Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed

The "Refactoring" Expansion to tdd.cards is going into Play Testing soon! I think it's going to be fun and instructive (and fun). If you buy a physical copy of the game now, you'll get a discount on the expansion. You'll also get early access to the online version. #TDD #Refactoring #BoardGames

Reminder to folks in the Berlin area! I'll be there from 8-26 Nov. (except 15-19 Nov. at Agile Testing Days) and would love to give a talk about Event Sourcing to your group, meetup, or company (no charge). See my travel details at: jittertravel.com and get in touch!

Hey folks in BERLIN! I'll be in the area from 8-26 November and would love to give a talk about Event Sourcing to your group, meetup, or company (no charge!). Other than 15-19 Nov (I'll be at Agile Testing Days), let me know and see my travel details at: jittertravel.com

Home for a whole 11 days, I'm traveling again: Oct 12-15 - dev2next: TDD Game and Event Sourcing Oct 19-22 - PLoP (near Ottawa): patterns! Nov 8-26 - Agile Testing Days and more (Potsdam/Berlin) Can I talk about Event Sourcing to your group? Ping me! jittertravel.com

I'm running a remote "alpha test" of my #EventSourcing workshop and I think it's going well?? Great questions and hopefully participants are getting a deeper understanding and building a mental model of how Event Sourcing works. Day 2 is done and we have yet to look at code!

What is a Rube Goldberg machine and why is it so fascinating?

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There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

🏗️ JEP 540 integrated to JDK 28 Title: Simple JSON API (Incubator) Type: feature Component: core Release: 28 See openjdk.org/jeps/540

Man why are all these well-loved tech companies so desperate to give their money to Mr Kill All Immigrants in exchange for his dotfiles

Like an underrated harm of LLM coding is that it basically starts to strangle actual evolution of software engineering as a field. Why invent better ways of doing things? Why come up with better languages, better abstractions, better tooling?

Disappointing but honestly not surprising. DigitalOcean has never exactly been a beacon of moral clarity.

more people should be aware that there are 3lb worth of copper, gold, and other valuable recyclable metals in each flock camera

Curious about event sourcing but not sure where to start? 💭 Build a feature from the events up in this hands-on workshop with @ted.dev at #dev2next and see how event sourcing works in practice. 🔗 www.dev2next.com/schedule 🎟️ Get tickets: dev2next.com 📅 October 12-15 #EventSourcing #Java

Comparing “blogging” to “AI Slop” is the type of take that emerges from being obsessed with how people talk about things instead of being interested in what things are.

Reminder that tonight I'll be talking at EuregJUG in Aachen (Germany) about #EventSourcing in #Java. Come join us! Details: euregjug.dev/#events

Learn TDD by... playing a board game? 🎲 @ted.dev uses JitterTed’s TDD Game to demonstrate the benefits AND pitfalls of Test-Driven Development, from small steps & failing tests to pairing and team collaboration. 🔗 www.dev2next.com/speaker/3a4e... 🎟️ Tickets: dev2next.com

Not being able to paste in the password field HARMS security!!! Who came up with this horrid UX pattern?!

I dislike @gofundme.com DAF (they can't/won't let me contribute to any arbitrary eligible org) and they're now making it exceedingly difficult to move MY money to another DAF. That should be illegal. Needs to be a standard here, just like other asset movements.

Reminder that tonight I'm speaking in Hamburg (at the Microservices Meetup) about #EventSourcing! I know it's short-notice, but if you're around, come on by and let me share with you my passion on the topic! www.meetup.com/microservic...

Hey folks, guess what? I'm speaking on Thursday (3 Sept) in Hamburg (at the Microservices Meetup) about #EventSourcing! I know it's short-notice, but if you're around, come on by and let me share with you my passion on the topic. www.meetup.com/microservic...

Want a copy of JitterTed's TDD Game hand-delivered to you? Going to SoCraTes Germany? Or Play4Agile? Or are in Hamburg or Aachen? Reserve your copy soon! Send me a direct message or email ted at tedmyoung dot com before. Game details at tdd.cards

Curious about event sourcing but not sure where to start? 💭 Build a feature from the events up in this hands-on workshop with @ted.dev at #dev2next and see how event sourcing works in practice. 🔗 www.dev2next.com/schedule 🎟️ Get tickets: dev2next.com 📅 October 12-15 #EventSourcing #Java

Thank you to @ted.dev and his TDD Game for sponsoring SoCraTes UK 2026. Sponsors are vital at keeping the conference running year after year and are much appreciated 🙏🏻 You can find out more at tdd.cards - we loved playing the TDD game.

Does every Kafka-backed microservice need a framework? 🤔 Join @sandonjacobs.bsky.social at #dev2next as he explores the trade-offs between Spring, Quarkus, and lightweight Kotlin implementations, helping teams make more informed architectural decisions. 🔗 www.dev2next.com/speaker/b50b...

Recording 📽️ of my #JSpring 2026 talk (Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values: Putting it all together 🧵 ☕) is out on youtube. Please check it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sq1... Thank you @nljug.bsky.social 🙏

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Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Better #Assertions with #AssertJ' with @timtebeek Not all #testing libraries are equal. Sure they all run your tests, but what happens when they #fail? “Expected ‘true’, was ‘false’” won’t help you … Grab your coffee and hit play: youtu.be/W7BhLNVHuqo

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This roundabout takes traffic separation to a whole new level. Located in Houten, a small town, famous for its innovative cycling designs, the layout creates two layers: one for cars and one for bikes. This completely eliminates conflict points with motorised traffic and greatly improves safety.

Looking for input/feedback from Java developers on 2 different topics: 1. Is there interest in a JavaFX workshop/conference/training in Belgium? 2. Is there interest in a gathering with fellow Java developers working on scientific topics (writing java code, not only using 3th party code) #java

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I wrote the Featured Content section of the August 2026 issue of Java Annotated Monthly. @adambien.blog just published a fun podcast he hosted with me. I just published a blog on Medium today. I'm on vacation. Busy August so far. blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/08...

Whoops, I missed my 9 year blogiversary. I was too busy blogging. 😂 The blog that got me started blogging on Medium. 👇 donraab.medium.com/symmetric-sy...

Devoxx Belgium 2026 registration opens next week! 📅 August 17 ⏰ 09:00 CEST 🇧🇪 Registering as a Belgian company? Make sure you have your Peppol ID ready! blog.devoxx.be/2026/08/10/d...

Miss Bidenomics yet?

Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling. cal.news/4gnsTDI 📸 Jules Hotz

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

"NRF report acknowledges many retailers do not track retail theft. Yet NRF still issued report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years this sort of "pro-business" pseudo-science is part of the reason we spend all our fucking money on cops, and stores insufferable plexiglass prisons"

🎯 JEP 401 proposed to target JDK 28 Title: Value Objects (Preview) Type: feature Component: spec Release: 28 See openjdk.org/jeps/401

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