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Simon Vergauwen
@vergauwensimon.bsky.social
Developer Advocate @ JetBrains
#Kotlin since 2015
@arrow_kt maintainer
It’s Lamda World today and tomorrow and I brought Kodee!!

Come to @serranofp.com and my workshop today, or swing by the @kotlinlang.org @jetbrains.com booth tomorrow and come say hi!

Hope to see you there!
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Ktor makes it super easy to setup multiple ports, and handle port based routing!

Checkout the full example here, kotl.in/vm4ff3
August 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Came across this picture from KotlinConf 2019.

Last KotlinConf someone approached me, and told me about an interesting talk they heard at Lambda World. The speaker, it was me with a beard 🤣

If there is one thing I've always loved is talking about Kotlin 😁 With a beard, or a moustache!
July 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Did you know that all the Kodee assets, including the emojis and animated emojis are available on the Kotlin website! 😱

It's encouraged to use them, and have them inspire your creativity.

So get them now, and start spamming your colleagues with Kodee on Slack now! kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-...
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Saturday I'll be speaking online at droidcon Bangladesh about Full Stack Ktor development! I will be showing you how to transfer your existing Android, and Kotlin knowledge to the server side. This can help you to take control of your own BFFs, build your own products back -and front, and much more!
June 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#KotlinConf came -and went. My first one as Developer Advocate, and at @jetbrains.com.

Had amazing talks with so many people, so many new faces. Feeling pumped for another year of Kotlin growing in all directions, and seeing you all again!

Feeling blessed with such an awesome community 🥰
May 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I have another Kotlin cat sticker! Kategory was the old name (& logo) of Arrow-kt.

Due to merging with funKtionale library, we felt we couldnt' keep the name or logo but damn... that logo was 🔥 Perhaps I should just cut off the name, and hand them out. I got like 100~200 left.
May 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#Kotlin Exposed just dropped 1.0.0-beta-1 🔥🔥
With #R2DBC support! 😍

The (Exposed) cuttlefish is well-known for its outstanding mimicry ability that enables it to blend seamlessly into any environment (or dialect 😉). And now reactively!

github.com/JetBrains/Ex...
May 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#Ktor 3.2.0 will also allow directly retrieving the typed deserialised config directly from the ApplicationConfig! 🔥

Without requiring annotations, or the new opt-in Ktor DI plugin 🥳

🚀 Try it out now via the Early Access Program: ktor.io/eap/

#Kotlin #JetBrains #KotlinOnServer
April 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Yes, it is a major quality of life improvement! Ktor will also allow you to directly retrieve deserialised configuration from the Application 😍

The previous example uses Ktor's new DI module, but the snippet below is relying only on the ktor-server-core module.
April 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚀 #Ktor 3.2.0 is bringing config deserialization out of the box! Ktor injects the deserialized config directly into your module, drastically reducing boilerplate 🔥

Try it out now via the Early Access Program: ktor.io/eap/

Or check out this full commit: tinyurl.com/yx9cdahw

#Kotlin #JetBrains
April 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Have you tried #Kotlin notebooks yet? They're now bundled in IntelliJ IDEA 🔥

They're really great for prototyping and experimenting with Kotlin code in a fast and interactive way!

Here I am testing prompts, and tool calling with LangChain4J. Copy the gist, and try yourself tinyurl.com/4njwddy2
April 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New version 0.61.0 of #Kotlin #Exposed ORM by @jetbrains.com dropped!

A dedicated team has been working on Exposed in recent years, such that it has a guaranteed future. At @kotlinconf.com they will be giving a talk about the changes in the last year, be sure to catch it!

tinyurl.com/2ahw4fzr
April 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
You like lambdas? The track function accepts a suspend lambda with a suspend lambda argument 😬

If the composition fits, it sits.

#kotlin #functionalprogramming
April 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Came across this old (super cute) #kotlin sticker this weekend.

The community and ecosystem has grown so much since 🥰

Didn’t think it was possible but I think I love Kotlin even more now.
March 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@kotlinconf.com I'll be joining @antonarhipov.bsky.social and Leonid in the Hands-On Kotlin Web Development With Ktor workshop!

We'll be digging in a lot of awesome topics, practicing and discussing techniques and patterns to building awesome #Ktor services in #Kotlin!

tinyurl.com/4zaawda8
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Another @kotlinconf.com is coming! My 6th edition, and my first as a Developer Advocate @jetbrains.com

This year you'll find me all over the place, and I'm giving a lighting talk on #Coroutines and Structured Concurrency in #Ktor!

I'm looking forward to seeing you all again and talk #kotlin 🥳
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM