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SoCraTes Crete @socrates-crete.org · 20/09/2026

🎉 SoCraTes Crete 2026 Sponsorships Are Now Open! What's new? ✅ Brossure/Swag perks ✅ Rollup banner perks ✅ Coffee Breaks/ Evening Party/Custom tiers Ready to join us? Reach out at socrates-crete@proton.me to express interest. 👉 View all tiers: socrates-crete.org/sponsorships...

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SoCraTes Crete - Sponsorships

A unique opportunity to sponsor a unique event!

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Solderlocks @solderlocks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I missed old Doodle polls, so I built a replacement. Instead of asking when you're free, it asks when you're not. Conflicts get marked. The best time reveals itself in the empty space. Free, open-source, no accounts ever: timeslot.ink

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timeslot.ink | Group Scheduling

A stateless, serverless group scheduling utility. No accounts, no tracking, just dates.

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 17/06/2026

Final month of #AERO - and we're not slowing down! Run GPU-accelerated LLMs in pure Java from a @quarkus.io #Langchain4j apps. No Python. No CUDA. Just #Java with @tornadovm.org. A collab between @manchester.ac.uk & Red Hat! 🔗 aero-project.eu/posts/runnin... #Java #LLM #AI #LLM #GPU #opensource

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SoCraTes Crete @socrates-crete.org · 29/05/2026

What is an Unconference? 🔄 An unconference is a dynamic, participant-driven event where ideas flow, connections spark, and collaboration thrives! 💡It’s open, informal, and a completely different way to learn and engage—you might never look at events the same way again! 🚀 #SoCraTes #Crete

All the participants are seated in a circle arrangement of chairs inside a well-lit room. Only one person is standing in front of a series series of whiteboards that are filled with big sticky notes. The setting reflects a collaborative and participatory environment typical of an unconference and this photo specifically is of when the initial to the introduction to the unconference is done.

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InfoQ @infoq.com · 05/05/2026

In this #InfoQ #podcast, Andy Damevin explores #Roq - a static site generator built on top of #Quarkus. He covers: • The motivation behind the project • Why Java & Quarkus were chosen • Migration to Roq • Its future direction 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/3QQZF5V #Java #SoftwareDevelopment

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM!

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vouliwatch @vouliwatch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🤥 🚩 Η παραπληροφόρηση δεν μένει μόνο στα social media. Φτάνει και στην εκπαίδευση. 👀 Ερευνούμε πώς την επηρεάζει, και θέλουμε να ακούσουμε τη δική σας εμπειρία.

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Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated. I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 22/03/2026

Java framework benchmarks are easy to get wrong. The new Quarkus benchmark results are interesting — but the real story is the engineering work behind them. Reproducible environments. Transparent methodology. Real collaboration across the team. buff.ly/RjdXcuY #Java #Quarkus #Benchmarking

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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 24/02/2026

In this new post, @gsmet.bsky.social explains how Project Leyden gave us a fresh perspective on improving Quarkus, and more broadly Java, applications startup. Library or framework developer? This one’s for you. quarkus.io/blog/leyden-1/

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How Project Leyden brought a new perspective

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 18/02/2026

...and yes, the video shows Doom as well as a video player implemented using @tamboui.dev www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAp...

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TamboUI Trailer

YouTube video by TamboUI

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Erik C. Thauvin @erik.thauvin.net · 18/02/2026

Password managers don’t protect secrets if pwned. You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised. . #bitwarden #cryptography #dashlane #encryption #lastpass #password www.theregister.com/202...

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Password managers don’t protect secrets if pwned

: Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options

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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 09/02/2026

⏰ Starting soon! Join us for Quarkus Insights Ep. #235 as Robert Toyonaga, Severin Gehworlf, Karm Babacek, Foivos Zakkak, Sanne Grinovero, and Galder Zamarreno join us to discuss the release of Mandrel 25. bit.ly/quarkusinsig... #java #quarkus #quarkusinsights

Quarkus Insights #235: Mandrel 35 & Quarkus.

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Coté @cote.io · 10/10/2025

The never ending quest to keep doing what you're good at and get better at it...rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. archive.is/20251008122439/https://w…

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 06/09/2025

Life Has No Autoscaling: An Architect’s Guide to Living Within 24 Hours How I apply system design thinking to sleep, work, family, and expectations and why resilience matters more than perfection. buff.ly/ip9Vlls #WorkLife #MentalHealth

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📢 Microsoft is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to work on the #JVM! If you have strong compiler / codegen / optimization skills, this could be your next big challenge. Want a referral? Send me a DM. #Hiring #CompilerEngineering #Systems #Microsoft #Java #OpenJDK #Java25

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GraalVM @graalvm.org · 16/09/2025

GraalVM 25 is here, with lots of updates for native compilation, GraalPy, GraalJS, and WebAssembly. Faster and better than ever!🐰🚀 Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/ Release notes: www.graalvm.org/release-note...

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Voxxed Days Crete @voxxeddayscrete.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thanks to our sponsors we decided to make the event free for students You can either join as a volunteer by filling this form voxxed-greece.typeform.com/to/tyCRy… Or... you can register as a student for free www.eventora.com/en/Events/vdcrete-…

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Elio Struyf @eliostruyf.com · 30/05/2025

🚀 DEMO TIME v1.4.0 is out! Built for devs who present code — now even smoother, more flexible, and powerful: ✅ Multi-slide Markdown support ✅ Countdown pause/resume ✅ And much more… 🎁 Big thanks to contributors like @leonardomontini.dev! 👉 Check it out: demotime.elio.dev #VSCode #DevTools

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 22/08/2025

In this year's #JCrete hackday I decided to toy claude code to start incorporating genAI tools (that go beyond slack-chats/mail/meeting summaries, etc.) in my day to day work. My first attempt was kind of a disaster and I ended up writing a script to the job, but today I had my first success story.

