This is the way. Working while running is the best working.

In this week's episode of tech podcast Asynchronous and Unreliable, @hollycummins.com and I chat about Lightswitch Ops, operational efficiency, security, Cloud Native architectures and the unexpectedly emergent superpower of turning things off and on again

Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

Happy Father's Day. Here's an excerpt from a 2002 essay by my dad, Vincent Mosco, who passed away two years ago. It's about how tech bros ignore history and repeat it again and again. carleton.ca/ces/wp-conte...

This is amazing and I want one. On the other hand, since I've used my Cricut cutting machine machine twice in six years of ownership, I'm not sure my "doing the cool things" keeps pace with my "acquiring the cool technologies."

Ahhh, @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social brings the magic from @devoxxpl.bsky.social, as always.

I've built a thing - thanks @quarkus.io, @kevindubois.com, @hollycummins.com and @hanno.codes!

At J-Spring, @felienne.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther King, quoting Thoreau, who apparently anticipated much of modern technology: "Improved means to an unimproved end." Maybe it's kind of comforting that complaints from 200 years ago are still relevant in these uncertain times?

Shall we have some accountability, and start calling them Farage-queues? #borders

Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

📣 I've created a new #quarkiverse extension - quarkus-flags, a lightweight and extensible feature flags/toggles/switches #quarkus extension: github.com/quarkiverse/... Feedback, feature requests and contributions are welcome🙏.

Announcing Endive, a WebAssembly runtime built natively for the JVM, now a Bytecode Alliance project. Zero native dependencies. One JAR, every OS. Check it out: endive.run bytecodealliance.org/articles/end...

I was playing around with #ClaudeCode and thought I'd see how it handles creating a new #SpringBoot project vs a @quarkus.io project. Prompt: I'd like to create a new <quarkus|spring boot> project Spring: $1.83 - 7m21s Quarkus: $0.4364 - 2m39s Look at the tokens counts!

Honored to be listed in the Top 5 for @nljug.bsky.social's upcoming #JSpring conference alongside these legends: @hollycummins.com @nipafx.dev @garnier.wf @jamesward.com

Ohhh, making an attack show only on Windows is clever - visible to most users, invisible to most developers. 😳

I'm starting to think I need to put image attributions on my slides. I've been reluctant to do that, because it seems self-aggrandising to waste space crediting myself. But, based on the questions I get after every talk, I'm starting to realise it's non-obvious that I'm doing my own illustrations.

An antimeme. No matter how many times monads are explained, nobody ever retains what it is.

Remember, kids, think carefully about your targets. If your leading indicator is "burn as much money as possible" your lagging indicator may not be what you think it is.

My #DevoxxUK slides about benchmarking gone bad are here, along with useful links: hollycummins.com/when-benchma...

The three Rs. It would be four if you included a pirate

Performance analysis is one of my favourite subjects, so very much looking forward to @hollycummins.com's talk at #devoxxUK. And she has written her own walk-on music! 🔊

The #devoxxUK talk by @hollycummins.com about performance did not disappoint! Excellent content and tons of great real world advice. Link to slides in the QR photo.

Of course I'm not finished my #DevoxxUK talk, I have a whole ... um ... half a day left to go. But I *am* pleased with this slide.

May the fourth be with you all. 🖤 "That's no moon ... it's our architecture."

We've found the droid you're looking for... Is it just us, or does the Temple of Apollo at Stourhead in Wiltshire bear a passing resemblance to R2D2? #StarWarsDay 📷Clive Nichols

Quarkus 3.35 has been released. Highlights: JAR tree-shaking, PGO for native builds, Semeru AOT, Transactional annotation support for Hibernate Reactive, and more. quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...

I think it would be epic to have a Game of Thrones intro-style map for every large codebase. Soundtrack included.

When benchmarks go bad - what I learned from measuring performance wrong by @hollycummins.com devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=20567 Authorization in Spring Security: permissions, roles and beyond by @garnier.wf devoxx.co.uk/talk/?id=5768

#DevoxxGr, the only conference where the moderators can pronounce @glycin.bsky.social's last name when introducing him.

Back hosting on Quarkus Insights - come see Holly, Franz and Eric talk about our recent benchmark efforts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTS2ppoHacI

If you saw my talk at #VoxxedAmsterdam, you'll have seen that my Minecraft demo had challenges, because spawned underwater (and if you didn't, it's here: hollycummins.com/quarkus-ridi...). I've now added controls to the Dev UI card so you can reset the spawn point without needing a server restart.

My Mac is complaining about memory. I just checked, and Firefox is using 79 GB. This might be a sign I need to close some tabs.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

How beautiful are these? A team designed parachutes where holes provide the air resistance, inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami. They can be aimed more precisely than conventional ones, and look way cooler. physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-i...

If you're attending Kubecon Europe today, make sure you check out "From Creepers to Clusters: Evolving Minecraft Into a Cloud Native Platform" with Jaden Walderich from 16:00 - 16:30 CET in Hall 7 in Room B. github.com/quarkusio/qu... #quarkusworldtour

Eeee, that's my data visualisation on the big screen! I'd be less excited if I hadn't foolishly implemented it using very low-level libraries where I practically had to lay each pixel by hand.

Currently at the biggest KubeCon event yet. Meanwhile, I wrote some reflections on an entirely different conference from last week, and why it was so special #MonkiGras2026: diginomica.com/monkigras-20...

Making your conference talk slides? Make the font bigger. Do it again. I know the default font looks ok when you’re looking at it on your laptop but I promise no one can read that from the back If you can’t fit all the words you want on one slide, you have too many words. Make another slide!

Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give #devopsish

For folks at #Monkigras curious about @commonhaus.org, I recorded a @redmonk.com MonkCast w @ebullient.dev: redmonk.com/blog/2024/11...

Great talk from IBM’s @hollycummins.com and @sannegrinovero.bsky.social on preparing to keep open source alive and well during the age of vibe coding #monkigras

This is going to look in retrospect like an obvious move but it's brilliant: asymco.com/2026/03/10/t...

Why do the same ideas keep coming back? @hollycummins.com closes QCon London on March 18 with "The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity." Find out more about the keynote: bit.ly/4uuBYzO

You have a talk idea. Yes, but… “I’m not ready.” “Yes, but… someone else is better.” Drop the “but.” Write the abstract. Press submit. 2026.javazone.no/speaker

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

Lots of good stuff just in this tiny clip, but "the anti-roadmap" is the one I'm going to go talk to my colleagues about.

There are only 2 categories of tools, paraphrasing Bjarne Stroustrup: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Be gentle to maintainers, especially when they do this on their free time :)

Installing autocompletion might be worth your while here: sdk use java 21 <TAB> With a good enough shell you can even TAB-navigate to your version of choice.