📅 Recorded: April 11, 2025
In this lively episode, Josh, Danno, and Kito are joined by Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. From Java to AI, clean energy, WebAssembly, and even crime prediction tech — it’s a wild, nerdy ride!
🔥 Topics Covered:
AI struggles with debugging – Microsoft’s recent study
Clean energy now powering 40% of global electricity
The UK’s ‘murder prediction’ tool
Java 24, Jakarta EE 12, and WebAssembly with Java
Spring AI 1.0.0 M7 & Docker Model Runner
Tools like Buildpacks, Devin 2.0, Tabnine, CodeSandbox, and more
Dev picks: language learning with AI, Gatherers4J, JSpecify, AI art, and more
🎙 Guest: Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate, Java Champion, Kotlin GDE, author, podcaster, and YouTuber.
Bio: https://joshlong.com/about.html
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlong/
BlueSky: https://starbuxman.joshlong.com
Website: https://joshlong.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@coffeesoftware
Podcast: https://bootifulpodcast.podbean.com/
Books:
Cloud Native Java: https://a.co/d/iFIW7W0
Reactive Spring: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Roo-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B005KOJ41C
Spring Recipes: https://a.co/d/1IbVQvV
Spring Enterprise Recipes: https://a.co/d/5C9gmht
Pro Spring Integration: https://a.co/d/ff0dHOL
Getting Started with Roo: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Roo-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B005KOJ41C
📰 News Highlights:
Microsoft study on AI debugging: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0519242
Meta’s tech to use phones in theaters: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/10/1431235
Windows 95 reboot sound + Minecraft inducted: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/04/10/0011250
Clean energy hits 40%: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/09/0451237
UK ‘murder prediction’ system: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/09/0028213
☕ Java & Dev Tools:
Java 24: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-releases-java-24-2025-03-18
Jakarta EE 12 Guide: https://jakartaee-ambassadors.io/guide-to-contributing-to-jakarta-ee-12/
Review Status: https://github.com/orgs/jakartaee/projects/17/views/1
Java on WebAssembly: https://graalvm.github.io/graalvm-demos/native-image/wasm-javac/
WebAssembly with Java (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqhO3AkB-2M
Spring AI 1.0.0 M7: https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/10/spring-ai-1-0-0-m7-released
Spring AI with Docker: https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/10/spring-ai-docker-model-runner
LLM4J: https://github.com/llmjava/llm4j
Tabnine’s Image-as-Context: https://www.tabnine.com/blog/introducing-image-as-context/
Devin 2.0: https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-2
Buildpacks: https://buildpacks.io/
Eclipse IDE + AI Agents: https://devops.com/eclipse-foundation-to-release-open-source-ide-infused-with-ai-agents
DevRiot IDE shutdown: https://divriots.com/blog/ide-product-update
🧠 Dev Picks:
CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/
Learn foreign languages with AI
Gatherers4J: https://github.com/tginsberg/gatherers4j
Animals-as-People AI Art: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/s/qzgZP8a0cA
JSpecify: https://jspecify.dev/
🎧 Other PubHouse Network Podcasts:
OffHeap: https://www.javaoffheap.com/
Java Pubhouse: https://www.javapubhouse.com/
📅 2025 Events to Watch:
New England Software Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/boston
Devoxx UK: https://www.devoxx.co.uk/
Code Remix Summit: https://coderemix.ai/
Great Lakes Software Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/chicago
Spring.io Barcelona: https://2025.springio.net/
UberConf: https://uberconf.com
Central Iowa Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/desmoines
Twin Cities Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/minneapolis
Northern Virginia Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/reston
Pacific Northwest Symposium: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/seattle
SpringOne @ VMware Explore: https://www.vmware.com/explore/us/springone
Dev2Next: https://www.dev2next.com/
Devoxx (Antwerp): https://devoxx.be/
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