First adventure (on the tabletop) in Tamriel. Daughter and I are playing through the intro campaign in Black Marsh.

Check out the full lineup (still adding more speakers!!) & details here If you have any questions, reach out! If you are a student or a dev that has recently been laid off, we have had some EXTREMELY generous people buy tickets to gift. DM me. commityourcode.com

The 15th edition of the #JVM Language Summit is coming up! Learn more about this event and register now to meet and network with OpenJDK engineers, visiting language experts, and Java luminaries. social.ora.cl/60134YzD7

I usually leave the paper wasps alone because they are beneficial but they stung my wife on the arm so...

Just wrapped up the final exam for the Summer trimester and I think I nailed it 🤞 That's 2 classes down for the master's. 🤓📈

Presenting or attending Commit Your Code 2025 in Plano, TX this September? I look forward to seeing you there! Great event for a good cause and even better outcomes. commityourcode.com

Speaker Emails were sent out last night with important details! If you are a speaker, please make sure you check it out.

Find people you'd like to share a meal with and break some bread. Most of the best memories I have from career or otherwise revolve around sharing meals with family, friends, and coworkers.

I look forward to nerding out about cloud tech at #CommitYourCode and learning from what others have put together. 🤓 See you in September!

Checking in... going great by the way. Milestones from 2025: - Rejoined of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Commit Your Code conference presenter and attendee (2025) - Dallas Software Developers meetup presenter and attendee (2025) - Guest presenter for Franklin

If you attend Franklin University and are interested in (or already in ACM SIG) check out the WebDev-Cloud SIG. We are kicking off a collaborative project in 1-2 weeks. The focus will be on building pragmatic, real-world experience, and developing cloud deployed software + REST APIs.

DAMN…. Toronto/Canada just got our very first KCD ever 🤩🤩🤩 When: May 2026 Where: Venue being locked in 😎 Stay tuned for more details! cncf.io/blog/2025/09/2…

A lot of great topics presented this year and the networking was also excellent. The most common remark I heard from folks was along the lines of... "I can't believe this is practically free" Good job Danny Thompson and all of the The Commit Your Code Conference team.

My wife, traditionally non-technical, is using git to push changes and sync her code between workstations. She now casually drops these tidbits in conversations. 🥹

Thanks everyone who came to my talk at The Commit Your Code Conference '25 or watched the stream. I appreciate you taking the time to be there and I hope you took something useful away from it. Thanks also for the feedback! Slides with examples and links are here: speakerdeck.com/icodealot/mana…

I have not used Quarkus yet for anything in production but exploring it in development and I like what I am seeing so far. Developer productivity feels like it will be 🔥