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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 25/08/2026

Claude Opus 4.8 wins my heart today. "JBang is like a magic microwave. You just put your cookie dough in, press one button, and boom — cookie! 🍪"

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 20/07/2026

🎉 JBang just passed 3 MILLION binary downloads! A 2019 experiment to make Java easier to run — `jbang hello.java` — has quietly become Java infrastructure. ~1,000 downloads/day, 130+ countries, Java 8 → Java . Thank you 🙏 www.jbang.dev/learn/somehow-jbang-j…

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 15/07/2026

jbang app install jfr-mcp@btraceio Now just tell your agent to add jfr-mcp —stdio as mcp server and you have awesome portable Java performance help. Awesomeness.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 11/07/2026

Almost at 3 million downloads of JBang! 🎉 Screenshot the counter when it hits it in the next week! Thank you to everyone who uses, contributes to, and shares JBang. You make this happen. www.jbang.dev/usage/downlo...

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 06/07/2026

I watched Project Hail Mary over the weekend. I regret not having watched it in the cinema - its visuals, mood, colors, tone and science based story telling was just Excellent. Highest recommendation from here. image: winterpens.art

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 21/06/2026

jhostty running various tamboui demos

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 21/06/2026

Built a full terminal emulator in a single Java file. jhostty — probably the most portable terminal in the world. Splits, tabs, 10 themes, per-pane zoom. Powered by GhosttyFX. jbang jhostty@maxandersen github.com/maxandersen/jhostty

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 20/06/2026

🚀 JBang 0.139 is out! ⚡ picocli → Aesh: 2-5x faster startup 🖥️ Native binaries (early access) 🔍 Smart tab completion for scripts, GAV, GitHub URLs 🔎 New deps search TUI 📦 Multiple JDKs per major version github.com/jbangdev/jbang/releases/…

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 02/06/2026

Made it to the main land to attend and present at Red Hat Developer Day at BankData in Aarhus!

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 31/05/2026

nerdsniped again - tambocam; a webcam viewer for your terminal :) github.com/maxandersen/tambocam Because...why not? :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 27/05/2026

What are text blocks in a TUI editor called when rendered into 3D ? vtixels ? github.com/tamboui/tamboui/pull/348

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 18/05/2026

A post about 3D object rendering in a terminal flew by my newsfeed today - couldn't resist and made draft PR for TamboUI github.com/tamboui/tamboui/pull/348

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 02/05/2026

Meet lazyslide: Render asciidoc decks, serve them locally, watch for changes, and bootstrap new talks with one command. Built for people who’d rather ship slides than fight tooling. jbang app install lazyslide@maxandersen maxandersen.github.io/lazyslide

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 19/04/2026

So much for preparing for Devoxx. Got a Stream Deck+ yesterday, had an idea, and 5 minutes later a freshly hacked Quarkus + TamboUI app was feeding it live status from the agents running on my laptop. This is either progress or a cry for help.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 11/04/2026

Try this in your maven project: mvn eu.maveniverse.maven.plugins:pilot:RELEASE:pilot So Happy to see Tamboui being used to improve developer UX for Java world! Good stuff from @gnodet and @cstamas happening in github.com/maveniverse

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 04/04/2026

Awesome photo of Earth by Artemis from www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423… with caption: "The Earth appears upside down..." No. The Earth is exactly where it has always been. It's your internal map that's keeping your perception locked into an imperfect model of reality.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 02/04/2026

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate we are now finally once again sending out humans to the frontier of space. Safe travels to the crew on Artemis.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 19/03/2026

Java 26 quietly ships `-Xlog:cpu`, and it’s a perfect match with jbang. Run `jbang --java 26 -R=-Xlog:cpu <yourapp>` to see per-thread CPU stats without attaching a profiler. Handy way to sanity-check GC/VM activity.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 11/03/2026

We have a Quarkus team meeting this week and this is thus far my favourite slide - title need to be spoken out with an awesome accent :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 02/03/2026

