Kevin Wittek

In this video for #Kubesimplify, our Engineering Manager for the AI Runtime Team @wittek.dev talks #Docker's latest feature: Model Runner It allows developers to run and test #LLM from their local environment w/ Docker Desktop 4.40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3W...

Super cool talking cartoon from Hamida Rebai Senior Cloud Application Architect at @microsoft.com on #DockerModelRunner http://spklr.io/63325AF5v

Running a GenAI app locally with OpenAI SDK + Docker Model Runner? Yes, please. This demo uses Next.js + Docker Compose to serve up an LLM chatbot (Qwen 2.5) with hardware acceleration on Apple Silicon. Local, fast, secure. Watch it go! @wittek.dev #Docker #JavaScript #NextJS #LLM #AI #OpenAI

Developers: “I wish I could run AI locally without all the setup.” Docker: “Say less.” @hummusonrails.com dropped a 🔥 blog on the new Docker Model Runner: 🔗 http://spklr.io/63328AJqs #Docker #AI #Git #DevTools

Wanted to reboot my blog and was pondering the options. Self-hosting a static site would be okayish, but I also don't really want to yak shave the whole thing. I used to like Substack, but it just is becoming an increasingly weird platform thingie. So maybe giving Ghost a try?

I don't really know what to do about all the different social media sites. More and more folks are following me here, but I am not really using it. Maybe I should rotate through the different networks on a weekly basis :D (bsky, X, LinkedIn, Mastodon...)

Oh look, it's me!

In the style of The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger's Renaissance masterpiece painted in 1533, The Computers portrays many of the concepts and artifacts that define the world of computing.

An honor to be mentioned here :o

docker run docker/hello-bluesky

Do I read this right, Quarkus is IBM now? www.redhat.com/en/blog/evol...

This project is key to Java. We need a notebook to bring Java towards students, scientists,... and help them doing research/POC's in the same language that can later be used in production systems where performance/stability/scaling/security is key.

🎙️ Speaker Spotlight: Do not miss Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev with his lecture "Learning GenAI/LLM programming with langchain4j and Testcontainers" at Hashtag#JavaLand 2025! scomp.ly/R1oDxZ8

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Remembering Russel. RIP 🖤

"Who gets to hit @anthropic.com harder with the money stick" apparently remains the sport of kings.

For my mental health, I usually refrain from commenting on politics. Today, I feel compelled to break this rule and speak out. In Germany, history revisionists yell their devoid phrases from the chancel, echoed by those who struggle with recent politics and are afraid of the future. 🧵 1/8

Google Gemini for Workspace requires an enterprise tier subscription to turn off. It's the best economic story for their AI. I didn't expect them to find it, but they did because after billions of dollars and decades of ML work Google has finally created a self-aware product manager.

Check out the song I recorded over the holidays, an instrumental version of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. First time doing everything in Logic, all guitars done using Neural DSP. Cover by Neslihan Wittek <3 cc @calvobianco.com , who was asking for music content :D distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

My wife just created a Red Bubble shop for her own digital art drawings. Check it out, I think there are some really cute designs and I will get them for myself, like the Snail in the race car or the Wizard Frog :D www.redbubble.com/people/nwitt...

The fact that is is on published in the MS org is the 🤯 thing. Also cute: > You can also configure markitdown to use Large Language Models to describe images.

Modern child: NO I wanted the other iPad Victorian child; thank you for the orange

Good a real great anniversary gift from my wife, themotorracingacademy.com/the-motor-ra..., by Suellio Almeida (with whom I also had a private coaching session last year). I will make good use of it during the holidays and try to up my game again, honestly good rusty this year.

Is anyone using AI/LLMs in the context of "writing" in a satisfactory and valuable way? I kind of get them for coding, but not at all for writing (maybe as a spelling and grammar check). Also made me think of this article by Paul Graham: paulgraham.com/writes.html

With the latest Quarkus LangChain4j 0.23.0.CR1, wring agents just got a lot easier! Our weather agent example should give you a really good idea: github.com/quarkiverse/...

