Ed Burns

@theguywiththeduketattoo.com

@javaland.bsky.social Here is my @javaland.bsky.social session picks blog post: www.ridingthecrest.com/blog/2026/02... @hanno.codes @venkats.bsky.social @theguywiththeduketattoo.com @nipafx.bsky.social @horstmann.com @brunoborges.bsky.social @fmartin.ch @ixchelruiz.bsky.social @rustam.no

Love my HH apron.

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

Announcing the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer for VS Code - Microsoft for Developers Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. We’ve heard from many JS/TS developer...

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...

1.2.9 Ed Burns - [Keynote] How we lost the internet YouTube video by PROIDEA Events

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

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television YouTube video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained

@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...

Jakarta EE and Artificial Intelligence | Jakarta EE | The Eclipse Foundation Enterprise Java has always been about standards—about providing a foundation that's stable, interoperable, and vendor-neutral. If you've been around since the …

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/

GitHub - smallrye/smallrye-mcp: Standard MCP annotations Standard MCP annotations. Contribute to smallrye/smallrye-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

Not at all. In fact, too late.

Jakarta Tech Talk - Jakarta EE 11: What's New and Why You Should Care YouTube video by Jakarta EE

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

Session Catalog - IBM TechXchange 2025 Uncover the highlights and experiences that await you on our meticulously planned agenda – explore over 1,000 sessions and labs.

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...

And check this out. My son is planning to live in San Bruno during his summer internship at Roblox in San Mateo. He will know no other Caltrain than electric. How cool is that!

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

Wait. So the eletrification finally happened?

"We measured the agent boss mindset across seven indicators" This also tracks with my research in ridingthecrest.com (2008). kohsuke.org was an agent boss before agents existed, for example.

The 2025 Annual Work Trend Index: The Frontier Firm is born - The Official Microsoft Blog We are entering a new reality — one in which AI can reason and solve problems in remarkable ways. This intelligence on tap will rewrite the rules of business and transform knowledge work as we know it...

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.

> The conclusion is the existence of tasks in which labor retains the comparative advantage does not imply that there will necessarily be sufficient demand for those residual tasks to keep everyone in well-paid employment. There is no economic law that says this outcome must be so.

Whee.

> The general observation is that we might have reasons to value the [outcome] that a great mind makes, but we might also attach value to [process] it was a human being who made them.

There is no place for such a value system in capitalism. The outcome is the only thing that matters.

But the affordable AI-enabled system will end up being enshittified, and eventually worse than having a human doing the work. Because capitalism.

Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?

> an AI-enabled medical diagnostic system, for instance, that provides more affordable access to the sort of medical expertise that, in the past, might have been available only to a privileged and lucky few.

Elysium (2013) "Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?"

It's nice to see a Seinfeld obvious level observation I had years ago confirmed in a academic-ish paper.