As much as I'm loving AI coding to build stuff, it's as addictive as a slot machine. Right now, the cost is subsidized by VC money right.
I'm afraid that once we're completely hooked on this tech, these companies are gonna hike the prices, triggering the burst of the AI bubble.
npx is a security nightmare.
The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
Even this page of "All Admin Centers" doesn't have them all 😂
How many fucking admin portals does Microsoft have? No, really. Entra, 365, Opal, Teams. What else?
I've been experimenting a lot with the new navigation events library and navigation 3, and wrote about 3 unique animations and transitions you can create with them:
www.tunjid.com/articles/3-u...
These investors/billionaires have way too much money than they know what to do with. That's why we hear all these absolutely ridiculous ideas being funded. They're just throwing money at this point.
The best outcome from all this "developer verification", "age verification", and similar surveillance tools is that maybe, we'll just stop using the internet for everything non-essential and go back to living real lives.
Who am I kidding, we're spoiled rotten.
There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google.
This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.
Another issue, another set of uncomfortable questions. Time time, they are about the proposed Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08... #AndroidDev
To be clear, this article headline is deeply misleading.
The real headline: Google is banning sideloading on Android.
It's anti-competition, deeply intrusive, and extremely dangerous to those in countries with totalitarian regimes (which Google typically bends a knee to).
Suddenly, Google needs to know the real identities of developers. Do you think malware creators will register their APKs with you before they exploit the OS?
If not, then it's clear that you're after individuals who are creating apps that you don't like.
AI was supposed to make us more efficient.
Instead, it’s fragmenting our workflows, bloating our calendars, and burning out high performers.
I wrote about the false promise of AI productivity and why we’re actually working harder than ever:
afterburnout.co/p/ai-promise...
Don't have the Androids audiobook yet?
Or need a second copy to listen to it in stereo?
My publisher is running a 50% off sale through September 5, get yours for $10:
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
Lol had some fun with Goose at MCP hack night in Toronto.
Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅
@iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this!
#TorontoTechWeek
Safety critical and driving errors on day 1:
1. The Supervised Robotaxi failed to turn left and panicked during Rob Mauer's ride, whipping the wheel back and forth. It then drove on the wrong side of the road, failed to correct itself and continued to drive down the wrong side of the road.
At MCP Hack Night!
Everyone's saying we're more productive with AI now.
So we can finally have a 4 day work week then?
Revanced is heaven-sent.
I really hate this business model. Capture all the users with almost no ads and then pull the rug by limiting features that were previously free.
Add new, more attractive features behind a paywall!
That's super useful. "Red Lines Tools" is similar but just for lining things up without the ruler part. Free Ruler + Red Lines Tool would be quite perfect!
I was barely online during KotlinConf 2025, so here's my follow-up now.
Thank you so much everyone who joined us, in person or online. It was an incredible experience connecting with the community! ❤️
Here are some highlights of news below, as you've probably missed some! 🧵
Union types + Rich Errors
Still not clear to me how union types will work (typescript PSTD), but Im all in for rich errors
I wouldn't mind a future where I controlled my computer over voice to tell some LLM to code different things, wearing AR glasses to glance at what it was doing when needed, while walking in a park during the work day. The pieces are kinda all there, except maybe the AR glasses to peek at the screen.
Anybody tried out @getpieces.bsky.social ? I just tried it and while it's super cool. It gave me "keylogger with an AI" vibes just because it's always screen recording and has all the accessibility permissions. Plus, it didn't help that Local mode didn't do anything on my M1 Mac.
Don't use Gson on Android. Use Kotlin Serialization instead. It relies on code generation instead of reflection. This helps avoid optimization related crashes and faster app performance.
github.com/google/gson?...
github.com/Kotlin/kotli...
