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Docker @docker.com · 24/04/2025

In this video for #Kubesimplify, our Engineering Manager for the AI Runtime Team @wittek.dev talks #Docker's latest feature: Model Runner It allows developers to run and test #LLM from their local environment w/ Docker Desktop 4.40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3W...

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Run LLMs Locally with Docker Model Runner | Simplify AI Dev with Docker Desktop

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Docker @docker.com · 15/04/2025

Running a GenAI app locally with OpenAI SDK + Docker Model Runner? Yes, please. This demo uses Next.js + Docker Compose to serve up an LLM chatbot (Qwen 2.5) with hardware acceleration on Apple Silicon. Local, fast, secure. Watch it go! @wittek.dev #Docker #JavaScript #NextJS #LLM #AI #OpenAI

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Docker @docker.com · 12/04/2025

Developers: “I wish I could run AI locally without all the setup.” Docker: “Say less.” @hummusonrails.com dropped a 🔥 blog on the new Docker Model Runner: 🔗 spklr.io/63328AJqs #Docker #AI #Git #DevTools

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Docker Does What?!? Run AI Models Locally with Docker

Docker has always been about simplifying developers' lives, making it effortless to build, ship, and...

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 12/04/2025

Wanted to reboot my blog and was pondering the options. Self-hosting a static site would be okayish, but I also don't really want to yak shave the whole thing. I used to like Substack, but it just is becoming an increasingly weird platform thingie. So maybe giving Ghost a try?

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 12/04/2025

I don't really know what to do about all the different social media sites. More and more folks are following me here, but I am not really using it. Maybe I should rotate through the different networks on a weekly basis :D (bsky, X, LinkedIn, Mastodon...)

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/03/2025

In the style of The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger's Renaissance masterpiece painted in 1533, The Computers portrays many of the concepts and artifacts that define the world of computing.

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 27/02/2025

An honor to be mentioned here :o

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Docker @docker.com · 12/02/2025

docker run docker/hello-bluesky

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Johan Vos @johanvos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This project is key to Java. We need a notebook to bring Java towards students, scientists,... and help them doing research/POC's in the same language that can later be used in production systems where performance/stability/scaling/security is key.

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JavaLand @javaland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🎙️ Speaker Spotlight: Do not miss Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev with his lecture "Learning GenAI/LLM programming with langchain4j and Testcontainers" at Hashtag#JavaLand 2025! scomp.ly/R1oDxZ8

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Siva @sivalabs.in · 27/01/2025

🚀 Say hello to coding offline with Local AI! 💻✨ Check out how Ollama lets you harness the power of AI models like Llama 3, Deepseek, and more—right on your machine! 🧠⚡ 🔒 Privacy-first 🛠️ Works even when you're offline 👉 Dive in: www.sivalabs.in/code-offline... #AI #Ollama

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You Can Code Offline With Local AI(Ollama)

ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools took the world by a storm. People are using these AI tools for various purposes such as to explore a topic, to seek answers to their questions or to get help in c...

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Andres Almiray @andresalmiray.com · 21/01/2025

Remembering Russel. RIP 🖤

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 22/01/2025

"Who gets to hit @anthropic.com harder with the money stick" apparently remains the sport of kings.

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Christian Grobmeier @grobmeier.de · 20/01/2025

For my mental health, I usually refrain from commenting on politics. Today, I feel compelled to break this rule and speak out. In Germany, history revisionists yell their devoid phrases from the chancel, echoed by those who struggle with recent politics and are afraid of the future. 🧵 1/8

Me, while reading a book behind my desk.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 17/01/2025

Google Gemini for Workspace requires an enterprise tier subscription to turn off. It's the best economic story for their AI. I didn't expect them to find it, but they did because after billions of dollars and decades of ML work Google has finally created a self-aware product manager.

