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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · 15d

There’s a guy selling Polaroids at the Golden Gate Bridge. Good business

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · 16d

I know it hasn't happened yet and expect it will :)

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · 20d

i had a flight that was delayed more than three hours. after i had eaten, united sent a $15 virtual gift card that can only be used for food and expires roughly a day later. appreciating the internet advice on how to add it to a starbucks or chickfila balance which allows it to be used further out

Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · 20d

i had a flight that was delayed more than three hours. after i had eaten, united sent a $15 virtual gift card that can only be used for food and expires roughly a day later. appreciating the internet advice on how to add it to a starbucks or chickfila balance which allows it to be used further out

Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · 26d

The announcement system is broken and keeps saying “Track number 6”. “Track number 8” and “track number 10”. Sounds like rooting for competing horses to win here!

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · Aug 28

Watch GOTO Book Club: Barry Burd + Victor Grazi & @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social on "Real World Java"! Key points: School ≠ real world, master your IDE tools, bridge the gap from syntax to enterprise.

Real-World Java • Victor Grazi, Jeanne Boyarsky & Barry Burd • GOTO 2025

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/393 Victor…

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 21

First row of my section at stars of the #usopen exhibition matches. Great lineup.

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 18

Had a great time at #KCDC2025! Made 11 live blogs (TOC here: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...). Plus links to my two session slide decks

KCDC 2025 Live Blog Table of Contents | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

KCDC grew. There are talks in two halls this year plus dev ops days, I hurt my finger so curious to see how live blogging goes! (It's going fine. Wordpress autocomplete lets me save typing some charac...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

last live blog post from #kcdc2025 - bugs from Francois Martin www.selikoff.net/2025/08/15/k...

[kcdc 2025] 82 bugs i collected in a year you won’t believe made it to production | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Francois Martin For more see the table of contents General

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

live blogging on designing for behavioral change at #kcdc2025 www.selikoff.net/2025/08/15/k...

[kcdc 2025] designing for behavioral change – the science behind habit-forming products | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Preston Chandler For more see the table of contents General Why do some products become second nature while others are forgotten - valuable, fun,

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

live blogging about passkeys at #kcdc2025 www.selikoff.net/2025/08/15/k...

[kcdc 2025] Passkeys: The end of Passwords and the Future of Authentication | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Mateusz Zajac For more see the table of contents General Don't need complex passwords Phishing proof Public key crypto _ biometrics One tap sign in Secure Fewer breaches Simpler flows Lower s...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

live blogging @venkats.bsky.social on modern java at #kcdc2025: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/15/k...

[kcdc 2025] The Amazing Features of Modern Java | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Venkat For more see the table of contents Switch Showed switch with break missing Turned it into a switch expression by changing the code in place. Emphasized code more concise and not writin...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

back on the final day of #kcdc2025 - live blogging on crisis coding: navigating impossible deadlines: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/15/k...

[kcdc 2025] Crisis Coding: Navigating Impossible Deadlines | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Drew Spencer For more see the table of contents Background Works at a lab COVID created imposible deadlines

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

last #kcdc2025 live blog of the day. this time on blog coding: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] Vibe Coding Revolution: How AI Assisted Development Tools are Transforming Velocity | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Tony Galati For more see the table of contents Intro A Product Owner at NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) gave the background of their project. Origin: Gave a prompt for ...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

live blogging darker side of AI from #kcdc2025 www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] AI Vulnerabilities in 2025 – Some of the darker sides of AI | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Andreas Erben For more see the table of contents General

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

live blogging daily scrum talk at #kcdc2025: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] having daily standups people actually care about | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Phil Ledgerwood For more see the table of contents Scrum survey Asked who doing Scrum - most of room Had people sit if no sprint goals - a bunch Had people sit whose sprint goal is to complet...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Live blogging on focusing on predictability vs variability at #kcdc2025 www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] The problems that arise when focusing on predictability instead of variability | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Joel Tosi @[email protected] Deck For more see the table of contents General

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

live blogging @todd.ginsberg.com on structured concurrency/scoped values session here at #kcdc2025: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/l...

Loom is more than Virtual Threats: Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Todd Ginsberg Bluesky: ‪@todd.ginsberg.com‬ For more see the table of contents Project Loom easy to use high throughput lightweight concurrency new programming models on the Java platform

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Great session from @bendechr.ai at #kcdc2025. my live blog notes: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] ai killed your privacy tools | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Ben Dechral For more see the table of contents General Privacy risks We thought robots would do physical labor for us so we could relax. Like Rosie on the Jetsons Have robots to clean floors,...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

First live blog post from #kcdc2025 of the day: AI Killed your privacy tools: www.selikoff.net/2025/08/14/k...

[kcdc 2025] ai killed your privacy tools | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Speaker: Ben Dechral For more see the table of contents General Privacy risks We thought robots would do physical labor for us so we could relax Have robots to clean floors, mow lawns, farming, build ...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 9

saw a film at FestofCinemaNYC that was done with AI. No human actors. Interesting hearing about how that went from the film maker after.

The film itself is on youtube if you want to see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZycC...

The Soviet 'Roswell' Incident : A Mockumentary

YouTube video by Rabbit Vortex Entertainment

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hulu live tv prompted me that my tv isn't my home location because it doesn't recognize it. Same tv worked earlier in the week. And many times before that. Weird

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Aug 7

i was taking a class today and wanted to make parts of it faster. then at home i was watching a video someone asked me to review. nice to be able to speed that one up!

Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Jul 22

Blogged about passing the Oracle AI Foundations certification (spoiler: free Oracle certs til Halloween; now for Java ones though)

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Today I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI Foundations Associate certification and passed with a score of 88%. Passing is 65%. It's a 60 minute exam with 40 questions. It look me way less than th...

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Jeanne Boyarsky @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social · Jul 20

NYC Buses are time traveling again. The bus that leaves 24 minutes later will arrive at the second stop on the route 8 minutes earlier.