airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ales Justin ( @alesj ) about: Slovenian Christmas traditions, career journey from Bitcoin to Strimzi to quarkus development, Quarkus gRPC implementation using Google's legacy gRPC versus native Vert.x-based gRPC server, plans to make Vert.x gRPC the default in Quarkus with Vert.x 5, gRPC transcoding and gRPC-web browser support coming with new Vert.x version, OpenT...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Johan Haleby ( @johanhaleby ) about: first computer experience with Commodore C64 and typing Basic programs from instruction manuals, early gaming experiences and interest in understanding load commands, transition to Amiga 500 Plus for demo scene scripting and composition, moving to PC era with 486 SX25 and four megabytes of RAM, learning Turbo Pascal and creating...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ales Justin ( @alesj ) about: Early computing experiences with spectrum 48ZX and game development in Yugoslavia, progression from Basic to Pascal to C/C++ and eventually Java , mathematics education and its application to programming, working on energy consumption analysis applications for Slovenian companies, transitioning from a big IT company to a startup focusi...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev ( @sbashkirtsev ) about: scientific software for chemists and drug discovery, peaksel flagship software for analyzing mass spectrometer data, parsing binary instrument formats up to gigabytes in size, mass spectrometry measuring molecular weights using electric fields and detectors, daltons as mass units, isotope patterns for molecule identifi...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ondrej Mihalyi ( @OndroMih ) about: OmniFish company founding with former Payara employees, Arjan Tijms as Jakarta EE Security lead and Jakarta EE 10 coordinator, David Matejczyk as Glassfish project lead and main contributor, OmniFish as the main maintainer and driver of GlassFish development, GlassFish optimization and bug fixes, embedded GlassFish improvements f...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev ( @sbashkirtsev ) about: Early programming journey starting with Pascal in school and C# self-study in 2005, transition from C# to Java through local programming courses in 2007, first experiences with Java 6 and EJB2/EJB3, working with Delphi for lawyers' desktop software before finding Java opportunities, first Java project for Madison Squar...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Olimpiu Pop ( @olimpiupop ) about: Romanian developer's journey from 486 computers to Transylvania Java User Group, early programming with Turbo Pascal at age 9-10, playing games like Jazz Jackrabbit and Prince of Persia , influence of Star Trek and science fiction on career choice, mathematics olympiads participation, computer science high school education, learni...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop ( @vwggolf3 ) about: transition from individual contributor to engineering management since 2011, managing developer tools and AWS code suite services, discussion of AWS CodeCommit entering maintenance mode but maintaining performance and security standards, benefits of AWS CodeBuild as a serverless build service, using CodeBuild for running JARs and au...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page ( @PagePhilipp ) about: Discussion about refactoring AWS Lambda Power Tools to remove AspectJ dependency and introduce functional interfaces, comparison between AspectJ and lombok for code generation, benefits of offloading work to build time for AWS Lambda performance, using quarkus build-time optimizations with Jandex and gizmo utilities, replacing s...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz ( @paulsandoz ) about: Devoxx conference experiences and Java's evolution over the past decade, energy efficiency studies comparing Java to C/Rust/Ada from 2017, Java performance improvements from Java 8 to Java 25, Code Reflection as manipulation of method bodies versus traditional reflection, tornadovm optimizations for GPU inference achieving 6-10x s...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page ( @PagePhilipp ) about: early computing experiences with Windows XP and Intel Pentium systems, playing rally car games like Dirt with split-screen multiplayer, transitioning from gaming to server administration through Minecraft , running Minecraft servers at age 13 with memory limitations and out-of-memory exceptions, implementing caching mechanisms w...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop ( @vwggolf3 ) about: Romanian communist-era Felix HC91 computer with Z80 processor and 64KB RAM, learning programming through Basic and cassette tape storage, attending specialized informatics high school class in northern Romania, teachers from former communist computing center, learning Pascal and building word-guessing game for graduation project, pr...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez ( @ahachete ) about: Framework laptop experience and build process with DIY edition, modular connectors and upgradability, running Ubuntu 25.10 beta with nix package manager, automating installation with YAML and Ansible , comparison with IBM AS/400 feature activation model, docker adoption history for server maintenance and documentation, PostgreS...