Quarkus lead - Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat. Creator of jbang.dev. @maxandersen.xam.dk (bsky)
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I don't believe in deleting content on the internet. You fight ignorance and help education by protecting, not by removing, your voice.
As such I've used buff.ly/40SlAMZ to copy ~16.000 tweets from the last 16 years.
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This week I caved and used my precious tokens to get the mail client I always wanted.
Javafx app accessing notmuch + Maildir with 1.500.000+ mails and it’s the fastest gui mail app I’ve ever worked with.
Fun world we are in.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superi…
Because why not mix up existing terms…
Donald Trump vows to rename artificial intelligence, saying that from now on it will be called "super intelligence" on all official US documents.
The president adds that this "sounds much better" and is more accurate.
Latest: trib.al/JT60r9v
📺 Sky 501 and Virgin 602
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Not sure why it taken me this long to realize how awesome notmuch is for my email. “Only” ingested 250.000 messages so far and it still give results near instantly.
Perfect for local agents and with LLM can get exactly the email client I want/need.
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Max Rydahl Andersen retweeted
Join us next Monday, September 21st, at 9am EST for Quarkus Insights Ep. 260 as Ståle Pedersen & Max Andersen as they talk differences and benefits of various CLI applications including Aesh, Picocli. We'll even discuss some TamboUI too!
bit.ly/quarkusinsights
#quarkusinsights
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Nice ideas in netflixtechblog.com/leave-th…
Modules have too many downsides (too much ceremony) for me to leave them in the rear view mirror but +1 on making them simpler to build with.
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If “slop grenade” isn’t the term of the year, I don’t know what is.
Respect your peers’ time. Be thoughtful, even in a world moving this fast.
Don’t throw slop grenades.
Lazy work used to mean too little output.
Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.
@tobi call it "slop grenades."
A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).
Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess.
You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it.
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Updated MacBook and i suddenly miss travelling to US.
I hope that will be possible again one day.
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Max Rydahl Andersen retweeted
TamboUI 0.5.0 is out 🎉 Java TUIs with 🌈 Markdown
syntax highlighting, ✨ more resilient and faster startup, 🖱️ mouse
hover & horizontal scroll, 🎬 record & replay sessions.
▶️ piped.video/shorts/H0hJCa3TC…
📦 github.com/tamboui/tamboui/r…
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TamboUI syntax highlighting preview piped.video/shorts/H0hJCa3TC… via @YouTube
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“If you take something that is hard … and you make it easier … you are taking away value.”
piped.video/0-6-f94n_9M?is=AKzm…
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Max Rydahl Andersen retweeted
Back in 2024, I messaged Erich Gamma about the idea of a VS Code documentary. Two years later, it just went live: piped.video/kHL3XzjpT5w
Back then, a lot of the online conversation was about Cursor forking VS Code, GPT-4 and AI assisted coding. AI in the editor pretty much meant helping you to write code faster. The art of coding was alive and well.
The team started working on what would eventually become VS Code in 2011, so I always knew there was a big origin and growth story to tell. But of course exploring the AI shift naturally mattered too.
What I didn’t realize was that after every interview and chunk of editing, something new would happen that would make me consider reshooting or reshaping the story.
Agentic workflows, claude code, codex, next edit suggestions, agent mode, the agents window. Close your eyes and you’ve missed two model releases.
There’s talk about coding being solved. We’ve all become a little desensitized to the pace of it, but imagining this landscape two years ago would have been wild.
All of a sudden, competition meant not just new players but also new ways of building applications and VS Code has had to evolve.
What started as an origin to present day story became way more complicated, because the present day context just wouldn’t sit still.
In the end you have to make some compromises and narrative decisions to keep things timeless. Going deep into modern features risked making it feel dated days after release. So you double down on the story of what got VS Code here and accept that the AI chapter might just be a snapshot in time, more commentary than the “this is what we did, how and why” approach the rest of the documentary is built around.
Maybe VS Code isn’t the most popular thing on Twitter today. And maybe writing code is a dying art. But i think the impact VS Code has had on software development, the architectural and ecosystem bets that got it here, and the openness the team demonstrated through things like LSP, the Dev Container spec, its extension ecosystem and becoming one of Microsoft’s major open source projects deserved to be celebrated.
Also, tech twitter is a bubble. Millions of developers still use @code and I definitely wouldn’t bet against that team.
I really, really enjoyed telling this story. And as much as I’m happy it’s finally out and I can move on with my life, I’m going to miss the weekly chats with Erich, following VS Code's every move and pretty much feeling like part of the team.
To @ErichGamma, @kaimaetzel, @alexdima123, @BenjaminPasero, Johannes Rieken, Dirk Bäumer, @joaomoreno, @chrisdias, @BrigitMurtaugh, @njukidreborn, @luabud14, SteVen Batten, @MeganRogge_, Bhavya U, Elsie Nallipogu, @burkeholland, André Weinand, @roblourens, @joyceerhl, @Tyriar, Shanku Niyogi, @shanselman, @amandaksilver, @TSteveLuc, Julia Liuson, @oegerikus, @addyosmani, @wesbos, @rakyll, @eamodio, @bolinfest, Stephen Kreyenbuhl, @maxandersen, @GorkemErcan, @svenefftinge and @csweichel: thank you for telling the story of VS Code.
And thank you to @msdev, @github, @MetaforDevs, @RedHat, @GitKraken, @ona_hq and @ag_grid for making all of this possible. @JamesMontemagno, Anna Soracco and @cynthiazanoni, thank you for all your help sharing it with the world.
It’s been fun. Happy coding everyone ❤️
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Look ma’ - I’m in a YouTube documentary about visual studio code!
So much fun looking back on how we built VS Code!
🎬 The Story of VS Code is now available:
piped.video/kHL3XzjpT5w?si=Ee_9…
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jbang-idea plugin v0.102.0 released! 🚀
• Auto-detect JBang from SDKMAN/mise when IDE launched from desktop
• //JAVA, //REPOS, //MAIN completion
• Quick fixes for wrong-case directives & duplicate //DEPS
• Run config collision fix
github.com/jbangdev/jbang-id…
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New release of newly rebooted IntelliJ plugin for IntelliJ is out.
- fix windows launch issue
- Jbang script wizard now supports custom templates and properties
- kotlin support is back working
plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin…
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As I listened to @dhh ‘s omarchy marathon podcast I really just wanted it on my phone. Then found this.
This weekend I ported Omarchy to my old Pixel, here's a quick showcase of some of the features.
[1/4] Theme sync - wirelessly syncs your desktop Omarchy theme to your phone.
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