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Holly Cummins
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@IBM - Senior Principal Software Engineer, working on Quarkus. Java Champion, developer, author, #cloud surfer and maker. My views are my own.
The funny thing is that the team actually didn't, but some of the module names implied that they did. Which just shows that naming is the hardest problem in computer science.
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
'Twas De Night before xmaS

#YourNextTShirt
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wait is that three whole blocks of butter? Going into the turkey?
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I read this as "let them make food for their colleagues," and I was all "this sounds like an AMAZING workplace culture, can I join too so I get to eat 🥢 the food they make? 🍰 🍱 🌮 🍲 🥟 🤩!"

Then I switched to reading-with-brain-not-stomach and caught up to the modern terminology being deployed.
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Reposted by Holly Cummins
The late Jared Richardson said something similar regarding inheritance of a legacy codebase: hit it with a bat

Build
Automate
Test

If it hurts, do it more often til it doesn‘t. And no, it doesn‘t mean getting used to the pain, rather fix it so that it stops hurting
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We always have to decide whether to anchor to US time or EU time in the transition period. It's hard to choose who should be inconvenienced. To be fair, we usually anchor part of the Insights infrastructure to one system, and the other part to another system, so that everyone is equally confused. 😅
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I will never not love the GraalVM logo.
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM