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Spring AI in Action - Craig Walls Use Spring AI to add generative AI features like virtual assistants, text summaries, and suggestions to your Java applications. No matter what kind of software you’re building, there’s a huge demand ...

Now if there were only some published resource available to get started with Spring AI. 🤔

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It’s happening.

Yesterday at the Spring AI workshop, a Python developer told me his company decided to build their AI platform with Java+Spring AI.

He mentioned the transition was smooth. We'll see more and more AI apps on the JVM.

This is your sign to explore Spring AI.

Order up!

The long awaited dice based variant of Burger Battle was just served up.

My family and friends have enjoyed the card game Burger Battle for several years (and its mention in my book Spring AI in Action). Now we have a new way to build burgers on game night.

Getting ready for Arc of AI 2026

Find the code (as well as instructions for running it) at github.com/habuma/sprin...

Yesterday, I posted how I created an MCP server with JBang and Spring AI. I thought that I should also show how to create a client (also with JBang and Spring AI). Here you go!

There's a bit more configuration required than for the servers, but it's not bad.

Banging out an STDIO MCP Server with JBang and Spring AI is super easy. And only a few more lines for it to be a Streamable HTTP MCP Server.

Banging out an STDIO MCP Server with JBang and Spring AI is super easy. And only a few more lines for it to be a Streamable HTTP MCP Server.

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Sometimes things don’t work out as planned.

I feel that there’s an analogy about observability and monitoring to be made here, but I’m too busy cleaning up a mess to think through that.

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Also, I should mention @commodoreofficial.bsky.social somewhere in this thread. Here at the end is a fine place, I suppose.

Now, if Commodore would reprint the Programmers Reference Guide, I’d be quick to buy a copy.

I have a PDF, but there’s something special about the tactile feel of the pages of a spiral bound book.

Finally, the hero takes the stage and welcomes us back to 1982. But the story doesn’t end here…

A peek (or should I say PEEK) inside shows that we can expect program listings for doing fun programming experiments.

The nostalgic journey includes a user’s guide, quite similar to the original book that came with a C64.

A look from behind with more familiar ports, but also some modern ports to the left.

A side pose reveals a few familiar ports for joysticks, the power switch (which is multi-function), and the power port.

And now the hero of this story: The Commodore 64 Ultimate, beige edition, in all of its glory.

The power cable along with some adapters for different countries. Important, but not terribly exciting except that it’s much more compact than the brick that came with the original C64.

Ah, but that cassette isn’t a cassette at all! It’s a cleverly disguised USB drive, presumably carrying all sorts of fun.

To the right is a smaller box that contains…Stickers! And what appears to be a cassette called “The Very Second” (namesake, “The Very First” from the old days), another box with the power cable, and a Commodore branded HDMI cable.

Upon opening the box we are welcomed to our digital oasis.

The bottom of the box reveals that this is old *and* new.

The bread bin, unboxed. A story of geeky nostalgia in 12 photos…

The box inside the box. Smaller than the original C64 box, but dripping with retro styling.

It. Has. Arrived.

(More unboxed pics later.)

Ya know…if this were hanging above the printer, you might be able to load your choice into the printer without even taking it off the hanger. 🤔

That said, I have mine in a moisture controlled bag with a hygrometer. (Even though I live in the dry Denver climate.)

Rainy day in Disneyland. Still better than a sunny day anywhere else.

Spring AI in Action - Craig Walls Use Spring AI to add generative AI features like virtual assistants, text summaries, and suggestions to your Java applications. No matter what kind of software you’re building, there’s a huge demand ...

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