Ankur Kotwal
@ankurkotwal.bsky.social
Head of Google Cloud Global Advocacy.
📢 I’m thrilled that the new Gemini 2.5 models are here! Developers can get started building production apps right away. 🧵 for more details
June 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📢 I’m thrilled that the new Gemini 2.5 models are here! Developers can get started building production apps right away. 🧵 for more details
Reposted by Ankur Kotwal
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk yesterday at @devoxx about #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, using #Java, but also @langchain4j, with #googlecloud Vertex AI's #PaLM API
Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...
Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...
Generative AI in practice: Concrete LLM use cases in Java, with the PaLM API
Large language models (LLMs) are a powerful new technology that can be used for a variety of tasks, including generating text, translating languages, and writing different kinds of creative content. H...
speakerdeck.com
October 5, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk yesterday at @devoxx about #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, using #Java, but also @langchain4j, with #googlecloud Vertex AI's #PaLM API
Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...
Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...
Reposted by Ankur Kotwal
"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023"
tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation
Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!
tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation
Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
tonsky.me
October 3, 2023 at 10:27 PM
"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023"
tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation
Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!
tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation
Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!
"7 factors that impact developer productivity" by Suraj Vishwakarma is a good read. Devs don't spend the majority of their time coding so when you're next thinking about how to be a more productive coder, consider this. https://dev.to/surajondev/top-7-things-that-kill-developer-productivity-ef9
August 14, 2023 at 1:56 AM
"7 factors that impact developer productivity" by Suraj Vishwakarma is a good read. Devs don't spend the majority of their time coding so when you're next thinking about how to be a more productive coder, consider this. https://dev.to/surajondev/top-7-things-that-kill-developer-productivity-ef9
I'm really sad to read about Bram Moolenaar’s passing. I've spent countless hours of my professional and personal life using #Vim. I also admired how charitable Bram was, with his work in Uganda. Thank you for everything you did Bram!
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
August 5, 2023 at 9:59 PM
I'm really sad to read about Bram Moolenaar’s passing. I've spent countless hours of my professional and personal life using #Vim. I also admired how charitable Bram was, with his work in Uganda. Thank you for everything you did Bram!
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
It’s great to see Go continue to evolve.
I just published a new blog post on the things I'm excited for in #golang Go 1.21! Check it out: https://www.sethvargo.com/things-im-excited-for-in-go-1-21/
Things I'm excited for in Go 1.21 | Seth Vargo
Go 1.21 has some awesome new functionality that improves the developer experience and performance.
www.sethvargo.com
July 30, 2023 at 11:57 PM
It’s great to see Go continue to evolve.