Kito D. Mann

@kito99
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Principal Consultant at https://virtua.tech, focusing on enterprise architecture, training, development, and mentoring. Java Champion and Google Developer Expert in Web Dev. Founder, https://speakertrax.com.
I'd love to see an #mcp server for #Nozbe (https://nozbe.com; my task manager). I've been a loyal user for over a decade; we use it at virtua.tech, I use it for my personal tasks, and I finally got my wife to start using it. There's a treasure trove of data I want my agents to access. There are quite a few Nozbe MCP servers exposed through third-party services, but a native one would be great, like RememberTheMilk has: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/mcp/ .

#80: Checkmate, magic man!

Magician, architect, and YouTuber Michael Carducci joins us! We discuss jobs, #agent #skills, #JakartaEE 12, #omnihai, #openrouter, #gastown, #java 26, #kotlin 2.3, #Oracle 26a, his show #DevRandomTV, YouTube’s algorithm, and his book. https://www.pubhouse.net/podcast/stackd-80-checkmate-magic-man/

Glad to be back on the bandwagon with another #gtd weekly review. This week I worked on cleaning out my email inbox in addition to reviewing projects and my calendar. I miss inbox zero, but I will get back there eventually… #nozbe
I skipped a couple of weeks, but today I finished another #gtd weekly-ish review. This was my first time at a park this year, and I'm so glad I went. I found an important missed email and added/closed some projects. Most importantly, I realized I hadn't lost track of anything, which can happen when you skip reviews. #nozbe
The more I work with the Agent-to-Agent (#A2A) protocol, the more I like it. The spec is well written and thought out, and the #Quarkus (and #Java) integration is excellent. I’m excited for SDK 1.0 with protobuf support. Here’s the kicker: it doesn’t have to be just for #agents — it’s a protocol for interacting with self-describing services that run long tasks. https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ #AI
Great read. And something all of us who consume tokens should keep in mind... the honeymoon is almost over. https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
When I review code, exception handling often needs attention for humans, and now agents. That's why my talk "Expect the Unexpected: Handling Exceptions in Enterprise Applications" matters more now than when I first gave it 12 years ago at the 33rd Degree conference in Krakow (link: http://2014.33degree.org/talk/show/38). I'm thrilled to be delivering an updated version at https://www.dev2next.com/ this October in CO with an all-star lineup!
Finished another weekly review... in the middle of the week! I visited my old Starbucks hangout yesterday, and finished up today enjoying the beautiful Spring weather. This week I performed a mind weep, which useful for determine new, existing, or forgotten projects. If you're interested, here's a guide: https://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mind_Sweep_Trigger_List.pdf . After doing I mind sweep, I usually add or update tasks and projects. #gtd
Finished another weekly #gtd review. I used to do these on Fridays, but lately I've been doing then on Mondays. Now that it's Spring, I've been doing then outside, which is nice. The takeaway from this week is that I have too many stalled projects (project = thing that requires more than one step to complete). I have to remind myself that putting in a small amount of time consistently is the way to go when there there aren't huge pockets of time available.
So I've been working with #Claude Code a lot (and other coding agents). Working on a #Quarkus agent that uses an LLM for importing sessions into SpeakerTrax. This was a funny exchange. #java #ai