Last chance folks - our CFP closes at midnight tonight! We're looking forward to a busy day and lots of submissions. Good luck to all of you who are making final tweaks and finessing your proposals. You got this 💪 Submit ➡️ devoxxuk26.cfp.dev 6&7 May 2026 | London

Friday 9th January is the closing date for our CFP. We've had lots of brilliant submissions already and our reviewers are working hard to get through them all - they'd love to hear your ideas too! Upload your submission here devoxxuk26.cfp.dev 6&7 May 2026 | London See you there!

​Before the 2026 grind starts, a look back at 2025: ​My "not a DevRel" stats: 🎤 5 Conferences (3 new ones!) 🤝 1 Meetup ✍️ 1 Blog post 🇳🇱 Joined #ArnhemJUG team While still being Lead Dev at Team Relentless. But now as an internal developer at #tennet ​Hope to see a lot of you in 2026

We had an innovation sprint, and this time we also had a small #hackathon 6 hours to build something cool. I won the "most innovative award" with a small app that shows when a build had failed and an LLM tries to summarize the Jenkins console log to give me direct feedback on why a build has failed

New on Foojay: A step-by-step guide by Jago de Vreede on publishing a Java Maven project to Maven Central, employing JReleaser and GitHub Actions. Get the 2025 Guide here: foojay.io/today/how-to... #Java #Maven #GitHub

I've updated the guide on how to publish Java projects to Maven Central on @foojay.io foojay.io/today/how-to...

📣 Our call for papers is OPEN! Got an idea to share? This is your moment to inspire the developer community. Tracks Include: 🔸Java 🔸Architecture 🔸Dev Practices 🔸People & Culture 🔸Data 🔸Languages 🔸Build & Deploy 🔸Mind The Geek Submit your proposal now ➡️ devoxxuk26.cfp.dev

I've just released a new version of the semver-check maven plugin, this version can better detect changes in return types, and has better annotation control. Of course it's available in maven central. github.com/jagodevreede...

Just finished the september edition of #arnhemJUG, starring @hansolo.eu and Tim Nederhoff @Tennet. Hope to see you again at the next meetup on oktober 30th

Our next #JCON2025 session is live: '#Java developer-friendly frontends: Build #UIs without the #JavaScript hassle' with Jago de Vreede Have you ever needed to build a #UI as a #backend #developer but didn’t want to … Grab your coffee and hit play: youtu.be/voxFwPkVgPA#JCON2025#UIs#JavaScript#UI#backend#developer#JCON #productivity

The ArnhemJUG is on break and will be back at TenneT on the 25th of September. With @hansolo.eu on "We hate code - The !joy of maintaining dead code" and Tim Nederhoff with "Rethinking Automated Testing through Failure". You can already sign up here: www.meetup.com/arnhemjug/ev...

As a evening person, I did a 6 o'clock 5k morning run 🏃. With a very nice sunrise, and still nice temperature. Ready for a new hottest day in the Netherlands 😎🌞

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

Today was a fun and busy day, bit of work. Giving a small performance with the orchestra to 2 elementary schools. Then the #ArnhemJug meetup @alliander.bsky.social with @ammbra1508.bsky.social and Boyen van Gorp

Just finished my presentation about what we have learned with Quarkus in the last 3 years at @TenneTTSO. Slides can be found here www.slideshare.net/slideshow/3-...

Let's start the second day of @devoxxpl.bsky.social with @jagovreede.bsky.social sharing his experience with @quarkus.io. #devoxxPL

The unofficial @devoxxpl.bsky.social speakers' tour, led by sincerely yours, will start at 18:00 today, at the main entrance of the venue. CU

Ahh lovely smell of kerosene, remind me of conferences. This time I am heading to #devoxxpl

New #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek are published on www.jfx-central.com/links Thanks to @johanvos.bsky.social Pavel Castornii Gavin Lee Moutoux JPro Kensoft PH @jagovreede.bsky.social Richard Baldwin @apidia.net @dlemmermann.bsky.social Pavel Castornii @frankdelporte.be @foojay.io

You can now catch up on @jagovreede.bsky.social ’s Devoxx UK 2025 session "Building a Native Multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX." Discover how to transform SDKMAN into a graphical interface, compile with GraalVM, and distribute across platforms. See here - buff.ly/yZRSIPj

Good morning @jcon.one

Now that devoxxUK is behind me, I can focus on a new talk for @jcon.one . As you can see, I like frontends ;) However, I'm a Java developer at heart, so let's compare 3 non-Javascript ways of building a frontend. Come in and see on Thursday May 15th 11:30

It's time to say goodbye again, but the last 2 days have been a blast @devoxx.uk. Time to my kids again. But I'll leave you with a nice saying that I've learned at the talk from @basdegroot.bsky.social "offer hypothesis instead of challenging opinions".

