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Max Rydahl Andersen
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Quarkus co-lead - Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat. Creator of https://jbang.dev
JBang released with new features:

Deps search, print main methods if none found, jdk exec and AI for init methods now works without preview and autodiscovery for openai, googleai, opencode and more.

jbang init Tetris.java make a Tetris game

github.com/jbangdev/jba...
Release v0.134.2 · jbangdev/jbang
Almost too much... Bunch of small fixes and a few "big" features in this round, deps, jdk exec, JBang AI and beginnings of native image build of jbang. deps add & deps search You can now use jbang ...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One shot gpt-5.1 with upcoming jbang init AI customization.

jbang gist.github.com/maxandersen/...
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Passed over 500.000 version checks at jbang.dev/usage

Doubled in less than 90 days.

Happy Friday :)
JBang Usage
Below is a visualization of recent version checks done by JBang users the last 90 days.
jbang.dev
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Max Rydahl Andersen
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.

I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
#opensource #opentowork | Andres Almiray
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland (...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My Moonlander Mark I keyboard I've had for 4+ years suddenly have a dead column (3,E,D,C,<) ...

Now typing on my 26 year old Logitech iTouch Keyboard - everything works...but I have to keep my hands in middle ... will be interesting to see if my back/shoulder pain will return.
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I wish I could start work in cursor locally on my laptop and then when I need to or feel like going on a walk or drive tell it to continue as agent in their cloud. Feels like should be possible but not finding it. Am I blind?
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Reposted by Max Rydahl Andersen
Quarkus continues to focus on native for swift start-up time and low memory footprint. Learn more in By Severin Gehwolf's blog post, "Continued Focus on Native"

quarkus.io/blog/continu...
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Spot on. Native image might not be perfect but it’s much easier to apply and make consistent across the broad use cases Java applies.
Good explanations from @0.5ritter.de about the diffs between Leyden and GraalVM. I think an important thing to surface is that Leyden requires steps which are not easily integrated in a build pipeline: you need to build an app, then profile it, then build the AOT cache, then repackage.
Part 5: Project Leyden, Babylon, Panama - TornadoVM

At Devoxx Belgium 2025, @frankdelporte.be took the camera and microphone to talk with several speakers and visitors: Moritz Halbritter, John Cecerralli, Christos Kotselidis, Michalis Papadimitriou 🎙️☕️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_d...
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you want to stay sane while using windows builders on github actions just always use gradle --no-daemon ...

Don't tell me why I know - just know if I had just used gradle --no-daemon everywhere I would have slept much more the last few days
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Maybe I’m being too naive here…but how is this different from number of users using goggle search ? Difference afaics is ChatGPT can detect it and actually counter it.
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Got jbang native image build.

Now starts allot of testing/verification.

Don’t want to break users updating nor give up on jvm mode on platforms without native image.
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reposted by Max Rydahl Andersen
We are launching Quarkus public community calls! The first one will be on November 4th and we will talk about how to better support developing large applications with Quarkus. github.com/quarkusio/qu... .
Launching Quarkus Community Calls · quarkusio quarkus · Discussion #50682
Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce the launch of the public Quarkus Community Calls, a new way for the community to connect directly with the Quarkus contributors and discuss what’s next. Caden...
github.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Max Rydahl Andersen
AI converts @asciidoc.org to #markdown and vice-versa like a charm 🥂
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Couldn’t resist…
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Gotta give it to jetbrains - they are making me jealous of how compact their data dsls and comprehensions are compared to Java.
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Saying AI will remove need for development teams is like saying no one needs a carpenter/tradesman since electric tools arrived.

Do more with same; not same with less.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Max Rydahl Andersen
New bld Extension: JBang (via Erik's Weblog)

I've released a new extension for bld…

#java #buildsystem #productivity #build #bld #buildtool #programming

erik.thauvin.net/blog/p...
New bld Extension: JBang
I've released a new extension for bld…
erik.thauvin.net
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I asked recently: "If you could boot up an online environment where you could share and run any java code and experiment and play with libraries would you use it ?"

Well, here you go: www.jbang.dev/learn/java-i...

tl;dr: jbang.dev/try
Java in Places You Do Not Expect It
4 minute read
www.jbang.dev
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
1.5 year wait is finally over.

Danish made unfolded circle remote have arrived.
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Late on this but great to see Cursor being public about their interest and support in our Java development tools work we’ve been working on for over a decade. Java is where AI agents want to be!

cursor.com/blog/java
Improving Java support in Cursor · Cursor
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.
cursor.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you could boot up an online environment where you could share and run any java code and experiment and play with libraries would you use it ?
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Another vc funded driven killing of a project in its move to product ?
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
quarkus.ai
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
After decades of wanting to set one up.

I finally got a rack mounted home network setup.

Wanted a video of blinking lights but instead I got eery audio that wasn't present when recording.

Oh well :)
September 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
September 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM