Thanks Oliver! We certainly hope so.

Thanks for your kind words, Simon! <3

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I am keeping the Kotlin Weekly AI free, and it is honestly a little moment of joy on Sunday morning: searching articles, checking announcements, and a bit of a write-up.

Could I automate this with AI? Yes.

Would it make my life better, or provide more value to readers? Probably not.

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Thanks for all your fantastic work, Pamela!

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In a world of inverted truths, #502 implies that @kotlinweekly.bsky.social is actually an excellent gateway to carefully curated content every Sunday. Happy to see my article on TestBalloon flexibility featured in this episode.

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Livestream: UI Freezes in JetBrains IDE Plugins and How to Avoid Them | The JetBrains Platform Blog Join Yuriy Artamonov, an IntelliJ Platform expert, for a livestream on preventing UI freezes in JetBrains IDE plugins.

If you build plugins for @jetbrains.com IDEs, UI freezes are among the fastest ways to ruin the UX.

My colleague Yuriy will host a livestream on why they happen, how plugin code can accidentally block the UI thread, and how to avoid it.

Details 👇
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Curious to know what @jetbrains.com Developer Advocates do on Bluesky?

Here's a list you should use 👇

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Shared Internals: Kotlin's New Proposal for Cross-Module Visibility Explore Kotlin's KEEP proposal for shared internal visibility. Learn how this new modifier enables cross-module visibility control while maintaining encapsulation from external consumers.

Thanks @androidweekly.bsky.social and @kotlinweekly.bsky.social for featuring my recent article, 'Shared Internals: Kotlin's New Proposal for Cross-Module Visibility'.

The KEEP proposal about the new visibility level sits between internal and public.

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Thanks so much to @kotlinweekly.bsky.social for including my video about Kotlin 2.3's Explicit Backing Fields in this week's issue! If you're a #Kotlin developer, go follow them for weekly updates with all the latest Kotlin news.

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We're here at #FOSDEM! Visit the Kotlin Community Stand in Building K, level 1 (group A).

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Joining the #FOSDEM today! Ping us if you want to meet for a coffee and discuss Kotlin.

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Is this an honest question or just more of the previous reductionism and condescension?

In any case, among others, we use Iterative Consensus. Running the same dataset through multiple models and prompt structures. Consistent results provide a high statistical confidence level.

Not really. We don't always use the same identifier for a contributor. It could be a first name, a full name, a nickname, or no name at all. Contributors write in corporate blogs, private blogs, and Reddit. This is not something you can track manually.