the next Portland Java User Group meetup is Tuesday April 14

This month’s topic is: AI Assisted Software Development

Presented by: Sean Sullivan

@tinyrobots.bsky.social

Modern developer experience on WildFly, Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup Has your view of Enterprise Java evolved with the platform? In this session, James R. Perkins (Jakarta EE & Jakarta REST Co-Lead) dives into the modern developer experience

tonight February 24

Portland Java User Group meetup

www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

Modern developer experience on WildFly

presented by James Perkins

How was one of the most loved programming languages - Kotlin - created, and what is next after it? This is a rare and special conversation with Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav, with so many fascinating details on how Kotlin became the global success as it is today.

youtu.be/ZggUn2mNqMU

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Building Reliable workflows in Java, Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Details** So you have a new Workflow in your application. Let's say that it has 20 steps in the workflow * What happens if the instance handling the workflow goes down *

A presentation so nice, I'm doing it twice.

I'll be delivering my Building Reliable Workflows in Java talk again on Feb 24th, this time in Seattle. If you're a Java (or Kotlin!) developer, come hear all about what you can do with DBOS.

www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

Code Remix Weekly | Mod with Claude: Upskill your agent On this episode of Code Remix Weekly, Sam Snyder shows how Claude Skills can be used to write, run, and analyze #OpenRewrite recipes more effectively while r...

Today on Code Remix Weekly, Sam Snyder will show how Claude Skills can be used to write, run, and analyze #OpenRewrite recipes more effectively while reducing prompt overhead and improving reliability. 🤖

🔴 Watch live at 21:00 CET / 3 PM ET

Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism

Have you noticed this? I have.

"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."

That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site.

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street

People who should have known better voted for this failed businessman because they thought he'd be good for the economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...

Harry Pierson speaking at the Portland Java User Group

#dbos

@dbos.dev @devhawk.net

Building Reliable workflows in Java - Using DBOS, Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup **Agenda** 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm - Pizza and Intro 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm - Presentation **Details** So you have a new Workflow in your application. Let's say that it has 20 steps

tonight in Portland Oregon:
Portland Java User Group
Tuesday January 27 2026

Building Reliable workflows in Java - Using DBOS

#java #pdxtech

RSVP: www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

😅

Newspaper front pages from January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump attempted a coup (autogolpe),

This was five years ago. The tyrant responsible is now our president, and doing his best to turn our erstwhile democracy into an autocratic oligarchy.

AWS re:Invent talk on their Oct ’25 incident Last month, I made the following remark on LinkedIn about the incident that AWS experienced back in October. To Amazon’s credit, there was a deep dive talk on the incident at re:Invent! OK, i…

There was a great talk at re:Invent about the Oct. 25 us-east-1 outage! My impressions on the talk are here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/14/a...

thanks for attending the Seattle Java User Group last night

@jonatan-ivanov.bsky.social @cowtowncoder.bsky.social @seattlejug.bsky.social

Slides are available here:

docs.google.com/presentation...

Dependency management for Java applications, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Modern Java systems utilize hundreds (or thousands) of dependencies. Each additional dependency adds complexity to the application development process. Java developers need

Another great talk tonight at SeaJUG! www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

-- any local corporations interested in sponsorship? Spots available!

thank you @timtebeek.github.io ⭐

#openrewrite

One of the tools that really made a difference for me as a software engineer in the past few years is @openrewrite.github.io. Kudos to the team and special thanks to @timtebeek.github.io for introducing me to it and providing guidance for using it and working with it effectively 🙏🏻 /1

Dependency management for Java applications, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Modern Java systems utilize hundreds (or thousands) of dependencies. Each additional dependency adds complexity to the application development process. Java developers need

On our next @seattlejug.bsky.social event (Nov. 18th) @tinyrobots.bsky.social is going to talk about Dependency management for #Java applications

www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

join us on Tuesday November 4 2025 at the Portland Java User Group meetup #pdxtech

"Dependency Management for Java applications"

RSVP www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

Portland Java User Group meeting

Tuesday November 4 2025

“Dependency Management for Java applications”

speaker: Sean Sullivan

Why upgrade to Jackson 3.0? (if you are happy with Jackson 2.x functionality)

Finally managed to squeeze the follow-up (to "Jackson 3.0 released") blog post out -> cowtowncoder.medium.com/why-upgrade-...

thank you for the quick review! @timtebeek.github.io

#OpenRewrite
#testcontainers

You come at the king, you best not miss

thank you @timtebeek.github.io

🚀 #openrewrite

update for jackson 3.0.0 GA by sullis · Pull Request #26 · openrewrite/rewrite-jackson What's changed? jackson 3.0.0 GA https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/jackson-bom/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/core/jackson-core/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/j...

OpenRewrite Jackson recipe PR:

github.com/openrewrite/...

On the principle of “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” this article fails to reach even a low bar. I mean the article — which I read three times — not just the headline. We can only conclude that the "extraordinary claims require... " principle is not in use for this protagonist.

update for jackson 3.0.0-rc10 by sullis · Pull Request #22 · openrewrite/rewrite-jackson details upgrade to latest jackson 3.0.0 release candidate reference https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-3.0 https://bsky.app/profile/cowtowncoder.bsky.social/post/3lzafjxlq6c2...

here is a corresponding update for OpenRewrite github.com/openrewrite/...

Jackson Release 3.0 Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.

One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!

The hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts A progressive rollout refers to the act of rolling out some new functionality gradually rather than all at once. This means that, when you initially deploy it, the change only impacts a fraction of…

New blog post on the trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...

Dependency Management for Java - 2025-09-11 Sean Sullivan Community Over Code September 2025 Dependency Management for Java applications

Community Over Code 2025

"Dependency Management for Java applications"

#CommunityOverCode

docs.google.com/presentation...

flying to Minneapolis for #CommunityOverCode @apache.org