Ed Burns
@edburns.bsky.social
Beneficiary of white privilege, Ed Burns is a software stylist, speaker, and author, currently working in the server side Java space. (he/him)
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Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet.
I guess we haven't lost it after all.
Ed
Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet.
I guess we haven't lost it after all.
Ed
1.2.9 Ed Burns - [Keynote] How we lost the internet
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October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
youtu.be/O6kVawdObM8
Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet.
I guess we haven't lost it after all.
Ed
Less than one hour after the talk completed, it is on the Internet.
I guess we haven't lost it after all.
Ed
Kristi Noem's actions call attention to what a joke the Hatch Act is. Violations with only civil penalties mean nothing to people so well aligned with getting and keeping power.
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Kristi Noem's actions call attention to what a joke the Hatch Act is. Violations with only civil penalties mean nothing to people so well aligned with getting and keeping power.
67 years ago, one of my personal heroes Edward R. Murrow, delivered his famous "wires and lights in a box" speech at the Radio and Television News Director's Assocation dinner. Read it: www.rtdna.org/murrows-famo... or hear it: youtu.be/AIhy0T7Q48Y
Murrow's Famous "Wires and Lights in a Box" - Radio Television Digital News Association
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October 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
67 years ago, one of my personal heroes Edward R. Murrow, delivered his famous "wires and lights in a box" speech at the Radio and Television News Director's Assocation dinner. Read it: www.rtdna.org/murrows-famo... or hear it: youtu.be/AIhy0T7Q48Y
I hope IBM's project Bob finds PMF better than Microsoft Bob did.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I hope IBM's project Bob finds PMF better than Microsoft Bob did.
venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-claim...
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This blog post from the @jakarta.ee Platform Project lays out our position and involvement with AI. TL;DR: lots of activity.
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Jakarta EE and Artificial Intelligence | Jakarta EE | The Eclipse Foundation
Enterprise Java has always been about standards—about providing a foundation that's stable, interoperable, and vendor-neutral. If you've been around since the …
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October 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This blog post from the @jakarta.ee Platform Project lays out our position and involvement with AI. TL;DR: lots of activity.
jakarta.ee/blogs/open-s...
jakarta.ee/blogs/open-s...
Happy Tonsure Abandonment Day to all who celebrate.
www.ridingthecrest.com/edburns/1972...
Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...)
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Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...)
www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...
beardoholic.com/monk-haircut/
1972-09-15 Tonsure Abandonment Day
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September 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy Tonsure Abandonment Day to all who celebrate.
www.ridingthecrest.com/edburns/1972...
Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...)
www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...
beardoholic.com/monk-haircut/
www.ridingthecrest.com/edburns/1972...
Vatican Abolishes the Tonsure, 1,500 ‐Year‐Old Clerical Rite - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...)
www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/a...
beardoholic.com/monk-haircut/
Many thanks to @cescoffier.bsky.social and the @quarkus.io team for extracting the MCP content from Quarkus MCP and taking steps to having a vendor-neutral Java MCP at github.com/smallrye/sma...
GitHub - smallrye/smallrye-mcp: Standard MCP annotations
Standard MCP annotations. Contribute to smallrye/smallrye-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Many thanks to @cescoffier.bsky.social and the @quarkus.io team for extracting the MCP content from Quarkus MCP and taking steps to having a vendor-neutral Java MCP at github.com/smallrye/sma...
I was today years old when I learned I could press `command` + `return` on a selected file in macOS Spotlignt to open Finder on the file, rather than opening the file.
August 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I was today years old when I learned I could press `command` + `return` on a selected file in macOS Spotlignt to open Finder on the file, rather than opening the file.
Did you miss my and Arjan Tijms Jakarta Tech Talk yesterday? Watch the recording of "Jakarta EE 11: Whats New and Why You Should Care" on YouTube!
youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava
youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava
Jakarta Tech Talk - Jakarta EE 11: What's New and Why You Should Care
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August 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Did you miss my and Arjan Tijms Jakarta Tech Talk yesterday? Watch the recording of "Jakarta EE 11: Whats New and Why You Should Care" on YouTube!
youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava
youtu.be/qxY8rQGEaZ8 #JakartaEE #opensource #CloudNativeJava
Come see me talk about @langchain4j.dev at IBM TechExchange October 6 - 9 in Orlando, USA. reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...
Session Catalog - IBM TechXchange 2025
Uncover the highlights and experiences that await you on our meticulously planned agenda – explore over 1,000 sessions and labs.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Come see me talk about @langchain4j.dev at IBM TechExchange October 6 - 9 in Orlando, USA. reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...
Greetings from Sliabh Liag Cliffs, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
May 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Greetings from Sliabh Liag Cliffs, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social completed her Lego Duke on stage in front of several hundred people in a matter of minutes. I finally finished mine months later.
