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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 1d

Great slide from @martinelli.ch's talk "Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems" at #JCONUSA25 #IBM #TechXchange

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 1d

Slides for my Services Reloaded talk from #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange are up: kitomann.com#/sessions/44....

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 2d

Just landed in Orlando for #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange!

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 3d

On my way to #JCONUSA25 at #IBM #TechXchange! Richmond -> Orlando.

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to @jbaru.ch for chatting with me about #TODOs at #dev2next for #VerboseMode. Great discussion! You can catch the short interview here: www.youtube.com/live/QSqV0zi....

#VerboseMode at #Dev2Next 2025 with Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) hosting Kito Mann on TODOs in code

#VerboseMode at #Dev2Next 2025 with Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) hosting Kito Mann on TODOs in code.

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for everyone who came to my #todo or not todo talk at #dev2next! You can find the slides here: kitomann.com#/sessions/47....

http://kitomann.com/#/sessions/47/todo-or-not-todo

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 7d

On the ground in Richmond. Thanks #dev2next!

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 7d

Leg 2: Atlanta -> Richmond.

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 7d

On the ground in ATL.

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 7d

Goodbye #dev2next! Great conference, great speakers and attendees. Leg 1: Colorado Springs -> Atlanta.

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 10d

I was going to post about this myself, but this is pretty much what I was going to say!

dev2next.bsky.social @dev2next.bsky.social · 10d

Survival isn’t about holding on—it’s about understanding your brain. 🧠

@arthurdoler.com's inspiring keynote at #dev2next, Survival Under Fire, showed how to stay whole during adversity and prepare for the next challenge.

Photos from the keynote below!
#Resilience #WellBeing

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to everyone who attended my Getting Things Done for Technologists session at #dev2next! Nice, engaged crowd! #gtd Slides: kitomann.com#/sessions/31... :

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 12d

Leg 2: Atlanta to Colorado Springs. Ran into another dev2next speaker on the plane!

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 12d

Just landed in Atlanta for leg 1 of my trip to #dev2next. Looking forward to the conference!

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 18d

I'm speaking at www.dev2next.com next week about TODOs. I'd still love to get some other perspectives. Do you add them frequently? Do you remove them? Do you process them? What’s the oldest one you’ve seen? What have you seen LLMs do with TODOs in existing code?

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · 25d

I was just wondering how hard it'll be for me and my family...

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wow, I'm super impressed with the performance of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-Q4_0 (reasoning model) running locally on an M1Max MacBook Pro. Using it with #GPT4All.
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just noticed that #JSpecify is gaining some real momentum. Looking forward to using it!

Start Here | JSpecify

jspecify.dev

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Another #gtd weekly review in the can. One thing I do during the weekly review is look at interesting things I wrote down that people mentioned. This week's winner was tailscale.com, which looks like an excellent alternative to VPNs for individuals and small companies. I also installed cline.bot.

Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Deploy a WireGuard®-based VPN to achieve point-to-point connectivity that enforces least privilege.

tailscale.com

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Aug 25

Not sure how #java #virtualthreads affect every day development with frameworks like #springboot, #quarkus, #helidon, or #jakartaee? Check out my Services Reloaded session at #JCON USA, part of IBM TechXchange, Oct 6–9 in Orlando, Florida!
👉 Register now: usa.jcon.one/register

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Aug 24

Web components everywhere....

Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · Aug 20

MDN, Photoshop, Reddit, Firefox, Home Assistant, Internet Archive, Chrome DevTools...

Some of my very favorite sites and apps are built with @lit.dev 🥰

Passle @passle.dev · Aug 20

Neat, looks like MDN's new frontend is built with @lit.dev

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Aug 23

Another #gtd weekly review in the can. This time I just did it at home on the deck, taking advantage of the nice weather. Lately I’ve really been enjoying walking during part of it, especially while review projects in #nozbe.

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Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Aug 22

Has anyone compared #langgraph4j to the agentic features of #langchain4j?

Kito D. Mann @kitomann.bsky.social · Aug 22

I have to say, Google's treasure trove of knowledge about its users make the agentic capabilities pretty compelling. Not sure if it'll make me stop using #Brave, though... #AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally blog.google/products/sea...

AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

AI Mode in Google Search is expanding to more regions and adding more features.

blog.google

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Sharat (Shar) Chander @sharatchander.bsky.social · Aug 4

#Java peers, #JavaOne IS BACK AGAIN IN 2026 (March 17-19). Read our blog to learn more and sign up w/interest if you want to attend, speak, or sponsor: social.ora.cl/6011fdkbH

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