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Microsoft AI Advocate. Certified stunt coder
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Brian Benz @bbenz.bsky.social · 3d
Join me for Java Office Hours on the Microsoft Foundry Discord and live Q&A📅 Jan 7, 2026 • 9:00 AM PST
Covering the newest GitHub Copilot code-gen + how to use 12k #Microsoft Foundry models.
Join: discord.com/events/11136...

#Java #AI #Azure #LangChain4j #DevTools
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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Join me for Java Office Hours on the Microsoft Foundry Discord and live Q&A📅 Jan 7, 2026 • 9:00 AM PST
Covering the newest GitHub Copilot code-gen + how to use 12k #Microsoft Foundry models.
Join: discord.com/events/11136...

#Java #AI #Azure #LangChain4j #DevTools
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
discord.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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Who’s here at #CES this week?
January 6, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Check out my Theater session today at #MSIgnite
#equinix booth 1234 - I'll be #vibecoding Infrastructure as code that connects #azure #ExpressRoute + #Equinix Fabric, powered by #Terraform & @github #Copilot.
Nov 18 | 5:00 PM | Booth #1234
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Thanks for joining the #MSIgnite pre-day lab - #AI-Ready Apps: Containerize and Modernize with #Azure !  Try it at home!  you can find the repo here  - aka.ms/ignite25-PRE...
GitHub - microsoft/ignite25-PREL15-ai-ready-apps-containerize-and-modernize-with-azure
Contribute to microsoft/ignite25-PREL15-ai-ready-apps-containerize-and-modernize-with-azure development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Just arrived in #SanFrancisco for #MSIgnite! Any #java nerds here this week? Let’s meet up!
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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🚀 Join me at Trimble Dimensions tomorrow—two back-to-back talks on AI for construction planning and enterprise automation. Full event info: www.trimble.com/en/our-compa...

#TrimbleDimensions #Azure #AI #Construction
2025 Trimble Dimensions User Conference: Unlock Innovation
Elevate your expertise at Dimensions 2025 in Las Vegas, Nov 10-12. Explore industry trends, master advanced techniques and connect with experts. Register now!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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☕️🤖 New Java & AI for Beginners series: concise intros to RAG, MCP, LangChain4j, Azure services, and container options—designed for working Java devs.
Blog: devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-an...

Playlist: aka.ms/java-ai-begi...

#Java #AI #Beginners #DevTools #OpenSource
Java and AI for Beginners: a practical video series for Java - Microsoft for Java Developers
Learn core GenAI concepts for Java: RAG, MCP, LangChain4j, Azure integrations, and containers. Start with short, practical videos.
devblogs.microsoft.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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OpenAI Codex is now integrated directly in VS Code through the new Agent Sessions view - and can be powered by your GitHub Copilot subscription.

Try it out now with VS Code Insiders and a Copilot Pro+ subscription. Happy coding!
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Still running Spring apps on SQL? 👀

See how to evolve to Azure #CosmosDB with #GitHubCopilot as your migration buddy.

🧠 Live demo + real refactoring examples!
🗓️ Oct 21 | 16:30 UTC (9:30am PST)

🔗 developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto...
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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🚀🧠 Drasi + GQL = continuous queries for the graph era. Mark Russinovich details how the first new international DB language since SQL lands in change-driven systems. Read: opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
#Drasi #GQL #GraphDatabases #OpenSource
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Drasi at one year: now with GQL for change-driven solutions
Drasi’s first year brings GQL support and community growth, empowering developers to build event-driven apps. Learn more.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🙏 Thanks for coming to From CRUD to Cognitive at JCON USA! Appreciate all the great questions. Reference materials (patterns, links, code) are here: aka.ms/CRUDtoCognit...
☕️🤖🚀
#JCONUSA #Java #GenAI #OpenSource #RAG
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🚀🧠☕ From CRUD to Cognitive—without a rewrite. I’m teaming up with Ed Burns at JCON USA (IBM TechXchange) to show RAG, form auto-fillers, chatbots & AI triggers using open-source models/frameworks. Oct 6, 6–6:30pm EDT
👉 usa.jcon.one

#JCONUSA #Java #GenAI #RAG #OpenSource
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Rolling out to VS Code now: Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding.

