Jonathan Giles

Principal Java Architect for libraries @Microsoft and a @Java_Champions. Previous: Consulting Member of Technical Staff on @Java at Oracle/Sun Microsystems

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Also got to stand next to a very cool scribble.

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Just saw a Switch 2 in person (in the Nintendo museum in Kyoto) - very impressive console, and much bigger than I expected. Might have to buy one on day one after all.

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@VicVijayakumar I say the same thing regarding money. I would rather she stay at home than work the one day a week: she could go to the gym, do a hobby, etc, but she wants the work, even though the money is worth less than the benefits of not going to work (at least, from my perspective)

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Awesome haul of Lego for my birthday! Going to be busy for a few days on these.

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@richardbair My current work is driving everything we do to zero dependencies. It's hard work, but by end of 2025 I should have turned a very slow moving ship around to this.

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It was my 18th wedding anniversary last week, my birthday today, and now my age ends in a zero again. I wonder what the next decade holds for me?

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@davidfowl A Java Aspire you say? An 'Aspire4J' if you will. Colour me intrigued.

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Final sunset of 2024. I hope everyone had a great 2024, and all the best for whatever your goals and dreams for 2025 are.

Here's our dog Yoshi doing one last beach run.

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@richardbair I heard good feedback about Hatch, but never tried it myself. In SDK team we use Setuptools, as our project is here for longer than all other tool exist . We use https://t.co/YxWlM3jQGT, but we updated our CI last year to support pyproject.toml.

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@richardbair For build, I would use Poetry, or Setuptools. Poetry is the fancy new one that feels like inspired by "everything tool" like npm and mvn. Setuptools is the traditional one there for decades. If the package is small and simple, Flit is a good easy choice as well.

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@rakyll Any Java SDKs in the works?

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@timheuer Yes

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This is my team too.... But I've got a few more years to go until I've been at Microsoft for 40 years like Larry!

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For Larry Osterman's 40 year story, we joined Larry...at his 40 year party.

What keeps Larry going? Listen in - and stay for the confetti at the end. 🎊🎉

Larry Osterman Playlist: https://t.co/UDDzUw8251

#Larry40Years

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@speakjava @British_Airways This is their "Eau de toilet" service. Only available to the most important of guests.

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@jessfraz I bought a beach house just so I could run another unifi network and cameras setup (also, the beach being right there is pretty nice too). I love having the unifi system setting up a VPN between both sites, so I can have a centralized home automation system for both houses, etc.

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Trying out bluesky. You can find me over there at @jonathangiles.net

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@rakyll That's what my team did six years back for Azure SDKs. I'm the Java architect for all Azure SDKs, and we have equivalent architects for each of the important languages. It's a big responsibility, but the quality improvements compared to before my team began is night and day.