That’s @jagovreede.bsky.social giving @jreleaser.org some love at @devoxx.uk 🤩🚀

Almost time for my multiplatform native Java application talk here at @devoxx.uk in the exec center

@devoxx.uk is already next week!🥳 There will be several great GraalVM sessions from our team and community, covering Native Image, embedding languages, and even building UI applications with GraalVM — make sure to add them to your schedule! www.devoxx.co.uk/search-resul... #Java #GraalVM #Devoxx

Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2025? See Jago de Vreede at #JCON2025 in Cologne talking about '#Java developer-friendly frontends: Build UIs without the #JavaScript hassle' Have you ever needed to build a #UI as a backend #developer but didn’t want to dive deep … Get your free #JUG Ticket: www.jcon.one

I've just released version 0.3.1 of #SDKman-UI. Small release with usability fixes. Now sorts version numbers correctly, and no longer bugs users about environment settings (setting in config). And some more little stuff, grab it here: github.com/jagodevreede...

#eatingwhileothersareworking with @alina-yurenko.bsky.social and yes the cookies are tasty 😉 at #JavaOne

Slides for building a native multiplatform sdkman ui from my #javaone session are here www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bu...

All set for my first talk on behalf of #tennet at #JavaOne in room 105

Went for a walk this morning and found a Dutch windmill and tulips... In San Francisco...

What better way of spending waiting for the plane for #javaone then to submit more sessions to other conferences like #j-spring

Excited about SDKMAN? Join @jagovreede.bsky.social at Devoxx UK 2025 for "Building a native multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX". Learn to transform SDKMAN into a graphical interface, create native apps with JavaFX and GraalVM, and explore cross-platform solutions. View talk @ buff.ly/wupo4o3

Lol @glycin.bsky.social has just blown up his demo with the demo of his other talk...

Tomorrow I'll give a sneak preview of my #javaone talk about native multiplatform in Java at the @brabantjug.nl also @andresalmiray.com will be there taking about Going beyond ORMs www.meetup.com/nl-NL/braban...

Another tip by @jagovreede.bsky.social: "I’ve played around with realtime audio processing (reading) in android and used github.com/JorenSix/Tar... and that did the trick for me, maybe that could be a start?"

I've just got good news that 'Building a native multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX' has been accepted for Devoxx UK 2025 😀

Very interesting talks by @andresalmiray.com and @jagovreede.bsky.social on the next Brabant JUG at February 25th: www.meetup.com/brabant-jug/...

New video on our website: "JavaFX In Action with @jagovreede.bsky.social about SDKman UI". An interview by @frankdelporte.be. www.jfx-central.com/videos/t7CRO... #java #javafx #jfxinaction #javafxinaction

TL;DR: Switch to QEMU if you are still on VirtualBox To test SDKman-ui I need virtual machines, and I've been using VirtualBox for a long time. Yesterday I came across QEMU. And ow boy it's 2-3x faster 🏎️

SDKman UI now runs on arch by the way... Just released 0.3.0 github.com/jagodevreede... for both Linux (x86) and Osx (arm). It also has improved search.

Hey would you look at that The Netherlands is (currently) number one with the number of proposals to @devoxx.uk you can still submit until the 11th of Jan. devoxxuk25.cfp.dev

How cool is this #JavaOne

SDKman-UI is now also available for x86 OSX. I've just released v0.2.0 github.com/jagodevreede...

I've created an early-access build for aarch64 binary for Mac of SKDman-UI. Unfortunately, I can't test that one because I don't have an M MacBook. Does anyone with an M MacBook want to see if it works? github.com/jagodevreede...