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ronald Dehuysser ( @rdehuyss ) about: JobRunner evolution from open source to processing 1 billion jobs daily, carbon-aware job processing using European energy grid data ( ENTSO-E ) for scheduling jobs during renewable energy peaks, correlation between CO2 emissions and energy prices for cost optimization, JobRunner Pro vs Open Source features including workflows...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin ( @mauricenaftalin ) about: retirement philosophy and work-life balance for developers, transitioning from paid work to passion projects, the challenge of relaxation and meditation versus constant activity, the importance of experiencing boredom in a fast-paced world, Java collections framework design and evolution over 30 years, the Collection int...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel ( @IngoKegel ) about: jclasslib bytecode viewer development history starting in 2001, transition from CVS to Subversion to Git, SourceForge to GitHub migration, Swing UI development with FlatLaf look and feel, comparison between Swing and SWT APIs, Eclipse plugin development experiences, Visual Studio Code integration with jprofiler , Homebrew package ma...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel ( @IngoKegel ) about: jprofiler Visual Studio Code integration using Kotlin Multiplatform , migrating Java code to Kotlin common code for cross-platform compatibility, transpiling to JavaScript for Node.js runtime, JClassLib bytecode viewer and manipulation library, Visual Studio Code's Language Server Protocol (LSP), profiling unit tests and performance...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stephan Janssen ( @Stephan007 ) about: Devoxx Belgium conference selling out in seconds with 7000+ page views, ticket coordination strategies by companies, VAT validation issues with European services, conference featuring largest Java AI content globally, AI and LLM focus with dedicated GenAI track, MCP and AI agents presentations, Java on GPU with tornadovm and B...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Antonio Goncalves ( @agoncal ) about: journey from Java Champion to Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft focusing on AI, the evolution from Java EE standards to modern AI development, writing technical books with LLM assistance, langchain4j as a Java SDK for LLMs providing abstraction over different AI providers, the importance of Java standards and patterns fo...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou ( @mikepapadim ) about: GPU acceleration for LLMs in Java using tornadovm , evolution from CPU-bound SIMD optimizations to GPU memory management, Alfonso's original Java port of llama.cpp using SIMD and Panama Vector API achieving 10 tokens per second, TornadoVM's initial hybrid approach combining CPU vector operations with GPU matrix multipl...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Adam Dudczak ( @maneo ) about: early programming experiences with Commodore 64 and Pascal , demo scene participation through postal mail swapping of floppy disks, writing assembly code for 64K intros with music and graphics, developing digital library systems using Java Servlets and Hibernate , involvement in reactivating Poznan Java User Group in 2007, NetBeans Dr...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin ( @mauricenaftalin ) about: Java generics history and introduction timeline, the Pizza paper proposal by Phil Wadler and others, Type erasure vs Reification debate, binary compatibility considerations, Java Community Process politics and Apache Harmony licensing issues, evolution from JCP to JEPs process, legacy collection types like Vector and Has...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis ( @spyced ) about: brokk as a Norse dwarf who forged Thor's hammer, Java Swing UI performance advantages over Electron apps, zb build tool integration, onboarding experience comparison with Cursor, architect vs code buttons functionality, session management in brokk, build and test tool configuration, in-memory Java parser development, JVector and em...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Fabio Niephaus ( @fniephaus ) about: GraalVM polyglot capabilities now available as Maven dependencies without requiring GraalVM JDK, running WebAssembly modules in Java applications using GraalWasm , separation of polyglot runtime from GraalVM distribution, embedding use cases for extending Java applications with python JavaScript and WebAssembly, performance bene...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin ( @mauricenaftalin ) about: experiences with Visual Age for Java and its visual programming approach with arrows connecting components, working on British Department of Health and Social Security project using Visual Age for Java for benefits system navigation, comparison of various Java IDEs including Visual J++, Sun Java Workshop , JBuilder , Ecl...