Always funny to see how organizations that piled up bad legacy code in years are paralyzed choosing the perfect way to clean it up.

We're proud to announce the 2023 edition of the SoCraTesBE unconference! The conference for software crafters, by software crafters. Join other highly motivated, passionate Software crafters to practice and learn together. Hope to see you all there! socratesbe.org

11 tips to make you better Kotlin programmer 👇

HTMX - Dynamic HTML without Javascript youtu.be/0cLdSd41Cis htmx.org / CEO of Changing My PFP (same thing)

Figured out how to containerize a Kotlin/Native Ktor server with Jib! Check it out: github.com/jamesward/ktor… Server app is 3MB. Starts in 0.001 seconds. Runs on gcr.io/distroless/base

Thrilled to announce that Kunlabora is sponsoring #SoCraTesBE! 🎉 Their dedication to quality, collaboration, and purpose-driven software is a perfect fit for our event. Thanks for your support, Kunlabora! 🙌 #TechSponsor #CollaborateWithKunlabora

We're happy to see that many old and new faces will be joining us for the 2023 edition of the SoCraTesBE unconference this november! But there is still room for more! So join us from nov 9-11 : socratesbe.org

Amazing: Whichever phrase you read, that's the one you'll hear 😲

I tried donating blood today. Never again. Way too many questions. Whose blood is that? Where did you get it from? Why is it in a bucket?

#FOSDEM is here again 🥳 Where are the Kotlin DevRoom @FOSDEM 💜 people at? Let’s send in some cool talks, and topics! 🙌

This is your regular reminder that pull requests is a waste when working with people you know and trust (e.g. same company). Here is a more detailed reasoning by Dragan Stepanović - see you on BlueSky vimeo.com/842233600 (thanks to Chris James bsky.app/profile/quii.dev for the link) #pullrequest #programming #softwareengineering

Just submitted my proposal titled "Enabling Kotlin adoption is a skill" for next year's KotlinConf! So excited! 😱🤩 sessionize.com/kotlinconf-202…

Small thread on some of the features I love about #Kotlin, and why I think it's different from modern Java and will continue to differentiate even more in the future. Kotlin is much more than "A better Java" or Java++ to me. And of course, the Kotlin community is pure ❤️

A big thank you to our sponsors Triple D Kunlabora Element7 and ACA Group They enable us to keep organising the awesome conference, last week, but also hopefully going forward ❤️

It is often mentioned to “not meet your heroes”. But much like everything else, there are outliers. I am very happy to have met one of my heroes, Duncan McGregor, at the SoCraTesBE unconference last week.

Remember peeps, always put a WiFi password on your router, otherwise you might be next 😅

This might be trivial, but here is one way to avoid Impl, Prod, and similar postfixes in class names in #Kotlin: interface Foo { fun foo(n: Int): Int } fun Foo(bar: Int) = object : Foo { override fun foo(n: Int) = bar + n } fun FakeFoo() = ...

Had a great time at #KotlinConf these last couple of days. Shout outs to Duncan McGregor Dmitry Kandalov Simon Vergauwen and especially my colleague Jo Vanthournout for making this conf worth my while.