People of BlueSky: Let's get to know each other better! What is one of your favorite movies? Quote share your answer only in GIF form:

Listening to “How [not] to Lead your Organization’s AI-Transformation: Strategies, Skills, and Culture - or how to skip the platform trap and deliver business value with AI” by @ondfisk.bsky.social #yow24

I've been thinking about and working to understand Free Software, Open Source, and business for a very long time. Thanks to @kelseyhightower.com, I tried to distill all of that into a single talk: youtu.be/rmhYHzJpkuo - I'm very proud of it, and I hope it helps you. :)

To everyone who's been in IT for a while: Which hype cycles have set your project(s) off course for a few months because management believed not doing it would disrupt the business? And how did it turn out?

I shared this story a couple years ago. I hope to never lose my enthusiasm about the joy of programming. I hope this story motivates others to tell theirs, even if it's just to their friends and family. We may not be rockstars, but we are creators and magicians. 🙏 donraab.medium.com/the-joy-of-p...

Since there’s a lot of really useful data tucked away in PDF’s and documents that aren’t easily consumable by LLM’s, the #Docling project uses computer vision models and OCR to parse into Markdown, JSON, and more! I experimented with the CLI and library in this quick video: youtu.be/0vmQ7BmLax8

The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.

Tonight, I took a stab at writing a Spring AI application using the new MCP support module. It's only slightly different from the simple SQLite example, but this one uses the Google Maps MCP server to answer questions about locations. Check it out: github.com/habuma/sprin...

Pull request reviews are like group therapy in the best case, like group insanity in the worst. Kindness lets you resolve both cases. December 12 #ZenDevAdvent Image: Unsplash #git #pullrequests #programming

Yearly service announcement for people looking to spend Learning Budget remainders: ACM Membership (which is cool by itself) with Skills Bundle gives you access to O'Reilly online for a fraction of the price. learning.acm.org/skills-bundle

Lots of people are only looking out for themselves which is why they fear everything.

Lots of companies give special swag / gifts to folks who speak at their conferences. AWS giving “a survey” is extremely on-brand. (There was also a pin.)

Encouraged by the feedback from the first video (thanks)... here is a second one. I guess the feedback will be similar since the video was identical, but I share it anyway. For Junior developers or people who are considering becoming juniors https://youtu.be/-xptZU9jem4 #programming #career

Experimenting with YouTube—after scrapping 20 recordings, I decided to share this one for feedback. Made for juniors. Grateful for your DMs/comments! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvnYUevYsE #developer #career

A good open-source project is like a Zen garden: simple and beautiful. Never look at the issues tab when you are at peace with yourself. December 7 #ZenDevAdvent #opensource

If there is some end-of-the-year learning budget you feel like spending, which is some content you would suggest? Can be books, courses, whatever. And regarding topics, anything related to IT, AI, or even management and leadership :)

What are "timeless" resources about AI/ML (including foundational and historic stuff) you would recommend? Currently "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow and "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" seem to fit this bill for me.

Using Spring Boot with Testcontainers? We've improved support so that your test setup is more lean. `@AutoConfigureTestDatabase` now detects containers and will automatically use that! If you need to revert to the old behavior, set `replace=Replace.AUTO_CONFIGURED)` on the annotation.

Using Testcontainers and upgrading to Spring Boot 3.4? If you were injecting a DynamicPropertyRegistry in a bean method, please migrate that to DynamicPropertyRegistrar. More details in the release notes: https://buff.ly/49hD3R2

Today, I upgraded my Plausible Analytics environment. It was sometimes a bit tricky, but luckily, the documentation was excellent. If you need #privacy first, #opensource web analytics, check out Plausible:

@wittek.dev Please meet Apache Maven Helpdesk chatgpt.com/g/g-3PB7ExxO...

How is this real? Nanowar, Napalm Record... #java based song. #metal music. Unfortunatly no simpler main method 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8...

Far jars had their time, but that time was a while ago. They're just too inefficient in a container world. Instead, go lean and layered.

Kollege Hermann hat gerade ein #RAG System für unseren Kunden Sprengnetter in Produktion gebracht und teilt seine Erfahrungen in einer Blog-Reihe. Teil 1: Warum der übertriebene Fokus auf #Vektorsuche das Problem nicht löst www.innoq.com/de/blog/2024...