; can't wait to do it again at @voxxedzurich next week!

Thanks to Dimitris Doutsiopoulos for the amazing pictures!

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Andres Almiray speaking at JavaLand. He is wearing a black Java t-shirt. Marit van Dijk is in the background looking at him.

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Andres Almiray, Ixchel Ruiz and Marit van Dijk at JavaLand.

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Marit van Dijk standing behind the lectern that holds her laptop. She is smiling at the camera. Andres Almiray is in the background.

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Andres Almiray and Marit van Dijk on stage at JavaLand.

Most Java CLI tools stop at mvn compile exec:java.

That works locally. It doesn’t scale.

In this guide I show how to:
- build a fat JAR
- automate GitHub releases
- publish a JBang catalog
- install with one command

No cloning. No Maven required.

Full tutorial:
https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/ship-java-cli-jreleaser-jbang-github-release

#Java #JReleaser #JBang #Maven #OpenSource

Looking forward to speak at @JavaLandConf this week, together with @aalmiray on "Getting more out of #Maven".

See you there?
#JavaLand

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JavaLand 2026 speaker banner. On the left is a picture of Marit van Dijk with her name and the tekst "Top Speaker, Java Champion". On the right is the text "Visit my Talk | March 10, 2026 | Europa Park" followed by the talk title "Getting more out of Maven"