Congrats, #Apple, on 50 years of thinking different 🎉 www.apple.com/50-years-of-... Take care to stay on that side of history that preserves humanity, liberty & privacy. We are counting on you 🗽🌈🦄 This means a lot to me, as you've been a part of my life for 30+ years now. Thanks & looking forward!

ApproveJ 1.6.0 is here 🚀 ✨ Inline Value Updates update approved value in your test source 📸 Enhanced Visual Feedback with diff 🤖 AI Assisted Reviews 👉 approvej.org 🔗 Full Changelog: lnkd.in/eyTtdR_3 #ApproveJ #Java #SoftwareTesting #OpenSource #VisualTesting #IntelliJ #DX #CleanCode

The Overflow: AI and Agentic Coding www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

I'm putting together a Pecha Kucha session for code.talks - get funky and talk about anything you want to the tune of 20 slides of 20 seconds each! It's a little hidden in the CfP - put "Undefined" for track and “Pecha Kucha" for Format. cfp.codetalks.com/call-for-pap...

Java 26 / JDK 26: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/archives/lis... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/26/ #Java26 #JDK26 #OpenJDK #Java

i released a new blog post discussing the increasing importance of resilience as ai taking over software development starts to increase rigidity and fragility in most companies. enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/in_sear...

Hier sind die Folien zu meinem Vortrag "API-Tests, Contract-Tests, Consumer-driven Contract-Tests" heute beim #DevLand: 🎞️ thomas-much.de/presentation... Den Code vom Live-Demo gibt's hier: 💻 github.com/thmuch/api-t...

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Hier sind die Folien zu meinem Vortrag "API-Tests, Contract-Tests, Consumer-driven Contract-Tests" heute beim #JavaLand: thomas-much.de/presentation... Hat Spaß gemacht, mal auf der Hauptbühne und im Livestream zu sein 😎🙃 Wer die Session verpasst hat, hat am Freitag nochmal die Chance! #DevLand

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Ready. #JavaLand 2026 🤓🤖🎢

"Snorkel before you scuba. Start at the top, always. Snorkeling means checking the shared systems first—goals, roles, and decision-making—before you start diagnosing personalities."

I usually kick off my tactical DDD training with this flipchart exercise, because there's a misconception I run into time and again: people confusing monoliths with big balls of mud. ...

⭐ #JavaLand 2026 Top Speaker Session "API-Tests, Contract-Tests, Consumer-driven Contract-Tests – alles dasselbe?" mit Thomas Much 👉 Weitere Informationen & Vortrag merken: scomp.ly/Bm4oez4

For some weekend fun: 🚨 WoB PATTERN: Distributed Monolith "Why call a method locally when you can send a synchronous HTTP request across three availability zones?" worstofbreed.net/patterns/dis... #worstofbreed #SoftwareArchitecture #MaintenanceNightmare #TechHumor

java.evolved – Every old Java pattern next to its modern replacement, side by side. javaevolved.github.io

Friday reading...another patterns paper I co-authored with Karl Evard and presented at PLoP25: on flow-focused testing strategies: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape...

It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...

I'll be doing a livestream on the anniversary of the manifesto meeting: Feb 11, 6pm Europe time noon US Eastern time. I'll have about 10 guests asking questions, the thing will be recorded for later viewing and also livestreamed. : www.youtube.com/@totheralist... is the link

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

Looking back at 2025, personally: A year of changing perspectives, of turning some worlds upside down, of celebrating nature & arts, of enjoying the moments. See you in 2026! 🥂🎉

Looking back at 2025, professionally: Again a year of speaking at conferences, writing, talking, listening ... Thank you for being part of my journey 😊 One of the highlights: 1st time programme chair of a conference – on Tech Excellence 🤩 Here's to the next 12 months 🤓🎉🚀🦄

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas! 🎄✨⭐️

Gingerbread house no. 13 – a father & son production since 2013 😍🎄✨️ I celebrate every year we're still committed to creating this treat together 😊

Most relevant IT books 2025, IMHO: 📕 "Architecture for Flow" by @suksr.bsky.social 📗 "User Needs Mapping" by @richallen.info 📘 "Frictionless" by @nicolefv.bsky.social and Abi Noda 📙 "Code Health Guardian" by Artie Shevchenko Thank you for sharing your experience 🙏

Gestern Abend beim DevTalk@TK: @reabmax.bsky.social zeigt, wie man vom strategischen #DomainDrivenDesign zum taktischen #DDD kommt – und führt die wichtigsten Patterns mit Live-Coding vor. Ein schöner Einstieg und Überblick! 😊 www.meetup.com/de-de/devtal...

