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Interesting aspect. Let me take this thought for a spin. What exactly would you want to expose?

An operator needs four app commands, not a server shell. I built the narrow path with Quarkus Aesh: one command model over SSH and a protected browser terminal. It includes safety checks, tests, and preview caveats. buff.ly/uzhCrdf #Quarkus

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 12h

Coming from Spring, I'd start with one Quarkus endpoint and keep the API the same. I've updated the article with a runnable example and a migration checklist. buff.ly/mIMVtRe #Java #Quarkus

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What Spring Didn’t Teach You: Becoming a Modern Java Developer with Quarkus

You know Spring. Now try Quarkus, see what happens at build time, and find out whether it fits your next Java application.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 28/09/2026

I wanted to see everything around a tiny Bob repair, not the repair itself. A Quarkus ACP client made that concrete: pending permission futures, SSE updates, and a gate `--auto-approve` would skip. buff.ly/9gDqsxv

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 27/09/2026

I still keep example tests. Fifty greens did not prove the rounding rule. jqwik found a combination my CSV never listed, then shrank it to six cents. buff.ly/MDW4XQT #jqwik #Quarkus

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 26/09/2026

Those who do this longer with more direction get seriously better results.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 26/09/2026

I think it’s still a very thin line between curating context and using agents efficiently and vibe coding. I’ve seen so many examples with the exact same assignment and vastly different outcomes just because one scenario prepared the agent better. We’re all just mostly learning it right now.

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 26/09/2026

I benchmarked IBM Bob with code-review-graph on Open Liberty. The graph path was 18.8% faster, but found 1/10 required call sites; solo Bob found 10/10. Smaller context only helps when it keeps the evidence. buff.ly/5ate4XY #MCP #CodeReview

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 25/09/2026

Bob TV: Episode 2: with yours truly and Max! Tokenmaxxing: How Much Context Does AI Coding Really Need? Tue, Oct 6, 2026 11:00 AM EDT (5:00 PM Europe/Berlin) buff.ly/WCfu7i7 #Register #Free

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 24/09/2026

I wanted the Goblin warning in the console before I trusted a resilience annotation. This walkthrough injects latency and 503s on one Quarkus REST boundary, then proves the caller timeout, retry, and fallback. buff.ly/x1z3vH9 #Quarkus #Java

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 22/09/2026

I wrapped a Quarkus Agroal datasource with J API Proxy and left statements unproxied. Native Image still needed two exact lists: DataSource+ProxyHandle and Connection+ProxyHandle. JVM tests cannot prove that. buff.ly/PPFp0Fo

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 20/09/2026

I wanted two IBM Bob tasks at once without sharing a checkout. Git worktrees isolate files. One constrained Podman container limits the host. Tests decide what merges. buff.ly/twZMs8I #IBMBob #Podman

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 19/09/2026

My #JCON2026 session is live: 'Chasing the Main Thread - Adventures in #AI Assisted Coding' This talk takes you behind the scenes of a daily #creative experiment: writing and publishing one hands-on #tutorial or article on The Main Thread Grab your coffee and hit play: youtu.be/1wSjnnxWdYA

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Chasing the Main Thread - Adventures in AI Assisted Coding | Markus Eisele (EN)

This talk takes you behind the scenes of a daily creative experiment: writing and publishing one hands-on tutorial or article every day on the-main-thread.com. In this session, I’ll share the…

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 18/09/2026

I keep reaching for Checkstyle ImportControl when I want a cheap pre-compilation gate on package dependencies. This walkthrough wires it into a Quarkus catalog API and proves it catches the exact import before javac runs. buff.ly/OI13jgD

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 16/09/2026

I wired IBM Bob Shell v2 into GitHub Actions to turn Markdown into a validated GitHub Pages site: pinned TasteSkill, artifact deploy, no generated HTML in Git. buff.ly/EaHB91Z #GitHubPages #IBMBob #CodingAgents

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 14/09/2026

Carrier webhooks are a mapper problem until you ask where agents should touch production code. Quarkus keeps auth and idempotency. QuickJS4j runs an approved normalizer behind a string boundary. buff.ly/HVypaIj #Quarkus #Java

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 12/09/2026

I use JSON when I need to inspect a response. A Java-to-Java call has a different contract. This Quarkus Fory walkthrough keeps both paths clear and tests `application/fory` with real bytes. buff.ly/gnEdcyg #Quarkus #Java #ApacheFory

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XDEV Software @xdev.software · 11/09/2026

XDEV is coming to 🇺🇸 #IBMTechXchange Enterprise Java is rarely greenfield. @richard.fichtner.dev & Markus Eisele show how IBM Bob and the Quarkus Dev MCP keep AI-assisted work maintainable – demoed live on a production codebase, not a sample app. Bring your own legacy code questions!

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 10/09/2026

I expected a Quarkus startup banner to be decoration. It became a build-time lesson: FIGlet renders during augmentation; runtime picks colored or plain output. I tested the boundary with NO_COLOR and a bad font. buff.ly/1MprIu4 #Quarkus #Java

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 08/09/2026

I moved my Quarkus errors to `quarkus-http-problem` instead of three custom mappers. Framework failures go to the extension, business conflicts stay explicit, and Dev UI shows mapper order. buff.ly/OmKvfRj

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 06/09/2026

I spent real time with FlexGanttFX and wired it to Quarkus for a dock-door planner. The useful rule: the desktop renders proposals, Quarkus owns the schedule, and rejected drags roll back. buff.ly/IJNGIcT

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 04/09/2026

Bob Shell ships a hidden `bob acp` server. I connected it to Zed and used one failing Java check to exercise permissions, plans, diffs, session restore, and MCP handoff. The editor/agent boundary is clearer than I expected. buff.ly/l941ESU

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 31/08/2026

Instructions can steer a coding agent. Hooks can stop it. This IBM Bob lab adds live repo context, protected-file boundaries, test evidence, BobShell execution, and Codex/Claude migration notes. www.the-main-thread.com/p/ibm-bob-li... #IBMBob #CodingAgents