Last week on Patreon: how to trim a .webm file from Android Studio with terminal www.patreon.com/posts/143906...

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Heya! I'll be doing a virtual talk on "Kotlin Coroutine Mechanisms: A Surprisingly Deep Rabbithole" at the Android Meetup NYC & DC this Thursday, Nov. 20th, 4 pm EST. Hope to see you there! www.meetup.com/new-york-and...

The HTML workshop at the Harold Washington Library was a success! It was an absolute joy to see people's faces light up when they realized they had published a website in 2 hours. Remember what your first coding project was like? mistylucky-r.github.io

High five to all the folks making sure their third-party plugins aren't collecting crazy data from people 🙏

In Chicago, people carry whistles in their hands while walking. They feed their neighborhoods despite cuts to SNAP. In the worst of times, you see the best of humanity too.

This week on Patreon: resume tips to get recruiters chasing *you* These are tips I've shared for years after working a gig in the hiring space and use myself. This one is for the cowboy tier, but I've placed it for sale in my shop too! www.patreon.com/posts/142759...

Re: #SNAP loss - everyone seems to focus on families with kids, and rightly so, but people, please check on your #elderly neighbors. They may not be as connected or aware, they might not drive, and the need will be significant. Please make sure they have access to #food as best you can.

“When submitting a talk, think like an attendee. Would you want to sit through this? What’s in it for the audience? That’s why we ask about key takeaways.” – Svetlana Isakova Strong takeaways make strong talks! 🎯 Submit your session: https://sessionize.com/kotlinconf-2026/

This week on Patreon: Graphs as an adjacency matrix! Join the Cadet tier to access all notecards on our page. www.patreon.com/posts/noteca...

I grew up on Muppets, Weird Al, Daniel Pinkwater books, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Pee-Wee Herman. Buying an inflatable chicken suit to help fight tyranny in my neighborhood seems about right to me. It may be a small thing, but humor can be a weapon.

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend. Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

This week on Patreon is for the Cowboys 🤠 A deep dive on concurrency lessons from RxJava, even in 2025. www.patreon.com/posts/140036...

50 Members Strong! Our Patreon community is growing, solidifying its place as the hub for advanced, high-quality engineering insights. Tired of shallow tech advice? Join the engineers cutting through the noise. Learn your way, with good company. Unlock the advanced track: bit.ly/4pJ6Cmq

This week on Patreon: Leetcode problem 322, revisited via Tabulation method. www.patreon.com/posts/noteca...

This week on Patreon: we take a slight deviation from the usual tech stuff and talk about Advanced Media Literacy based on the book "Making Sense of Media and Politics". www.patreon.com/posts/advanc...

Nuked my phone in a bad outlet in Buffalo this weekend. Rip my samsung flip phone 🥲🥲 I loved it so much

The year is 2100. Civilization has colonized Mars. Android Studio still freezes every time my laptop wakes from sleep.

For Coding Cadet patrons: I know how hard those interviews are. Try this prompt to help get your problem solving speed up. www.patreon.com/posts/138176...

I've made all my cybersecurity posts free, available to public. Cover ya neck, and encourage the people around you to do the same. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

This week on Patreon: Did your PR blow up larger than intended? No worries, you can segment into smaller PRs with these git commands. www.patreon.com/posts/noteca...

It's been quiet so far in Chicago. Goodnight everyone, and stay safe. And get a group chat for your block.

A beautiful September Chicago Southside CriticalMass bicycle ride on Friday. #Chicago

Finally got a fresh new look for my Patreon. I've updated the layout to make it easier to find everything, from in-depth Kotlin deep dives to the latest content. Check it out and let me know what you think! www.patreon.com/cw/AmandaHin...

Android being open is so amazing. blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-0...

This week on Patreon: a Deep Dive for the cowboy tier. A broken screen and bad battery set me back, so this month, I'm jerry-rigging my own 3-2-1 automated data backup using a Mac mini and the Raspberry Pi in my DEFCON badge. www.patreon.com/posts/deep-d...

🚀 Escape from the Planet Regex! Join @benkadel.com at #droidconBerlin (Sept 24–26) to see how Kotlin can rescue you from regex chaos. ▶️ Short: www.youtube.com/shorts/j8hol... 🎟 Tickets: berlin.droidcon.com #Kotlin #AndroidDev #Regex #droidcon2025

Thanks to @kotlinweekly.bsky.social for publishing "Introduction to Structured Concurrency Pt 2: Coroutine Exception and Cancellation Mechanisms" 🤠

Oh yeah, it's a "war zone" in Chicago

This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

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

This week on Patreon: learn the difference between Dagger/Hilt @Binds vs. @Provides in 3 min www.patreon.com/posts/136586...

Cowboy patrons voted 🤠 here is a deep dive on coroutine cancellation and exception mechanisms available for all on Medium: medium.com/coding-kinet...

Yesterday my friend pulled a very illegal U-turn and someone rolled down their window and yelled "MAKE BETTER CHOICES" 😭

Due to rising costs for Meetup, Chicago KUG and Chicago JUG will be moving from Meetup to Luma on August 24th. You can make the switch here: lu.ma/ckug

It's so strange when people post things like "the LLM finally admitted it hallucinated and was lying to me!". Why would that admission be any more meaningful than any of the previous output?

Under appreciated benefit of Kotlin's "internal" keyword: if I cheat & access an internal API directly using `@file:Suppress("INVISIBLE_MEMBER", "INVISIBLE_REFERENCE")`, then, unlike reflection, my build will fail if the API changes. Much safer hacks :D #AndroidDev

Agenda for Droidcon Berlin 2025 now available in Confetti (github.com/joreilly/Con...)

Always ask why the position was available

Whew. Almost done with reviews for @droidcon.bsky.social Academy.

One of the hardest problems to solve with concurrency is catching nondeterministic bugs. I've created a must-read deep dive for my paying patrons that provides a robust pattern on "Unit Testing Concurrency + Caching". Support my work and get instant access here: www.patreon.com/amandahinchm...

What a real hacker takes to DEF CON! #realhacker #defcon #cybersecurity

Thanks to @[email protected] for publishing "Introduction to Structured Concurrency: CoroutineScope & CoroutineContext" 🤠

Here’s our CEO’s statement. Factually, I just want people to understand that you can still help a lot if this is something you care about. And because at this very hard moment I am not in a position to answer for the network, I’m going to keep this closed. (3/3) www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g...

The recordings from KotlinConf 2025 are now available with subtitles and dubs in Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese! Check them out here: www.inflearn.com/en/...

I know it's not cool to wear a mask, but breathing in wildfire every summer is bound to lead to long-term health issues 😬

Lots of content this week! This week on Patreon [cowboy tier only] Beyond the Code: Why I'm pausing my research on Human-AI collaboration I will be consulting an ethics board before continuing such work. www.patreon.com/posts/135085...

My Pixel 9 Fold is my best friend.

This week on Patreon! Quickstart Perfetto in 3 minutes. www.patreon.com/posts/134382...