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We're now over halfway through 2026, we're still here building software and I'm continuing to journal some of my personal journey.

This post is a run-down of what I did to get a cloud based AI agent running from a bare Ubuntu VPS.

Postman has been the default API tooling for years.

AI is getting most of the airtime right now, but Java development and operations hasn't gone anywhere.

A recent announcement around agent plugins lined up closely with the way I had already been thinking about ai-toolkit, so I moved the project over to that model.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

My default preference for organising a codebase has been "Screaming Architecture" for years.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

I wanted a practical way to consume long YouTube content faster.

Agent tooling to access APIs has a maintenance problem.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

I wanted one place to manage the Copilot resources I keep reusing across projects: prompts, agents, skills, and custom instructions.

Plan mode in VSCode Copilot is often too solution-oriented.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is becoming an important primitive in the AI tooling landscape.

As a Developer spending so much time in code, it's quite a context shift when going to long form writing.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

I use GitHub Copilot every single day.

We are getting pretty good at the front end of the AI-assisted development cycle.

This article is a practical guide to thinking about AI workflow design using three Copilot primitives: Agents, Prompts, and Skills.

Back in February I published Java UI in 2026: The Complete Guide, an up-to-date overview of every UI option available to Java developers today.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

When developers think about building user interfaces today, the conversation often revolves around the same familiar choices.

2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey.

If you're a Java developer working with GitHub Copilot or other AI coding agents, you might think you need to learn Python, JavaScript or Shell scripts to power your custom skills.

Every workflow has the potential to be faster and more automated.

I've finally got round (thanks copliot) to adding a new addition to this site: a Feeds page that lists the RSS feeds I'm currently subscribed to.

I've reviewed my podcast subscriptions to reflect what's currently delivering me the most back for my buck.

I believe that with AI agents, separated frontend and backend development is slowly coming to an end.

At the start of 2026, I came across a great article by Max Andersen (creator of JBang) titled Let's make 2026 the year of Java in the terminal!.

Chrome extensions are one of the most underrated ways to build custom developer tooling and automation.

This short demo shows how to expose existing Spring Shell commands as tools consumable by MCP (Model Context Protocol) clients such as GitHub Copilot, using Spring AI's MCP server integration.

If you’ve ever wanted to share a Java library without setting up a full Maven Central or OSSRH workflow, JitPack.io is a developer-friendly alternative that lets you publish directly from GitHub.

Release Notes for 0.0.3 Maven BOM available to manage j2html-extensions artefacts The bom currently manages the following artefacts: j2html-extensions-core bootstrap-j2html-extension htmx-j2html-extension j2html-extensions-spring-boot-starter <dependencyM…

Recently, I found myself needing a quick way to share links from my iPhone directly to my web service.