A surreal image of a mine shaft building under a yellow sky. The colors are flipped in unexpected, unexplainable ways.

A surreal photo of a tall building with a Hot Springs National Park sign in the foreground. The sky is yellow, the building looks cyan.

A surreal photo of the facade of a spa. The building looks cyan and the sky looks yellow.

I spent spring break in Arkansas, where I got to visit Crater of Diamonds State Park and Hot Springs National Park. I also go to try out the new Harman Switch Azure film, with some color couplers switched, which is really surreal.

Does it count as "using" Bluesky if you're just here for @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social? Asking for a friend.

I could have sworn this already worked, but perhaps it was only RubyMine?

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A piece of art hanging on a wall, above a record player. The art is made up of a white panel with a light in the corner, and several dichroic glass panels sticking out, creating colored reflections.

I've been working with an artist for months to design a piece that captures my fascination with light and color. I've spent 15 years learning to simulate it with graphics programming, then moved to analog processes in the darkroom.

Today the piece was installed, and I love it!

Screenshot of the mastodon web settings interface.

This is built in to Mastodon, I think. Not sure it does likes, but posts for sure.

Oh man, when Halcyon kicked in it took me right back!

The title screen of the 1996 movie Hackers.

It's Friday night! Let's go!

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Ahh, I see it's there at index.xml, looks like your html layout is just missing the meta tag for discovery to work. gohugo.io/templates/rs...

Have I been missing your writing?!? Your rss feed broke!

Already exists.

Throw the cast iron on the stove over high heat. When the big button in the middle turns red, press it!

After introducing the boys to Star Wars the last couple of weeks, it's time to start on the next challenge!

Kotlin Coroutine Mechanisms: A Surprisingly Deep Rabbithole Sometimes you think you know coroutines, and then after a while, you’re like, “Wait, do I really know coroutines?” Inspired by the O’Reilly book _Progra…

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To me, that also feels like the promise of AI. It makes writing *more* super easy. But I don't want quantity, I want clarity. Having to use an AI summary makes the point even clearer.

Your post is also a good reminder of why writing abstractions for code that _seems_ similar is often a bad long-term idea.

This is clearly what you click when you think you sent an email but it's stuck in your outbox!

Celebrate the code you didn't write :: Ryan Harter Over the past few years I've been driving an architecture and tech spec review process at work. This has been helpful in breaking down certain silos, distributing knowledge across the organization, an...

What's better than lots of great code? No code! I wrote about a recent tech spec review and how a teammate and I helped simplify a proposal down to nothing!

ryanharter.com/blog/2025/06...

A photo of my kitchen, with a large terrarium with two Russian Tortoises sitting in the kitchen island.

I just returned from a week in California for Google I/O and some other stuff at Google, which was amazing. I was a little surprised to come back to this kitchen renovation, however. 😅

I recently had the chance to share how we test at scale at Dropbox in a guest post on the Android Engineering blog!

⁨medium.com/androiddevelopers/how-dr...

Didn't they just steal all the tennis courts? That feels a bit more like Uber inventing Taxis.

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I got to take part in @vinaygaba.bsky.social's newsletter this week, which was fun. There are a lot of interesting answers to the question "Where do you see Android development in 3 years?"
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I appreciate the thoughts here. While not explicit, it sounds like you're suggesting there is, or should be, a technical solution to this. I wonder if the reason that "the socials" devolve like this is because we search for a technical solution instead of treating this as a cultural problem.

CGI is the AI of the 90s.

Screenshot of my computer screen. On the right is a Sublime Text window with a C program called "lastfm.c", behind that is a browser with the last.fm API docs and a terminal with the getenv man page open.

Tonight I'm playing around with a C program to fetch my currently playing track from Last.fm. I'm thinking of using it as a CGI script so that I can have a fun current moment page at ryanharter.com while still keeping the site Javascript free.

I just booked flights and hotels for a family trip to Bologna, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal in two months. I'm getting really excited!

I'm watching The Fifth Element with Sara, who's never seen it. As soon as the cab says "Dallas", Sara reflexively says "Corbin Dallas". I asked how she knew that and she reminded me that I wanted to name our kids Corbin Dallas Harter. I totally forgot. 😅

A display showing Fall Out Boy on Volumio, sitting on a powered bookshelf speaker with an aquarium next to it.

After a year or so, I spent some time this holiday break to finally put a 4" touchscreen on my Volumio HiFi streamer. It was a nice addition, but I decided it could use a little more space for interaction, so I got a 7" touchscreen instead. It's nice to be able to control this without my phone.

Wow, glad you're alright! I hope you're able to make the trip soon!

I've been waiting for it, and built it for Fedora today. I'm quite impressed so far. The perf is great, and the integration with GTK is seamless. I hear it's great for Mac as well. Seems very customizable, though it's entirely config file based without GUI (for now).

Honestly, with the recent support for RCS on iPhones I find myself falling back to in-app sharing MUCH less frequently. For shared albums that auto update while on vacation or something, sure, but I think those still show up in albums.