Updated my “Where’s Ted? [in Europe]” page for June. Let me know if you’re also in those places! ted.dev/where/

Most shocking thing from this post, for me, is the number of creators who've reached out, both in replies and with a fair number of DMs, who had been feeling this, but thinking they were alone in those thoughts, and feeling some sense of relief that they aren't alone.

I had been considering just shutting down my contact form, because most of what it got was spam, plus the occasional angry chud. I didn't realize how much this affected me, until I got some positive personal messages. Folks: you can literally change someone's life with a one-sentence compliment.

If you don't have time to read it, the tl;dr is, if there are educational content creators you value, let them know. They might write, make videos, or anything else. Times are tough, and talented people are fading away. A few encouraging words from a real person can make a huge difference.

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

People used to recognize me because they had seen one of my 7,000+ Stack Overflow "free" answers when they got stuck on a tricky CSS issue. Now, you will thank your favorite LLM for giving you that bad/outdated/inaccurate answer. And some people pay for that.

One of the trickier aspects of training is prerequisites. Take refactoring, for example. There are a bunch of things - like TDD, design principles, continuous inspection - that rely on refactoring to make them work. In that sense, refactoring's foundational. And yet, it's actually a rare skill

Join me on July 7-9 for an intensive online 3-day Code Craft training workshop. Learn foundational technical practices that accelerate feedback loops, shrink lead times and improve release reliability - with and without AI. codemanship.co.uk/codecraft.html

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

It feels many only know my work pushing back against AI, which is very fair — but I have a broader research interest, which also forms a protective belt against such forces, as well as being what I have been thinking about since discovering "cognitive science" in ~2006: 🍃 metatheory.space 1/

Looks like I might have a few days in Toronto, Canada on August 5, 6, 7. Anyone out there want some technical coaching (Refactoring, TDD, Event Modeling and Event Sourcing) or have a meetup or user group that wants a presentation on those topics? Let me know!

Getting back into working on the online version of my TDD Game using #EventSourcing has been really enlightening. Especially that tests really need to follow the COMMAND generates EVENT, and set up the context with _only_ EVENTs.

Today we add the full range of Deutsche Bahn tickets, incl. all Sparpreis offers, to Railfinder Best of all, we built some smarts to automatically pick the best combination of tickets were multiple are available. For example, we show you Gothenburg - Milan on just one ticket, in just one search ⤵️

The box of boxes is here! If you're going to be at DDD Europe, SoCraTes UK, or in Munich and want to save on shipping, contact me NOW before they're all claimed! If you're in North America, I'm ready to ship it to you: tdd.cards #TDD #BoardGame

#JUnit 6.1.0 is released! 🕑 Built-in extensions for locale, time zone, and system properties 🚮 Configurable TempDir deletion strategy 🏃‍➡️ New org.junit.start module for compact source files ⚙️ Execution mode config for dynamic tests 🏊 New parallel test executor impl. docs.junit.org/6.1.0/releas...

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

🎯 JEP 534 updated to target JDK 27 Title: Compact Object Headers by Default Type: feature Component: hotspot / runtime Release: 27 See openjdk.org/jeps/534

I was an adult before the internet was like this so my views are dated. I just think that if a service is integral to life, then in the world we live in, I need to be willing to pay for it. Nothing good is free. Everything has a cost. If you're not putting out $? YOU are the payment.

This whole thing is fucked up and I’m glad this person has been removed from a position of influence. However, there remains a significant tension between BGG as the main repository for board game information and the fact it is a privately owned company with little oversight of its practices or bias

I write about one of the most obscure printing history topics, flong, and there is a guy who was head of a flong company and amateur historian who published two extremely inaccurate and poor histories in the 1920s and 1940s that have become the definitive secondary source of truth.

Software development practices spread using the exact same cognitive biases as beliefs in homeopathy

The phrase "what would move the needle on climate" is rich. We know what moves the needle on climate. We saw what moves the needle on climate in 2020. People with power just don't like the answers.

🌸 Lundi (25), meetup online avec @ted.dev sur "Refactoring Tests" 👉 guild.host/events/onlin...

