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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"Agile, How It Became Less Agile?" — Mark Heckler youtube.com/shorts/rMdex... This was a small snippet from a fun, and hopefully thought-provoking, keynote I was honored to deliver @confoo 2025.

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"Agile, How It Became Less Agile?" — Mark Heckler

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I've resigned from my position as Senior Director of Field Engineering at Moderne. I have a few pet projects I plan to nurture & guide and going forward, I'll only choose things to which I feel I can contribute most meaningfully. Best to all, let's make 2026 AMAZING!

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Moderne.ai @moderneai.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today on Code Remix Weekly, find out how to detect and fix quantum-vulnerable code across massive systems with Moderne's LST-powered analysis and PQC readiness workflows with guest @mkheck.bsky.social.💪 🔴 Watch at 21:00 CET / 3 PM ET.

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Code Remix Weekly | Quantum-ready Cryptography with Moderne

What’s your level of readiness for quantum-era threats?As quantum computing moves from theory toward reality, the cryptographic foundations of modern softwar...

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Join us!! It will be a fun and informative chat among us all, made all the better by you being there!

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OpenRewrite by Moderne @openrewrite.github.io · 30/10/2025

In this article featured in @infoworld.bsky.social, @mkheck.bsky.social explores what makes OpenRewrite tick, enabling automated, reliable code transformation—and how Moderne scales this power for enterprise codebase evolution. 🦋 Full article:

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A practitioner’s primer on deterministic application modernization

How OpenRewrite uses Lossless Semantic Trees to deliver a full-fidelity representation of code, making transformations precise, repeatable, and auditable.

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Devnexus @devnexus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

From dev to deploy, containers are reshaping the way we build. At #Devnexus, @mkheck.bsky.social broke down what it means to go containers all the way down—and why it matters for every developer. Recap here ⤵️ devnexus.org/posts/contai... 🚀 Don’t miss Devnexus '26 is where innovation happens live!

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Containers All the Way Down! With Mark Heckler

In his Devnexus session, Mark Heckler explored a challenge many developers face but few initially address—optimizing Spring Boot applications for the cloud. ...

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OpenRewrite by Moderne @openrewrite.github.io · 27/08/2025

#OpenRewrite v8.61.1 is here! 🚀 ✅ Upgrade to JUnit 6 🌟 `@InlineMe` annotation & recipe 🐘 Rework Gradle dependency model 📦 `classpathFromResources` for Refaster 🗓 Add annotations to TypeTables 🍃 Expand Spring coverage 🐛 Many small fixes Thanks to all contributors! 🙇 github.com/openrewrite/...

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Release 3.14.0 · openrewrite/rewrite-recipe-bom

What's Changed Incorporates the latest versions of OpenRewrite (v8.61.1), the rewrite-gradle-plugin (v7.15.0), and the rewrite-maven-plugin (v6.17.0) to improve code parsing accuracy and recipe ex...

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Join us for a fun and hopefully enlightening #ai adventure! We’ll talk, code, and marvel at the fit and misfits of AI in our world. 😁 Follow the link, click “notify me” for a reminder, and I’ll look forward to seeing you there! 😃🙌🍃🤖

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Todd Ginsberg @todd.ginsberg.com · 14/08/2025

Up next at #KCDC2025: @mkheck.bsky.social with his talk “AI 202: Next-level AI Mastery for Java Developers”. Currently describing how testing AI responses is difficult to do in a way that brings confidence.

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Let's make the world of software, and by extension the world in general, a quantifiably better place.

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Visionary organizations identify opportunities, then look for ways to increase capacity to take advantage of those opportunities.

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Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#Java peers... @mkheck.bsky.social + @moderneai.bsky.social = get your popcorn ready! It's gonna be an amazing combination!

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Moderne.ai @moderneai.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We're absolutely thrilled to have you join the team!🎉 Looking forward to the impact we'll make together. 🤝

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining @moderneai.bsky.social, creators of @openrewrite.github.io, as Senior Director of Field Engineering! Automated refactoring, analysis, and transformation at scale. Learn more: www.moderne.ai Truly honored to join such an amazing team doing amazing things!

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Scale OpenRewrite auto-refactoring with Moderne

Migrate, secure, and analyze your code across multiple repositories at once—improving your codebase in minutes, not months. Power up OpenRewrite.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/07/2025

It seems the future of agentic platforms will be more deterministic by leveraging traditional automation techniques. In this case Claude Code is adding support for lifecycle hooks, which allow you to write shell commands to ensure certain actions always happen. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/clau...

Hooks provide deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior, ensuring certain actions always happen rather than relying on the LLM to choose to run them.

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Brian Vermeer @brianvermeer.nl · 14/05/2025

Microsoft laid off this legend. Catch him while you can ….

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 13/05/2025

hire this legend

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Spencer Gibb @spencer.gibb.us · 13/05/2025

Hire Mark! He is not only a great advocate and speaker, but a wonderful person.

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Just got caught up in the latest round of terminations from Microsoft. If anyone needs a "batteries included" advocate who really knows code, AI, and real production concerns + solutions, ping me! Ready to make great things happen for you. Onward and upward!

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Expanded response timeout to allow Editor agent to go deeper. Repos at the end of the article. #Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 15: Application Security thehecklers.com/2025/04/appl... Content generation & editing using gpt-4.1 on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor!

