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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 01/10/2026

Kotlin has come a long way in 15 years! The new State of Kotlin report is a good read. kotlinlang.org/assets/state-of-kotl…

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 01/10/2026

A high-energy chat with Andres Almiray on the future of desktop Java, Electron vs. JavaFX, and tools that make shipping easier. Also: env/dependency workflows and JReleaser for releases, installers, bundles, signatures, and multi-platform publishing. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uv35s-1b73a7f

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 25/09/2026

new in Spring AI 2.1.0 M1: initial support for a structured, ordered model for message content, support for the *OpenAI Responses API*, and a way to write pre-computed embeddings into a vector store spring.io/blog/2026/09/25/spring-ai…

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 25/09/2026

Incredible find about Maven 4 by my pal and Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb! maven.apache.org/docs/4.0.0-rc-7/re…

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 24/09/2026

🎙️ New episode of a Bootiful Podcast: I chat with Michael Carducci on deterministic AI, semantic layers, and why the future of AI may be won at the data layer-not the model layer. For production-ready AI and auditable reasoning, listen here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-edzgh-1b6a707

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 22/09/2026

so often we get people in the chat asking about what they could do to learn java! well, the java team's got ya sorted! check out their new channel, ⁨YouTube.com/@Learn-Java⁩ !

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 18/09/2026

Huzzah! @Java 27 is on the Spring Initializr (and still not on SDKMAN, almost half a week after it became available)

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/09/2026

one of my favorite OSS projects maintained by the legendary Andres Aalmiray is JReleaser. Wannna automate the process of taking an artifact and getting it to production? Use JReleaser. jreleaser.org

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 14/09/2026

macOS 27’s best new feature? All rounded corners finally match. Huge relief! And behind this window, 67 others are stacked top-left on my screen. But you would never know.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 14/09/2026

the more I look into it, the more I'm convinced "agentic" workflow is just workflow, and we'd be better off just improving the UX of existing workflow solutions rather than trying to reinvent them. why do we this wheel-reinvention every. single. time?

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 10/09/2026

Java’s gone from good to *ridiculously* good: Netflix’s Java platform team on JDK 25, ZGC, virtual threads, Spring Boot migrations, and why Java’s future is very bright. New Bootiful Podcast episode with Paul Bakker—worth your time. bootifulpodcast.podbean.com/e/netfl…

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 02/09/2026

Hei @javazone.bsky.social ! You’ve got a ton of amazing choices today but I hope you’ll join me at 11:40 am in room 1, where we’ll look at the latest and greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Springs Boot 4.x!

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 23/07/2026

Java 27 brings big JVM gains: compact object headers, stronger post-quantum TLS, JFR redaction, and more. With virtual threads + Spring, JVM AI/dev looks great. Billy Korando shares insights on all this in this Bootiful Podcast episode. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4d52x-1b1b2b7

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 19/07/2026

The premiere of the @java documentary was amazing.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/07/2026

This Java documentary is about to premiere! So excited

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 22/05/2026

fun main(){ println(“hello @KotlinConf 2026 keynote!”) }

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 22/05/2026

It was amazing to catch up with my friend @hadihariri.com again at @kotlinconf.com 2026

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 18/12/2025

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release. Happy holidays, one and all!

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/09/2025

The long national nightmare is over! sdk install java 25-graalce

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 31/05/2025

Great to see you, my friend!! (Socially distantly, so I didn’t open source my cold)

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

Code Remix Miami is one of those events where, even the occasional in-between-sessions-walk to the room are gratifying #tampa #coderemix Moderne

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 24/04/2025

somebody thinks LLMs "suck and aren't useful"??

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 29/03/2025

Ah, Anchor, we hardly knew ye...

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 26/03/2025

Sam Altman just announced new support for MCP in ChatGPT! Get started now at start.Spring.io (search `MCP`) Funny enough I just talked about the sort of integrations possible with something like this and ChatGPT's "work with.." feature, yesterday: joshlong.com/jl/blogPost/...

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 26/03/2025

The new ChatGPT image rendering capability is amazing! 🤩

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 22/03/2025

Me getting off stage after a failed demo

A picture of Mr Milchick from the tv show Severance getting out of the literal limelight after a very awkward presentation

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 21/03/2025

Want to use Buildpacks with Java 24 and native images? * new project on start.spring.io (I'm using Maven.) * choose Java 24 (It's almost April 2025!) * add the following to your Maven build's `<plugins>` section. * `./mvnw -Dmaven.test.skip=true spring-boot:build-image -Pnative` * Enjoy!

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 14/03/2025

this is going to be so fun. to be clear: there has been absolutely NO discussion of horse-mounted, costumed role play.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 16/02/2025

last night my partner and I went to the Chinese New Year parade (the largest such parade outside of Asia) here in San Francisco's Chinatown and then walked around Chinatown. Amazing. #SanFrancisco #Chinatown #ChineseNewYear #Parade

a (beautiful) picture of a little back street in San Francisco's Chinatown during the revelry of the Chinese New Year's parade, with people strolling about, lanterns strung from building to building, banners hanging, signs for little shops illuminated, and fireworks bursting above in the night sky.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 13/02/2025

I'll never forgive @cppwfs.bsky.social for ruining the rest of the Starbucks menu for me. #IYKYK #pistachio

a cup of Starbucks' Pistachio Cream Cold Brew, an iced, foam-y coffee with hints of pistachio. it's the perfect beverage and I can't even see the other drinks on the menu now.

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 09/01/2025

I love AI so much I went to Anguilla, the home of the .AI domain!

Blowing point ferry terminal, where we arrived by boat and passed immigration to visit the Caribbean island of Anguilla

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 09/01/2025

huh. I guess I was one of @sessionize.com 's most active speakers last year. NB: 'active' != 'good'

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 05/01/2025

Yah, I know. This is why it’s so frustrating that the UX is garbage. Imagine how nice the world would be if it were good? Here’s a scientific rendering of the future it WhatsApp was any good

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 03/01/2025

Well, happy new year anyway. Here’s some sun from my corner of the planet:

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 31/12/2024

parfois la paix implique beaucoup de bruit #martinique 🇲🇶

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 24/12/2024

Caught him red mitten’d in the act of Breaking and entering!

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 24/12/2024

Caught him red-mitten’d in a breaking and entering

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 21/12/2024

people forget that you used to have to *invite* people to get a GMail account. It was a who-knows-who sort of thing. I invited my friend Philip in 2004. here's what that email (from GMail) looked like

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/12/2024

:ahem: gRPC IS ON THE SPRING INITIALIZR!!! start.spring.io thank you, dr. @dsyer.com and @0.5ritter.de !

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 16/12/2024

yo conferences you've tried the best but now it's time to try the rest and I believe this is what people mean when they say they wish'd I'd just give it a rest. surely.