This week I've been struggling to get my Ikea DIRIGERA to join my HomeAssistant Thread network, finally just managed it after upgrading to Thread specification 1.4 on HA, heads up for anybody else trying

For anyone seeing the events that occurred at Block and think "man, I feel for them"... If you work in tech, it's gonna suck for you too. These are the people who maintained open source we all use, such as Okhttp, Retrofit, Okio, Turbine, Molecule, Paparazzi, Moshi, KotlinPoet, Java Poet, etc...

Takes likes this are interesting, whilst entirely true, it overlooks what conservatism is, people vote for conservatism because they want to conserve things the way they are, they are wrong for doing so ofc, but the party is but a symptom of the misguided voting public.

Loving todays XKCD, but I definitely feel seen xkcd.com/3211/

"Braverman, whom Farage has put in charge of education, skills and equalities" Ironic, given she has none of those qualities.

TLDR: Please be one of my 20 testers for my antifascist app. :) Hey all, I'm coming back to this after a tough year, given it's an app that can hopefully do some good. I am going to distribute this via Google Play, but need 20 testers to do so. Any volunteers? :)

Boom!

There's no such thing as being apolitical, only complacent or ignorant. The arts are a mechanism for self expression and emotion, suppressing the topic of politics is akin to suppressing free speech. www.dw.com/en/should-th...

This is the best article I’ve read about AI and the potential (or perhaps more accurately, likely) detrimental effects on engineers and some strategies on how to help manage it. It is *so* spot on. siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

That’s why I’m urging you, with all the gravity this moment demands, to add your name to a petition telling Congress: abolish ICE. When enough of us raise our voices together, we remind our leaders — and ourselves — that compassion is our strength, not cruelty.

Daily dose of cat

Ordered food, delivery driver gives me this as a "gift" from the restaurant... Sprachlos.

Never, ever, ever, use LoC as a performance metric, "10x engineers" will churn out 10x as much slop with AI tools than it will ever be possible to refactor or clean up.

If you're using convention plugins and updating to AGP 9, check out this page that shows how to use the latest APIs: developer.android.co...

Everywhere... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

"orbital data centers would be able to radiate heat into the vacuum of space" No, that's not at all how any of that works. www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

*notices PR fails missing a function in the merge commit* *initial rage having to fix merge conflicts* *checks git blame* ... Stupid past self...

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

👋 Hi everyone, I’m enabling GitHub Sponsors for Metro If Metro has improved your developer experience or saved your team's build times, I’d appreciate the support! Full pitch and ROI napkin math here: www.zacsweers.dev/sponsoring-m...

Tell me you have nothing to offer without saying you have nothing to offer #EchtGiga #FuckTesla

Pet Hate: Websites that override standard key bindings for bespoke behaviour, e.g. when a site provides their own search mechanism instead of the browsers' "Find in Page". I'm looking at you GitHub, and Jira. Though given how awful Jira is, this isn't really the worst thing they could do.

Germany: - Email from insurance provider (in German)... > You have an important message in your inbox - Login to another website to view "inbox" > You have an important document in your inbox, click to download - Downloads unsecured, untranslatable PDF document. > Our terms have been updated. 🤦‍♂️

Something that's always bothered me, Rs will fight to the death to protect the right to bear arms for this purpose, any now? wtf.

Hooray! #Android #GoogleDeveloperExpert

The best code is the code you didn't write, even better code is the code you didn't need to write, even better is the code you were able to delete.

There's a second season?! The first was so good, it should have been left alone :(

Amazon Prime is a scam, Amazon forces sellers to put their goods on their site with free delivery for Prime users, but this just means they have to increase their prices anyway. Same item, same seller, same country, different prices. Always try to buy direct from the seller.

Make it viral.

The hell? I don't particularly like the guy, but sport is an essential part of daily life, for health and mental wellbeing. He played tennis for an hour, it might not be leisure. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

So instead of condemning the idiots actions, the UK has endorsed them by assisting in taking a Russian flagged oil tanker, I can't see this going any other way than AMAZINGLY 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

Strong "the nurses have stolen my teeth" energy.

I've never subscribed to Sky or any of it's affiliates, but I'm really surprised after visiting the UK again, that people still tolerate watching advertising for a service they're already paying through the nose for

Establishing a weapons and knifes ban in certain areas of the city leaves me asking the question, WHY WAS IT EVER ALLOWED ANYWHERE?! www.berlin.de/en/news/1009...

I just paid 5€ for the privilege of making my own tea, reminds me of this scene. Drink coffee? Then here's a wonderful barista that trained their craft for years. Tea? Make it yourself bitch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-r...

A lot of you are leaving your KotlinConf submissions to the last minute, as always. There's less than 2 weeks left now, make sure you get your topics in ASAP!

"Beauty"

⏳ There are just two weeks left to submit your talk for KotlinConf’26! 👉 sessionize.com/kotlinconf-2... 👈

📣 The KotlinConf’26 Call for Papers closes soon – you’ve got just three weeks left to submit your idea! We’d love to hear your Kotlin story. sessionize.com/kotlinconf-2...

me when the AI bubble bursts

Idea for an app: A messenger application that translates everything you say to sound like it came from an AI, hallucinations included. Me: Hi Mum, how are you? Mum: ... Me: Mum? Mum: You're absolutely right! The weather in Vancouver is surprisingly warm this year. Me: ...

Introducing Ellie, our new 10 week old addition to the family, here she is being tiny and adorable.

Don't forget to disable the automatically-on-by-default option to utilise your profile data for training AI models for #Microsoft #LinkedIn before November 3rd. Go to Settings & Privacy > Data Privacy #NoAI

@droidcon.bsky.social London has such an amazing line up, which can make it difficult to choose, which talk do you want to go to?! If you find yourself around at 16:10 tomorrow, you'll have some incredible speakers to choose from... #droidcon #DCLDN25

Check in 23 hrs 59 mins before flight... Middle seat. 🤬

Everybody touting about how AI helped their workflow, and I just end up with code that I neither wrote nor understand, not sure if I'm doing it wrong or if AI just really is shit