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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 15/09/2026

Visit my full-day #architecture workshop at #Techorama NL in a few weeks and learn approaches for future-proof distributed systems which scale down to standalone apps - with code to read and play with, or use as a template. Hope to see you there! Here's my referral link: pretix.eu/techorama-nl...

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 09/06/2026

Very many thanks to @docker.com for re-awarding me as a Docker Captain again for 2026! #DockerCaptains In case you missed it, go check out Docker Sandboxes at www.docker.com/products/doc...!

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/02/2026

Exciting news: Join me at DevSum 2026 for my presentation "Streamlining Microservices Communication with CQRS and Event Sourcing" - let's find out together how these architectural patterns are shaping the future of software development! www.devsum.se/agenda/strea... #DevSum #SoftwareDevelopment

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/02/2026

Many thanks to the organizers of NDC London for including me in their speaker lineup this year! Also to the cool 100 who saw my C# talk there, and to the team who talked to me about their #DevExpress #DevExtreme React application! 🔥 ndclondon.com/agenda/advan... #NDCLondon #SoftwareDevelopment

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/01/2026

Many thanks to Sessionize - for the 3rd year running I'm part of the Most Active Speakers list for 2025. Here are my stats: In 2025 I spoke at 9 events in 5 countries, delivering 18 talks, 7 workshops, 2 keynotes and 2 moderated game shows. Here's to 2026, let's go! 🚀 sessionize.com/olisturm

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 26/09/2025

I had two very busy weeks, speaking at the entwickler.de Summit in Berlin and then at BASTA! in Mainz. I had a great time - many thanks to the organizers for the great experience, and to the hundreds who attended my talks and workshops! @bastacon.bsky.social @entwicklerde.bsky.social

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 29/06/2025

Not too ugly in #Scotland today. In the distance: my neighbors.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 26/06/2025

People say it’s weird how I like to pick up with old friends as if no time had passed. I think it’s weird not to! Is there a time limit on friendship? Auto-unfriend after X months? Nah. Real friends don’t expire. Let's be friends. Unlimited.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 23/06/2025

Must plan ahead for the important things in life. #JethroTull

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 19/06/2025

I generally prefer MacPorts (www.macports.org) over Homebrew (brew.sh) on my Mac. I have both because sometimes I need them for convenience, but Homebrew has a horrible habit of unexpectedly updating loads of stuff due to over-simplified dependency handling. Go #MacPorts !

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 19/06/2025

Did you know that Apple includes the ancient bash 3.2 from 2007 in macOS by default? Apparently they want to avoid GPLv3 for system components. bash is common in shell scripts and features added in the last 18 years will cause issues! Get a current bash from brew.sh or www.macports.org !

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/06/2025

Fantastic news from @docker.com: I've been renewed as a Docker Captain for another year! Many thanks to everybody at Docker for making such a brilliant product, and especially to Eva Bojorges for keeping us Captains involved! #Docker #DockerCaptains

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 10/06/2025

This week I'll be presenting at #DevSum in Stockholm. Brilliant lineup at this event, check out their agenda. Say hi if you see me there! www.devsum.se

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 09/06/2025

New key switches again! Sunset chocs in my #ZSA #Voyager were rougher than I'd like. Decided to try clicky Jade for a change. Oh my, so clicky! Prob not my last change. Is there a tactile alternative between Brown and Sunset? #MechanicalKeyboards www.zsa.io/voyager keebd.com/en-gb/produc...

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 30/03/2025

This morning it would have seemed unlikely to post this, but here goes: I’m sitting in McDonald’s putting Nether Flame sauce on my Nuggets. Apparently kids think that’s not weird at all.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/03/2025

I believe at least some of these musicians weren’t born yet when my CD player was built. #jazz #hifi #557esd

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 11/02/2025

"How to buy: enter site, enter product list, click buy." Yes, that's the only FAQ. We're close... "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." (Wonko the Sane, Douglas Adams) Next stop, the Asylum.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 10/02/2025

Me: put some locations on a map. ChatGPT: sounds good, I'll... just not do that. #SurrealAIConversations

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 10/02/2025

DeepSeek: "Your email domain is currently not supported for registration." Well, that sounds hardly fishy at all. #DeepSeek #SurrealAIConversations

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 30/01/2025

NVIDIA: Here, have a new GPU. Internet be like... that's a bit embarrassing. #nvidia #rtx5090

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 24/01/2025

That storm in the UK certainly did the trick for me. No power since around 9am this morning, no promises for services to be restored sooner than tomorrow at 1pm.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 23/01/2025

Yeah, that happened. ZSA Voyager now rocking Sunset chocs. Feel good so far. 👍 🚀 www.zsa.io/voyager mechboards.co.uk/products/sunset-ta… #ZSA #Voyager #MechanicalKeyboards

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 22/01/2025

I'm happy to announce that I'll speak at NDC Oslo this year. Thanks for inviting me! @ndcconferences.com ndcoslo.com #NDC #NDC2025 #NDCOslo

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 20/01/2025

It will be a depressing day, so let’s start it with a photo of a happy man. #GoMurphy

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 17/01/2025

This UPS decided unilaterally to go down the DPS (Dead Power Supply, if you have to ask) path and the universe doesn’t seem to care about the acronym situation. My router cares however, crashed, and insists now that a powerless existence isn’t the outlook it wants. New UPS ordered with extra U.

