airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about:

first computer experience with her dad's Kaypro CPM machine and ASCII platform games, learning Basic programming on an IBM PC clone to build a recipe management system, studying physics at university with a doctorate in quantum computing, self-teaching Java to create 3D visualizations of error correction on spheres during PhD research, joini...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christofer Dutz (christofer-dutz) about:

first computer was a Commodore C64 from Hannover Messe, early programming in Basic, playing Wizards of War game on cassette tape, growing up in Melbourne Australia until age ten, visiting Ayers Rock and seeing prehistoric armored fish in puddles, learning C and C++ at Volkshochschule around 1992, memory management challenges with DOS gami...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thomas Wuerthinger (@thomaswue) about:

clarification of GraalVM release cadence changes and decoupling from openJDK releases, GraalVM focusing on LTS Java releases only (skipping non-LTS like Java 26), GraalVM as a multi-vendor polyglot project with community edition and third-party vendors like Red Hat BellSoft and microdoc, increased focus on python support due to AI popularit...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about:

discussion about LLMs generating Java code with BCE patterns and architectural rules, Java being 20-30% better for LLM code generation than python and typescript, embedding business knowledge in Java source code for LLM context, stackgres as a curated opinionated stack for running Postgres on kubernetes, Postgres requiring external tools for c...

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, OpenTelemetry integra...

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 2D Super Mario-...

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 focusing on energy sect...

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 identification, storing ...

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 for command-line ...

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 Square Garden and New...

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, learning C and FoxPro, ...

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 automated testing,...

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 slf4j with Java 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 speedup over CPU,...

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 with cron jobs and...

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, pressure and compe...

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, PostgreSQL extensions, up...

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 and multi-tenanc...

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 interface as base f...