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  • Stackd 76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase

    Overview Kito, Danno, and Ian start out the new year with special guest Web Assembly, Semantic Web, and AI guru Brian Sletten. They have a deep, wide-ranging conversation about Web Assembly, LLMs, edge computing, and open-source hardware, and their potential to reduce compute costs. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to artificial…

  • OffHeap 90. The Dating Game at Devnexus 2025

    Oh my, Spring is around the corner and OffHeap was again invited to be part of DevNexus! This episode is so awesome because we got a chance to talk to three Open Source Foundations: Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, and CommonHaus Foundation. We discussed how they are similar, and (more interestingly) how they are different.…

  • Episode 106. Spring AI and Ollama

    Yes, this is the great episode where we dive and RUN these crazy LLMs in our own computer, and not just that, we use Java to interact with them! So if you ever wanted to start experimenting with these llms, but didn’t know where to start, this is the…

  • OffHeap 89. Welcome to the Year 2025! Prediction Time!

    So another year is in the books, and thankfully we didn’t have any Log4Shell like incidents during the break. And what that means is that this is the Episode where we reminisce about the year 2024, and look forward to what will dominate the headlines…

  • Stackd 75: Heโ€™s a mystery man

    Overview Josh, Kito, and Danno are joined by special guest Nilanjan Raychaudhuri, founder of Tublian and author of Scala in Action.They discuss the retirement of James Gosling, Jakarta EE 12, software development agents, TabNine, LangGraph for Java,…

  • OffHeap 88. Of Smart Agents that help you code better…or worse?

    So Coding Agents are here to stay. And they are hitting everywhere we go! (at a cheap price!). So what do we make of them. Do they help? do they hinder? Do we like using them? or, is it risky to use them? There are now practical questions we ponder…

  • Stackd 74: But itโ€™s soup

    ย  ๐Ÿ“… Recorded Date: August 30, 2024 ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Overview: For the first time in a while, the whole gang is back together! Kito, Josh, Danno, and Ian are joined by special guest Lenny Primak, a pilot and prolific open-source contributor. In this…

  • OffHeap 86. Of striking crowds and independence

    So last time we recorded we still have a running windows operating system and we haven’t seen the Crowdstrike meltdown happen yet. We also hear of JRuby achieving independence, Quarkus moving into CommonHaus and Intel letting go people (are they…

  • Episode 105. Neurons, AI, and LLMs

    Allright, it is time to pull the curtain on all this AI stuff and really learn how it works! On this episode we dive deep into AI, and Neural Networks, refinenements, vector databases (and why we need them) so you can understand the underlying…

  • OffHeap 85. The (Economic?) Future of Open Source?

    Allright, so in the middle of summer, and what better way to fight the summer heat than to have a cold one and talk about tech, right? We got together again and discuss the cool things that are happening (Java 22, Kotlin 2.0), and then we take a…