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 14/01/2025

Check out the song I recorded over the holidays, an instrumental version of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. First time doing everything in Logic, all guitars done using Neural DSP. Cover by Neslihan Wittek <3 cc @calvobianco.com , who was asking for music content :D distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

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Baker Street by Kevin Wittek

Stream and Save Baker Street - Distributed by DistroKid

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 29/12/2024

My wife just created a Red Bubble shop for her own digital art drawings. Check it out, I think there are some really cute designs and I will get them for myself, like the Snail in the race car or the Wizard Frog :D www.redbubble.com/people/nwitt...

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nwittek Shop | Redbubble

nwittek is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 16/12/2024

The fact that is is on published in the MS org is the 🤯 thing. Also cute: > You can also configure markitdown to use Large Language Models to describe images.

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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Modern child: NO I wanted the other iPad Victorian child; thank you for the orange

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 15/12/2024

Good a real great anniversary gift from my wife, themotorracingacademy.com/the-motor-ra..., by Suellio Almeida (with whom I also had a private coaching session last year). I will make good use of it during the holidays and try to up my game again, honestly good rusty this year.

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The Motor Racing Checklist | Advanced Racing Online Course

The Motor Racing Checklist is a top-rated online training course for intermediate and advanced real-life and Sim Racing drivers. Created by Suellio Almeida, trusted by pro drivers, F1 engineers, IndyC...

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 14/12/2024

Is anyone using AI/LLMs in the context of "writing" in a satisfactory and valuable way? I kind of get them for coding, but not at all for writing (maybe as a spelling and grammar check). Also made me think of this article by Paul Graham: paulgraham.com/writes.html

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Writes and Write-Nots

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Georgios Andrianakis @geoand86.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

With the latest Quarkus LangChain4j 0.23.0.CR1, wring agents just got a lot easier! Our weather agent example should give you a really good idea: github.com/quarkiverse/...

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quarkus-langchain4j/samples/weather-agent at main · quarkiverse/quarkus-langchain4j

Quarkus Langchain4j extension. Contribute to quarkiverse/quarkus-langchain4j development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Thomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 13/12/2024

Listening to “How [not] to Lead your Organization’s AI-Transformation: Strategies, Skills, and Culture - or how to skip the platform trap and deliver business value with AI” by @ondfisk.bsky.social #yow24

Rasmus Lystrøm presenting at YOW! Sydney

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 12/12/2024

I've been thinking about and working to understand Free Software, Open Source, and business for a very long time. Thanks to @kelseyhightower.com, I tried to distill all of that into a single talk: youtu.be/rmhYHzJpkuo - I'm very proud of it, and I hope it helps you. :)

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Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative

YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

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Geoffrey De Smet @geoffreydesmet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

To everyone who's been in IT for a while: Which hype cycles have set your project(s) off course for a few months because management believed not doing it would disrupt the business? And how did it turn out?

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Donald Raab @thedonraab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I shared this story a couple years ago. I hope to never lose my enthusiasm about the joy of programming. I hope this story motivates others to tell theirs, even if it's just to their friends and family. We may not be rockstars, but we are creators and magicians. 🙏 donraab.medium.com/the-joy-of-p...

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The Joy of Programming

A story of 40 years of coding and still feeling like a kid in a toy store.

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 12/12/2024

Since there’s a lot of really useful data tucked away in PDF’s and documents that aren’t easily consumable by LLM’s, the #Docling project uses computer vision models and OCR to parse into Markdown, JSON, and more! I experimented with the CLI and library in this quick video: youtu.be/0vmQ7BmLax8

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Docling: AI Powered Document Parsing for LLMs and RAG

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.

Book cover: Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read

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CrAIg Walls @habuma.com · 12/12/2024

Tonight, I took a stab at writing a Spring AI application using the new MCP support module. It's only slightly different from the simple SQLite example, but this one uses the Google Maps MCP server to answer questions about locations. Check it out: github.com/habuma/sprin...

