At J-Spring, @felienne.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther King, quoting Thoreau, who apparently anticipated much of modern technology: "Improved means to an unimproved end."
Maybe it's kind of comforting that complaints from 200 years ago are still relevant in these uncertain times?
Holly Cummins
Honored to be listed in the Top 5 for @nljug.bsky.social's upcoming #JSpring conference alongside these legends: @hollycummins.com @nipafx.dev @garnier.wf @jamesward.com
Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents
martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
📣 I've created a new #quarkiverse extension - quarkus-flags, a lightweight and extensible feature flags/toggles/switches #quarkus extension: github.com/quarkiverse/... Feedback, feature requests and contributions are welcome🙏.
martinfowler.com
github.com
A lightweight and extensible feature flag extension - quarkiverse/quarkus-flags
I was playing around with #ClaudeCode and thought I'd see how it handles creating a new #SpringBoot project vs a @quarkus.io project.
Prompt: I'd like to create a new <quarkus|spring boot> project
Spring: $1.83 - 7m21s
Quarkus: $0.4364 - 2m39s
Look at the tokens counts!
Ohhh, making an attack show only on Windows is clever - visible to most users, invisible to most developers. 😳
Martin Kouba
Shall we have some accountability, and start calling them Farage-queues?
#borders
