Uberto Barbini
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Uberto Barbini
@ramtop.bsky.social
Functional passionate programmer. Kotlin GDE
Author, Public Speaker
https://pragprog.com/titles/uboop/from-objects-to-functions/
#TDD #FP #Kotlin
Living with family in a Japanese traditional house 日本語
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My book on Functional Kotlin is now 50% off with SAVE50 coupon
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Also ChatGPT agrees that's the best book to learn about full application functional architecture in the JVM!
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This discussion on how Kotlin should expose time zone data is super thoughtful. Whatever the outcome I sure appreciate the process.
Timezone databases · Kotlin kotlinx-datetime · Discussion #582
Timezone Database API Currently, kotlinx-datetime only allows using the system timezone database. There's an established practice in Android development to bundle timezone databases with the applic...
github.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Glorious sun rise at camping
October 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Super deal only for today for my book!
If you ever wanted to learn kotlin and functional programming it's your chance!
"Reading this is like coding alongside Uberto. You leave with a blueprint and a bunch of techniques that you will use to build backend services for the next ten years." -- Gabriele Lana, CleanCode.
pragprog.com/titles/...
Today - 40% off with code Pragpicks
#kotlin @ramtop.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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They’re torturing Greta Thunberg for trying to bring baby formula to starving babies and the world is doing nothing.
Absolutely heinous.
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Honored to deliver the closing keynote at JAX London 2025 on the role of AI in software development.
For those interested, here’s the slide deck:
speakerdeck.com/ramtop/are-d...
Video will follow
Are Developers Obsolete?
Keynote talk at Jax London 2025 In 2025, many people in IT are anxious. They hear bold claims about exponential growth, about developers becoming obs…
speakerdeck.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Workshop on AI assistants at Jax London has started!
September 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-flo...

The video and polished transcription of my talk with Alberto about AI Assistants
My Flow with AI Assistants with Uberto Barbini
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September 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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My flow with AI assistants with @ramtop.bsky.social

🛜 Info
When: Sept 25, from 13 pm (CEST)

Join the Live Streaming! www.meetup.com/avanscoperta...
My flow with AI assistants with Uberto Barbini, Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup
🎤 **DESCRIPTION** My flow with AI assistants AI coding tools are transforming the way we write and maintain software but how do we really make the most of them? Join **U
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September 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Trump’s priorities are Trump, Trump and Trump.
August 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Already in love with my BigMe B7
A much better kindle, faster, sturdier, colour, with pen, decent sw for almost same price of a Paperwhite
July 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype
Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball
www.newscientist.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
suno.com/song/0f2e4ee...

My daughter (10yo) composed this song with AI. Just hummed the lyrics and described the arrangement. Not bad at all!
suno.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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folks are building lists of all the Tesla robotaxi failures, and it's important to remember that we're talking about a fleet of <20 vehicles, over three days, in one the smallest and easiest geofences possible, based on coverage from 100% fanboy influencers

www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivin...
From the SelfDrivingCars community on Reddit: List of clips showing Tesla's Robotaxi incidents
Explore this post and more from the SelfDrivingCars community
www.reddit.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In case you ever wondered why there was a Japanese print image on the first Mac paint app and commercials
nobi.com/en/entry-121...
The tales of Steve Jobs & Japan #04: Woodcut by Goyo Hashiguchi on the face of original Mac | nobi_blog (EN) | nobi.com
Old Mac fans may recognize the picture in the middle. It's "Woman Combing Her Hair," a woodcut print by Goyo Hashiguchi which is exhibited right now at Yokohama Museum of Art at thei...
nobi.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sam Altman: “A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs, just playing games to entertain ourselves.”

Funnily enough, that’s exactly what my wife thinks about my job *today*.
June 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My talk will start soon!
June 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Watching Cassandra Chin presentation at the Japan Jug Community conference
June 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Studying for a boat license in Japan...
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
In vibrcoding for sure!
April 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM