Square literally does not know or care about any of this. No reason to participate.
Many projects are effectively maintained outside the company now, and those engineers may choose to fork simply as a way to indicate that Block is not involved.
What can we do to support this?
The way I am managing the layoff: building miniature houses and walking the cemetery 🪦💀
Thank you so much friends! I hope we get to work together again! ❤️
Block thing happened… but I feel grateful to have learned from the legends of Android engineering during my time there.
Taking two weeks to study Korean, play guitar& build Legos with my son.
Then I will be exploring the fun roles where I can build, connect and make this world a better place ❤️
i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything
I suspect it will be a different watershed moment: Jack has just torpedoed Square and Cash App, and when real people start losing real money as a result this will become the horror story that people point to when warning of the limits of AI driven coding.
I will miss working with you too Chris!!! 😭❤️
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
#ECCC is in the books for this year! Here are some photos from my phone. More high quality ones coming once Allen processes them. #cosplay #karlach #bg3
💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!
Here is Goose, BTW. It is Open Source from Block and has both CLI and GUI versions. It can take actions on your behalf (and will) and can be extended via MCP. Follow @angiejones.tech if you are interested and aren’t already.
github.com/block/goose
This week's Internet winner goes to...
This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’ The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want” On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need: AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME BLATANT MISINFORMATION SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT PEOPLE ALSO ASK VIEW PRODUCTS And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’
Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
Made an #AndroidDev Starter Pack!
Please let me know if I missed anyone so I can connect with them as well 😁
go.bsky.app/Etd57t6
"Ash's enthusiasm for Kotlin is as palpable as a cat purring on your lap—comforting and slightly obsessional"
Love it, love everything about it.
Persona Analysis: The Tech-Savvy Comedian with 85% authenticity! blueskyroast.com
I'm making a conference talk with the title "Bad Kotlin Advice".
Dear #Android and #Kotlin community, you know what to do. Reply with the worst Kotlin code possible. :)
In Georgia it’s really starting to feel like the protest is gaining momentum. Today’s massive rally in Tbilisi has overwhelmed the police, and demonstrations are spreading nationwide. With Monday approaching, it’s hard to see state-run institutions operating as usual.
Reading Alexei Navalny’s Patriot, and suddenly I understand all the things that happened in Russia where I spent my early childhood and teenage years. I really hope this does not happen in the United States, my adopted country.
👋📢 #Android & #kotlin devs, you should be using `kotlin.time.Duration`.
No more unit errors with "duration: Long", no more awkward TimeUnit conversion API, and it gets compiled to a long, no alloc! Love it.
Found a great summary by @jlengrand.bsky.social: lengrand.fr/measuring-ti...
#AndroidDev
Android 16 already has a developer preview.
Some of the stuff we've been working on is smaller, more frequent platform releases, usually we wouldn't release this thing until January, but look, it's already here!
#android #androiddev
Would be curious to see what you think! That’s a classic ❤️
