Thomas Much

@thmuch
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Technical Coach. Occasional Speaker. Pair Programming, Mob/Ensemble/Team Programming, Modern Agile, modern Java. DevSecOpsUxQa...Customer! Toots in English and German.
Homepagehttps://snailshell.de
HometownHamburg
GitHubhttps://github.com/thmuch
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/thmuch.bsky.social

CfP for code.talks 2026 is still open, now in second wave: https://codetalks.com/call-for-paper

While the selection process for the first wave of submissions is currently underway, you can already submit your session proposal for the second round until July 27.

Would you dare to submit a 6'40" Pecha Kucha session with 20 slides at 20 seconds each? That's a challenge for sure – but it's so cool 😎: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha

Looking forward to your submissions!

code.talks 2026 – The Conference for Your Entire Dev Team

Join 3,500+ developers and CTOs in Hamburg on November 4 & 5, 2026. 100+ curated sessions, top speakers and a community that feels like home. Early Bird tickets available now.

🌐 Mark your calendars and spread the word! Global Day of Coderetreat 2026 is taking place on Nov 13, 2026 - Nov 14, 2026

Software practice has never been more challenging. What are your plans for an event this year? Post your ideas in the comments and tag your collaborators!
#coderetreat #gdcr2026

Nach einem Jahr Pause bin ich dieses Jahr wieder beim @JavaForumNord dabei 🤩

Ich freu mich schon auf alte und neue (Tech-)Freunde – und spannende Diskussionen 😊

Wir sehen uns am 22.09. in Hannover!

Tickets
➡️ https://javaforumnord.de/2026/

🧵 Some publishers and news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their journalism, cutting off access to the public record.

📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve news & history, tell them not to block web archiving. ✏️ Sign the open letter to keep journalism preserved 👇
https://www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

@fight #SaveTheArchive #WaybackMachine #PressFreedom #DigitalPreservation

I am asking people once again to stop describing #AI using human words and attributes.

AI doesn’t answer—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be right.
AI doesn’t hallucinate—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be wrong.
AI doesn’t have agency—it extrudes plausible output that is consumed by a computer program.
AI doesn’t think—it extrudes plausible output that is fed back into itself for another round.
AI doesn’t create—it extrudes a mixture of its training data.

Remember: the robot is not a person.

PS: I changed “regurgitates” to “extrudes” because it’s less biological and more mechanistic.

PPS: Yes I know “AI” is a misnomer, but it’s what people call these things these days. IMO “LLM” is insufficient to describe GenAI because it excludes diffusion models.

I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

Medium

Hier sind die Folien zu meinem Vortrag "Ohne technische Skills kein Wandel: Technisches Coaching als Motor für Veränderung" bei den Scrum Masters HH: https://thomas-much.de/presentations/TechnicalCoaching-ScrumMastersHHXXL-2026.pdf

Was für ein klasse XXL-Meetup, was für tolle Gespräche (und was für ein schöner Ausklang 🍻) – danke an alle Organisatoren 🙏😊

Für Kurzentschlossene 🤖⚡️: Diesen Donnerstag (21.05.2026) das kostenlose "Scrum Masters HH XXL"-Special von 15-21 Uhr im Hammerbrooklyn.DigitalCampus.

Menschen treffen, Vorträge hören, miteinander diskutieren – es sind noch ein paar Plätze frei 😊

https://www.meetup.com/de-de/scrum-master-meetup-hamburg/events/312511979/

Scrum Masters HH XXL-Special: Zwischen Zombie Scrum und AI Agents, Do., 21. Mai 2026, 15:00 | Meetup

📢 **Scrum Masters HH XXL-Special: Zwischen Zombie Scrum und AI Agents** Am **21.05.2026 von 15:00 bis 21:00 Uhr** ist es wieder so weit. Wir erwarten euch zur zweiten Run

Meetup

One year of e-mobility – and it just works.

One year ago we went all in. From 100% diesel to 100% electric. Despite all the scepticism, all the naysayers, and all the range anxiety.

We did nothing fancy. We're no innovators, no early adopters. We're just part of the early majority. And we did not want to rely on fossile fuels anymore.

If you need a new car (like we did), this post is a small encouragement to think about choosing current technology (pun intended 😉⚡️🔋)

Go mbeidh an fórsa leat!