Can confirm.

Join me today for my talk about Project Loom & Fibers in our Thessaloniki Java meetup event, sponsored by Advantage FSE & I4G PRO meetup.com/Thessaloniki-N… Please remember to choose between the Red and Blue pill! 😋

I will be missing :( Heinz Kabutz 🏝 🇬🇷 🇿🇦 ☕️'s #happyhour today, because I will be will be talking at Thessaloniki Java about Loom & Fibers In a way I will be taking the torch because I found out about Loom from the first Happy Hour of the season and was inspired to pass on the knowledge!

I have posted the slides & code from my 'Do you choose the Red or Blue pill? An intro to Loom & Fibers' talk I did last Thursday Thessaloniki Java on our github page: github.com/skg-java-commu… Thank you all for attending! It was great fun! #OpenJDK #Loom

"Oracle now requires a paid subscription for businesses to continue getting updates to Java SE 8. What are your thoughts on this decision by Oracle?" Answers by Stephen Colebourne, Heinz Kabutz 🏝 🇬🇷 🇿🇦 ☕️, Ken Fogel, Brad Wood, Giorgos Gaganis, Nicolai Parlog 🇺🇦🕊️ (that's me), and @jreock: blog.klocwork.com/open-source/ja…

A Kevlin Henney in a bus at Athens Airport 🙂

Don't miss our next meetup this Monday, dedicated to Cloud technologies like Kubernetes and Quarkus and kindly hosted by OK!Thess - Special thanks a lot to our sponsor PRODYNA - Guest Speakers : Georgios Andrianakis and @El_Papachristos - RSVP meetup.com/Thessaloniki-N…

All over the place, I see: if (someValue != null) { someValue.someAction(); } being replaced with: if (someValue.isPresent()) { someValue.get().someAction();} This is what happens when new tools get adopted but not the new paradigm that comes with it. 🤷‍♂️

Yah the biggest tech event of the city has started preparations for the next step!

JVM pro-tip: stop catching OutOfMemoryError. Like seriously. Wtf are you doing. Once the JVM goes OOM, you cannot sanely recover. If you write a library that catches and swallows OOM, double-shame on you.

Never ask permission to refactor. Never ask permission to write tests. You do these things because you KNOW they are the best way to go fast. When you ask permission, you are asking someone else to take responsibility for your actions.

On my way to JCreteUnconf. Super excited! Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Unorganizing the #JCrete unconference 1/2

One of the coolest things about #jcrete is it has an environment that helps people feel comfortable and empowered to be part of this, share knowledge and experiences and contribute to the best of their ability. You will also find below a session I have convened! 🙂 JCreteUnconf

And the 🦉 Apache Maven hacking session at JCreteUnconf is on its way. Thank you Robert Scholte for leading the charge!

There is no trade-off of quality vs. speed in software. There never has been. Low quality means low speed. Always. The only way to go fast is to go well.

We are changing ... a lot! loom.ly/3DNNyA0 #vdthess #vdthess2020

We will be doing our first Thessaloniki Java meetup of the year today! Dimitris Kontokostas will be introducing us to Apache Kafka. Join us! meetup.com/Thessaloniki-N…

After three years we are organizing the first in-person event with a special but well-known guest Heinz Kabutz 🏝 🇬🇷 🇿🇦 ☕️ Join us and 'Prepare for what "Loom"s ahead' Pizzas and beers are included :P thanks to our kind sponsor Advantage FS See you all there! meetup.com/thessaloniki-n…