Let us know what you think!
github.blog/changelog/20...
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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See you there!
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · Sep 15
This Wednesday, join us for a special VS Code livestream, straight from Microsoft HQ!

Burke Holland will be joined by an amazing guest lineup: Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, and Scott Tolinski 🔥

You don't want to miss this 🔗 youtube.com/live/4Q9TDw2...
A thumbnail with a dark background and a headshot of Burke Holland that reads "VS Code & Friends Live from Microsoft HQ, Featuring Burke Holland, Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, Scott Tolinski"
September 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
vscode.dev
This Wednesday, join us for a special VS Code livestream, straight from Microsoft HQ!

Burke Holland will be joined by an amazing guest lineup: Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, and Scott Tolinski 🔥

You don't want to miss this 🔗 youtube.com/live/4Q9TDw2...
A thumbnail with a dark background and a headshot of Burke Holland that reads "VS Code & Friends Live from Microsoft HQ, Featuring Burke Holland, Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, Scott Tolinski"
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Muchacho and his lemongrass #caturday
August 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Muchacho on vacation! #caturday
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs

... here it's running my LLM CLI utility
Screenshot of a GitHub Codespaces VS Code interface showing a README.md file for codespaces-llm repository. The file describes a GitHub Codespaces environment with LLM, Python 3.13, uv and the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension. It has a "Launch Codespace" button. Below shows a terminal tab with the command "llm 'Fun facts about pelicans'" which has generated output listing 5 pelican facts: 1. **Huge Beaks:** about their enormous beaks and throat pouches for scooping fish and water, some over a foot long; 2. **Fishing Technique:** about working together to herd fish into shallow water; 3. **Great Fliers:** about being strong fliers that migrate great distances and soar on thermals; 4. **Buoyant Bodies:** about having air sacs beneath skin and bones making them extra buoyant; 5. **Dive Bombing:** about Brown Pelicans diving dramatically from air into water to catch fish.
August 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Muchacho‘s having a great #caturday afternoon
July 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Just hanging out on #caturday
July 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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New Blog post - 🤝 @microsoft.com + @langchain4j.dev = secure and scalable #Java #AI including Azure + OpenAI Java SDK integration. Read: devblogs.microsoft.com/java/microso...

#Azure
Microsoft and LangChain4j: A Partnership for Secure, Enterprise-Grade Java AI Applications - Microsoft for Java Developers
Discover how Microsoft and LangChain4j are empowering Java developers to build secure, scalable AI applications. Learn about OpenAI SDK integration, Azure support, and robust security enhancements in ...
devblogs.microsoft.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Model Context Protocol is essential knowledge for every AI developer that wants to enable modular, composable model-based apps

Don’t miss this session - July 15th at 09:00 PT !👇
brunoborges.bsky.social Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · Jul 14
Learn how to build an MCP Server and an MCP Client in #Java.

Join me & @sandraahlgrimm.bsky.social this July 15th at 09:00 PT to get a glimpse of #MCP and demos that (hopefully!) will work fine, and give you a lift on building your own!

Hit "Notify me" on YouTube!

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Let's Learn MCP: Java
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July 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I don’t care if it’s #caturday put the damn camera down!
July 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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GitHub #Copilot Chat is now open source - Check out the source code here! github.com/microsoft/vs...
July 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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🚀⚡️💚 Cutting cloud costs & carbon? Check my new walkthrough of Azure @kubernetes.io service on Arm-powered Cobalt 100 VMs - full demo + step-by-step guide. Video: youtu.be/B9JzkHTJuJI Docs 👉 aka.ms/armonazure #Kubernetes #AKS #Azure #Arm #GreenSoftware
Using ARM VMs for AKS (CLI): Azure Kubernetes Service
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June 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM