You are not your code. Speaking at Red Hat Developer Day in Aarhus about what happens to developer identity when AI writes the code for you? Not a hype talk. Not a doom talk. An honest one. https://maxandersen.github.io/presentations/youarenotyourcode

Made it to the main land to attend and present at Red Hat Developer Day at BankData in Aarhus!

nerdsniped again - tambocam; a webcam viewer for your terminal :) https://github.com/maxandersen/tambocam Because...why not? :)

What are text blocks in a TUI editor called when rendered into 3D ? vtixels ? https://github.com/tamboui/tamboui/pull/348

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...

#TamboUI - the first modern Java TUI library. It promises support ranging from low-level terminal drawing to high-level APIs, including components and event handling. Now at v0.3.0, it’s already being adopted by major projects like Maven & Spring. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4fKgoSL #InfoQ #Java

Nice InfoQ article about TamboUI https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/tamboui-java-tui/

The recent fixes @staalep.bsky.social been making to get aesh to match picocli features been really fun to do.

Working on picocli to aesh migration the last few weeks for JBang. The startup difference is amazing: 2-17x faster. JVM mode is now amazing but native mode is even faster. lesson learned again and again - reflection is a startup killer; build-time makes all the difference!

What he said! :)

A post about 3D object rendering in a terminal flew by my newsfeed today - couldn't resist and made draft PR for TamboUI https://github.com/tamboui/tamboui/pull/348

One thing I've always used #LLMs for is generating utility scripts. Back in the "ChatGPT is amazing!" days, I used them to help me write bash scripts because I'd always forget the syntax. Now, I use them to generate full-blown scripts, but more often I'm using #Java and #JBang (www.jbang.dev ). #ai

The video of my talk at Devoxx France with @maxandersen.xam.dk about #TamboUI, our Java TUI framework, is online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwp... Time to revisit your assumptions about Java in the terminal!

TamboUI 0.3 is out! Markdown viewer with streaming, unicode and bracketed paste support, even crispier images and more. See https://github.com/tamboui/tamboui/releases/tag/v0.3.0

If you are into opensource, performance and just cool technical conversations give Lex Friedmans latest podcast with contributors from ffmpeg and VLC a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepKKz-MzFM

FYI @mojavelinux.com

Meet lazyslide: Render asciidoc decks, serve them locally, watch for changes, and bootstrap new talks with one command. Built for people who’d rather ship slides than fight tooling. jbang app install lazyslide@maxandersen https://maxandersen.github.io/lazyslide

Yesterday I spoke at Claude Code for Developers in Odense - less than 15 min from my doorstep. Felt good to connect closer to home. Topic was “How AI Coding Agents Actually Worked” and slides you can find here: https://maxandersen.github.io/presentations/how-does-coding-agents-actually-work/

Reminder that we’ll have Meet Quarkus Session at Devoxx France at 17:00 in room 243 I got bricks to share :) https://youtu.be/6zFla1JpKBU

jbank & caucus :)

JVM et terminal, je ne pouvais pas louper @maxandersen.xam.dk et @melix.champeau.me à @devoxx.fr et on parle de TamboUI (Tambouille, juste pour le nom 😍)

What he said! :)

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

So much for preparing for Devoxx. Got a Stream Deck+ yesterday, had an idea, and 5 minutes later a freshly hacked Quarkus + TamboUI app was feeding it live status from the agents running on my laptop. This is either progress or a cry for help.

Ported skills.sh from TypeScript to Java+Quarkus in one AI-assisted session. 196 tests, ~10ms native binary, zero Node.js. https://maxandersen.github.io/jskills/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxrydahlandersen_the-agent-skills-directory-activity-7451209487178297344-4JDT

Friday rant: The amount of mismatch Microsoft 365, Sharepoint and Box can make of a simple share between 2-3 people is amazing. Google Docs is so much better suited for collaboration. I loved using Microsoft Word in the 90ies, but boy have it not adapted to this century

Next week Zineb and I are hosting "Meet with Quarkus". It's my first Devoxx France so looking forward to it and especially since Markus Eisele brought me a few gifts to share :) https://youtu.be/6zFla1JpKBU

