Kito D. Mann

Just finished my first weekly review in over a month... I suppose "weekly" isn't really accurate at this point, but I'm happy to get back on the bandwagon. I have to block off time or else it just doesn't happen. It turns out I'm not behind on as many projects as I thought.. that was a relief.

I'm thrilled to be speaking and #Confoo for the first time next year in February in Montreal! I'll be talking about #GraphQL and Web Application Architectures. confoo.ca

I the ground in Richmond.

After a long weekend visiting family, it’s time to head home. #JCONUSA25 #IBM #TechXchange was great. It’s nice to see #IBM’s renewed focus on (#java) developers. Hopefully I can join again next year! Orlando -> Richmond.

Great slide from @martinelli.ch's talk "Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems" at #JCONUSA25 #IBM #TechXchange

Slides for my Services Reloaded talk from #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange are up: kitomann.com#/sessions/44....

Just landed in Orlando for #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange!

On my way to #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange! Richmond -> Orlando.

#VerboseMode at #Dev2Next 2025 with Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) hosting Kito Mann on TODOs in code #VerboseMode at #Dev2Next 2025 with Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) hosting Kito Mann on TODOs in code.

Thanks to @jbaru.ch for chatting with me about #TODOs at #dev2next for #VerboseMode. Great discussion! You can catch the short interview here: www.youtube.com/live/QSqV0zi....

Thanks for everyone who came to my #todo or not todo talk at #dev2next! You can find the slides here: kitomann.com#/sessions/47....

On the ground in Richmond. Thanks #dev2next!

Leg 2: Atlanta -> Richmond.

On the ground in ATL.

Goodbye #dev2next! Great conference, great speakers and attendees. Leg 1: Colorado Springs -> Atlanta.

I was going to post about this myself, but this is pretty much what I was going to say!

Thanks to everyone who attended my Getting Things Done for Technologists session at #dev2next! Nice, engaged crowd! #gtd Slides: kitomann.com#/sessions/31... :

Leg 2: Atlanta to Colorado Springs. Ran into another dev2next speaker on the plane!

Just landed in Atlanta for leg 1 of my trip to #dev2next. Looking forward to the conference!

I'm speaking at www.dev2next.com next week about TODOs. I'd still love to get some other perspectives. Do you add them frequently? Do you remove them? Do you process them? What’s the oldest one you’ve seen? What have you seen LLMs do with TODOs in existing code?

I was just wondering how hard it'll be for me and my family...

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Wow, I'm super impressed with the performance of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-Q4_0 (reasoning model) running locally on an M1Max MacBook Pro. Using it with #GPT4All.
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...

Start Here | JSpecify Quick links: [Release] | [GitHub] | [User Guide] | [Javadoc] | [Spec] | [Wiki] |

I just noticed that #JSpecify is gaining some real momentum. Looking forward to using it!

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Another #gtd weekly review in the can. One thing I do during the weekly review is look at interesting things I wrote down that people mentioned. This week's winner was tailscale.com, which looks like an excellent alternative to VPNs for individuals and small companies. I also installed cline.bot.

Not sure how #java #virtualthreads affect every day development with frameworks like #springboot, #quarkus, #helidon, or #jakartaee? Check out my Services Reloaded session at #JCON USA, part of IBM TechXchange, Oct 6–9 in Orlando, Florida!
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Web components everywhere....

Another #gtd weekly review in the can. This time I just did it at home on the deck, taking advantage of the nice weather. Lately I’ve really been enjoying walking during part of it, especially while review projects in #nozbe.

Has anyone compared #langgraph4j to the agentic features of #langchain4j?

AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally AI Mode in Google Search is expanding to more regions and adding more features.

I have to say, Google's treasure trove of knowledge about its users make the agentic capabilities pretty compelling. Not sure if it'll make me stop using #Brave, though... #AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally blog.google/products/sea...

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I've seen #TODOs in code that are older than my children (spoiler: my oldest is about turn 14). At #dev2Next next month, I'll explore TODOs in depth and discuss how to ensure they generate outcomes rather than becoming stale, context-free comments in a sea of code. www.dev2next.com/speaker/3e15...