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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@devoxx.com Here is @mayers.io confronting the Jedi council regarding imposter syndrome.

Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@devoxx.com Seeing @sebi2706.bsky.social present the exciting @jakarta.ee 11 Vidoq impl. I hope the hard work we did on EE 11 to bring the TCK up to current technology is useful to this effort.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As an author of several specs, going back to JSF 1.0 in 2004, I wish I could be there. But my train is scheduled to arrive in the evening.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the way to @devoxx.com. I don't fly nearly as much as many in the Java jet-set, but today's my 3rd flight on D-AIKE. 2024-04-06 2026-03-15 2026-10-04 There are a few incidents reported with this equipment: avherald.com/h?article=4a... avherald.com/h?article=41... avherald.com/h?article=41...

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Incident: Lufthansa A333 at Munich on Jul 26th 2016, FMS fuel computation prompts emergency call

Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That was a great call. And now I want some chops.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Where can I hear Scott's "Table for two at the chophouse" call?

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In an "explain like I'm five" level, yes. In a layman's understanding, sure. As a person on the GitHub Copilot team, of course not.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I read the referenced Doctorow post and find it consistent with my understanding of the incident. By way of establishing credentials, I work on GitHub Copilot SDK at Microsoft. Credential proof: github.blog/engineering/... Conclusion: your wrongsplain description is unearned.

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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 · 16/09/2026

I disagree with Faine Greenwood's conflation here. I believe it is specious and in bad faith.

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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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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 · 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 · 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

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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 · 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/

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1972-09-15 Tonsure Abandonment Day

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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 · 15/08/2025

Not at all. In fact, too late.

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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

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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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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And check this out. My son is planning to live in San Bruno during his summer internship at Roblox in San Mateo. He will know no other Caltrain than electric. How cool is that!

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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 · 01/05/2025

Wait. So the eletrification finally happened?

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"We measured the agent boss mindset across seven indicators" This also tracks with my research in ridingthecrest.com (2008). kohsuke.org was an agent boss before agents existed, for example.

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Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers by Ed Burns

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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

> The conclusion is the existence of tasks in which labor retains the comparative advantage does not imply that there will necessarily be sufficient demand for those residual tasks to keep everyone in well-paid employment. There is no economic law that says this outcome must be so. Whee.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

> The general observation is that we might have reasons to value the [outcome] that a great mind makes, but we might also attach value to [process] it was a human being who made them. There is no place for such a value system in capitalism. The outcome is the only thing that matters.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

But the affordable AI-enabled system will end up being enshittified, and eventually worse than having a human doing the work. Because capitalism.

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

> an AI-enabled medical diagnostic system, for instance, that provides more affordable access to the sort of medical expertise that, in the past, might have been available only to a privileged and lucky few. Elysium (2013) "Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?"

Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?

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Ed Burns @edburns.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It's nice to see a Seinfeld obvious level observation I had years ago confirmed in a academic-ish paper.

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