Marcus Hellberg

Regular registration is now open for @dev2next.bsky.social 2025

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My weekly AI news roundup by ChatGPT is exceptionally insightful this week

Ollama now has a UI as well! I know what I'll be doing today 🤩

BREAKING: @vaadin.com is a terrible framework (if you're trying to hack it).

🚀 Updated Vaadin MCP

✨ Combines semantic + keyword search with reranking

🛠️ MCP Tools Available:
📚 get_vaadin_primer - Vaadin fundamentals & best practices
🔍 search_vaadin_docs - Search Vaadin docs
📄 get_full_document - Complete doc retrieval
🏷️ get_vaadin_version - Latest stable version info

Yes, this is still Norway, in Senja.

Vacation update 🏔️

TIL: in Norway they put the picture of the child whose liver they use to make the paté on the can.

Getting new Vaadin followers with @marcenglund.com

Still waiting for the Hilla release…

For the next 2 weeks I’ll be observing a different kind of #Vaadin 🤩

You could still have separate physical people with these skills, even if they’re on the same team. But of course, that would eliminate half the management roles, so I can see where some resistance could spring up.

That sucks. Was there a reason why they didn't create a full-stack team with both Java and frontend devs working together?

A sad day. What were the reasons you had to do it?

It's fair to say I'm not a big fan of Kubernetes ☸️

Hilla and Kafka. Part 1: Consuming messages Consuming Kafka messages using Spring Kafka and Spring Boot's auto-configuration capabilities in the Hilla backend and displaying these messages in the Hilla frontend UI in a reactive way.

New blog post: How to consume and display Kafka messages in a reactive way using #SpringKafka, #SpringBoot, #React and #Hilla (by @vaadin.com) 👇

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Don’t you just love that feeling when you dig around your old stuff and happen to find 100 trillion dollars?

Yeah, it’s from this week 😊

It’s my 12 year old puppy Nova 😊

“The summer is short. Most of it rains away.”
- popular Swedish summer song

Happy midsummer! ☀️

Judge me.

I’ve been using Spring Boot with Vaadin to build a typical reactive web app, sort of thing React gets used for.

I like it, it feels way more solid than flaky JS and bundling. Also does hotswap and is of course statically typed (as all good languages are).

I’m smitten.

Vaadin 24.8 is out!

Looking forward to an amazing few days with 95 other Vaadiners in Berlin! #VaadinConnected2025

Hallo aus Berlin @jetbrains.com!

Did you know you can message @marcenglund.com right from the comfort of your Vaadin app devtools?

Interesting route choice for my Finnair HEL - BER flight, flying backwards through Poland 👀

Gelato run! 🍦🏃‍♂️💨

Here's how that looks in the browser:

Does @vaadin.com and @spring-ai.bsky.social make it too easy to create an AI chat in #Java? 🤔

Sounds suspicious 😁