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Archive for June 4th, 2026

MacOS: change brightness of external monitor (via DuckDuckGo)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/04

Seems this is not an easily accessible built-in feature of MacOS: [Wayback/Archive] macos change brightness of external monitor at DuckDuckGo

Basically there seem to be two apps that are most popular:

  • Lunar
  • MonitorControl

Lunar is free, but has a fee for some features. MonitorControl is free derived from Lunar, but has less features than the paid Lunar license has and is less often updated.

Both have been developed in Swift and are on GitHub:

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Posted in Apple, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Swift | Leave a Comment »

Effective Java, 3rd Edition [Book]

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/04

Hopefully by now a 4th edition is available: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java, 3rd Edition [Book].

Since I do not program in Java often, the above book is indispensable.

Read this review why as he much better phrases the reasons than I can: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java by Joshua Bloch — A Must Read Book for Java Developers | by javinpaul | Javarevisited | Medium.

For Java versions 9 and up, read his recommendations here: [Wayback/Archive] Top 7 Courses to Learn New Features of Java 8 to Java 17 in 2023 | by javinpaul | Javarevisited | Medium.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] effective java – Google Search

Buy: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java : Bloch, Joshua: Amazon.de: Books

–jeroen

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