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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 10

Are there any @nextjs.org experts out there who would be interested in helping migrate the adoptium.net site from Gatsby to Next.js. They’d need experience with i18n as well as mdx/asciidoc for content generation. @adoptium.net is an open source project and any help would be much appreciated!

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Mar 25

Had a great evening hosting the London Java Community at the Microsoft Reactor for their monthly meetup! This was the first event (of hopefully many) hosted in a Microsoft office

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Mar 20

It's 2025 and scammers are still trying to tell me that I've inherited millions of dollars from my late uncle in South Africa... Are people seriously still falling for this or have hackers lost their imagination?

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Go @golang.org · Nov 12

Happy birthday, Go! 🎂
go.dev/blog/15years

Go Turns 15 - The Go Programming Language

Happy 15th birthday, Go!

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Dec 1

A recent engineering effort that the Microsoft Go team worked on adding support for high-resolution timers in @golang.org 1.23, boosting resolution from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms 🕐⚡️

Post by @qmuntal.bsky.social

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High-Resolution Timers on Windows

The Go Windows port added support for high-resolution timers in Go 1.23, boosting the resolution of time.Sleep from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms.

devblogs.microsoft.com

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Nov 26

There’s no 32-bit binary listed at www.microsoft.com/en-in/softwa...

Windows 11 requires 4GB Ram so wouldn’t run on 32-bit systems

Download Windows 11

www.microsoft.com

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Nov 26

100% let’s make it happen 🔥

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Nov 19

Windows 32-bit has officially been removed in JDK 24. Sometimes you’ve got to remove things to advance more quickly in other areas… openjdk.org/jeps/479

#java #jep

JEP 479: Remove the Windows 32-bit x86 Port

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Nov 13

Bluesky seems to be gaining some traction all of a sudden… what’s changed 🤔

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 23

Windows 32-bit x86 has been officially deprecated in Java 21 🎉 The deprecation will enable the OpenJDK development to move forwards more quickly!

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/29b8d3d9e73c3771f18b8d4d69e32475f17346fa

8307573: Implementation of JEP 449: Deprecate the Windows 32-bit x86 … · openjdk/jdk@29b8d3d

…Port for Removal Reviewed-by: erikj

github.com

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 10

Welcome @karianna.bsky.social to the club

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 10

It’s that time of the year again! #devoxxuk

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 9

I just got back from 10 days holiday 🏖️ It was the first time I’ve felt properly switched off from work in a long time 📴 Use this as a reminder to book time off work sometimes 🗓️

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Sharat (Shar) Chander @sharatchander.bsky.social · May 5

#Java developers,

Java 21 will GA on Sept 19th. And it's filled with some amazing enhancements! Virtual Threads, Sequenced Collections, etc! And many more proposed to target!

Visit OpenJDK to learn more: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/21/

#JDK #OpenJDK #Java21 #JDK21

Schedule

2023/06/08 Rampdown Phase One (fork from main line)
2023/07/20 Rampdown Phase Two
2023/08/10 Initial Release Candidate
2023/08/24 Final Release Candidate
2023/09/19 General Availability

Features

JEPs proposed to target JDK 21 review ends
404: Generational Shenandoah (Experimental) 2023/05/12
439: Generational ZGC 2023/05/10
440: Record Patterns 2023/05/11
441: Pattern Matching for switch 2023/05/11
445: Unnamed Classes and Instance Main Methods (Preview) 2023/05/12
448: Vector API (Sixth Incubator) 2023/05/09

JEPs targeted to JDK 21, so far
430: String Templates (Preview)
431: Sequenced Collections
442: Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview)
444: Virtual Threads

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 5

Who’s at DevoxxUK next week?

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · May 3

Exploring Norway 🇳🇴❄️

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you #Auvik Networks for sending me a free #Ubiquiti switch! I’ll get it mounted properly in my rack soon

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 26

Introducing cloud.microsoft: a unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services

As Microsoft cloud services have grown over the years, the domain space they live on has grown as well – into the hundreds. Over time, this fragmentation has created increasing challenges for end user navigation, administrative simplicity, and the development of cross-app experiences. That’s why to...

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 26

Could I possible have some too? Thank you 🙏🏼

George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 26

Welcome @myfear.com 🎉

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 25

I spotted @tomwarren.bsky.social join earlier today?

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 25

@jay.bsky.team any ideas?? 🤔

George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 25

Here’s a recent interview I did with Dreamix: Unveiling the Future of Java: An Exclusive Eclipse Adoptium Deep Dive. Check it out for all things openjdk including specifics about Eclipse Temurin

George Adams: Unveiling the Future of Java: An Exclusive Eclipse Adoptium Deep Dive | Dreamix

Learn what George Adams, Java Champion and Steering Committee chair at Eclipse Adoptium, has to share on Eclipse Adoptium.

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George Adams @gdams.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you click on @starbuxman.bsky.social it redirects to your domain hosted account (I was worried that might not happen)

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