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Spencer Gibb @spencer.gibb.us · 2h

Michigan sunset yesterday

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Arjen Poutsma @poutsma.bsky.social · 6h

My Devoxx talk "A Long Spring: 19 Years of Living with Your Past Mistakes" has been published on YouTube.
Enjoy!

A Long Spring: 19 Years of Living with Your Past Mistakes by Arjen Poutsma

YouTube video by Devoxx

www.youtube.com

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21h

I’m answering all your dumbest questions at www.reddit.com/r/trivia/com... today if anyone wants to come hang out for a bit!

I am Ken Jennings. I host Jeopardy! now, but apparently I'm still using my old, bad Reddit username. My new trivia book is called THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS. AMA!

www.reddit.com

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Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll.be · 1d

A long spring, 3 core qualities.

@poutsma.bsky.social at #Devoxx

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Spring I/O @springio.net · 1d

📣 The Spring I/O 2026 CFP is now OPEN!

📅 Deadline: 9 January 2026
📍Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona

👉 Submit your proposal now and join us on stage: 2026.springio.net

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 1d

🚀 Excited to share that Spring AI now has its own community-driven GitHub org! A dedicated hub where the community can incubate projects, contribute integrations, and shape the future of AI using #SpringAI.
Explore & get involved 👉 spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Introducing the Spring AI Community GitHub Organization

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Devnexus @devnexus.bsky.social · 1d

🔧 Building APIs doesn’t have to be complex! At #Devnexus, @spencer.gibb.us explored how Spring provides everything devs need to create scalable, reliable APIs.

Read the recap ⤵️
devnexus.com/posts/api-to...

💥 Join us next year at Devnexus 2026 for more developer deep dives!

API Toolbox with Spring with Spencer Gibb

In his Devnexus 2025 session, Your Comprehensive Spring API Toolbox: Building, Testing, and Consuming Modern Services, Spencer Gibb, veteran Spring engineer ...

devnexus.com

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Spring @spring.io · 1d

‪“Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring” — @seb.deleuze.fr‬ sharing some insights on the new Jackson 3 support in Spring Boot 4 and related Spring portfolio projects and the guidance for migrating to Jackson 3: spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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VMware Tanzu @vmwaretanzu.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss out! Learn how Spring Cloud Stream & Function are revolutionizing event-driven architectures. Oleg Zhurakousky shares insights on Oct 22, 2025, 8:00 AM PT. Register now! https://brcm.tech/42P0M9x #CloudNative #SoftwareDevelopment #Spring

10/22: Spring Cloud Stream/Function: Advancements in Event-Driven Microservices

Spring Cloud Stream is a framework for building message-driven microservices.

blogs.vmware.com

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 1d

I have just published "Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring" with hopefully useful insights on Spring Boot 4 upcoming JSON support and on the migration from Jackson 2. spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 Spring AI 1.1.0-M3 is live!
Packed with #MCP enhancements, resource template management, improved security documentation, Azure Cosmos DB Chat Memory, Anthropic Prompt Caching, Mistral AI improvements. More on this blog: spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Spring AI 1.1.0-M3 Available Now

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 14

Mother teaching her babies how to climb a tree... 😊 #bluesky

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Sam Brannen @sambrannen.com · 5d

🍃 ICYMI, #SpringFramework 7.0 and #SpringBoot 4.0 will have a #JUnit Jupiter 6.0 baseline! 🚀

github.com/spring-proje...

github.com/spring-proje...

Upgrade to JUnit 6 · Issue #35124 · spring-projects/spring-framework

Overview Since JUnit 6.0 M1 has been released, we should start running our test suite using JUnit 6 for the following reasons. We want to ensure that our own test suite works with JUnit 6 in Gradle...

github.com

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Oliver Drotbohm @odrotbohm.de · 4d

Thu, Oct 9th, 5:40pm – Meet the Spring Team – m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe2...

With @starbuxman.joshlong.com, @garnier.wf, @tzolov.bsky.social, @0.5ritter.de, @snicoll.be, @chemicl.bsky.social, Brian Clozel, and yours truly. ☕️🍃 5/5

Meet the Spring Team

Come meet the Spring team! This year at Devoxx, many maintainers, advocates and contributors will be at the conference, and we’re delighted to meet with our users and members of the community. In this “open mic” session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask us anything about the various Spring projects, our current efforts and ideas for the future, and of course, the soon-to-be-released new generation with Boot 4 and Framework 7.

Whether you’re a Spring veteran or a new user getting started with the project, you are more than welcome to join.

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Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social · 6d

As a German that word pops through my head a lot lately 😢.

Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 6d

Can every university considering signing on please look up “Gleichschaltung, 1933”

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 Spring AI 1.0.3 is here!
Packed with 27 enhancements, stability fixes, and improved docs. Highlights: Streaming & ToolCalling, AOT compilation, developer experience improvements.
More details on this blog: spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Spring AI 1.0.3 Available Now

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 9d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

JUnit Release Notes

docs.junit.org

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Work Chronicles @workchronicles.bsky.social · 8d

(comic) Amnesia

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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · 8d

On the death of a prophet, a church shooting in Michigan, and what I learned from President Russell M. Nelson. This was a difficult piece to write. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Shooter and the Prophet

Russell M. Nelson, the Latter-day Saint prophet who preached the need for peacemakers in an angry world, died over the weekend. Then a gunman opened fire on a church in Michigan.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dan Vega @danvega.dev · 8d

How to evolve your API in GraphQL without versioning

www.danvega.dev/blog/api-ver...

Evolving your API without Versioning in GraphQL

Explore modern approaches to API versioning in GraphQL, including schema evolution strategies, deprecation patterns, and best practices for maintaining backward compatibility while evolving your API.

www.danvega.dev

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 9d

Highly-recommended reading: The state of HTTP clients in Spring by Brian Clozel spring.io/blog/2025/09...

« This is also a good time to reflect on the state of HTTP clients in Spring, so we will use this opportunity to explain an important announcement: we are officially deprecating RestTemplate. »

The state of HTTP clients in Spring

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

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Rob Winch @rwinch.github.io · 8d

#SpringSecurity 7 added MFA support docs.spring.io/spring-secur...

tldr Add following to require both password and one time token

`@EnableGlobalMultiFactorAuthentication(authorities = {
GrantedAuthorities.FACTOR_PASSWORD_AUTHORITY,
GrantedAuthorities.FACTOR_OTT_AUTHORITY })`

Adaptive Authentication :: Spring Security

docs.spring.io

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 10d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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