Google I/O date seems out! io.google/2026/

Using Claude Code is a trip. I asked it to read some files, perform analysis and tabulate results. I noticed table didn't match the underlying data. Asked Claude what happened. It can't read PDFs so it just made up the results. Next time provide tools for reading PDFs before asking me to do a thing

Happy Valentine's Day

Thinking of all the bugs their app had lately, maybe they should appreciate humans more 😜 techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/s...

The transformation is COMPLETE! 6 communities, 1 roof. All your favorite content from @droidcon.bsky.social and flutterCon has officially leveled up at @nextapp.bsky.social Check out the new home for next app devCon: www.youtube.com/@nextappevents Don't miss our exclusive interview series.

leaking my meeting decks because idgaf anymore. if you’re an up and coming artist in 2026, you’re going to want to read this spr.ly/MIR

Developers: If you're still using the old OAuth 2.0 endpoint for Soundcloud APIs, this is your last chance to migrate before your app will stop worlking! How to check: if you use api.soundcloud.com/oauth2 and not secure.soundcloud.com please migrate asap!

The Go community and our GoLand team are celebrating the newest 1.26 release! Join us, along with @alexrios.me, @wordman.dev, and Anton Zhiyanov, for a release party featuring technical insights, open discussions, and a few surprises along the way. Register now: https://jb.gg/4t27rz

You still need the experts www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

Steve Jobs accurately predicted the future with Siri and then Apple spent 15 years fumbling the execution until eventually giving up and asking Google for help. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Demanding an estimate guarantees the estimate will not be useful to the business and will always drive costs up. Software engineers all know that estimates are useless. 1/6

I made a pair go through the plan Claude generated + their .md files, and cross-check them against the code that was generated/modified. They'd estimated that ~90% had been followed. 47% was ignored. Claude didn't do what it said it was going to, and didn't follow their rules, about half the time.

Are you concerned about your privacy and the power abuse by American tech companies? This website helps you switch to European and open-source alternatives. switch-to.eu/en/

This image is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the usual code-review process. People debate the grammar, even though there's no universe in which the prepositional phrase "of cell phones and earbuds" can be the subject of a sentence. 1/9

"Starting early January 2026" Got this today! Google at it's best 😜

"This was particularly easy because IBM included the BIOS source code in an appendix of the PC’s technical reference manual." 🤯

🥳 Let's celebrate! ���

Nice custom Christmas present I got 🥰 @soundcloud.dev

Seems Alexa+ is even worse that Gemini as assistant 🤪 share.google/DgZ7AzB4RFkV...

Zak MacKracken knew it 🤪

Back to work after three weeks...

Asked Gemini and GPT to create me Indiana Jones style travel map for my trip tomorrow: Bangkok - Zürich - Berlin The results are hilarious 😂

I recently migrated our codebase away from Ktlint to Ktfmt and Detekt. I summarized the reasons and migration steps in a blog post: engineering.block.xyz/blog/adoptin...

Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy

iOS devs explaining the complexities of device fragmentation to Android devs

For over a billion years now, we’ve known that “code-and-fix” software development, where we write a whole bunch of code for a feature, or even for a whole release, and then check it for bugs [..] and so on, is by far the most expensive and least effective approach

The promise of "AI" agents is that we can leave them to get on with complex tasks while we go to the proverbial pub. Then we can check their work after they're done. We've seen this approach before, though... codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/t...

If you are starting a new Android app in 2026, pick Jetpack Compose. No reason to pick Views anymore.

thinking a lot about this piece i wrote almost two years ago and how much worse things have gotten just in that period of time. i feel like the constituency is growing for a counterrevolution given how shit the tech companies and their effort to force full digitization on us are making everything.

I was five 🤪 #C64

Plan for the rest of the year: Back to BASICs #C64 #CommodoreUltimate

When you ask a developer to take a photo.... Off by one error 🤪

LinkedIn Lunatics are bragging about how they are the in the “top x %” of usage for an AI tool… 🙄

So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄 HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats. Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.

Got my Commodore 64! Missed you! @commodoreofficial.bsky.social

Video game consoles just had the worst November in spending since 2005 and unit sales since 1995. Xbox Series hardware sales fell 70% year over year, PS5 fell 40%+, and Switch & Switch 2 sales were down 10%+ vs. last year’s Switch. Gaming has been in decline since COVID ended but this is brutal.

The UK government wants iPhones and Android devices to be updated to block the ability to display or take nude photos unless verified as an adult. Maybe this explains why Apple is hesitant to add age verification at the OS level if it opens the door to requests like these.

I built spoton to solve a lazy problem: turning on my phone hotspot without taking my phone out of my pocket. Android 16 killed the trick that made it possible. Sunsetting the app (still available for Android < 16), open-sourcing the code. 👇

Sent this SoundCloud present to GPT: The binary spells: bpm. “BPM” usually stands for beats per minute, which fits the SoundCloud theme. Gemini: The literal translation of the .. binary code is: bxmm .. highly probable .. is a .. error .. meant to represent .. possibly the word "boos" or "bass"

Do you hear the Imperial March already in your head 😅😜

the numbers of running a data center in space taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Thanks for coming to my talk at GDG Copenhagen today! 🇩🇰Also thanks, Google, for hosting and the tasty food, I learned about Ris Alamane! 🙃

Testing in the Integrations team at SoundCloud is a bit harder than in the mobile team, but more fun: Setting up a Roku in my hotel room in Copenhagen.

I want this for Christmas: Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold It is in Korean: www.samsung.com/sec/smartpho...

The Tech Effect podcast is now also on SoundCloud! Check out the last episode starring a weird dude from Berlin ;) soundcloud.com/tech-effect-...

What fresh new hell is this? www.levernews.com/tech-giant-s...

On my way to Denmark to speak at the local GDG meetup tomorrow at the Google office! 🇩🇰 rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/gdg-m... Nano Banana has already prepared my traditional Danish outfit �