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Ed Burns

@edburns.bsky.social
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Beneficiary of white privilege, Ed Burns is a software stylist, speaker, and author, currently working in the server side Java space. (he/him) purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 3h
Baseball.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you tried out GitHub Copilot SDK for Java github.blog/engineering/... , note that I just updated the sample app to use the new and experimental support for embedded Copilot CLI runtime. Works on `win32-x64`, `darwin-arm64` and `linux-x64`.
github.blog
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Big news! I took a new role in Microsoft back in February. Please see github.blog/engineering/... to see one of the things I've been up to. Thanks also to @brunoborges.bsky.social for the work he did on Copilot SDK for Java before I was blessed with being the DRI for this important effort.
github.blog
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
LLM taught me a new word today: mojibake. "Mojibake is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
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Mojibake - Wikipedia
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I prepended the string "Builder;" to my LinkedIn profile. Apparently it's cool to be a builder. I've been a builder for decades before it was cool to be a builder.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Fools run errands all the time. That's why Wawa sells sushi." Reggie Dinkins.
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Frederieke Scheper 🇳🇱❤️🇺🇦 @fbascheper.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wait a second, I know this guy... Strange things happening @javaland.bsky.social during the presentation by @edburns.bsky.social ⚽. No, he's not messing around with knitting 🤣
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Rustam Mehmandarov @rustam.no · 11/03/2026
Next up: First row at the talk by @edburns.bsky.social on #java app modernisation, here at @javaland.bsky.social 👍
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@javaland.bsky.social Here is my @javaland.bsky.social session picks blog post: www.ridingthecrest.com/blog/2026/02... @hanno.codes @venkats.bsky.social @theguywiththeduketattoo.com @nipafx.bsky.social @horstmann.com @brunoborges.bsky.social @fmartin.ch @ixchelruiz.bsky.social @rustam.no
ridingthecrest.com
Ed's JavaLand 2026 Session Picks
Cross posted at dev.to.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
GitHub Copilot App modernization is not just for Java any more! Check out this public preview feature that lets you modernize your @nodejs.org app using GitHub Copilot. developer.microsoft.com/blog/jsts-mo...
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Announcing the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer for VS Code - Microsoft for Developers
Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. We’ve heard from many JS/TS developer...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
youtu.be/O6kVawdObM8 Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet. I guess we haven't lost it after all. Ed
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1.2.9 Ed Burns - [Keynote] How we lost the internet
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@glycin.bsky.social For some old school game timing, check out Racing The Beam youtu.be/sJFnWZH5FXc
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Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television
YouTube video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Kristi Noem's actions call attention to what a joke the Hatch Act is. Violations with only civil penalties mean nothing to people so well aligned with getting and keeping power.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
67 years ago, one of my personal heroes Edward R. Murrow, delivered his famous "wires and lights in a box" speech at the Radio and Television News Director's Assocation dinner. Read it: www.rtdna.org/murrows-famo... or hear it: youtu.be/AIhy0T7Q48Y
rtdna.org
Murrow's Famous "Wires and Lights in a Box" - Radio Television Digital News Association
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I hope IBM's project Bob finds PMF better than Microsoft Bob did. venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-claim... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This blog post from the @jakarta.ee Platform Project lays out our position and involvement with AI. TL;DR: lots of activity. jakarta.ee/blogs/open-s...
jakarta.ee
Jakarta EE and Artificial Intelligence | Jakarta EE | The Eclipse Foundation
Enterprise Java has always been about standards—about providing a foundation that's stable, interoperable, and vendor-neutral. If you've been around since the …
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Happy Tonsure Abandonment Day to all who celebrate. www.ridingthecrest.com/edburns/1972... Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...) www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a... beardoholic.com/monk-haircut/
ridingthecrest.com
1972-09-15 Tonsure Abandonment Day
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Many thanks to @cescoffier.bsky.social and the @quarkus.io team for extracting the MCP content from Quarkus MCP and taking steps to having a vendor-neutral Java MCP at github.com/smallrye/sma...
github.com
GitHub - smallrye/smallrye-mcp: Standard MCP annotations
Standard MCP annotations. Contribute to smallrye/smallrye-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I was today years old when I learned I could press `command` + `return` on a selected file in macOS Spotlignt to open Finder on the file, rather than opening the file.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Did you miss my and Arjan Tijms Jakarta Tech Talk yesterday? Watch the recording of "Jakarta EE 11: Whats New and Why You Should Care" on YouTube! youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava
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Jakarta Tech Talk - Jakarta EE 11: What's New and Why You Should Care
YouTube video by Jakarta EE
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Come see me talk about @langchain4j.dev at IBM TechExchange October 6 - 9 in Orlando, USA. reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...
reg.tools.ibm.com
Session Catalog - IBM TechXchange 2025
Uncover the highlights and experiences that await you on our meticulously planned agenda – explore over 1,000 sessions and labs.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Greetings from Sliabh Liag Cliffs, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social completed her Lego Duke on stage in front of several hundred people in a matter of minutes. I finally finished mine months later.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@phillies.com Do it for Chuck from Mt. Airy. hnatee.com/product/do-i...