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Application Security

*** AI GENERATED CONTENT *** NOTE: This is an ongoing test of an agentic AI workflow in which a post is generated, then evaluated per specified criteria, and if it passes, it’s done. If not, n…

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Whoo, this is a big one! All critiques included & repos at the end of the article. ✅ #Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 14: Observability & Performance thehecklers.com/2025/04/obse... Content generation & editing using gpt-4.1 on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor!

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Observability and Performance

*** AI GENERATED CONTENT *** NOTE: This is an ongoing test of an agentic AI workflow in which a post is generated, then evaluated per specified criteria, and if it passes, it’s done. If not, n…

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 12: Development Tools (done two ways!) thehecklers.com/2025/04/deve... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Now using gpt-4.1 on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor. SO MANY CHANGES! 1/2 🧵

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Development Tools (done two ways!)

*** AI GENERATED CONTENT *** NOTE: This is an ongoing test of an agentic AI workflow in which a post is generated, then evaluated per specified criteria, and if it passes, it’s done. If not, n more…

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New post! #Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 10: Cloud-native #Java thehecklers.com/2025/04/clou... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Currently using o3-mini on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor; post length: 15 sentences.

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Cloud-native Java

*** AI GENERATED CONTENT *** NOTE: This is a test of an agentic AI workflow in which a post is generated, then evaluated per specified criteria, and if it passes, it’s done. If not, two more attemp…

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 9: AI-assisted Development thehecklers.com/2025/04/ai-a... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Returned to using o3-mini on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor; post length: 15 sentences. Onward!

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AI-assisted Development

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 8: Java with Generative AI and LLMs thehecklers.com/2025/04/java... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. For this post, using gpt4-o on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor; post length: 15 sentences.

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Java with Generative AI and LLMs

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 7: Bikeshedding thehecklers.com/2025/04/bike... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Now using o3-mini on #AzureOpenAI as writer, gpt4-o on #OpenAI as editor; increased post length to 15 sentences.

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Bikeshedding: the art of distraction

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 5: Now, for some "CONS of using #SSE for Model Context Protocol (#mcp) Servers"! thehecklers.com/2025/04/cons... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Code cleanup, no change in guidance.

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Cons of using SSE for Model Context Protocol Servers

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, day 3: Using A to generate blog content thehecklers.com/2025/03/usin... Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Code polishing, no change in guidance. Added token counts at the bottom of the post for reference. #️⃣

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Using AI to generate blog content

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#Agentic #AI blog writing, day 2: REST vs. MCP: Unlocking AI Interaction Potential thehecklers.com/2025/03/rest... 100% agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Code polishing, no change in guidance. Stay tuned as things progress!

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REST vs. MCP: Unlocking AI Interaction Potential

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This week at #JavaOne I had the privilege and honor of sharing the keynote stage with @mkheck.bsky.social. We predented a bit of what #Microsoft sees as the present and future of application development in #Java with #AI. Watch the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_2...

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Java 24 Launch - Live from JavaOne 2025

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Yuichi Sakuraba @skrb95.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

JavaOne 2025 Wrap up Day 1 Microsoft Keynote #javaone #java @brunoborges.bsky.social @mkheck.bsky.social

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Absolutely an honor to tag team with @brunoborges.bsky.social on this. Great material and great fun, check it out!

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Thomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 19/03/2025

Working through the meaning of life with @mkheck.bsky.social

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Thomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 18/03/2025

Now on stage @mkheck.bsky.social with a live demo of Spring AI and GitHub Copilot #JavaOne

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Simon Martinelli @martinelli.ch · 06/03/2025

Last talk of the day at another amazing @devnexus.bsky.social edition by @mkheck.bsky.social

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨 NEW VIDEO ALERT! 🚨 My colleague Ayan Gupta has released "Java in Containers: Deploying Your First ACA App Using Azure Portal" Just curious or need a vector check? Ayan makes it easy to use Azure Container Apps. youtu.be/VY_oVxg8ocg?... Get free Java+containers refcard: aka.ms/javalearn

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Java in Containers: Deploying You First ACA App Using Azure Portal | Part IV

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Henri Tremblay @henri.tremblay.pro · 01/03/2025

Finishing strong @confooca.bsky.social with a great keynote by @mkheck.bsky.social

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tinyrobots.bsky.social @tinyrobots.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I am giving a talk about the Netty framework today at 10 am at Confoo 2025 in Montreal #confoo

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tinyrobots.bsky.social @tinyrobots.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Spring Boot at Confoo 2025 #confoo

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Always happy to share, I have always been (and remain) a huge fan!

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Devoxx UK @devoxx.uk · 17/02/2025

Ever made a retro arcade game? Would you like to? We are hosting an arcade hack day on the 1st of March and would love to have you join us! For more information (and to register) please have a look at the form below. 👉 buff.ly/40TYBk5

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🚨 NEW VIDEO ALERT! 🚨 My colleague Ayan Gupta just dropped a video: "Java in Containers: Prerequisites." It's packed with tips on containerizing Java apps and deploying to Azure Container Apps. Don't miss it! Watch here: youtu.be/R27Coj3Lsv4?... Get free Java+containers refcard: aka.ms/javalearn

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Java in Containers: Prerequisites Before Getting Started | Part III

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Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨 NEW VIDEO ALERT! 🚨 Check out this quick vid from teammate Ayan Gupta on "Java in Containers: Intro to ACA Architecture & Components". Ayan talks tablestakes for your prod app w ACA as an example. Pls like+subscribe! 👍 youtu.be/t9Uq8SZ2FFE?... Get free Java+containers refcard: aka.ms/javalearn

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Java in Containers: Introduction to ACA's Architecture and Components | Part II

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