A Cyber Power UPS, dead and not doing anything

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 17/01/2025

Testament to the flexibility of the human mind how I can spend my whole days with AI and other fancy modern computer stuff, but then my brain's like hey, check out this self-opening dishwasher door!

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 16/01/2025

New Switch, old question: what if the road bends to the left? #nintendo #switch

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 16/01/2025

Dear Apple, please make your Intelligence fix these swiping problems for me. “Today”. The word is “today”. In the context of a chat about Wordle, green toast is just second in the likelihood list, don’t you think.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 16/01/2025

“Amazing honesty”, I thought, before realizing that this advertising is actually NOT used in a big event in Southern Germany now. Apparently they thought the honesty might be… unappreciated. (Yes I know it’s really the name of everybody’s favorite local hill. This is a joke.)

A train gondola unit with the advertising slogan saying “I heart WANK”, referring to a local mountain.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 15/01/2025

Using an external keyboard, so I added a US layout to my Parallels Windows VM. Now Windows thinks that my Dvorak layout is the same as "Tamil Anjal". I only have a vague idea what that is, but I believe Dvorak it is not.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 15/01/2025

Too many decades have passed, and this is still the best coffee. #BestCoffee

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 08/01/2025

Many thanks @sessionize.com for the 2024 Most Active Speaker badge!

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 13/12/2024

IMMOBILISE - the UK national property register allegedly works together with police and uses ISO logos to impress with security. BUT they don't even allow 2fa login methods or similar. Good place to register property you want to get rid of! Are ISO certs fake or useless? www.immobilise.com

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 09/12/2024

Here are the demos for the evening session "AI Ninja Moves" at the .NET Developer Conference in Cologne Germany, together with Jörg Neumann. github.com/oliversturm/BusinessAppW… And the slides for my WebAssembly presentation: osturm.me/webassembly Enjoy! #ddc24 #AI #WebAssembly

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 08/12/2024

January 2025 Intuit is proposing to raise their prices again. This makes six raises and a total of +120% in six years. I’m done with those rip-off artists my accountants suggested … not even mentioning the abysmal quality of the software. Who’s got a better idea?

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 25/11/2024

A plug and a gripe for Perplexity www.perplexity.ai. I prefer the Pro version all other LLM chats. BUT Cloudflare breaks it when on VPN and the apps for iPhone/iPad/Mac all stop working entirely. Please fix! VPNs are not optional! You're the only software on any of my devices which has this problem.

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 23/11/2024

Next week I’ll be in Cologne Germany for DDC, the .NET Developer Conference 24. Say hi if you see me there! www.dotnet-developer-conference.de #ddc24 #dotnet #AI #WebAssembly

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 21/11/2024

I just had the thought that my presentation next week about #WebAssembly could benefit from an illustrative diagram about the particular way #Blazor works without AOT. So I asked #ChatGPT to create one for me. What can I say... I have concerns. #Wasm

Ridiculously confusing and completely mangled image created by ChatGPT

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 19/11/2024

Shout-out for LM Studio @LMStudioAI@twitter.com -- super easy local LLMs with OpenAI compatible hosting, discover on Hugging Face, download and off you go. Bit like ollama, but much easier and prettier. Check it out! (No disclaimer necessary, no affiliation.) lmstudio.ai #GenAI #AI #LLM

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 19/11/2024

Last week I had the privilege to contribute my short talk "Advanced Pattern Matching in C#" to Microsoft's .NET Conf 2024 online event. The recording is now on YouTube: buff.ly/4hYl5r0 Many thanks to the organizers for including me! #DotNetConf2024 #mvpbuzz @dotnetcnf @dotnet

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 12/11/2024

Last week I had the great pleasure of speaking at Øredev in Malmö. A full room was interested in my Event Sourcing talk, and there were many good questions! Many thanks for the excellent organization, and for inviting me! #Oredev2024 @oredev@twitter.com

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Oli Sturm @bsky.oliversturm.com · 08/11/2024

Parade of young Daleks spotted at CPH airport

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