Throwback to an incredible trip to Iceland a couple weeks ago

Numbers like these show time and again, that a little work on the right thing goes a very long way. @marianeum.bsky.social was very quick to update Monzo's R8 configuration and made the app much more performant along the way. ⚡️

Last year I attended a session on app performance by @keyboardsurfer.dev at @droidcon.bsky.social London and learned about some quick wins we could apply at @monzo.com. Curious about the results and the change? Read here: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/monz...

Sunday afternoon wanderings. 🚶🌳🚶‍♀️🌆🚶‍♂️

Not sure if communicating with the upside down or Christmas lights

Don't ignore this tip! We've switched to using the optimized proguard file & shrinking resources in our latest release and have seen a massive drop in all performance related metrics, with slow app launch metrics dropping >30%. All from a 5 minute code change!

We've been using Navigation 3 since early alphas and it's perfect for us. We looked for a navigation solution for a while until nav3 came along - nothing quite fit the bill. Nav3 is the perfect combination of being very flexible and solving the hard problems. Congrats on hitting stable!

Printed myself the best advent calendar 😍 (yes I'm a bit early)

Been working a little on iOS recently and while Android tooling has its issues it is just miles ahead of iOS when it comes to the IDE & build tooling

Made a terrarium

Going from Disneyland to tube strike London is quite the reality check. At least the crowd levels are similar

Oh hai

Goodbye shed of nightmares. RIP garden

If you submitted to the Droidcon London 2025 CfP... First of all, thanks! Second of all, keep an eye on your inbox starting today ;) I'm pretty proud we managed to go through all 343 submissions and have the first emails going out less than a week from the end of the CfP.

How is the Android ecosystem changing? The tags in the @droidcon.bsky.social London CfP submissions paint a very interesting picture! (bars represent actual counts, so both years are on the same scale) Some quick analysis in follow-ups

Always ask why the position was available

My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

Go submit your talks while you can - looking forward to another great Droidcon London!

Yo dawg. I heard you like sheds, so I put a shed in your shed

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Forgot to shut the windows in the bedroom this morning. Pray for us #ukheatwave

Today I made a ring

Award for best slides goes to Plum Ertz

Continuously iterate and avoid those big bang rewrites. Excellent first talk to kick off #ldc3 by @skamille.themanagerswrath.com

@suhailpatel.bsky.social kicking off the technical strategy track at #LDX3 (squint to see a mini me on the slide)

Kicking off @leaddev.com with an interview about how I got into tech (which will be shown at the conference), dropping stickers into the sticker swap, handing out zines, and bumping into old friends like @marianeum.bsky.social! #LDX3

Sooo I get a mystery journey 2 @southwestern.bsky.social?

Happy Switch 2 day to everybody but me thanks to Amazon 😭

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Github Copilot & co are great for diving into less frequent tasks. I could never make complex sql queries or regexes, but with copilot I can ask what I want to do and get a decent result, or ask it to simplify my very dumb approach

In other words: excited to start as a Staff Engineer on the platform team at @monzo.com today 🚀🏦

Finally back on G Suite 🥰

Just listened to a song, walked into Liverpool Street station and a busker was playing the same song 🤯

My friends at Skyscanner gave me baking class vouchers as a leaving present. Used one to learn how to bake Croissants after some failed attempts today on my last day of funemployment. Back to the real world on Monday 😥

I'm currently looking for a new fit remote, Android development contract role. I have over 15 years of Android development experience, and bring lots of positive energy to the team. Although I'm based in the UK, I'm set up to work for companies based anywhere. I have immediate availability.

It's been a while since I had a white Christmas. Merry Christmas!

Printed the best tree ornament thanks to my friend Joe who created a set of programming language ornaments github.com/joe-warren/c...

This week my job was Christmas cookie baker

New toy alert! Obligatory boat ✅ What else shall we print? Conveniently Bambu Lab included an Android green filament

Thanks for the early warning Eurostar...

Today's my last day at @skyscannerofficial.bsky.social, but more importantly it's the last day of React Native at Skyscanner 🥳 I'm now looking forward to a month off before starting a new challenge in the new year

I think I have a new bio

Tree's up!

Remembered git reflog again yesterday when a coworker rebased from a wrong branch by accident. It's like git log, but for your git commands. Use together with git reset and you can recover (almost) all states: git-scm.com/docs/git-ref...

"Your next train will hopefully stop here" yup that fills me with confidence. Absolutely carnage with the Elizabeth line being broken. Liverpool Street shut, trains not stopping at Bank. Will hopefully make it to the office eventually

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In the last couple of years I lost my spark for tech somewhat. I think a big part of that was not having the same sense of community anymore with Twitter going downhill. I can finally feel the spark again now with BlueSky booming. Let's hope it keeps going 🦋

In case you're wondering what's new with the Preview Screenshot Testing tool, some updates announced at Droidcon London! THREAD! You'll like #3.😁