And did I mention we were winners 🥇 of the famous #JSpring Quiz 📝 (with @josroseboom.bsky.social and @jagovreede.bsky.social )

It was nice to catch up with @sharatchander.bsky.social once again @jcon.one Thank you for all the work you have done for the #Java community! Hope to see you soon again ❤️

Thank you @richard.fichtner.dev for this token. I really appreciate the gesture! 🙏 @jcon.one

It was a delight to catch up with @piotrprz.bsky.social yesterday @jcon.one Look at our Polish smiles! Ko Turk, @rijosam.com @fmartin.ch

An evening filled with fun, knowledge, architecture and performance @utrechtjug.bsky.social with Michel Schudel and @ammbra1508.bsky.social

Happy to share that I’m in the Top 3% of the most active speakers on @sessionize.com for 2025! 🤩 A huge thank‑you to all the conference organizers who continuously put their trust in me, the audiences who show up with curiosity, and the amazing #Java community that keeps inspiring me every day. 🙏

My talk ‘Making sense of vector databases’ was in the Top 10 best rated talks at #JFall 2025. 🍁 Thank you @nljug.bsky.social for the opportunity 🙏 and to all the people who joined the session and showed so much love! 🧡
 Feeling proud to be in the company of these legends!

Had an amazing time at @nljug.bsky.social #JFall 🍁 about 3 weeks ago! 🎉 It’s one of those conferences that feels like a warm community gathering! Gave my talk “Making Sense of Vector Databases” to a packed room: great energy & feedback! Big thanks to the organizers for making it awesome as always! 🙏

“Documentation has value as much as code” @johanhutting.bsky.social at #JFall talking about MADR

Just back from @devoxx.com! Met amazing friends, attended incredible talks, and had the joy of giving my own. Big thanks to the programming committee and all the attendees 🙌 The video is already up (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO79... ) and I'd would love your feedback! 📸 @ddoutsiopoulos.bsky.social ❤️

Always a great feeling when one of your talks gets accepted at one of your favourite conferences. Thanks, @nljug.bsky.social #JFall Program Committee! 🙏

@devoxx.com is amazing tech conference and I am super happy to be part of it as a speaker again 🤩

Faster vector processing with Java’s Vector API. Proved by @piotrprz.bsky.social and @maritvandijk.bsky.social at @devoxxpl.bsky.social

Current status: Learning Modern Java - The playful way with @maritvandijk.bsky.social and @piotrprz.bsky.social (P.S.: Thank you for the many shoutouts guys!) ❤️

Look who showed up for my talk at #JSpring @piotrprz.bsky.social !

Last week, I had so much fun speaking to a packed room full of enthusiastic and curious attendees @springio.net ! 👨‍💻 🍃 The "bike & wine" was such a great way to wrap things up. 🚴‍♂️ 🍷 Also had an amazing time connecting with fellow speakers. Big thanks to @sergialmar.com for the opportunity and trust! 🙏

Happy birthday Java from @springio.net with @ammbra1508.bsky.social

If you get the opportunity to meet Marit, you never let that go. This week I had the honor of doing an adjacent talk at the same meetup with @maritvandijk.bsky.social Amazing organization by @utrechtjug.bsky.social and Sopra Steria!

@starbuxman.joshlong.com now has a new favorite coffee place at ING #java

Amazing that my talk has been accepted at Devoxx France! 🤩 Thank you @devoxxfr.bsky.social for the opportunity 🙏

Stockholm is beautiful! You spend a few days here and you like it so much, you don’t want to leave. Is that some kind of syndrome? 😉

Talking to @sharatchander.bsky.social is always a joy! I’m glad I could catchup with him again at Jfokus! 🤜🤛 #jfokus

It was an amazing experience to speak at JFokus. Thanks to all those who attended and the chats afterwards were fun! And I'm grateful to @devlead.se and @jfokus.se for the opportunity! 🧡

With the ever smiling @patbaumgartner.com at @jfokus.se 🤘

Last Thursday was yet another fun evening at #UtrechtJUG with “Test Driven Generation” by @boukenijhuis.bsky.social and “Cloud Development with LocalStack” by Andrews Reis

JFall'24 was fun mainly because of the lovely conversations with my incredible friends! Some of them are in pictures below & many are not and I'm thankful to all!🫶 @maritvandijk.bsky.social @hanno.codes @garnier.wf @johanhutting.bsky.social @boredabdel.bsky.social @nipafx.dev @ammbra1508.bsky.social

Yesterday was another amazing evening at #UtrechtJUG. This time with the two greats @starbuxman.joshlong.com and @venkats.bsky.social . Josh amazed everyone with #SpringModulith and #SpringAI. And Venkat checked if everyone “knew their Java”