Published a new article, 'RemoteCompose: Another Paradigm for Server-Driven UI in Jetpack Compose'. You’ll explore RemoteCompose, understand its core architecture, and discover the benefits it brings to dynamic screen design with Jetpack Compose. skydoves.medium.com/remotecompos...

I really enjoyed this novel! Action packed, threaded with online culture (the reddit posts, LOL!), great characters and some really interesting ideas Thanks Ray for the rec, and thanks @jasonkpargin.bsky.social for a lovely time reading this www.amazon.com/Starting-Wor...

What's hilarious is that competent programmers, as well as people studying programming for the very first time, know that all code you write after about 4 hours is garbage. Totally useless, none of it worth salvaging. Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"

“I was just following otters.”

Lemon pies are great as is, but they really level up if you add a layer of feuilletine: praliné (blended caramel+nuts) + chocolate + gavoches (rolled crunchy tiny crepes that you break down) Lemon curd: Lemon/lime juice+egg + butter (no corn flour 🤢)

@p-y.wtf Next time you ask me to recommend a book it's going to be _I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom_.

Probably my favorite talk at Droidcon London 2026 was @stevepenna.bsky.social on rebuilding Pebble app. The part that I really liked was the contrasting of the Android development and library ecosystem 11 years ago and today. It was also nice to see AndroidX appreciation. youtu.be/UOQMDkCsCSw?...

I talked to Jack from @tuple.app about my love of pair programming, and other things

Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...

Turns out Tidal is only a few dollars more a month for a family plan than Spotify and they have a cool feature where they’re not running ads to recruit for the gestapo.

TIL that you can easily slice a pizza or pie in 5 pieces: make a paper pentagon, place it at the center, use corners as slice starting points. Paper pentagon? Tie a simple overhand knot with a long strip of paper, keeping it flat, cut off the ends. Wow. Life changing trick 😊

This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself

Hot take: Dependency Injection on Android just got a huge upgrade!! Square just moved Anvil to maintenance mode to adopt Metro - a DI framework built by ONE PERSON that's 47-56% faster than Dagger+Anvil. This is what "individual developers changing ecosystems" looks like 🧵 #AndroidDev

The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow" The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.

"Banana engineering" I just made that up, but I see this pattern all the time when investigating issues: "This bug appeared yesterday. I bought bananas yesterday. Let's throw away the bananas, maybe the bug will go away" Correlation != Causation yadda yadda yadda youtu.be/kOH1Kdj9c1c?...

Waiting for the build

Is there a type of graph that represents distributions over time? e.g. take a sample of data every day, graph a distribution every day, then represent that over time. Seems like a 3D map might work well

I've been going down a stats + Android macrobenchmarks rabbit hole Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread. I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet... #AndroidDev

rods... WORDS, I MEANT WORDS godamnit

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Come see @hoford.bsky.social and I in London next week -- we have some cool stuff to show off :-) #RemoteCompose: an #AndroidX framework to project rich, animated #UI from apps or servers onto remote surfaces. #dcldn25

I made plot-benchmarks (a tool to view and compare AndroidX Benchmark Results) public. androidx.dev/benchmarks/p... Simply drag and drop the benchmark JSON to the page, and you can start plotting and comparing ! The souce code for the app is here: cs.android.com/androidx/pla...

Great crowd with the Paris Android User Group at Radio France Showing how frame metrocs & percentiles are computed in Macrobenchmark, then I went on to explain how to draw a distribution, compute confidence intervals, and do bootstrapping. That was a little ambitious, but tons of fun #AndroidFun

I wrote a thing about this exact frictionlessness last week, from the perspective of art in particular. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...

Love this! Graph traversal might be intimidating, but you really just need: 1) a way to track what you've already seen (e.g. set, boolean flag on node..) 2) a way to track what you still have to see (e.g. list..) 3) a way to decide what you should see next (e.g. head or tail of list, priority..)

I turned a leak investigation into a post on the Block eng blog to share a method that works well! It's a bit long... I had to show how to encode code knowledge to automate leak investigations, and dig even deeper with YourKit Java Profiler. engineering.block.xyz/blog/the-lea... #AndroidDev

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

I just discovered the WindowInspector.addGlobalWindowViewsListener() API in Android version 36.1 #AndroidDev Commit: cs.android.com/android/_/an... Happy to see a request for a new API land! (I officially asked in 2023 & unofficially for many years before issuetracker.google.com/issues/29031...)

Just saw "Chien 51" (title "Dog 51" in English) and really enjoyed it. Elements of Minority Report & Hunger games, but in a French set up which felt reasonably realistic, not overdoing things like typical Hollywood movies, more substance. Great acting Highly recommend!

There's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?" It would suck! A lot! Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work that doesn't pave a road to a better system is waste.

This is in less than an hour! I'll be talking about Benchmarking with confidence.. wish me luck, live demos incoming www.meetup.com/new-york-and... #AndroidDev

rememberGraphicsLayer() is amazing! 🤩 Using it, I can split a Composable into multiple slices and animate them separately, like in my glitch effect. www.sinasamaki.com/glitch-effec...

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki... #gradle

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

Any suggestions for 3d scanning a home to plan small projects and furniture set up? Doesn't have to be free. I've got an insta360 x2 (e.g. cupixvista can do models from that) My wife has an iphone 13 pro so could use lidar, not sure which apps work best.

On se retrouve le 21 pour le PAUG d'Octobre 🎃 avec @p-y.wtf et les équipes de radio France! Inscriptions sur meetup, toujours au même endroit ! (En plus y'a une nouvelle UI)

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit. This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2016...

I left Slack for a few reasons and Marc was two of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

We're looking for a staff engineer at TIDAL, in Europe and East US timezones. It's a small team taking on a big bet.. come help artists actually make a living! block.xyz/careers/jobs... #AndroidDev

[French] Mardi 21 Octobre (dans 2 semaines!) à 19h, le Paris Android User Group organise un meetup chez Radio France. Il paraît que le lieu est magnifique! Je serai là en 2e partie pour vous parler de benchmarks dignes de confiance. www.meetup.com/android-pari... #AndroidDev #paris

Cool spelunking into classloading issues!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A great talk by @p-y.wtf @ DroidCon on "Embracing the Chaos: Investigating Production Madness". I couldn't agree more that a lot of growth as a software engineer is all about understanding the root cause. So much of my Grade, JVM and other knowledge came from that. youtube.com/watch?v=kOH1...

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

A few of us were asked for our thoughts on the future of Android at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin. As you'd expect, lots of AI mentioned. I tried to have a slightly different take, and sneaked in Remote Compose as a potentiel way for chat to add App UI youtu.be/CmTSnxCTyIk #AndroidDev #dcbln25

79. American citizen.

To me this was the best talk I watched at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin! 🌟 What were your favorite talks? Let's share our recommendations! #dcbln25