Pushing JFR beyond "just" profiling. POC of having TamboUI emit (efficient) breadcrumbs of element tree and the regenerate a hi-res custom html allowing to introspect/replay frames. Great for layout behaves as expected :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 25/02/2026

best thing is the user also posted in r/indonesia and here it got removed :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 21/02/2026

Replit can be used for trying and even editing tamboUI apps. Here is screenshot from iPhone

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 19/02/2026

TamboUI video recording! The asciinema clips at tamboui.dev/docs/main/de... is made by TamboUI as part of its doc build. Even supports VHS .tape format to direct the video. Not yet a public API but I think we could make one if enough interest.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 19/02/2026

TamboUI can take selfies! ExportRequest.export(buffer).as(Formats.SVG) and you have a hires scalable image of your screen or any sub-area! jbang demos@tamboui to try it press E to export to see svg,txt,html formats.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 14/02/2026

Microsoft - you forgot to put a "Do not show this again" option on this.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 14/12/2025

JBang 0.135.1 release is out which is a bugfix release so I could make JBang based Homeassistant add-ons just work. Now...what would you build?

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 22/11/2025

One shot gpt-5.1 with upcoming jbang init AI customization. jbang gist.github.com/maxandersen/...

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 14/10/2025

1.5 year wait is finally over. Danish made unfolded circle remote have arrived.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 21/09/2025

After decades of wanting to set one up. I finally got a rack mounted home network setup. Wanted a video of blinking lights but instead I got eery audio that wasn't present when recording. Oh well :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 05/09/2025

Mise + Jitpack is quite powerful. Add a jitpack.yml and you can try out your maven artifacts from maven, gradle and of course jbang. jbang init -t setup-jitpack@maxandersen for getting the template, commit it and you can now share your maven artifacts easily without maven central.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 04/09/2025

I wanna know whoever implemented search on LinkedIn figured that a post about eggs and bacon is the top first result to show when searching for "mandelbrot javafx" ? And no, the results after also isn't related to javafx nor mandelbrot.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 08/07/2025

spend waaay too long on realizing that for the new maven central deploy the "token" you generate is not the token you use...there are *two* steps to do. Step 1 is generate username and password Step 2 is the *actual* token

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 30/06/2025

Exiting the Red Hat shell and going into the Big Blue. Tomorrow, most of Red Hat Middleware moves to IBM - hundreds of us with the same job, mission, and passion, just with a different badge.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 27/06/2025

Singapore - who told you about JBang in the last 24 hours? :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 01/06/2025

One-click Approve of pull-requests provided by github.com/refined-gith... is such. a timesaver. I wish it was available on github mobile too.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 22/05/2025

Having access to my Quarkus MCP based servers running on my laptop from my phone is pretty fun :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 22/05/2025

let's go - attending and speaking at KotlinConf about Quarkus and Langchain4j even a bit of jbang.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 20/05/2025

My favourite Quarkus 3.20+ feature: quarkus ext add quarkus-opentelemetry otel-tui start your app and now your terminal has traces, metrics and logs :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 20/05/2025

My favourite Quarkus 3.20+ feature: quarkus ext add quarkus-opentelemetry otel-tui start your app and now your terminal has traces, metrics and logs :)

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 13/05/2025

In recent Quarkus releases devui now includes a workspace tab to browse the workspace notion recognized by devmode. You view and ediit source and live-reload works. Great for quick fixes in devmode.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 18/04/2025

Wasn't sure what to call this holidays side project, but AI prompting settled it.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 28/03/2025

The Java test runner in @vscode.dev has improved greatly. Easy run of individual methods/classes and it "just works" with gradle as well as maven based projects. Now just need to figure out if can make it work as easily with JBang ... wdyt @fbricon.bsky.social ?

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 25/03/2025

I love how ideas are easy to try out with Quarkus MCP server. ~10 min later and I had this running in Claude desktop - visualization of my docker/podman containers.

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 23/03/2025

200$ for a full keyboard is overkill when the only thing I need is this one touch id button. Apple - c'mon...

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Max Rydahl Andersen @handle.invalid · 15/03/2025

not sure when this was added but github showing annotations (like test failures) on files outside edited filed on PR action jobs is awesome.

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