This was five years ago. The tyrant responsible is now our president, and doing his best to turn our erstwhile democracy into an autocratic oligarchy.

There was a great talk at re:Invent about the Oct. 25 us-east-1 outage! My impressions on the talk are here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/14/a...

thanks for attending the Seattle Java User Group last night @jonatan-ivanov.bsky.social @cowtowncoder.bsky.social @seattlejug.bsky.social Slides are available here: docs.google.com/presentation...

Another great talk tonight at SeaJUG! www.meetup.com/seajug/event... -- any local corporations interested in sponsorship? Spots available!

thank you @timtebeek.github.io ⭐ #openrewrite

One of the tools that really made a difference for me as a software engineer in the past few years is @openrewrite.github.io. Kudos to the team and special thanks to @timtebeek.github.io for introducing me to it and providing guidance for using it and working with it effectively 🙏🏻 /1

On our next @seattlejug.bsky.social event (Nov. 18th) @tinyrobots.bsky.social is going to talk about Dependency management for #Java applications www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

join us on Tuesday November 4 2025 at the Portland Java User Group meetup #pdxtech "Dependency Management for Java applications" RSVP www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

Portland Java User Group meeting Tuesday November 4 2025 “Dependency Management for Java applications” speaker: Sean Sullivan

Finally managed to squeeze the follow-up (to "Jackson 3.0 released") blog post out -> cowtowncoder.medium.com/why-upgrade-...

thank you for the quick review! @timtebeek.github.io #OpenRewrite #testcontainers

You come at the king, you best not miss

thank you @timtebeek.github.io 🚀 #openrewrite

On the principle of “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” this article fails to reach even a low bar. I mean the article — which I read three times — not just the headline. We can only conclude that the "extraordinary claims require... " principle is not in use for this protagonist.

One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!

New blog post on the trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...

Community Over Code 2025 "Dependency Management for Java applications" #CommunityOverCode docs.google.com/presentation...

flying to Minneapolis for #CommunityOverCode @apache.org

This is not what democracy looks like.

The funniest thing about this tweet is that he helped elect a president who is banning wind and solar power projects when the entire AI industry is in an electricity crunch. The leopards are really feasting on faces here.

From CNN: "Zelensky meeting shows how the White House has remade the press corps to Trump’s liking." www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/m...

As president you can just rewrite history. LOL.

Incidents happen because people do things that have always worked successfully, up until the incident. Doing something that always worked in the past is completely rational!

I will be visiting Minneapolis in September to present "Dependency management for Java applications" at Community Over Code communityovercode.org/schedule/ #CommunityOverCode #ApacheMaven

slides from my S3 presentation at the NYC Iceberg meetup #ApacheIceberg docs.google.com/presentation...

NYC Iceberg meetup @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social

NYC Iceberg meetup @gamussa.dev

today (July 10) I am giving a presentation about #S3 at the NYC Iceberg meetup #ApacheIceberg

Musk is on X complaining about the “Big Beautiful Bill” again and Trump has dismissed him as just being salty because there aren’t EV tax credits in it. Ironic to spend $250M getting the Leopards Eating Faces Party elected only for them to eat your face.

This is not what democracy looks like. We're well on our way to "dear leader" territory.

OpenRewrite v8.56.0 is here! 🏕 🔀 Pattern matching for switch recipes 🔐 Post-quantum cryptography recipes ⚪ Netty 4.2 upgrade recipe ➕ Comprehensive Apache HttpClient 5 migration 📜 New logging best practices 🐛 Groovy parser fixes 🙏 24 new contributors and 129 new recipes! github.com/openrewrite/...

added an OpenRewrite recipe for Netty Thanks for the quick review @timtebeek.github.io

DASH NYC #dash2025

attended Kevin Bigler’s DASH presentation #dash2025

My 2025 presentations: 🟧 Netty - Portland 🟧 Netty - Montreal 🟧 S3 - Boston 🟧 S3 - Chicago

This article links tech layoffs that started in 2022 to a Section 174 change in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which ended immediate R&D write-offs. The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.

S3 at the Chicago Java User Group speakerdeck.com/sullis/amazo...

Economic reports are being delayed and redacted for running counter to the narrative that tariffs are helping the economy and fixing trade deficits. As more damage from Trump’s policies hurts the economy, the more censorship and manipulation of data will occur.

The Trump administration is well on its way to applying the philosophy of “If we stop testing, we’ll have fewer cases” from the COVID era to economic data. I expected this to happen during his first administration and was surprised when it didn’t. It looks like it’s happening this time around.

“I voted for a bill and didn’t know what was in it. “ - MTG At this point I’m confident there is a contest among Republican government officials to see who is the worst at doing the job we pay them to do.

tonight: Chicago Java User Group meetup

Read it a weep. Science is one of the things America does best, and it's being destroyed right before our eyes. The destruction is almost certainly illegal, but that doesn't make it less harmful.

This is not what democracy looks like.

Spring Boot 3.5 is here with exciting improvements! 🙌 Before you upgrade, join Code Remix Weekly, where we’ll walk through Spring Boot 3.5 migration coverage using OpenRewrite and Moderne.🏋️ ⏯️ Watch live tomorrow, May 28.

About 25% of Harvard’s students are international. Every week there is new damage being caused to America’s institutions and reputation. Increasingly some of this damage will be irreparable.

Join me in fifteen minutes for Better Assertions with AssertJ @springio.net room 5!

Most slides for ConFoo 20205 can be found on our git repo. github.com/confooca/2025

"The future of biomedical research [amounts to] a race to see whether the biomedical research community can mobilize politically, access that vast but latent political power, before the White House can do enough sustained damage to make the whole question moot." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

OpenRewrite 🤝 Jackson 3 @openrewrite.github.io @cowtowncoder.bsky.social