build-brief | Reduce Gradle noise for humans and AI agents Turn noisy Gradle logs into concise summaries of failures, tests, artifacts, and real token savings so humans and AI agents keep their context for code, not task spam.

If you are an engineer who works with Gradle and AI
You might get really annoyed with how often you run out of context window due to gradle logs.

I created build-brief to solve exactly that problem.
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#android #kotlin #gradle #ai

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.

Kotlin Coroutines Under the Hood - Dispatchers, Thread Pools, and Work Stealing What actually happens when you launch a coroutine? A look inside the CoroutineScheduler, how Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO share one thread pool, why work stealing uses time-based affinity, a...

I spent last week understanding and going through some of kotlinx.coroutines codebase and found some details which I would have been oblivious of otherwise.

So I wrote a post about it
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Agentic AI in 2026 - A Thinking Engineer's Field Guide Vibe engineering over vibe coding. How to wield AI agents without drowning in slop, stay sharp while letting machines handle the grunt work, keep the dopamine hit of solving real problems, and actuall...

As an engineer in the age of AI, we are seeing a shift in how we write code.
I wrote an article of how we can leverage AI and agents while still being responsible engineers & get satisfaction of solving problems.

This should help people get more out of AI and agents.

staticvar.dev/post/agentic...

Kotlin's Plugin Discovery - Service Provider Interface Explained A practical guide to the JVM Service Provider Interface (SPI) for Kotlin: what it is, real world usage in Ktor and SLF4J, META-INF/services mechanics, and when to use alternatives.

Wrote a small guide on JVM Service Provider Interface (SPI) for Kotlin.
What it is, real world usage in Ktor and SLF4J, "META-INF/services" mechanics.

staticvar.dev/post/jvm-spi...

Also the website got a revamp & added AI generated audio (figure out how to deal with code blocks in narration)

Four Doors, One Party - K/N, JNI, JNA & FFM A friendly guide to four ways Kotlin reaches native power: Kotlin Native, JNI, JNA and the JDK Foreign Function and Memory API. What they are, pros and cons, where they shine and how to choose.

Since it’s the weekend, I threw a little tech party: KMP interop edition.

Kotlin/Native, JNI, JNA, FFM strengths, trade offs and picks.
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No hangover from this party!

#KMP #kotlin

I’ve been exploring Kotlin/Native C interop this week, so I wrote a little about it plus a glossary for the jargon I had to learn along the way.
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#KMP #kotlin

Shreyansh Lodha on LinkedIn: #hiring #androiddevs Engineers familiar with modern android development and sound fundamentals would absolutely love this opportunity! #Hiring #AndroidDevs

#androiddevs #hiring

Folks of Bluesky
We at Grid Dynamics are hiring for the position of Senior Android Developer in #Hyderabad

Please check out the LinkedIn post for more details & interested folks can DM me

www.linkedin.com/posts/shreya...