Benjamin Muskalla

We turned OpenAPI specs into mock services for RL training and improved a tool-use benchmark by about 28%; most of the work went into turning a simple seed spec into a world complex enough to be worth learning from.

AI agents aren’t just changing how fast we write software.

I built an inference engine for SmolLM2-135M in QBasic, the first language I learned.

Orbiting about 400 kilometers above Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) serves as a beacon of human ingenuity and collaboration.

The other day, I went grocery shopping.

Have you worked on a large codebase recently?

Working on a large codebase, it’s pretty normal to not remember every small or large subsystem or implementation choice.

Roughly 12 years ago, I started to contribute to the Eclipse ecosystem in various functions.

JIT compilation and HotSpot are with no doubt some very complex topics.

So the other day I was working with a 3rd party library which used System properties as their feature flags.

You were so excited about the new Package Registry that you immediately added it to your build and published your first package.

It was exactly one day after my vacation.

When was the last time you were in the flow while working through some code?

When accessing 3rd party APIs with pagination, we tend to see the same pattern over and over again.

When writing software, some conversations happen over and over again.

While working on non-IDE products, one problem often approach us: If something goes wrong when a user is using the product, how do we actually get them to report the problems back to us?

Have you ever committed to the repository and got mail afterwards “Hey, this isn’t compiling!”?

In January, most of the EGit committers met at the “EGit Summit” in Walldorf, Germany.

I finally had the time to care about one of my outstanding tasks – provide a tutorial and example how to use Equinox Security.

Finally the voting process for this years Google Summer of Code is over and they announced the accepted students.

From time to time, I’m in the situation when I want to suggest a UI change or even try to come up with a completely new UI.

Ever been to Mannheim?

I have to admit, I’m a little nervous what happens with the RAP community after this post.

Even though I’ve been involved in the Eclipse community for around 5 years, I’m still amazed by the projects that are hosted under the Eclipse umbrella.

During the last weeks, Kenn and I worked together to support EMF generated editors running on RAP.

We’re all looking forward to talk about EclipseRT, Equinox and RAP at the DemoCamps around the world.

After another 6 weeks of working hard towards the Helios Release, we’re a step closer.

The RAP team is proud to announce the second milestone for the Helios release.

Whenever I’m working on UI stuff, something always goes terribly wrong 😉 Sometimes it’s only a margin or padding, other times it a composite that crosses my path.

With e4 0.9 out in the wild, we should think again about the goals e4 tries to provide.

Finally I had some time to write down some of my experiences with integrating the Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) into a Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) application.

As Galileo is out in the wild and we are all already working on Helios… I thought it would be handy to give a quick overview of the New and Noteworthy features the RAP team worked on for Galileo.

Ok, it’s getting tough.