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Daniel Howard @dannyman.toldme.com · 01/05/2025
Yeah brother @caltrain.com switched to overhead power last September! Coolest thing in the Bay Area since Pong!
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index report is out: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/04... "every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years." This tracks with my lived experience.
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The 2025 Annual Work Trend Index: The Frontier Firm is born - The Official Microsoft Blog
We are entering a new reality — one in which AI can reason and solve problems in remarkable ways. This intelligence on tap will rewrite the rules of business and transform knowledge work as we know it...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This paper asks this question, "What paid work, then, will remain for human beings to do?" The answer is not encouraging: "not ‘none at all.’" Anyhow, get ready: knightcolumbia.org/content/what...
knightcolumbia.org
What Will Remain for People to Do?
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I went through this list on the former bird site (x.com/i/lists/2216...) and searched for all the analogs here. I created this list with the result. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This forty-one (41) year old article from Texas Monthly, about the rise and fall of the TI-99/4A computer, has some lessons for AI vendors today. My fav: open architectures win. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
texasmonthly.com
Death of a Computer
Four critical mistakes forced Texas Instruments to pull the plug on the home computer that it had once expected would dominate the market.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Fun fact. USA is ranked 35 of 173 on the World Banks, Human Capital Index. After Lithuania and tied with Belarus. data.worldbank.org/indicator/HD...
data.worldbank.org
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I spent some hours on the phone helping my 86-year-old mom get reimbursed from the hsabank.com account that administers her retiree plan. It was a horrible experience. Yet, as a Trump supporter, she still wants to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I asked AI why...
hsabank.com
HSA Bank
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Jetzt leider bin ich am ende meine drei wochige JUG und @javaland.bsky.social Tournee 2025. Ohne alle die gute alte und neue Freunde, und auch die unterstützung meines Arbeitgeber, würde dieser Reise ünmöglich sein. Vielen Danke alle.
Ende die ReiseAnfang die Reise
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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 11/04/2025
Make sure you attend "Easily create your own AI-infused Java apps with LangChain4j" with Dimitris Andreadis, Georgios Andrianakis, Kevin Dubouis, & Ionnis Cannellos at Devoxx Greece. github.com/quarkusio/qu... #quarkusworldtour
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ausgerechnet in Bad Rappenau, habe ich den Bikini von Prinzessin Leia gesehen.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
When I do @javaland.bsky.social , I leave it all out there at the show. 2 lectures, 1 panel, 1 game show, 1 lego competition, 1 workshop, and many booth hours But most of all so much love. ❤️ I hope I am blessed to come back next year.
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Fofo🔥🔥 @aichalaafia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So I spent more than a month struggling with migrating a project from jdk7 to jdk21 ... only to know that I can integrate Github Copilot into my intellij IDE during @edburns.bsky.social session at #javaland 😬😬
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social Jetzt gehts los!
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Gestern Abend beim @javaland.bsky.social Welcome dinner. @dvanross.bsky.social @fschwic.bsky.social @berndmuller.bsky.social @javaforumnord.bsky.social @zahlenzauberer.bsky.social @mcpringle.bsky.social
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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 31/03/2025
Get information about the recent Red Hat announcement and its influence on Quarkus with this blog post by Max Rydahl Andersen quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Aufs Weg zur @javaland.bsky.social mit @ivargrimstad.bsky.social .
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dude. I fuckin love Bielefeld. @alexandergitarre.bsky.social
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Java User Group Ostfalen @jug-ostfalen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
DE: Wir hatten gestern @edburns.bsky.social zu Gast. Da das Event ausgebucht war, haben wir etwas improvisiert ein Recording produziert youtu.be/gP7bS5YnfvU EN: Yesterday, Ed Burns gave a talk at our JUG. Here comes the recording with our improvised setup ;)
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Java and AI - Ed Burns 26.03.2025
YouTube video by JUG Ostfalen
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Learn how to Observe @quarkus.io Apps with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry in this excellent blog post from my colleague Jianguo Ma: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonA...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
Observe Quarkus Apps with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry | Microsoft Community Hub
Overview This blog shows you how to observe Red Hat Quarkus applications with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry. The application is a "to do...
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Volle Gas Leberkäse
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Emojis in motion
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Lost half a work day today due to gpg commit signing suddenly ceasing to function. Had to rebuild my whole commit signing thing from a backup. Oof.
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I hope @anthropic.com takes the responsibility of keeping MCP an open standard seriously. A great sign would be their use of an established standards body such as IEEE. Does anyone see that happening?
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This guide from IBM shows how to deploy @openlibertyio.bsky.social on Azure Kubernetes Service. openliberty.io/guides/cloud...
openliberty.io
Deploying Java microservices to Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
A getting started tutorial with examples on how to deploy Java microservices to Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Azure Container Registry (ACR).
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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Going to @javaland.bsky.social ? Here's my traditional "session picks" blog post! I'm giving a full day workshop with bonus career consulting and $50 Azure credit. Check it out! www.ridingthecrest.com/blog/2025/02... dev.to/edburns00/ed... @adambien.blog @ahus1.de @andresalmiray.com (continued)
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