Uberto Barbini

Timezone databases · Kotlin kotlinx-datetime · Discussion #582 Timezone Database API Currently, kotlinx-datetime only allows using the system timezone database. There's an established practice in Android development to bundle timezone databases with the applic...

This discussion on how Kotlin should expose time zone data is super thoughtful. Whatever the outcome I sure appreciate the process.

Glorious sun rise at camping

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super deal only for today for my book!
If you ever wanted to learn kotlin and functional programming it's your chance!

They’re torturing Greta Thunberg for trying to bring baby formula to starving babies and the world is doing nothing.

Are Developers Obsolete? Keynote talk at Jax London 2025 In 2025, many people in IT are anxious. They hear bold claims about exponential growth, about developers becoming obs…

Honored to deliver the closing keynote at JAX London 2025 on the role of AI in software development.
For those interested, here’s the slide deck:
speakerdeck.com/ramtop/are-d...
Video will follow

Workshop on AI assistants at Jax London has started!

My Flow with AI Assistants with Uberto Barbini https://www.youtube.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-flo...

The video and polished transcription of my talk with Alberto about AI Assistants

My flow with AI assistants with Uberto Barbini, Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup 🎤 **DESCRIPTION** My flow with AI assistants AI coding tools are transforming the way we write and maintain software but how do we really make the most of them? Join **U

My flow with AI assistants with @ramtop.bsky.social

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Trump’s priorities are Trump, Trump and Trump.

How many people? Last year it was crazy during summer...

Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

You mean the format or the actual TED event?

www.ted.com/talks/sir_ke...

this is probably my favorite talk of all times!

Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times. Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman: We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

Mostly reading, Kindle replacement. But it's also pretty good at taking notes, much much better than Kindle scribe.

Already in love with my BigMe B7
A much better kindle, faster, sturdier, colour, with pen, decent sw for almost same price of a Paperwhite

The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

She has a nice voice but she's too shy to sing her herself. With AI is ok. :D

suno.com/song/0f2e4ee...

My daughter (10yo) composed this song with AI. Just hummed the lyrics and described the arrangement. Not bad at all!

From the SelfDrivingCars community on Reddit: List of clips showing Tesla's Robotaxi incidents Explore this post and more from the SelfDrivingCars community

folks are building lists of all the Tesla robotaxi failures, and it's important to remember that we're talking about a fleet of <20 vehicles, over three days, in one the smallest and easiest geofences possible, based on coverage from 100% fanboy influencers

www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivin...

In case you ever wondered why there was a Japanese print image on the first Mac paint app and commercials
nobi.com/en/entry-121...

Sam Altman: “A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs, just playing games to entertain ourselves.”

Funnily enough, that’s exactly what my wife thinks about my job *today*.

AI assistants, hindrance or actually useful?

My talk will start soon!

Watching Cassandra Chin presentation at the Japan Jug Community conference

Studying for a boat license in Japan...

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In vibrcoding for sure!

Cherry blossoms 🌸

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.