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 15/07/2025

Congratulations to our colleagues from the National Technical University of Athens for winning the Best Paper Award at #HotStorage25! 🥇🎉 SnapBPF is an eBPF-based snapshot prefetcher for VM-based serverless functions - developed within our project. 🇪🇺 Well deserved! 👏 @eucloudedgeiot.bsky.social

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Brian Vermeer @brianvermeer.nl · 05/05/2025

Building with AI? Don’t skip safety. This article explains how LLM guardrails can protect your applications and users: snyk.io/articles/ens...

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Ensuring Safe and Reliable AI Interactions with LLM Guardrails | Snyk

Explore LLM guardrails, why they matter, and how you can effectively implement them to ensure safe and trustworthy AI interactions.

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Yorgos @yorgos.net.gr · 29/04/2025

Let's #workTogether ! No job description yet, but, hear me out: I've recently left #RedHat, to do something I feel is more meaningful: help build a better home for #OpenSource: radicle.xyz We're now looking for someone with experience in the #frontend world and a #UX focus to join my team! 👇

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Radicle

Sovereign code infrastructure.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/04/2025

What mid-size and larger tech companies are *still* full-remote? Lots of ones with 100+ devs went back to hybrid. Which ones remain? Ones I know of: - Shopify - Airbnb - Coinbase - GitLab - Mozilla - Grafana - DuckDuckGo Which other ones?

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Solomon @wearesolomon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

💥A new investigation by Solomon and media partners reveals systemic neglect of hundreds of unaccompanied children trapped in dire conditions in Greek camps. The EU and the Greek government are aware. wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...

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DevStaff @devstaff.gr · 08/03/2025

Don't miss our meetup on Thursday 13/03 at 19:00 about: 👉 Bluetooth technology, from a Linux systems engineer's perspective Join us! Meetup event: www.meetup.com/devstaff/eve... FB event: www.facebook.com/events/99598... #bluetooth #linux #Meetup #heraklion #crete

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Guillaume Smet @gsmet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Believe it or not, the next release of Quarkus will be the 365th release since Quarkus became a thing, 6 years ago. It will be one year of release days! I released the large majority of them but this will change a bit with @janmartiska.bsky.social taking the responsibility for some LTS streams!

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 11/02/2025

Finally put some time aside and watched @mukel.bsky.social's and @alina-yurenko.bsky.social's presentation from DEVOXX. Very interesting and well delivered, now I need to find some time to toy with it as well :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgAM...

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Practical LLM Inference in Modern Java by Alfonso² Peterssen, Alina Yurenko

YouTube video by Devoxx

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 10/02/2025

🚀 Our first YouTube video is live! Watch how #Mandrel, #TornadoVM, and #oneAPI Construction Kit accelerate #Java performance on ARM #CPUs & NVIDIA #GPUs. 🔥 🎬 youtu.be/lb6nlziiyEs?... Credits to our partners: University of Manchester, Red Hat, Codeplay 👏 #opensource #acceleration #horizoneurope

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Acceleration of Managed Programming Languages with Mandrel, TornadoVM and OCK

YouTube video by AERO Project

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 01/02/2025

Severin Gehwolf presenting how to reduce your #Java runtime-image at #FOSDEM

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Quarkus @quarkus.io · 28/01/2025

Quarkus Long-Term Support (LTS) releases going forward will follow a predictable cadence, with micro-releases every two months - read more details in the blog at buff.ly/42vLTt6

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 23/01/2025

I was going through the binutils changelogs and I came across two great "new" features Version 2.42 introduced `--visualize-jumps` and 2.40 introduced syntax highlighting with `--disassembler-color=MODE` I really appreciate jump/branch visualization in disassemblers, makes life so much easier...

Colored assembly with branch visualization

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 08/01/2025

A great opportunity for anyone looking for an internship. @graalvm.org is a really interesting project touching a lot of system software concepts and is backed by a great research team!

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Fabio Niephaus @fniephaus.com · 20/12/2024

We just merged the current status of the upcoming JDWP support for @graalvm.org Native Image! 🥳 This will soon provide developers with the same debugging experience they are used to in Java, but for native images! Stay tuned for more details. github.com/oracle/graal...

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Andres Almiray @andresalmiray.com · 18/11/2024

I keep a list of conferences, JUG meetings, and other events I've participated at for the past 10 years. Would like to add new items to this list. Don't see your local JUG? Let's talk! Is your favorite conference missing? Send me a link! andresalmiray.com/events/

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Events

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 Upcoming Events 2024 Hack.Commit.Push, Nov 23rd 2024 – organizing committee Porto Tech Hub, Nov 26th 2024 &#8…

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 12/12/2024

I was looking for a service that would allow me to send a rather big file to a colleague and came across this nice "List of Ephemeral File Sharing Services" gist.github.com/Prajjwal/222... #TIL

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Foivos Zakkak @foivos.zakkak.net · 09/12/2024

Did you know you can develop your Quarkus app remotely on a Raspberry Pi? Neither did I. You can also cross-compile it to a native executable using QEMU to improve start-up times and memory footprint (if that's what you need).

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DevStaff @devstaff.gr · 07/12/2024

Happy to announce it here as a first post! Don't miss our meetup on Thursday 12/12 at 19:00 about: 👉 Introducing 🦋 Bluesky and ATProto Join us! Meetup event: bit.ly/4g3KJJd FB event: bit.ly/49p7WmE @bsky.app #atproto #bluesky #meetup #heraklion #crete

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Introducing Bluesky and ATProto, Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for an exciting meetup focused on emerging social network technologies! This December, Aggelos will introduce us to **Bluesky** and the **AT Protocol**. The session

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