Andrew Lombardi

ConFoo 2026 Overview A return to the stage

We spoke at @confooca.bsky.social this week about
@graalvm.org and @spring.io and offline first development.

open.substack.com/pub/gotmysti...

GitHub - mysticcoders/confoo2026: ConFoo 2026 Schedule manager as Python TUI ConFoo 2026 Schedule manager as Python TUI. Contribute to mysticcoders/confoo2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wrote a Python TUI for @confooca.bsky.social on the plane back from London. Sessions from #confoo should sync down schedule and let you search, filter, and add to your local calendar. Clone and run github.com/mysticcoders...

Trying to get Proxmox onto a MINIS FORUM mini pc and its taking 30 minutes just because I have to configure and skip and decline 70 bajillion offers by Microsoft of crap I don't want, and now waiting for the update I'm going to torch anyway

Here at Mystic we built a little game, a few nods to the genre of code and the internet. Please enjoy holiday2025.wecodefire.com

Just had to pay import duties for the first time buying anything

Fuck you trump

#winning

The best code is the code you never wrote.

Of water, customers and super intelligence Last night our oldest came home from work to unwind and recount stories about their shift and the people he encountered.

What happens when you ask an LLM about a long-held belief and it affirms you www.andrewlombardi.com/p/of-water-c...

Quantum Entanglement and Database Engines On a lark I started asking an LLM about quantum entanglement. And when it spit out "an answer" it was a little tough to follow (of course).

Here's a bit of a crazy one on quantum entanglement which was really just me being led down a rabbit hole between YouTube, an LLM and an analogy experiment gone awry www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantu...

Ideas Taste and Execution Throughout my career as an architect and engineer of various systems over the last 30 years I've had a ton of ideas.

I wrote a little something about the hype blitz of taste and ideas being promoted as more important than execution in the age of AI www.wecodefire.com/p/ideas-tast...

Vibe coding with a large language model is like ozempic face for your codebase

Third time is a charm. Maybe the house can grow a pair and impeach and then the senate can convict him. #NoKingsDay #NoKingsInAmerica

Beginning Spring AI: A Quick Guide to AI Engineering in Spring (Apress Pocket Guides) Beginning Spring AI: A Quick Guide to AI Engineering in Spring (Apress Pocket Guides) - Kindle edition by Lombardi, Andrew, Ottinger, Joseph. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Beginning Spring AI: A Quick Guide to AI Engineering in Spring (Apress Pocket Guides).

We recently published another book with Apress called "Beginning Spring AI" with @enigmastation.com and super excited about it -- buy on Amazon at www.amazon.com/Beginning-Sp... and code available from the book here github.com/Apress/Begin... and leave us a review. A quick and useful guide!

Selling all my TSLA stock and thinking of what to buy, maybe Costco?

Thinking that trump is playing multidimensional chess is giving way too much credit to a moron who couldn’t win a toddler at tic tac toe

As a former #twitter employee who sent stupid emails to Elon on what we did each week I feel for the federal employees currently dealing with this stupid bullshit

@raycast.com is something I’d buy the pro version to get syncing of notes perhaps but without an iOS I still <3 #drafts

If one hires into the administration folks who came from the Heritage Foundation and/or were architects of Project 2025 even if Trump wasn't directly associated with it -- not exactly nothing to do it with it right?

Yup, let your feature requests fly :-)

Great video about our plugin which syncs #voicenotes to @obsidian.md

Add Ability to Edit Frontmatter Properties · Issue #58 · mysticcoders/voicenotes-sync It would be super helpful to be able to edit the front matter.

Love the video @vladcampos.com ! regarding the frontmatter properties it's an issue already so planned (github.com/mysticcoders...) and if you wouldn't mind filing a ticket about the attachments directory in github? happy to look at that one too

I don't know why but I bought the audible book "The 5AM Club" by Robin Sharma, and after the first 4 minutes of the book. Stopped, and returned it immediately. The book is a story of, get up at 5am because everyone else is asleep. Done. And no spiritual laced drivel laden text to read. Bonus.

Beginning Spring 6 This book will teach you how to use Spring Framework 6 to build Java-based applications, web applications, and microservices.

Had a lot of fun on the podcast @starbuxman.joshlong.com , thank you again! And if y'all want a discount on the book 20% off "SPRING6NOVICE" at
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi on "Beginning Spring 6" Hi, Spring fans! Today we're joined by two living legends in the Java community, Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi, to talk about Java, Spring, and everything, and their new book, "Beginning Spring 6." #java #springboot #java21

Had a lot of fun on @starbuxman.joshlong.com 's bootiful podcast on our new book Beginning Spring 6 podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hls... book: www.amazon.com/Beginning-Sp...

Contact posters in iOS 17 are neat and all but I rarely talk on regular voice call, usually Google meet or zoom

Gotcha. But it is possible to bridge the two from what I’ve seen — homebridge seems like it has way more plugins that seem abandoned which is a bummer but heavy into HomeKit stuff and now matter too

can you still run most things through homekit or does it all has to run through home assistant? I've thought of migrating to it from homebridge but unsure how difficult it is

Getting heavily involved in home automation, focusing on HomeKit and using Homebridge -- any devices that support or will support Matter that I should look into? Having fun with homebridge and dummy switches and it's insane fun

lol. yeah that too :)

When you read amazon reviews, I'd like to weed out the reviews for people who are complaining about the unit being broken or missing parts or shipped badly.