Advent of Code 2025 starts today 🎉🎄 adventofcode.com Thanks to @was.tl for once again providing us with funny and educational coding challenges in the weeks before Christmas – for more than 10 years now 🤩. Much appreciated! 🙏 #AdventOfCode

🚀 #ApproveJ v1.0 ("ONE-POINT-ZERO") was just released! 🎉🥳🍾 🧹 all deprecated methods have been removed 🪲 approving by file is now also possible in parameterized tests 📖 minor updates in the manual github.com/mkutz/Approv... #approvaltesting #snapshottesting #java #kotlin #unittesting #release

Hier sind die Folien zu meinem Vortrag "Coaching-Modelle für Technical Agile Coaching" beim ScrumTisch Darmstadt: thomas-much.de/presentation... Vielen Dank für die klasse Diskussion hinterher – das ist der Grund, warum man zu Meetups geht 😊

Will be back at JavaLand 2026 next year 🤩

This weekend is Global Day of Coderetreat 2025! We hosted an internal event today, our first GDCR event actually – and more than 30 developers from 3 company divisions (not only IT!) showed up 🤩 That was a very promising start! Looking forward to next year 😃 🤓🤖👾 #coderetreat #gdcr2025

Ihr habt am 08.12. noch nichts vor? Ihr interessiert euch für fachlich getriebene #Softwareentwicklung? Dann kommt doch in der UZ der Techniker Krankenkasse vorbei und verfolgt zwei Vorträge zum Thema #DDD. Ich freue mich!

Am 19. November spreche ich beim ScrumTisch Darmstadt über "Coaching-Modelle für Technical Agile Coaching" 🔬📊🛠️ Da es ein Online-Event wird, ist die Teilnahme ganz einfach – einfach anmelden 😊 www.meetup.com/de-DE/scrumt...

#Autumn & #Harvest Amidst all technology, it's good to ground oneself from time to time. Yes, in real soil. 🪏👨‍🌾

Petition: Chat-Kontrolle stoppen! weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

Look what my dad bought me 🤩 The 50th anniversary edition of #Yps – the magazine that sparked my curiosity over 40 years ago 🚀🤖👾

I‘m a teapot 🫖 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_T...

Is predicting the future valuable in software dev? @woodyzuill.bsky.social’s provocative talk on estimates explores alternatives to traditional estimation. Watch the full recording & subscribe for more! youtu.be/oHFKNvMQq8c #AmABerlin

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released! ✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline 🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations 🛫 Integrated JFR support 🚟 Kotlin suspend function support 🛑 Support for cancelling test execution ⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher 🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/ #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

🚀 Java 25 has been released today! New features include: * Scoped Values * Compact Source Files & Instance Main Methods * Flexible Constructor Bodies * Compact Object Headers All details here: www.happycoders.eu/java/java-25... Updated Java Versions PDF: www.happycoders.eu/java-versions/ #Java

25 years ago, on 13 September 2000, #MacOSX Public Beta was released at Apple Expo Paris. The "operating system for the next 15 years" is now 25 years old. What an amazing engineering feat to evolve such large software (operating) system over such a long time! Kudos to the engineers at #Apple

Probably Agile or Scrum doesn’t have enough practices on the technical side. Why would you think you can be agile with arbitrary technical approaches? hachyderm.io/@mike_bowler...

Vor einiger Zeit war ich zu Gast beim "Digital Insurance #Podcast" von Jonas Piela und durfte mit ihm über #TechnicalCoaching in der Softwareentwicklung sprechen – heute wurde diese Episode veröffentlicht 🤩 Viel Spaß beim Hören! 🎧 pielaco.com/podcast/ Stream-Links in den Kommentaren ⬇️

Thank you Tesco! That's always good to know 😅

In the wake of GitHub’s “CEO stepped down, no longer independent” news: Check out Codeberg — free Git hosting by a non-profit. No ads, no tracking, no corporate buyouts. codeberg.org #opensource #freesoftware #git #decentralization

Oldie but goldie 💛⭐️🏆 XMLUnit for #Java 2.10.3 was released a month ago, improving usage in #OSGi environments with the jakarta.xml.bind namespace. Many thanks to Stefan Bodewig for maintaining this project 🙏 github.com/xmlunit/xmlu...

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