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

tonight February 24

Portland Java User Group meetup

www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

Modern developer experience on WildFly

presented by James Perkins

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

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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 *

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street

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...

Harry Pierson speaking at the Portland Java User Group

#dbos

@dbos.dev @devhawk.net

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

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...

😅

Newspaper front pages from January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump attempted a coup (autogolpe),

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.

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…

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...

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...

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

Another great talk tonight at SeaJUG! www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

-- any local corporations interested in sponsorship? Spots available!

thank you @timtebeek.github.io ⭐

#openrewrite

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

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

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...

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

Why upgrade to Jackson 3.0? (if you are happy with Jackson 2.x functionality)

Finally managed to squeeze the follow-up (to "Jackson 3.0 released") blog post out -> cowtowncoder.medium.com/why-upgrade-...

thank you for the quick review! @timtebeek.github.io

#OpenRewrite
#testcontainers

You come at the king, you best not miss

thank you @timtebeek.github.io

🚀 #openrewrite

update for jackson 3.0.0 GA by sullis · Pull Request #26 · openrewrite/rewrite-jackson What's changed? jackson 3.0.0 GA https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/jackson-bom/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/core/jackson-core/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/j...

OpenRewrite Jackson recipe PR:

github.com/openrewrite/...

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.

update for jackson 3.0.0-rc10 by sullis · Pull Request #22 · openrewrite/rewrite-jackson details upgrade to latest jackson 3.0.0 release candidate reference https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-3.0 https://bsky.app/profile/cowtowncoder.bsky.social/post/3lzafjxlq6c2...

here is a corresponding update for OpenRewrite github.com/openrewrite/...

Jackson Release 3.0 Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.

One last (?) Jackson 3.0.0 RC build -- 3.0.0-rc10 -- github.com/FasterXML/ja... going out. Last minute testing needed!!!

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…

New blog post on the trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...

Dependency Management for Java - 2025-09-11 Sean Sullivan Community Over Code September 2025 Dependency Management for Java applications

Community Over Code 2025

"Dependency Management for Java applications"

#CommunityOverCode

docs.google.com/presentation...

flying to Minneapolis for #CommunityOverCode @apache.org

Two Washington post news stories with a picture of an obviously unwell Donald Trump basking in sycophancy. (1) In three-hour televised Cabinet meeting, Trump soaks up praise In President Donald Trump’s longest on-camera appearance of his second term, Cabinet members heaped praise on the president in a fashion that analysts say resembled assemblies in authoritarian states. By Michael Birnbaum (2) FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter

This is not what democracy looks like.