Try this in your maven project: mvn eu.maveniverse.maven.plugins:pilot:RELEASE:pilot So Happy to see Tamboui being used to improve developer UX for Java world! Good stuff from @gnodet and @cstamas happening in https://github.com/maveniverse

Much ❤️ for @almiray on his comments on what been missing in Java in latest The Marco Show #jbang #tamboui #picocli #jreleaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jts62hWkRO8&t=3048s

I ported nanocode, a minimal AI coding agent, from Python to Java. 261 lines, one file, zero frameworks. Just JBang, Jackson, and a loop. Want more try quarkus.ai https://xam.dk/blog/nanocode-coding-agent-in-260-lines-of-java/

1/ My kids go to an online school. Schedules, weekly plans, materials — scattered across Google Drive, learning portals, and email. Every week I'd spend 1-2 hours piecing it all together. Now it takes ~2 minutes. Here's how 👇

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" - United States President official communication! United States Citizens - please f**king revolt ASAP!

Awesome photo of Earth by Artemis from https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o with caption: "The Earth appears upside down..." No. The Earth is exactly where it has always been. It's your internal map that's keeping your perception locked into an imperfect model of reality.

Go touch water.

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate we are now finally once again sending out humans to the frontier of space. Safe travels to the crew on Artemis.

Quarkus Community Calls are every 2 weeks - todays topic is kafka and kafka queues. Starting just now :) https://meet.google.com/jka-uhzd-fby

🎉 IBM Bob 1.0.1 is now available! main thing for me is that it now starts to support skills - and this post was posted by my social media skill :) https://bob.ibm.com/download

Your git diff could be better. diffnav gives you GitHub's file tree in the terminal - tree view on the left, diffs on the right. Search, jump between files, syntax highlighting. brew install dlvhdr/formulae/diffnav git config --global pager.diff diffnav

At 51 and this drops on me and it hits even more true than the first time I listened to it the first time almost 20 years ago. Always worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

Java 26 quietly ships `-Xlog:cpu`, and it’s a perfect match with jbang. Run `jbang --java 26 -R=-Xlog:cpu <yourapp>` to see per-thread CPU stats without attaching a profiler. Handy way to sanity-check GC/VM activity.

OSS folks: how are you shipping AI skills and plugins so committers can keep experimenting while users get something stable? How do you handle contributor vs company Claude Code and AI tool setups without fragmenting things? Drop examples, repos, or horror stories.

Java 26 is out today! Fastest way to try it: jbang init --java 26 hello.java ./hello.java Congrats on the release @java and enjoy!

Quarkus isn’t just about making Java fast. It is about making Java competitive with the best developer experiences across ecosystems. Nice to see .NET comparisons already using our new benchmark repo and highlighting DX. github.com/quarkusio/qu...

"...if you have anything proprietary you become this thing where everyone just want to run around you..." Lots of interesting quotes and observations in this youtu.be/aFsAOu2bgFk?...

OpenAI's behaviour is just not right here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ux1... Want to reduce/get off my openai usage. What sucks is Claude doesn't seem to have the parental controls that OpenAI offers - anyone know of better options as waiting until 18 to learn to use AI also isn't a good option?

We have a Quarkus team meeting this week and this is thus far my favourite slide - title need to be spoken out with an awesome accent :)

Pushing JFR beyond "just" profiling. POC of having TamboUI emit (efficient) breadcrumbs of element tree and the regenerate a hi-res custom html allowing to introspect/replay frames. Great for layout behaves as expected :)

Java Flight Recorder is such an underutilised feature of Java - very few probably realise it’s available in Java 8 and onward. Allowing for portable and efficient introspection of your app and frameworks. What’s the reason you don’t use it ?

Leyden integration with Quarkus! Quarkus now gives you three efficient execution models (jvm, leyden, native-image) with one framework and one codebase. All possible because of Quarkus architecture focusing on build-time optimizations and a full platform of extensions! Great stuff to see and use

We live in a fascinating era. You release a framework in early version, a few days later popup apps that use it. #TamboUI