Jason Lee @jasondlee@mastodon.cloud

Not sure how I'm just learning about this, but this woman made a bass guitar out of a Commodore 64, and it's awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDhpFaf4EY

Peyton is hilarious:

Peyton Manning Opening Monologue at ESPYS 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_nxerawXw

That's impressive -- DoppioJVM, A Java Virtual Machine written in 100% JavaScript: http://plasma-umass.github.io/doppio-demo/

With the exception of answering questions while editors do their thing, i've nothing left to do on my book.

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-9-programming-blueprints

Why the JVM is a Good Choice for Serverless Computing: John Chapin Discusses AWS Lambda at QCon NY https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/06/fearless-aws-lambda

Lots of good stuff here: Idiomatic Kotlin https://www.slideshare.net/intelliyole/idiomatic-kotlin

This looks fun:

Introducing Spring Cloud Function https://spring.io/blog/2017/07/05/introducing-spring-cloud-function

This is a truly horrendous story.
Courts in Europe have sentenced a baby to death. This is socialized medicine
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-courts-in-europe-have-sentenced-a-baby-to-death-this-is-socialized-medicine/

That's pretty big news:

Google App Engine standard now supports Java 8 https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/Google-App-Engine-standard-now-supports-Java-8.html

OUCH.

MongoDB World 2017: The Lonely Story of MongoDB Versus the World https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-world-2017-lonely-story-versus-john-de-goes

#Kotlin's hidden costs - Benchmarks

tl;dr - not much to worry about

https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/kotlinshiddencosts-benchmarks

Irresponsible Musicians Leave Bassist in Hot Van http://thehardtimes.net/music/irresponsible-musicians-leave-bassist-hot-van/

Java 9 delayed to September 21 - JAXenter https://jaxenter.com/java-9-schedule-change-sept-134484.html

This is really interesting. How would engineers build the Golden Gate Bridge today? https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2017/5/27/how-would-engineers-build-the-golden-gate-bridge-today

Since Oleg asked so nicely, here's the @RebelLabs Developer Productivity Survey. You should take it. https://rebellabs.typeform.com/to/IrpKbp

Oklahoma Baptists spring to action in Elk City | Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma https://www.baptistmessenger.com/oklahoma-baptists-spring-to-action-in-elk-city/

This is an older series, but one I've found very helpful: Grokking RxJava http://blog.danlew.net/2014/09/15/grokking-rxjava-part-1/

Curated links for #Kotlin tutorial, frameworks, libraries, etc https://kotlin.link/

Kotlin on Android. Now official | Kotlin Blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/

#Android O adds support for the #Kotlin programming language http://www.androidcentral.com/android-o-adds-support-kotlin-programming-language