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spring-ai-examples/spring-ai-mcp-fun at main · habuma/spring-ai-examples

Examples of using Spring AI. Contribute to habuma/spring-ai-examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Christian Grobmeier @grobmeier.de · 12/12/2024

Pull request reviews are like group therapy in the best case, like group insanity in the worst. Kindness lets you resolve both cases. December 12 #ZenDevAdvent Image: Unsplash #git #pullrequests #programming

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 11/12/2024

Lots of people are only looking out for themselves which is why they fear everything.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 11/12/2024

Lots of companies give special swag / gifts to folks who speak at their conferences. AWS giving “a survey” is extremely on-brand. (There was also a pin.)

An invitation to complete a speaker survey.

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Christian Grobmeier @grobmeier.de · 10/12/2024

Encouraged by the feedback from the first video (thanks)... here is a second one. I guess the feedback will be similar since the video was identical, but I share it anyway. For Junior developers or people who are considering becoming juniors youtu.be/-xptZU9jem4 #programming #career

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Are you smart enough to learn coding?

I have been a Java trainer for many years. I have trained many people who have never coded before. After a while, some ask me a very personal question: "Am I...

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Christian Grobmeier @grobmeier.de · 07/12/2024

A good open-source project is like a Zen garden: simple and beautiful. Never look at the issues tab when you are at peace with yourself. December 7 #ZenDevAdvent #opensource

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 06/12/2024

If there is some end-of-the-year learning budget you feel like spending, which is some content you would suggest? Can be books, courses, whatever. And regarding topics, anything related to IT, AI, or even management and leadership :)

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Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev · 06/12/2024

What are "timeless" resources about AI/ML (including foundational and historic stuff) you would recommend? Currently "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow and "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" seem to fit this bill for me.

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Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll.be · 06/12/2024

Using Spring Boot with Testcontainers? We've improved support so that your test setup is more lean. `@AutoConfigureTestDatabase` now detects containers and will automatically use that! If you need to revert to the old behavior, set `replace=Replace.AUTO_CONFIGURED)` on the annotation.

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Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll.be · 05/12/2024

Using Testcontainers and upgrading to Spring Boot 3.4? If you were injecting a DynamicPropertyRegistry in a bean method, please migrate that to DynamicPropertyRegistrar. More details in the release notes: buff.ly/49hD3R2

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Christian Grobmeier @grobmeier.de · 05/12/2024

Today, I upgraded my Plausible Analytics environment. It was sometimes a bit tricky, but luckily, the documentation was excellent. If you need #privacy first, #opensource web analytics, check out Plausible:

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Plausible: Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

Plausible Analytics is a privacy-friendly and open source Google Analytics alternative that you can install and self-host on your server.

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Richard Fichtner 💻☕ @richard.fichtner.dev · 04/12/2024

@wittek.dev Please meet Apache Maven Helpdesk chatgpt.com/g/g-3PB7ExxO...

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 04/12/2024

At my university computer lab we pranked the sysadmins by replacing Windows NT installations with OS/2 Warp. We ran Doom tournaments. ‘Someone’ was running a warez ring. And we had to figure that all out ourselves, we had no Google, YouTube, or TikTok. Or even cell phones. The kids will find a way.

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Tom Cools @tomcools.be · 03/12/2024

How is this real? Nanowar, Napalm Record... #java based song. #metal music. Unfortunatly no simpler main method 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8...

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NANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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Holly Cummins @hollycummins.com · 04/12/2024

Far jars had their time, but that time was a while ago. They're just too inefficient in a container world. Instead, go lean and layered.

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Robert Glaser @youngbrioche.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Kollege Hermann hat gerade ein #RAG System für unseren Kunden Sprengnetter in Produktion gebracht und teilt seine Erfahrungen in einer Blog-Reihe. Teil 1: Warum der übertriebene Fokus auf #Vektorsuche das Problem nicht löst www.innoq.com/de/blog/2024...

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Besseres RAG mit hybrider Suche

Eine Komponente von RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) ist das Retrieval. In anderen Worten haben wir ein Suchproblem zu lösen. Wenn man Artikel über RAG liest, bekommt man den Eindruck, dass die Ve...

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