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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 01/06/2026

For GEO, every pages is rendered in 2 flavors: HTML and Markdown. Pre-rendering content as markdown should boost LLM accessibility significantly, or for users that want to copy/paste context to prompts. (i.e. Markdown link under every post)

Example of a download link for a Markdown rendered version of a post.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 01/06/2026

On the new blog design, 100%. I'll take it. Posts with images are also not scoring badly, actually but of course take a small hit. My goal on the new design was "keep it simple", no JS libs, favor CSS and HTML, help the scrapers and LLMs where feasible (a'la GEO).

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 31/08/2025

I look forward to nerding out about cloud tech at #CommitYourCode and learning from what others have put together. 🤓 See you in September!

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 14/07/2025

First adventure (on the tabletop) in Tamriel. Daughter and I are playing through the intro campaign in Black Marsh.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 18/06/2025

My home for the next 1.5 hours or so. #Kscope25

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 17/06/2025

Going old school with The Chet today for #Kscope25 Wish you guys were here. 🍻

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 13/06/2025

A little less than a week away from being able to learn with colleagues at #Kscope25! Come for the swag, stay for the content. 🍻 We will explore the meaning of all these cryptic symbols and how to use the tools Oracle is building to make using database connections in the cloud simple.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 11/06/2025

Do you use `jshell` ? (installs with Java) I find it nice for: - scratching out quick ideas - testing small syntax issues - or anything else you might do with a REPL (quick calculations, etc.) Tab completion is decent and it presents some JavaDoc content.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 09/05/2025

Hanging out with the DSD family tonight. 🫡

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 19/04/2025

I injured my back on vacation so I'm relaxing with a heat pad, some classic rock, and testing JetBrains' latest IDE updates.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 30/03/2025

Working on a writeup but in the meantime, here was my tech stack for the Java MCP server

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 30/03/2025

For literal academic reasons, I implemented another MCP server but in Java this time. This one was just as easy to integrate with Claude, for example. The Java MCP server only has 2 tools at the moment. A "greeting" tool and a "lorem-ipsum" tool. Messages are passed over STDIO.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 26/03/2025

I put together a basic JSON-RPC 2.0 server in Go that works with Claude to read compartment resources from my OCI tenancy (i.e. an MCP server) Then I asked Claude to generate Terraform code and an example architecture diagram. Mostly believable responses. I have much to ponder. 🤔

Architecture diagram generated by Claude Sonnet 3.7 in response to input from prompts that include data from a custom MCP server for OCI written in Golang.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 24/03/2025

I look forward to talking with folks at Kscope25 and walking through use cases for the Database Tools service in OCI. Hopefully I'll connect with you there in June!

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 18/03/2025

Homemade donuts is where it's at! After delivering that last talk it had to be done. 😏

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 12/03/2025

41-ish slides 😓 (really 41 clicks) in ~10 minutes? We'll see how it goes! All of my dry runs have been under 10 minutes comfortably. No objectives other than I hope this brings value for the Dallas Software Developers community. See y'all tomorrow night!

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 05/03/2025

Sweeeeeet! I have the privilege of presenting for colleagues at #Kscope25 this year and sharing knowledge about Oracle Cloud. Really looking forward to this event. 😎

Confirmation that my session was accepted for KScope25

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 05/03/2025

So much power in so few lines of code. Cheating a little because I am not showing the Secret in Vault creation but that's equally easy to setup. (i.e. a recent post on icodealot.com if that sounds interesting.)

Example configuration using the OCI provider for Terraform to create an Oracle Autonomous Database

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 01/03/2025

Frameworks are great productivity boosters but sometimes you just need a light weight thing to map SQL results to an object. Jdbi is great for this jdbi.org 👇

A screenshot example of Java code using a Jdbi SqlQuery annotation, and related annotations for converting SQL result into an object

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 02/01/2025

My general social media plan... Am I doing this right? (Thanks Draw dot IO for being generally awesome and LiceCAP for capturing this brilliance, and Aseprite for cleaning up the frames and rendering the final.)

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 02/01/2025

Cleaning out my drafts and getting ready for my typically sporadic, post-whenever-I-have-some-idea in 2025, arc. Heh... sitting on this one since 2016 🤦‍♂️

Screenshot of a draft blog post from 2016 that was never completed. It reads "passing pl/sql parameters to ords from ios"

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 27/12/2024

A little over 10 years of heavy use at my weight. I guess it's finally time to retire them. 👟☠️ I really do enjoy Solomons.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄 Making a cup of Beyond Black and getting ready to play Santa.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 17/12/2024

Another quality of life improvement supported by Oracle Database 23ai is allowing `group by` clauses to use column aliases. This is great! For example, the CASE logic for column PARITY shown here does not need to be explicitly repeated.

An example of SQL comparing column aliases in group by clauses supported by Oracle Database 23ai versus previous versions of the database

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 15/12/2024

Vacation interactive reading started using #java to write #lox but also lots of family time, relaxing ,and gaming in my future.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 10/12/2024

The example generates a fixed number of rows (10 in this case). Concatenating some text ("This is level: ") might result in something like:

Example results from querying by level using Oracle Database 23ai

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 10/12/2024

There are a lot of new features but I also appreciate small quality of life changes. For example, with Oracle Database 23ai we can now just `select sysdate;` and no longer need `from dual`. Going to take some time to build new muscle memory.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 06/12/2024

Great job previewing JDK features by Cavasier Morris at #CommitYourCode

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 06/12/2024

Kicked off day 2 at #CommitYourCode with @elchefe.me talking about why context matters.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 05/12/2024

Final session of the day at #commityourcode Three devs talking 😎

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 05/12/2024

#commityourcode day 1 kickoff. Good morning folks!

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 01/12/2024

Fictitious language update... map, reduce, etc. working given support for array builtins. I am almost at the end of the @thorstenball.com book (maps are next) so moving on to other literature on the subject soon. On the list: - Writing a Compiler in Go - Crafting Interpreters - SICP

Example of a map function written in a fictitious indentation-based programming language developed while reading "Writing an Interpreter in Go" by author Thorsten Ball. The example shown is not exactly Monkey but is similar.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 28/11/2024

One big difference from Monkey is that I'm implementing this fictitious language with an indentation-based syntax so some whitespace is significant and blocks are delimited with a different type of token rather than "{"

Example syntax of a fictitious programming language developed while following along with "Writing an Interpreter in Go" although, not the same fictitious language as implemented in the book.

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 28/11/2024

Continuing my journey through "Writing an Interpreter in Go" over the holidays and making good progress. The syntax is starting to take shape finally and things are getting interesting. My type system is still just a placeholder but the inspiration for the syntax might look familiar to some 😄

Example syntax of a fictitious programming language developed while following along with "Writing an Interpreter in Go" by Thorsten Ball

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Justin Biard @icodealot.com · 26/11/2024

See you there! Look forward to learning and meeting other developers in DFW. Thanks to my employer for covering the cost and giving me the time to attend. 😎

Screenshot of a confirmation from registering at https://www.commityourcode.com/

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