New newsletter: adding assumptions weakens properties of systems buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

Another TDD workshop for self-funding learners this evening is sold out, like the first 2. Just 2 more coming before I wrap them up: Saturday May 23rd - 09:45 BST Tuesday June 2nd - 18:45 BST www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

Munich folks: I have a free day in Munich June 29, I can give a talk at your company, meetup, or user group, or we can play a game about #TDD. I'd love to share my experience with Event Sourcing and Java, or facilitate a session playing JitterTed's TDD Game. Let me know!

I just backed "The Dreamwalker’s Oracle" on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ke... The art is beautiful and decidedly non-AI—they're suing (along with others) image genAI companies Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, for violating copyright laws in training their models.

Not sure why I felt the need to start yet another side project, given that it took me well over a year to end my JitterTicket side project and return to my _main_ project (putting my TDD Game online). But here I am... #EventSourced, of course. github.com/jitterted/j...

Nothing like an email from The Game Crafter to make my day: more copies of JitterTed's TDD Game are now on their way to me! I was a bit worried I wouldn't get them in time for my next trip to Europe, but now they'll get here in lots of time. Want a copy? tdd.cards

Just to show you where my head is at, I had a half-dream of creating an #EventSourced travel calendar, like the one I have as a spreadsheet, in order to see the entire year at once. Each event would be the booking of a train, plane, hotel, conference, meetup, user group, etc.

Might stop in Köln (Cologne) on my way from Frankfurt to Belgium on 7 June to 9 June, so if you want me to give a talk (in Frankfurt or Köln), meet for coffee, drinks, or food, let me know! ted.dev/where/

I just sponsored Namastack for the Outbox Pattern. Join me and sponsor your open source dependencies! #Java #SpringBoot #Sponsor github.com/sponsors/na...

Clearly United Airlines is not prepared to deal with a minor mismatch between my US Passport and my California license. One uses "TED" and the other "THEODORE" for the first name. Not my fault, I used to have "TED" on my driver's license, but then REAL ID forced me to switch.

Putting together my itinerary for June and have the following open evenings where I'd love to give a talk at a meetup or user group: Belgium (Antwerp): Tue 9 June Belgium (Antwerp or Brussels) or London: 15 and 16 June Let me know, details at: ted.dev/where

I swear that the most exhausting part of my travel lately is logistics decisions. Train or plane? Taxi or bus for that final leg? When to leave for the next town/city? Break up the longer trips to stop over somewhere or just go direct? Which hotel? Is that walkable? With luggage?

After 3 weeks in Europe (Frankfurt, Cologne, Bern, Zurich, and Vienna), it’s time to head home to the SF Bay Area. I’m too tired to fully express how wonderful it’s been to spend quality time with so many awesome people at JCON Europe, ComoCamp, and meetups and 1:1s in between.

Updated my "Where's Ted?" page: ted.dev/where/

On my way to Bern, farewell Frankfurt!

Thanks to Bruno for hosting the #JCON Europe Mentorship Hub and taking pictures of folks having fun playing JitterTed's TDD Game!

Thank you to Joshua and INNOQ for hosting my talk on Event Sourcing. And thanks to all those who came and asked great questions! I hope it increased your understanding of #EventSourcing and perhaps how you might use it for a small or experimental project. ted.dev/talks/#stop...)

you never really know what goes on in someone's home 😬

Java Conferences with closing CFP in the next 15 days: BaselOne Closes: 30 April 2026 If you want to add your conference, please submit it at https://javaconferences.org/

EclipseStore + Event Sourcing = a match made in heaven? We'll see. I'm learning event sourcing and implementing it in ShowBook at the same time.

Another article by Ralf Westphal that had me nodding in vigorous agreement throughout: ralfwestphal.substack.com/p/and-the-p... Very much relates to my talk on "Testable Architecture" and ties it together with my other passion: #EventSourcing

I have updated my github.com/sdeleuze/jsp... repository with PRs that introduce new Gradle and Maven NullAway plugins, respectively maintained by Thomas Broyer and @ik.am. #java #jspecify #spring

Great series of articles about Ecotone, a PHP #EventSourcing library (framework?), and this one about projections was nice to read as it confirms my current implementation (and/or design) in my ES library for #Java. blog.ecotone.tech/when-one-wo...

Wrote about everyone’s favorite studio head and the new Looney Tunes movie that people are definitely going to see in droves

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had...