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.

😭 for all my ex colleagues at Square. You all made this place a wonderful place to work at ♥️ I'm still there... Scratching my head, wondering how we can keep things up for our customers

Just published "Where are all the staff+ Android product engineers?" www.zacsweers.dev/where-are-th...

It's been a long week, but a huge bright spot has been fellow coworkers collectively raising somewhere close to $70k for immigration justice charities in just the past few days. Fuck ICE

If you are hitting a bunch of Gradle configuration cache invalidations, you might find my post helpful www.liutikas.net/2025/11/21/E... #gradle

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...

GIVE A FEW BUCK'S TO YOU'RE LOCAL FOOD BANK MOTHER FUCKER - LOOK IT UP HERE IF U DONT KNOW WHERE TO FIND ONE www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... - TELL EM ADMIN SENT YA - dashare.zone ADMIN

I got a bunch of questions about it, so I wrote a post www.liutikas.net/2025/11/02/U...

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

We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

eat shit nerd

Setting up dropboxes outside random federal agencies with a sign saying "return laptop and id here"

a lot of all of this fuckery we're seeing boils down to "i don't want to be forced to acknowledge the existence and humanity of people who are different than me."

New Square Feature Allows Customers To Tip With Bible Quote theonion.com/new-squ...