Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

GitHub Copilot App modernization is not just for Java any more! Check out this public preview feature that lets you modernize your @nodejs.org app using GitHub Copilot. developer.microsoft.com/blog/jsts-mo...

youtu.be/O6kVawdObM8 Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet. I guess we haven't lost it after all. Ed

@glycin.bsky.social For some old school game timing, check out Racing The Beam youtu.be/sJFnWZH5FXc

Kristi Noem's actions call attention to what a joke the Hatch Act is. Violations with only civil penalties mean nothing to people so well aligned with getting and keeping power.

67 years ago, one of my personal heroes Edward R. Murrow, delivered his famous "wires and lights in a box" speech at the Radio and Television News Director's Assocation dinner. Read it: www.rtdna.org/murrows-famo... or hear it: youtu.be/AIhy0T7Q48Y

I hope IBM's project Bob finds PMF better than Microsoft Bob did. venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-claim... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...

This blog post from the @jakarta.ee Platform Project lays out our position and involvement with AI. TL;DR: lots of activity. jakarta.ee/blogs/open-s...

Happy Tonsure Abandonment Day to all who celebrate. www.ridingthecrest.com/edburns/1972... Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...) www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a... beardoholic.com/monk-haircut/

Many thanks to @cescoffier.bsky.social and the @quarkus.io team for extracting the MCP content from Quarkus MCP and taking steps to having a vendor-neutral Java MCP at github.com/smallrye/sma...

I was today years old when I learned I could press `command` + `return` on a selected file in macOS Spotlignt to open Finder on the file, rather than opening the file.

Did you miss my and Arjan Tijms Jakarta Tech Talk yesterday? Watch the recording of "Jakarta EE 11: Whats New and Why You Should Care" on YouTube! youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava

Come see me talk about @langchain4j.dev at IBM TechExchange October 6 - 9 in Orlando, USA. reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...

Greetings from Sliabh Liag Cliffs, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.

@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social completed her Lego Duke on stage in front of several hundred people in a matter of minutes. I finally finished mine months later.

@phillies.com Do it for Chuck from Mt. Airy. hnatee.com/product/do-i...

Yeah brother @caltrain.com switched to overhead power last September! Coolest thing in the Bay Area since Pong!

The Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index report is out: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/04... "every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years." This tracks with my lived experience.

This paper asks this question, "What paid work, then, will remain for human beings to do?" The answer is not encouraging: "not ‘none at all.’" Anyhow, get ready: knightcolumbia.org/content/what...

I went through this list on the former bird site (x.com/i/lists/2216...) and searched for all the analogs here. I created this list with the result. bsky.app/profile/did:...

This forty-one (41) year old article from Texas Monthly, about the rise and fall of the TI-99/4A computer, has some lessons for AI vendors today. My fav: open architectures win. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Fun fact. USA is ranked 35 of 173 on the World Banks, Human Capital Index. After Lithuania and tied with Belarus. data.worldbank.org/indicator/HD...

I spent some hours on the phone helping my 86-year-old mom get reimbursed from the hsabank.com account that administers her retiree plan. It was a horrible experience. Yet, as a Trump supporter, she still wants to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I asked AI why...

Jetzt leider bin ich am ende meine drei wochige JUG und @javaland.bsky.social Tournee 2025. Ohne alle die gute alte und neue Freunde, und auch die unterstützung meines Arbeitgeber, würde dieser Reise ünmöglich sein. Vielen Danke alle.

Make sure you attend "Easily create your own AI-infused Java apps with LangChain4j" with Dimitris Andreadis, Georgios Andrianakis, Kevin Dubouis, & Ionnis Cannellos at Devoxx Greece. github.com/quarkusio/qu... #quarkusworldtour

Ausgerechnet in Bad Rappenau, habe ich den Bikini von Prinzessin Leia gesehen.

When I do @javaland.bsky.social , I leave it all out there at the show. 2 lectures, 1 panel, 1 game show, 1 lego competition, 1 workshop, and many booth hours But most of all so much love. ❤️ I hope I am blessed to come back next year.

So I spent more than a month struggling with migrating a project from jdk7 to jdk21 ... only to know that I can integrate Github Copilot into my intellij IDE during @edburns.bsky.social session at #javaland 😬😬

@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social Jetzt gehts los!

Gestern Abend beim @javaland.bsky.social Welcome dinner. @dvanross.bsky.social @fschwic.bsky.social @berndmuller.bsky.social @javaforumnord.bsky.social @zahlenzauberer.bsky.social @mcpringle.bsky.social

Get information about the recent Red Hat announcement and its influence on Quarkus with this blog post by Max Rydahl Andersen quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...

Aufs Weg zur @javaland.bsky.social mit @ivargrimstad.bsky.social .

Dude. I fuckin love Bielefeld. @alexandergitarre.bsky.social

DE: Wir hatten gestern @edburns.bsky.social zu Gast. Da das Event ausgebucht war, haben wir etwas improvisiert ein Recording produziert youtu.be/gP7bS5YnfvU EN: Yesterday, Ed Burns gave a talk at our JUG. Here comes the recording with our improvised setup ;)

Learn how to Observe @quarkus.io Apps with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry in this excellent blog post from my colleague Jianguo Ma: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonA...

Volle Gas Leberkäse

Emojis in motion

Lost half a work day today due to gpg commit signing suddenly ceasing to function. Had to rebuild my whole commit signing thing from a backup. Oof.

I hope @anthropic.com takes the responsibility of keeping MCP an open standard seriously. A great sign would be their use of an established standards body such as IEEE. Does anyone see that happening?

This guide from IBM shows how to deploy @openlibertyio.bsky.social on Azure Kubernetes Service. openliberty.io/guides/cloud...

Going to @javaland.bsky.social ? Here's my traditional "session picks" blog post! I'm giving a full day workshop with bonus career consulting and $50 Azure credit. Check it out! www.ridingthecrest.com/blog/2025/02... dev.to/edburns00/ed... @adambien.blog @ahus1.de @andresalmiray.com (continued)

I looked briefly into SWE-bench (www.swebench.com). Correct me if I'm wrong, but if models like Claude Sonnet 3.7 are using SWE-bench performance as a selling point, and SWE-bench is mostly Python, isn't that not a good measure of industry performance, given that most business code is Java?

If you are in #SEA terminal N and fancy some #atari action, check out SkyGamerz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxAp...

Want to see how Microsoft Open Standard Enterprise Java on Azure (@jakartaee.bsky.social and #MicroProfile) implements the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI)? See this blog post: aka.ms/java/ee/blog... .

In case you missed it, the Awesome azd template library now includes a Microsoft authored template that deploys @jakartaee.bsky.social Cargo Tracker with @langchain4j.dev powered shortest-path navigation using @openlibertyio.bsky.social Azure Kubernetes Service. See azure.github.io/awesome-azd/... .

There are still places in my JavaLand training day workshop: "Java with AI on Azure". Learn the newest AI assisted techniques. A USD $100 Azure credit is provided to all participants. Includes 30-minute 1:1 career counseling session teleconference. meine.doag.org/events/javal...

Show me some nonsense you have been carrying around in your wallet or purse for years for no reason. I'll start.

@illinifball.bsky.social Has won the Cheez-Itz Citrus Bowl! Here is the incomperable Three-in-one from the game day rehearsal Marching Illini! youtu.be/xKGIQTbD2hk

My team at Microsoft is very excited to announce a private preview of new features to make it easy to deploy your Java apps to Microsoft Azure. See aka.ms/azd-java-pre...