About to take a week off. Wondering what I'll come back to and hence what value I bring ;) ?
31.10.2025 19:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@nmcl.bsky.social
About to take a week off. Wondering what I'll come back to and hence what value I bring ;) ?
31.10.2025 19:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We roasted @emmanuelbernard.com the other day as a way of sending him off into the wilderness from Red Hat :( It was a great event and though with sadness there was a lot of love and respect.
31.10.2025 08:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Congratulations to Tim Ellison for stepping into the Primary EC role at the JCP (jcp.org/aboutJava/co...) It's time for me to step back after all these years and Tim is a worthy successor.
21.10.2025 18:57 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My evening out with my wife ...
15.10.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Making things better for the company and the team doesn't have to mean doing anything mutually exclusive!
03.10.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It was a busy week at work in Hursley.
26.09.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I value words of thanks from people in my teams more than from my peers or higher.
26.09.2025 17:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Integrity is entirely within your control. It's important to maintain that control or nothing else counts.
12.09.2025 17:33 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Glad to have you in my team no matter what company we work at :)
29.08.2025 17:33 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0When you work with people for years and grow to like and respect them I think they become family. On the one hand it makes it hard if you have to separate but on the other hand it's a proud moment. Doesn't make it easy though.
29.08.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sometimes I think my language may not be befitting a VP of any company. But it's me and I probably can't change by now ;)
15.08.2025 17:51 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Did first Town Hall for combined IBM and Red Hat teams this week. Now need to figure out how to do engineering only All Hands and move forward together :)
11.07.2025 17:49 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It's been a long week! Both for me :)
10.07.2025 16:16 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Who are you ;) ?
11.06.2025 19:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm definitely not an "I'm doing it because I've been told to do it" kind of guy and more an "I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do" kind of guy. If you don't like that then ... SMD :)
16.05.2025 17:57 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Magnificent 3.5
06.05.2025 14:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hanlon's Razor is in full force these days.
06.05.2025 14:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What a tw*t ... www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
02.05.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Recently this feels more like me than at any other time.
02.05.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Canโt go over it, canโt go under it, canโt go around it, gonna have to try posting my way through it*
* my historic decision to bail on UK academia for US academia adjacent in spring of 2025
open.substack.com/pub/rachelfr...
#LangChain4j 1.0.0-beta3 is out! ๐
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Commonhaus is 1! ๐
14 projects, solid foundations, and more on the way.
If you believe in light governance, shared care, and thoughtful support for open source, come see what weโre building.
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Joint statement from myself and Abtisam Mohamed MP.
06.04.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 838 ๐ 242 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 11And it's not a "legacy" thing as much as it's a "doing the right thing" thing!
21.03.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Maybe I'm wrong but I think you reach a point in your life where you care more about your team, their careers and futures than your own. I know I've heard the same from a few other friends and colleagues recently.
21.03.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Taking a week off for vacation but given everything that's going ok, I reckon I'll be connected a lot.
21.03.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remember "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".
21.03.2025 10:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'd rather not live in a world where he really is a genius amongst the rest!
21.03.2025 08:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So sorry to hear this! My thoughts and best wishes for his speedy recovery!
13.03.2025 14:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0