I'm once again looking for awesome speakers and topics for upcoming @rotterdamjug.bsky.social meetup(s). The next one is probably going to be in the week of 27 - 31 October... 👻 🎃 If you're interested, DM me!

☕️ Caffeine is inevitable. Numerous plants across the world evolved producing caffeine independently. To poison bugs, sabotage rivals, and even hack bees’ memories...

Seen this series (in progress) @gunnarmorling.dev ? youtu.be/n-YK3B4_xPA?...

Join @royvanrijn.com at #YOW25, where he shows how Java can fly in his talk "Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in Under 2 Seconds" MEL 4-5 Dec | BNE 8-9 Dec | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

Roy, it looks like there is a typo in your resume, it says Scumm Master instead of Scrum Master. ... Nope.

1 billion rows<2s. 🚀 @royvanrijn.com joins #YOW25 & shows how Java can fly in his talk "Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in Under 2 Seconds" MEL 4-5 Dec | BNE 8-9 Dec | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

Imagine travelling to one of the poorest countries in the world, 🇲🇼 Malawi, and being welcomed with more kindness and warmth than you'd expect anywhere. That’s exactly what happened to Rob, a friend of mine. Read his story here: www.100procentmalawi.org/founding

He made Windows (tm)?

Found one, this algorithm is easy.

Best slogan I could come up with for a software company from Rotterdam 😅 Get your @openvalue.eu Rotterdam laptop sticker at @joyofcoding.bsky.social later this month 👍🏼

Join me tomorrow at @rotterdamjug.bsky.social (Java User Group) with @andresalmiray.com! Andres will talk about deploying to production with confidence and I'll share how to be more productive when working with multicultural teams. www.meetup.com/rotterdamjug...

Israel has its Iron Dome. America will get a Golden Dome. I propose a similar project for the Netherlands, we can call it… the Thunder Dome.

Last week I tried surimi, didn’t like it, it tastes like crab.

This is by far the best and scariest AI-generated creation I’ve come across. (made with Veo 3)

A shift is happening in our family's € 1000,- investment challenge... I've started to make a comeback, almost back into the green, my partner finally started to drop a little, and kid 1 is in a free fall 😅 📉

What if Elon Musk and Trump are actually launching a campaign against South Africa and try to make Elon president there? It’s a country full of rare earth minerals…

What do you call a group of developers that disagree with each other on XML standards? 🥁 A SOAP opera.

Wanted to take a shower but I suddenly have this incredible urge to complain and mumble “everything used to be better”… odd.

Fastest way to check if a year is a leap year? hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-... Best part: "I couldn't immediately find a way to prove it, so I employed the tried-and-true method of getting someone else to do it for me by posting it to the Code Golf StackExchange."

TIL: SAP HANA, do you know what “HANA” stands for? “HochleistungsANalyseAnwendung”

Found a jumping spider (Marpissa muscosa) with a cool beard.

Turns out it is not AI we should be worried about... it is humans as always. theguardian.com/technology/202… It seems Grok at least is rebelling and standing up against false information...

I'm teaching my kids about investing. As a challenge everyone in our household gets ~€1000, for one year (I'll buy the stocks/ETFs they want). If they make a profit at the end of the year, they get to keep the profit. The risk is on me. This friday we're going to present our picks to each other 😍

Code never lies, comments do.

I’m getting a crash course on the lore of Italian brainrot. And I’m 100% convinced teenagers these days would love Salvador Dali.

Has anyone combined AI speech recognition with AI text/token prediction? Imagine a system that listens to you and finishes your sentences. Where you have live subtitles with a predicted continuation. I think this is super scary to interact with.

Interview question? Explain the difference between: java.util.Vector<E> and jdk.incubator.vector.Vector<E>

May the Fourth be with you all… I hope your coffee is strong and the Force is stronger. ⭐️

This week: Microsoft: “30% of our code is written by AI” Google: “over 30% of all new code is written by AI” Meta: “within 12-18 months *most* code will be written by AI” Are you ready for this shift?

I mean, why *not* put yourself into Thunderbirds...

🎥 Movie idea: Promptocalypse: Society dumbs down and collapses because people start to vibe every aspect of their life. Why think when you can prompt? Think Idiocracy meets Her meets Don’t Look Up meets Black Mirror.

I hate Python so much, code runs for a couple of minutes and then: "Hey! You forgot this import right here!" How do people live without static typing...

Surprise! Yesterday the recordings dropped, and now the photos are live too! Relive the magic of Voxxed Days Amsterdam 🎥 Sessions www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFDB... 📸 Photos by @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social flic.kr/s/aHBqjC8b4w #Java #VoxxedAmsterdam #vdams25

TIL: Product owners are the OG “vibe coders”. They’ve been vaguely describing what they want for years and receiving crappy bug-ridden code in return.

So basically…. @sandermak.bsky.social 😇👌🏼

It was awesome trying out the alpha version of NeuroCoder™. Here you can see me learning Vue.js after hearing about it in the closing keynote.

Exciting news! Announcing #VibeDays 2025, a #Devoxx family event focused on #NoCode & #LowCode solutions! Join us to explore how zero lines of code can lead to infinite lines of vibes! 🤩🧠 Signup @ vibedays.eu

Want more people to look at your pull requests? Add some extra rizz: “I fixed 4 bugs, you won’t believe nr 3!” “I refactored the monitoring service. You’ll never guess what happened next!” “Logging: developers HATE me for this one trick.”

TIL: The first nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton found in 1908 had severe arthritis, especially in his spine. Paleontologists assumed Neanderthals were dumb hunched-over apelike caveman… Wasn’t until 40+ years later they realized Neanderthals were fully bipedal, walking exactly like we do today.

Lost in the 70s, time for a comeback? "Bebugging": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebugging It's like a Coding/Testing Dojo where you purposely inject bugs and your team tries to find them, test your guardrails and problem solving!

You: I’m a Scrum Master Me: I’m a SCUMM master…

Everything is computer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulat...

Meet the Harvard Computers an extraordinary group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory. They enabled measuring our place in the universe by measuring Cepheid stars. They discovered white dwarfs and demonstrated stars are mostly made of hydrogen and helium.

OH: The tester? The only thing he's testing is my <redacted> patience.

Cool! The Dutch Ministry of Finance is testing "TaxSolver" a system that optimizes tax rules using constrained solving optimization. It analyzes 1.2 quadrillion possibilities to simplify taxes while balancing costs, benefits & fairness. readwise-io.translate.goog/reader/share...

Congrats, you're now living in the US🇺🇸SR.

Rest in peace Dieuwertje... 🫡

What used to be the 'American Dream', the thing I looked up to as a kid, has turned into an American Nightmare. The EU must step up and lead by example, building a future of safety, social security, stability, and innovation. A future driven by optimism and promises that can be trusted.

This feels *really* unethical… What are your thoughts on Windsurf IDE’s experimental “motivational” prompt?

Love this! youtu.be/a0CVCcb0RJM?...