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 🤪

China is getting rid of retractable door handles, while the EU is getting rid of essential controls hidden in touch screen menus. The world is healing. ♥️

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 �

Jesus this is a game changer, I had no idea this was being worked on. Thanks for the deep-dive, @skydoves.bsky.social!

LLMs seem to increase the number of calls to deprecated methods. Makes sense, it's trained on older code. It also never reads your documentation. It will even use undocumented methods if they were heavily used in the past

A few weeks ago, I got invited to Riga to record an episode of The Tech Effect. Listen to it here: www.testdevlab.com/content-libr...

That Gemini on phone doesn't sync with Google Assistant on my home devices is one the biggest product f*cl ups imaginable. Google punishes you for being in their ecosystem.

The Pebble mobile companion app using Compose Multiplatform....project also incudes "libpebble3", a Kotlin Multiplatform library for interacting with Pebble devices. #KMP #CMP

The amount of useless code comments thanks to LLMs

Another awesome episode and as usual great takes on #AI by Martin Fowler! On vibe coding: "good for explorations, throwaways and disposable stuff, but you don't want to be using it for anything with long term capability" 😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI...

The year is 2025, and people are saying "Hey, what if we specified the whole thing in detail up-front?" again. Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.

If you have 100 customers, for example, you probably don’t need a database—a flat file with JSON in it will do. You almost certainly don’t need that slick UI (you need a good UX, but you can often get that with a very simple UI). 8/12

Perfect for Christmas ... 😍

So excited to announce that we were named "Best for Cars" for #GooglePlayBestOf this year. A big shout out to our #Android team!

Best apps of 2025 Best for Cars: SoundCloud: The Music You Love 🥳

First impression for antigravity.google "Agent execution terminated due to model provider overload. Please try again later." 👀

Flashback to @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin! Can't wait for next year!

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/andr... Mmh let's see what comes out of that "new advanced flow"...

To improve AndroidX release binary transparency we have made all of our release branches visible to the world. E.g. collections: ci.android.com/builds/branc... What that means is now you can go from a released version of a library to an exact buildId and the source tree state for that release.

Looks like I'm doing that #GDE for a while already. 👴

Spent a long weekend at th coast of Kenya, didn't open the laptop for few days, there's more to life than work. But we're privileged to combine both.

Now I'm officially a Go developer, thanks Marvin! 🥰

Ok this weird guy is taking the stage at #DroidconKenya

@moyheen.bsky.social guiding us through all the AI features we have now I'm Android Studio Looks like Google is catching up with other tools. Good for Android community #DroidconKenya

Never stop working!? #DroidconKenya organizers at dinner 🤪

Keeping the series of Danny's remote work spots going 😁

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Guess they're moving to new terms without need for special characters? 🤣

Maybe not ergonomic, but my Vitamin D levels are through the roof

Used my free day in Kenya today to learn about planting the world's best coffee.

Keep Android Open! keepandroidopen.org share.google/BSK62TkugrZU...

Thanks for everyone who wanted to hear about Kotlin Notebooks today! Sorry for the technical issues 🥺 I blame the kernel, thanks Jetbrains 🤪

Had a great day at DevFest Nairobi. #DevFestNairobi2025 #DevFest