The engineer-manager pendulum model no longer accurately reflects how engineering leadership operates. Most of us aren’t just an IC or a manager. Technology has forced us to live somewhere in the middle. I wrote about what this actually looks like now: www.modernleader.is/p/pendulum-r...

I created a Dynamic Badge Generator with #Quarkus, #QuickJS4j, #Batik, and a Qute UI playground. You can build your own custom SVG/PNG badges… including a Quarkus-powered preset gallery. It’s creative, nerdy, and surprisingly useful. And yes, I wrote JavaScript. It hurt a little. 😅 buff.ly/Z4ZmZMv

The Marco Show is back with a new episode! Marco and @kevindubois.com (IBM, Quarkus team) discuss the evolution of Java: cloud, AI, GraalVM, hot reloads, and the Quarkus revolution. Watch now and join the giveaway! https://youtu.be/IRqTbgC2JLU #TheMarcoShow #Java #Developers #Quarkus #SpringBoot

PhD Defense day, and guess who woke up earlier than usual? 😆

I'm beyond excited that our book finished production and is available now on O'Reilly and as ebook on Amazon. The printed books will be available within the next few weeks! If you're looking for a Christmas gift, just saying 😉 www.oreilly.com/library/view... @natalevinto.bsky.social

Protip: the Apple EarPods are cheap headphones, still the microphone is perfect. Great for calls, and there’s no Bluetooth/battery.

The LED ambient lighting in my car was having random issues (e.g., some portions would turn off). The fix? A user profile reset 😆🤦‍♂️

Includes "Minecraft as an Observability Client" #JustSaying

Ever wanted to see live data stream through your Java app — without WebSockets or Kafka? This hands-on tutorial shows how to build a real-time leaderboard using #Quarkus + #gRPC + Mutiny. Reactive, fast, and ridiculously clean. 👇 Read it here: buff.ly/zFshU8G #Java #ReactiveProgramming

Reactive Java Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: Quarkus Makes It Simple Master asynchronous programming in Java without the usual complexity. buff.ly/p4EL1za #Java #Quarkus #Reactive #Mutiny

Blog: « Moving from Zsh to the Fish Shell is Easy » julien.ponge.org/posts/moving...

Same. Some parts can be helpful but the majority of completions contains syntax errors. Haven’t found a way to decline these with a reason.

Rant: I can't stand the IntelliJ and VSCode AI-powered completions. This is making me loose so much time. The worse thing is when I had it disabled, but some update re-enabled it back just in case I would miss out on how awesome coding with a LLM is (spoiler alert: it is not).

(comic) Ticket Beneficiaries

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Great talk by @hollycummins.com at Lindholmen developer day. As a data person and as someone who used to work with healthcare this resonated a lot: "don't make human tell computer things the computer already knows". It is so key but so often neglected in practice (&definitely a thief of joy) #databs

Released 12 years ago, still a banger: Jody Wisternoff - Starstrings (Revamp) youtu.be/ItTZGHA-T1U

Can We Know Whether a Profiler is Accurate? Spoiler: yes we can! But it took us figuring out a way to work around the fundamental observer effect. stefan-marr.de/2025/10/can-... If you're at SPLASH, don't miss our talk at VMIL today and at OOPSLA on Saturday!

Updates from October 2025: julien.ponge.org/posts/update...

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

There's a part of me who badly wants to use the Fish shell, and another one who lazily sticks to a ZSH setup 😄 fishshell.com

I’ve managed to update my Jekyll website yesterday, but I had to use an old Ruby and gems combo. julien.ponge.org I’m starting a migration to Hugo, it’s quite compelling once you get the mental model.

J’enchaîne avec « Les meilleures excuses pour ne pas adopter Quarkus » par @julien.ponge.org

Des démos qui me parlent 💞

Day 1 at @volcampio.bsky.social and also first time speaking as a @java-champions.bsky.social 😎

I find it amusing how modern JavaScript and plain built-in browser APIs are already compelling. I’m not saying React is useless, but you don’t always need to go that far.

May the demo gods be with me. I think I'm an AI expert now. Powered by Quarkus, Langchain4J, Ollama, llama3.1 and even some function call magic.

I just discovered you could type LaTeX in MS Word equations 😱

The other day I saw a devrel from the Java team at Oracle use `oha` for load testing: github.com/hatoo/oha Fancy tool, with an animated terminal UI, and of course, written in Rust, because, ... well. (1/2)

Hey @developers.google.com, you're making me cope with this annoyance with alarming frequency. You know and I know that uBlock Origin is the single most useful Chrome extension ever written. When I can no longer use it, I'll no longer use Chrome.

I used to enjoy reading the DHH of many years ago, when he had hot takes and out of the box thinking on software development practices and business. The DHH of today… well, no thank you.

(comic) Deal or No Deal

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website (with a lot of help from other folks who work on the website) git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

For my keynote with @sannegrinovero.bsky.social from at www.redhat.com/en/events/de..., I am experimenting with @graalvm.org native image, @kotlinlang.org, and @quarkus.io and it works great! Instant startup, low memory footprint, and high throughput. Check it out here: github.com/thomaswue/na...

It's a pro con

✍️ How modern browsers work addyo.substack.com/p/how-modern... - my write-up on browser internals for web developers

TFW you encounter an XKCD ref in the wild #opensource #JourneyZone

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I wanted to update my employment information on my Jekyll-based website, but I'm struggling with my project Ruby setup. I might as well finally make the plunge to Hugo. Any tips?

🎶 I’m blue, da ba dee da ba da 🎶😄

Le 1er trophée en F1 d’Isack Hadjar s’est brisé lors de la célébration d’équipe… 😱 #f1 #dutchgp

Piastri and Hadjar on a podium. Perfect!

End of an era. Thanks Red Hat for these great years! Looking forward to starting at IBM on Monday! (and no, I won’t stop making jokes about jsonx)

uBlock Origin Lite might bring me back to Safari.

As a JUG leader, I sure hope in-person events aren't dying off, but it sure seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep this all going. www.brentozar.com/archive/2025...

That's proper DJ-ing 🥳 The Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak & Dave One) youtu.be/bqggG4lRpc0?...

Wishlist for the next few months: grab an Ableton license and get back into electronic music experiments 😇

This is my last week as a Red Hat employee. Very happy to have been part of it!

Does anyone have good Outlook productivity tips? (for work / corp email obviously)

"Day Off" 🫠