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None. You just buy my self help book and recover from all your issues in 30 days.

Neatly sorted, but still containing a tons of pointers to heaps and heaps of problems.

Tomorrowland? 🤣

Finished it today and immediately bought the sequel 😅

It will. It started with a single stage 20y ago. It will just be a very unexpected "back to basics". Probably move the "mainstage" somewhere else.

I just hope they can do it safely... the area still smells a bit. (I live 2km away)

Books and Wine, lose track of time. 😊 #luddites #antwerp.

Enjoy good sir! 😊

Are you going to insult the Norwegians again? 😅 I saw your DevoxxUK talk online. 📉

Time for our yearly stop at Oniryx 🤩. We got great food and drinks. Weather is epic and we got 2 cool talks lined up! 🤩

Let's Go!

Companies use the word "revolution" a lot to hype up their services.

"Revolution" also means (in physics): One revolution: one full turn/360 degrees .

So when you see the word, ask yourself: "is this really something new, or is this just a short spin before going the same direction as before".

GL HF, and see you tonight 😅

IntelliJ as a game engine + Wrapping up the Spring Boot 3.x generation, Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Let's keep up the #java vibes! This time we're heading to **Oniryx**, in Gembloux, a yearly stop around this time of year! Thanks for hosting us again! This time we have A

☀️ Great talks, tasty food, cold drinks, and an outdoor venue—what more could you want?

Join us on Thursday, June 19 for the next @bejug.bsky.social event!
We’re taking Java to the park for an evening of tech & chill. 🌳🍻

Spots are still available, grab yours now 👉 www.meetup.com/belgian-java...

Did you miss @tomcools.be‬ Devoxx UK talk "LLMs can't optimise schedules, but AI can!" Watch it now and discover Timefold, a Java-based AI solver that excels at complex scheduling.

Session link - buff.ly/Oj040Ck

Yeah, I see people falling into this trap a lot, including myself sometimes. It takes a while to really sit with an idea to iternalize it.

"Start with Why" by Simon Sinek (book) has the key point in the title, but the 255 pages force you to take the time to sit with the idea and REALLY get it.

Meiji Jingu looks beautiful as always. 😊 enjoy Tokyo!

Sorry for intruding. Didn't realize this was a safe space.

Please accept this gift of cat picture as an appology.

It's a bit of a leap at the start, but I'd recon it's worth it 😊

Thanks for sharing the link to my blog 😊

Still plenty of space for the last meetup before our Summer break! 😊

Alex is a top rated speaker at conferences like Devoxx, so we are honored to have him with us! 🤩

FYI, if you need to compare 2 objects in a #java test, do not manually compare all fields by calling the getters. Instead, do it with 1 line of AssertJ:

medium.com/@lucascalebe...

Happy #jspring to those who celebrate 😊

Unfortunately, I can't be there this year, but I know all of you will have a great time in Utrecht!

@nljug.bsky.social #java

Non-native English speaker here.

I found that LLMs use them a lot, to the point that when I have them in a text, people have commented, "Why don't you write that in your own words instead of using GenAI?"

Same with some more advanced vocabulary, which almost makes me want to dumb it down. 🙃

The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects...

"Code is not an asset—it's a liability. Every line must be maintained, debugged, secured, and eventually replaced. The real asset is the business capability that code enables.

If AI makes writing code faster and cheaper, it's making it easier to create liability."

alonso.network/the-recurrin...

IntelliJ as a game engine + 1 more, Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Let's keep up the #java vibes! This time we're heading to **Oniryx**, in Gembloux, a yearly stop around this time of year! Thanks for hosting us again! This time we have A

The #Java tour continues!
Next stop: @oniryx.be (Gembloux) – thanks for having us again! 🇧🇪

🕹️ @glycin.bsky.social will show how he turned IntelliJ into a game engine!

🎤 1 quicky slot still open! Want in?
👉 github.com/BeJUG/bejug....

@bejug.bsky.social #BeJUG

www.meetup.com/belgian-java...

Sure! 😊 we even gonna push some stuff about a local Kotlin conference as well! 😊

Here we go again! 🤩

Pretty sure it's against the rules to use the Suno music for anything without paying for it, breach of "copyright".

Which is an ironic thing to lose money on, given the mass copyright infringement all these companies pulled. 😅

I guess people who don't really care about quality but do like the gimmick.

I can imagine some marketing teams with low budgets will jump on it to generate something silly they couldn't afford otherwise.

That... and pure ripoff scams earning money on Spotify.