Todd Ginsberg

KCDC 2025 FAQ — KCDC 2025 Got questions about the KCDC 2025 CFP process? This page is for you.

Tickets for KCDC 2025 are still on sale. This is a great way to use up your training budget!

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Title card for "Stream Gatherers: The Missing Link in Java Collections", Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 2:30pm, at KCDC 2025.

Title card for "Loom is more than virtual threads: Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values", Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 10:00am at KCDC 2025.

Next week I'll be speaking on two topics at @kcdc.bsky.social 2025! #Java Loom with a focus on Structured Concurrency, and Java Stream Gatherers.

Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years Pesky DMA issues have been causing unexpected noise and freezes.

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Just go with this one you have here. 😁

Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74 The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

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YouTube video by INDYCAR On FOX Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 🌭 | INDYCAR on FOX

Having been born here, and lived here my whole life, this is the most American thing I have ever seen and it is glorious.

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OTD…May 23, 1995

Happy Birthday, #Java! Here’s to 30+ more years with a beautiful combination of technology innovation and community participation!

Neurodivergent Minds in Software: Friction and Flow at Work, Mon, Jun 2, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup We have a JetBrains single product license that we will be raffling off after the presentation! To win, you must be present during the drawing at the end of the meetup. **

We're having a meetup on Monday, June 2, 2025: Neurodivergent Minds in Software: Friction and Flow at Work.

Come join us!

www.meetup.com/triangle-jav...

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Wow! Check out Gatherers4j with Groovy! 😁

Mike Nichols in front of a presentation screen

Tonight at TriJUG: Mike Nichols from @temporal.io teaches us about durable execution! Thank you for hosting us, Deutsche Bank!

I applied in a previous year and had a similar experience. I appreciated the good feedback I got.

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

Release ArchUnit 1.4.1 · TNG/ArchUnit Enhancements Core Support Java 25 / class file major version 69 (#1440) Library Support priorities in SlicesRuleDefinition (#1436; thanks to @guesshe 👏) Ignore synthetic bridge methods in ProxyR...

We've released ArchUnit 1.4.1 🎉 It now supports Java 25! Check it out at github.com/TNG/ArchUnit...
As always, feedback welcome 🙂

Release 3.8.0 · openrewrite/rewrite-recipe-bom What's Changed OpenRewrite v8.52.0 rewrite-gradle-plugin v7.6.0 rewrite-maven-plugin v6.8.0 Full Changelog: v6.8.0

OpenRewrite v8.52.0 is here! 🦩🏖

🔭 Scanning recipes as preconditions
☕ Migrate to Java 24+
🏎 Improvements Refaster matches
🪓 Wrap expensive log statements
✏ Apply Checkstyle import rules
🧪 Various JUnit & Mockito fixes
🍃 New Spring Boot recipes
🌶 Lombok SuperBuilder types

github.com/openrewrite/...

Release Release v0.11.0 · tginsberg/gatherers4j New Implementations Implement exponential moving averages with exponentialMovingAverageWithAlpha(), exponentialMovingAverageWithAlphaBy(),exponentialMovingAverageWithPeriod(), and exponentialMovin...

🎉Just released: Gatherers4j v0.11.0!🎉

Now supporting exponential moving averages with alpha or period.

Publication to the new Maven Central Portal is now done via @jreleaser.org. I'll try to integrate automated announcements and GitHub releases soon, it's a great tool!

github.com/tginsberg/ga...

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

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Andrus Adamchik presenting DFLib in a Jupyter notebook in front of a screen

Tonight, @andrus.adamchik.org is giving us an overview of DFLib!

11/ TL;DR You should speak publicly because you have a unique perspective, and you should use that perspective to speak

There might be millions of Kubernetes people out there, but you’re the only one that used it to emulate the economy or control the climate in your greenhouse

You are interesting.

This is why I always say please and thank you.

Thank you for your continued encouragement, I truly appreciate it! :)

I'm very happy to say that two of my talks were accepted and I'll see you all at #kcdc2025 in August! 🎉

1️⃣ Stream Gatherers: The Missing Link in #Java Collections

2️⃣ Loom is more than virtual threads: Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values

DataFrame - A Swiss Army Knife of Java Data Processing, Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup **Note:** Slightly earlier start time than usual! Let us know how you feel about 5:30pm vs 6:00pm start times! **Abstract** When implementing an ETL job, doing data analys

Join us on April 30, 2025 at Deutsche Bank to see @andrus.adamchik.org give a talk on DataFrame!

www.meetup.com/triangle-jav...

GitHub - windust/mail-organizer: Mail Organizer for spam, etc. Mail Organizer for spam, etc. Contribute to windust/mail-organizer development by creating an account on GitHub.

So my weekend project (ok multiple weekends) was to create an email classifier that help me organize more than 100k emails on my inbox. It's open sourced, use LLM for email classification and runs in your computer (no need to ship emails outside to anyone). Give it a spin! github.com/windust/mail...

Bluesky 1.99. Improvements: Videos are now up to 3 minutes long! A DMs "inbox" to approve or reject new direct messages. You can now mute accounts from a post's "..." menu. An improved moderation reporting flow. Better tablet-size layouts on Web. Better error reporting during signup.

📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)

With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.

• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly

Thanks Ken! 🙏

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.

The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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“Take your word, thief”