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"We replaced Salesforce with a vibe-coded CRM built for our own workflows…That decision cut a $600,000 annual software bill to zero." - Fred Turner, CEO of Curative — Maintaining software isn’t free so the annual cost isn’t actually zero. We can only judge efforts like these after a year or more.
Dependency Management revisited paluch.biz/2026/07/07/d...
Dependency Management revisited
Ten or fifteen years ago, dependency management was mostly periodic maintenance. A framework release here, a library release there, an occasional build plugin update, and usually enough time to make a...
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Code Remix Summit Dependency Management for Java applications today at 10:30 AM eastern #openrewrite @openrewrite.github.io
the next Portland Java User Group meetup is Tuesday April 14 This month’s topic is: AI Assisted Software Development Presented by: Sean Sullivan @tinyrobots.bsky.social
tonight February 24 Portland Java User Group meetup www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event... Modern developer experience on WildFly presented by James Perkins
Modern developer experience on WildFly, Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Has your view of Enterprise Java evolved with the platform? In this session, James R. Perkins (Jakarta EE & Jakarta REST Co-Lead) dives into the modern developer experience
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How was one of the most loved programming languages - Kotlin - created, and what is next after it? This is a rare and special conversation with Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav, with so many fascinating details on how Kotlin became the global success as it is today. youtu.be/ZggUn2mNqMU (cont'd)
A presentation so nice, I'm doing it twice. I'll be delivering my Building Reliable Workflows in Java talk again on Feb 24th, this time in Seattle. If you're a Java (or Kotlin!) developer, come hear all about what you can do with DBOS. www.meetup.com/seajug/event...
Building Reliable workflows in Java, Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Details** So you have a new Workflow in your application. Let's say that it has 20 steps in the workflow * What happens if the instance handling the workflow goes down *
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Today on Code Remix Weekly, Sam Snyder will show how Claude Skills can be used to write, run, and analyze #OpenRewrite recipes more effectively while reducing prompt overhead and improving reliability. 🤖 🔴 Watch live at 21:00 CET / 3 PM ET
Code Remix Weekly | Mod with Claude: Upskill your agent
On this episode of Code Remix Weekly, Sam Snyder shows how Claude Skills can be used to write, run, and analyze #OpenRewrite recipes more effectively while r...
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Have you noticed this? I have. "The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade." That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
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People who should have known better voted for this failed businessman because they thought he'd be good for the economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...
Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
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tonight in Portland Oregon: Portland Java User Group Tuesday January 27 2026 Building Reliable workflows in Java - Using DBOS #java #pdxtech RSVP: www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...
Building Reliable workflows in Java - Using DBOS, Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup
**Agenda** 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm - Pizza and Intro 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm - Presentation **Details** So you have a new Workflow in your application. Let's say that it has 20 steps
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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...
AWS re:Invent talk on their Oct ’25 incident
Last month, I made the following remark on LinkedIn about the incident that AWS experienced back in October. To Amazon’s credit, there was a deep dive talk on the incident at re:Invent! OK, i…
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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!
Dependency management for Java applications, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Modern Java systems utilize hundreds (or thousands) of dependencies. Each additional dependency adds complexity to the application development process. Java developers need
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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...
Dependency management for Java applications, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Modern Java systems utilize hundreds (or thousands) of dependencies. Each additional dependency adds complexity to the application development process. Java developers need
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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-...
Why upgrade to Jackson 3.0?
(if you are happy with Jackson 2.x functionality)
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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.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 10mo agoUnreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.
One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!
Jackson Release 3.0
Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.
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New blog post on the trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...
The hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts
A progressive rollout refers to the act of rolling out some new functionality gradually rather than all at once. This means that, when you initially deploy it, the change only impacts a fraction of…
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Community Over Code 2025 "Dependency Management for Java applications" #CommunityOverCode docs.google.com/presentation...
Dependency Management for Java - 2025-09-11
Sean Sullivan Community Over Code September 2025 Dependency Management for Java applications
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