From left to right: Yuri Schimke, John Hoford and Nicolas Roard on the Android Makers main stage.

It was nice to see @camaelon.bsky.social and John Hoford back on stage at Android Makers in Paris, this time teaming up with @schimke.ee to talk about the intriguing RemoteCompose
#AndroidMakers

I would not have said it exactly like that, but you said it better.

Normalize saying "I would not have done it that way. I like your solution, it's much better" in pull requests/design debates.

6 8's is the new solid

Screenshot of the ABC News website showing with 51% counted in yesterday’s South Australia election there are only 10 seats in doubt and so far One Nation has not been confirmed to win any.

I am shocked that One Nation - one of Australia’s most far-right parties - has grabbed a bunch of first preferences using racist populism and faux libertarianism but so far won no seats because aside from those who put them at #1 no one wants them in parliament.
Shocked I tell you!
#SAvotes #auspol

Gemini is basically the same

Scena di commedia (uno scapino), by Honoré Daumier, 1860, 📸 by Jakub Porzycki

I've just had an amazing idea

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

OkHttp isn't complete, but I can see why it's useful to consider it. it has a defined scope and doesn't seek to be a toolkit like Netty that needs to consider all new requirements.

Equally, when it's not complete for some use case, Interceptors are the secret to allow apps to unblock themselves.

a map showing kaliningrad oblast between lithuania and poland. that's the joke. thank you for reading

i was looking at the map because of the war stuff and was surprised to find Russia is smaller than both of its neighbors, lithuania and poland. for some reason i assumed it was really big

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs?

Let's start with some context

OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

Schedule for @kotlinconf.com 2026 now available in Confetti ( github.com/joreilly/Con...)

I suspect trump is already considering a 2 child limits for families living in areas where their energy use causes shortages, price rises and risks capital investment of the presidents friends.

From a colleague:
The anti-pattern is a `PLAN.md` that says "we will do X" when the code already does Y. Plans live in conversations; outcomes live in artifacts.

Full up-front planning never worked in software development, agentic coding won't change that

He was always the first to offer a hand if your stablehand was off sick. To hear this today... it's like talking about a completely different person. He just seemed like a quiet, decent bloke who kept his head down. I suppose you really never do know what's going on behind the palace gates, do you?"

Prince William's statement:

"Im honestly just floored. I'd see Andrew out there most weekends, usually just tinkering with his vintage polo mallets. We'd swap a few words about the pheasant season or the state of the local foxhounds--just normal, everyday stuff, you know?...

Shocking royal news, it's always the ones you suspect the least.

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

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@swank.ca you've seen röckdöts. Welcome to Lafontaine-A

I'll be speaking on RemoteCompose: Building for remote surfaces with Compose

kotlinconf.com/schedule/

This should be a fun talk. Jesse is à great speaker, and there are some interesting rabbit holes to go down.

@tunji.dev just noticed with font scale > 1, the messages tab shows a clipped message text.

If you're using convention plugins and updating to AGP 9, check out this page that shows how to use the latest APIs:

developer.android.co...

Any suggestions for good places to watch the superbowl in the south bay area? I guess places are packed?

just sped up relogin today. thanks

there is twice the influencer content. check out their "natures fearsome predators" channel, where they capture the next 5 minutes.

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

I remember, I think, a fragmented podcast talking about differences between Android and iOS developer. Android developers tying themselves up in knots adopting the latest perfect framework. iOS developers writing shitty code with whatever Apple gives them, but only focusing on the product experience