Screenshot of a Urban Sports check-in at Crunch Fit

The plan for today was to go to the gym.

I woke up, and I really didn't want to go to the gym.

Went anyway.

GitHub - ExoQuery/ExoQuery: Language Integrated Query for Kotlin Language Integrated Query for Kotlin. Contribute to ExoQuery/ExoQuery development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wow, LINQ for #Kotlin Multiplatform! github.com/ExoQuery/Exo.... This looks really nice, especially coming from the developer of zio-quill (LINQ in Scala) 🤯.

📝 Blogged: "You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull"

Wrote up some thoughts on push vs. pull queries, materialized views, and why data duplication isn't something to fear.

👉 www.morling.dev/blog/you-got...

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them?

https://www.docker.com/b

Spring Boot 4.0.0 available now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Exciting News 🎉 Spring Boot 4.0.0 is here: spring.io/blog/2025/11...

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

Note to self: Adding 15 sets of leg volume in a single day to the usual weekly volume of 12 sets was not a good idea.

Especially when playing Padel on the "off" days.

A new layer of security for certified Android devices Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.

They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.

But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

When you said the latest version, I assumed you meant the latest stable version.

Will be at #dcbln25 starting Wednesday.

Look forward to meeting people from the community.

Realität und Satire sind nicht mehr zweifelsfrei unterscheidbar, Teil MCLXXXIV.

⏳🧐 Let’s talk about what you don’t expect when speaking at droidcon Italy 2025.

You:
🏙️ Spend 3 days in Turin, Italy.
🍷 Enjoy a cozy pre-event dinner with your fellow speakers.
🙌🏻 You’ll have the support of a dedicated events team.

📅 CFP closes in just 7 days → it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us...

And the best thing, it's not flaky by default

The court found that Google has an illegal monopoly.

But in this remedies decision, it found that the government is not actually mandated to pull that monopoly apart, or to deprive Google of the fruits of its illegal business behavior.

So they are essentially going to do nothing about it.

Now ask it to generate a new video based on the frame descriptions 😉😉

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).

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.

The mental cost of a reorg: who am I here anymore? What hurts more than a layoff? A reorg that leaves you wondering if your work (and your identity) still matter

I wrote about how reorgs affect teams psychologically in today's After Burnout

afterburnout.co/p/the-mental...

Low-cost flights up to 26 times cheaper than trains - Greenpeace European Unit Brussels, 21 August 2025 – A new Europe-wide Greenpeace study shows that climate-damaging flying is still cheaper than taking the train on a majority of  cross-border routes – even though…

Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights

On some routes, they are 26 times the price

Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees

Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters

Release Dagger 2.57.1 · google/dagger Bug fixes Fixes #4734: Updated Hilt's Gradle Plugin detection of AGP to maximize compatibility and avoid the confusing 'The Hilt Android Gradle plugin can only be applied to an Android project.' e...

🚀 Dagger 2.57.1 is out! 🚀

Details:
• Improved Hilt Gradle Plugin + AGP detection
• No forced Kotlin 2.2.0 upgrade
• Jakarta Singleton support
• Removed redundant androidx.annotation deps
• Clearer, less noisy error messages

🔗 github.com/google/dagge...

#AndroidDev #Kotlin

“Google proposes being less of a dick” is the actual story here. Imagine what we could build if companies weren’t out to screw everyone who they engage with for every last cent.

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.

Compose 1.9 is now stable!

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...

On top of the many new features, there are significant performance improvements (which you can configure further, see the prefetch API for LazyList), and for debug builds, you can turn on richer stack trace information!

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.

Jetpack Compose 1.9 is out and comes with a lot of great new APIs: outer/inner shadows, new visibility modifiers, a new prefetching behavior to improve scrolling performance in lazy layouts, etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...

"All I can confidently claim is that they don't learn a world model except by accident, and there's neither a theoretical reason nor empirical evidence for your being able to count on this accident in any defined and broad set of circumstances"

Interesting look at what LLMs "understand"

When you use GPT5 to generate your charts

User: How often does the letter b appear in strawberry? Assistant: The letter b appears twice in "strawberry'. User: How often does the letter b appear in blueberry? Assistant: The letter b appears three times in "blueberry" User: Show me Assistant: blueberry Positions: blueberryb Count: 3

AGI is upon us.

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

EVs reduce emissions by 73% over their lifetime compared to petrol cars.
Not 7. Not 30. 73%
And yet… we’re still debating?
The fossil fuel lobby has spent decades perfecting the art of delay.
Now they’re peddling FUD about EVs: too dirty, too expensive, too inconvenient.
None of it holds up. 🧵 1/8