Copyright safe memes with @maritvandijk.bsky.social and @piotrprz.bsky.social at #JCON - and lots of modern Java 🤩

Thank you to @jcon.one and @richard.fichtner.dev for this leadership award. Building out the #Java community has been a career highlight.

#JavaTogether

If you're at JCON Europe today, join me in the Mentorship Hub (upstairs from the Cinemas) at 14:30 to play JitterTed's TDD Game, learning about Test-Driven Development, as well as how we collaborate affects the work we do.

jcon.mentorshiphub.org/#session=TE...

If you haven't participated in one yet, I can highly recommend the mentorship hub by @brjavaman.bsky.social and a number of top speakers and Java Champions at @jcon.one this week. Full program is available at jcon.mentorshiphub.org

GraalVM CE can now sandbox untrusted JavaScript and WebAssembly code! 🚀

As AI generates more and more of the code we run, the ability to execute it safely matters more than ever.

We have more coming that builds on this, so stay tuned!

github.com/oracle/graal...

Heading for the luminaries?

Time for some coffee, ETA at JCON shortly after 1300

The second session had @rfscholte.bsky.social sharing how to minimise logging in your Maven builds and tests at @jugnoord.bsky.social 👍

Less is clearly more this way 🤩

@jagovreede.bsky.social sharing his experience of three years with @handle.invalid and even @graalvm.org in production at @jugnoord.bsky.social yesterday 😎

Looks like 🦋 is fully available again 🤩

Are you mixing up 24 with Java 23? MarkDown JavaDoc was added in the latter and hasn't seen any extra additions since AFAIK.

Tech conferences aren't dead, they’re evolving.

According to DevoxxUK’s Mark Hazell, the real value isn't the info (you can Google that); it’s the focused learning, the community & the dev in the next chair who solved your bug.

Full ShiftMag interview: bit.ly/3OBf4X9

devoxx.co.uk | 6 & 7 May

DaVinci resolve for photos just announced, didn't expect that but will have to check it out 🤔
www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/dav...

Goodmorning Barcelona! This afternoon I’ll be talking graph databases and data modelling! 16:30, room 4! Be there @springio.net!
#java #kotlin #neo4j #graphdatabases #conferencespeaking

Been toying around with Voxtral to convert speech to text recently, you can run that in a docker container as well 👍

Will be chaotic when you use it to live code though.

Ouch, hope it recovers fast 😔

So you'll also be performing some TTS during your upcoming talks? 🤖

The record: migrate to immutability by Johan Hutting YouTube video by Devoxx

Interested in performant modern Java code using records and immutable behaviour? 🤔🚀

My 15 minute lightning talk at last week's @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com
is now available on the Devoxx channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_X...

In 2021 my developer spark was almost dead. I tried every technical fix I could think of.

The actual fix surprised me. Still does.
lomagnette.github.io/posts/reigni...

Really happy to have spoken at @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com !
Next ahead is @springio.net on Tuesday at 16:30! I would love to see you there!

#springio26 #neo4j #graphdatabases #java #kotlin #publicspeaking

What does it really take to maintain open source in Java? Release automation, Maven vs Gradle, contributor chaos, and AI-generated PRs: @andresalmiray.com (Java Champion, creator of JReleaser) shares real lessons from the JVM ecosystem.
🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jts6...

Strong with the JVM, Gemma 4 is 😌

jbang gemma4@mukel \
--model %{hf.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-G... \
--system-prompt "like Master Yoda, reply you must" \
--chat

~5GB once, download you must.

Python or CUDA, you need not.
Local AI, this is.

Googling (hah!) the question, it turns out you need a paid pro subscription to generate videos (I thought a limited amount was free and wanted to try something).

The marketing language in the answer doesn't really inspire confidence.

The joys of AI subscriptions 🤣 Even eating up your token budget answering questions about the subscription 🙃

It’s been a few days since I was impacted by the #Oracle layoff. I wanted to acknowledge the #Java DevRel team that’s still there, as well as other folks/companies continuing to also engage with the Java community. Please give it a read:

www.linkedin.com/posts/sharat...

Looking for work. Will DevRel for coffee or wine 😁

Looks like I've picke the right room to start @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com with @maritvandijk.bsky.social & Michel opening 👍

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated.

I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

Ah, daylight saving time - all of the jetlag, none of the travel... 🤪

👩‍💻As I am preparing, I am sharing with you the following: 2 #conferences coming up 😬!
April 1st, @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com about fun and passion at work: amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/talk/?id=1757
April 14th, @springio.net about using #neo4j: 2026.springio.net/sessions/thi...

The analog opening act at connect.frl never disappoints