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
@mllesophiepofie.bsky.social completed her Lego Duke on stage in front of several hundred people in a matter of minutes. I finally finished mine months later.
May 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Yeah brother @caltrain.com switched to overhead power last September! Coolest thing in the Bay Area since Pong!
May 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Yeah brother @caltrain.com switched to overhead power last September! Coolest thing in the Bay Area since Pong!
The Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index report is out: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/04...
"every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years."
This tracks with my lived experience.
"every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years."
This tracks with my lived experience.
The 2025 Annual Work Trend Index: The Frontier Firm is born - The Official Microsoft Blog
We are entering a new reality — one in which AI can reason and solve problems in remarkable ways. This intelligence on tap will rewrite the rules of business and transform knowledge work as we know it...
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April 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index report is out: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/04...
"every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years."
This tracks with my lived experience.
"every worker will need to think like the CEO of an agent-powered startup. In fact, leaders expect their teams will be training (41%) and managing (36%) agents in 5 years."
This tracks with my lived experience.
This paper asks this question, "What paid work, then, will remain for human beings to do?" The answer is not encouraging: "not ‘none at all.’" Anyhow, get ready: knightcolumbia.org/content/what...
What Will Remain for People to Do?
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April 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This paper asks this question, "What paid work, then, will remain for human beings to do?" The answer is not encouraging: "not ‘none at all.’" Anyhow, get ready: knightcolumbia.org/content/what...
I went through this list on the former bird site (x.com/i/lists/2216...) and searched for all the analogs here. I created this list with the result. bsky.app/profile/did:...
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I went through this list on the former bird site (x.com/i/lists/2216...) and searched for all the analogs here. I created this list with the result. bsky.app/profile/did:...
This forty-one (41) year old article from Texas Monthly, about the rise and fall of the TI-99/4A computer, has some lessons for AI vendors today. My fav: open architectures win.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Death of a Computer
Four critical mistakes forced Texas Instruments to pull the plug on the home computer that it had once expected would dominate the market.
www.texasmonthly.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This forty-one (41) year old article from Texas Monthly, about the rise and fall of the TI-99/4A computer, has some lessons for AI vendors today. My fav: open architectures win.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Fun fact. USA is ranked 35 of 173 on the World Banks, Human Capital Index. After Lithuania and tied with Belarus. data.worldbank.org/indicator/HD...
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April 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fun fact. USA is ranked 35 of 173 on the World Banks, Human Capital Index. After Lithuania and tied with Belarus. data.worldbank.org/indicator/HD...
I spent some hours on the phone helping my 86-year-old mom get reimbursed from the hsabank.com account that administers her retiree plan. It was a horrible experience. Yet, as a Trump supporter, she still wants to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I asked AI why...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I spent some hours on the phone helping my 86-year-old mom get reimbursed from the hsabank.com account that administers her retiree plan. It was a horrible experience. Yet, as a Trump supporter, she still wants to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I asked AI why...
Jetzt leider bin ich am ende meine drei wochige JUG und @javaland.bsky.social Tournee 2025. Ohne alle die gute alte und neue Freunde, und auch die unterstützung meines Arbeitgeber, würde dieser Reise ünmöglich sein. Vielen Danke alle.
April 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Jetzt leider bin ich am ende meine drei wochige JUG und @javaland.bsky.social Tournee 2025. Ohne alle die gute alte und neue Freunde, und auch die unterstützung meines Arbeitgeber, würde dieser Reise ünmöglich sein. Vielen Danke alle.
Reposted by Ed Burns
Make sure you attend "Easily create your own AI-infused Java apps with LangChain4j" with Dimitris Andreadis, Georgios Andrianakis, Kevin Dubouis, & Ionnis Cannellos at Devoxx Greece.
github.com/quarkusio/qu...
#quarkusworldtour
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#quarkusworldtour
April 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Make sure you attend "Easily create your own AI-infused Java apps with LangChain4j" with Dimitris Andreadis, Georgios Andrianakis, Kevin Dubouis, & Ionnis Cannellos at Devoxx Greece.
github.com/quarkusio/qu...
#quarkusworldtour
github.com/quarkusio/qu...
#quarkusworldtour
Ausgerechnet in Bad Rappenau, habe ich den Bikini von Prinzessin Leia gesehen.
April 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ausgerechnet in Bad Rappenau, habe ich den Bikini von Prinzessin Leia gesehen.
When I do @javaland.bsky.social , I leave it all out there at the show. 2 lectures, 1 panel, 1 game show, 1 lego competition, 1 workshop, and many booth hours But most of all so much love. ❤️
I hope I am blessed to come back next year.
I hope I am blessed to come back next year.
April 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When I do @javaland.bsky.social , I leave it all out there at the show. 2 lectures, 1 panel, 1 game show, 1 lego competition, 1 workshop, and many booth hours But most of all so much love. ❤️
I hope I am blessed to come back next year.
I hope I am blessed to come back next year.