@mbonnin.net You've got your QUERY support. Hoping it's useful for Apollo. bsky.app/profile/swan...

OkHttp 5.2 does connection upgrades. 👩🏽‍✈️

Hilt? Koin? Kodein? Step aside. 🚇 Metro is here to make Kotlin Multiplatform DI feel like a first-class citizen. We’re chatting with Zac Sweers about why he built it and what makes it awesome.

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Unpopular opinion: while these extremely difficult interviews remain, software engineering will be the one of the only high-paying jobs where you can land an amazing position without needing to have had graduated from a top school

Any chance this can be installed by default on Android Studio #AndroidDev

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

A few of us were asked for our thoughts on the future of Android at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin. As you'd expect, lots of AI mentioned. I tried to have a slightly different take, and sneaked in Remote Compose as a potentiel way for chat to add App UI youtu.be/CmTSnxCTyIk #AndroidDev #dcbln25

Landscape, by Joan Miró, 1968, 📸 by @EricEvansPhoto

Anyone in my tech circle know any companies hiring Junior Engineers for London or UK/EU Remote roles? My son (22yo) is passionate Rust + Typescript developer, with a couple of years of DevOps experience. It's really hard to get through initial applicant filters. I guess a lot of folk looking also.

I've been losing my mind for the last few evenings trying to figure out how to write a KMP compatible Gzip decompression method JVM & Android were easy but iOS was driving me crazy with zlib C interop and alloc calls! TIL it turns out Okio can do it all, in two lines of code 😂

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

The most brilliant scams are hidden as improved customer experience. Remove airport parking barriers, and make a website with a strict next day payment with a fine of £100 if you remember 1 day late. Fuck Stansted Airport.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a stand-alone entity worth $15B (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

ABC announced on Sept 17, 2025, that "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is pre-empted indefinitely following Kimmel's comments on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad. kau.sh/blog/usbi/

None of this would have happened on any day if virtually anyone other than Donald Trump were president.

This codelab is really good! I'm going to comment on a few things, but other than those, this is a way better than what I've seen before! #AndroidDev

“Open Source is one person | Open Source Security” https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/ > Here’s the thing. Almost all open source is literally one person.

A really weird thing about mostly working remotely is that, without consciously thinking about it, your brain builds a perception of people’s height from pretty much no information except head & shoulder size, voice, personality, and when you finally meet in meatspace it’s often WILDLY wrong.

Wear Compose 1.5.0 is the foundational building block for building Wear apps with the Material 3 Expressive design system. Optimized for round displays and dynamic color themes that pull from the watch face really make your app feel at home. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/intr...

There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google. This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.

There are some shitty dark patterns with NHS GP at Hand. Once Babylon, now eMed. Triage means self-selecting if it's life threatening or from a list of 30 categories. They claim 75% of patients consulted on the same day. But the site errors out when there aren't appointments. So no bad stats.

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Stu Forster

Too soon?

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

So, for me using #Gemini in Android Studio way more feels like helping the LLM get better, rather than helping me 😅. My main griefs are the tons of unwanted changes, like shuffling the order of composables, adding line breaks that break the code, changing variable names by randomly adding something.

iOS notification indicator fills up the app

Random thought: Google is Real Madrid Anthropic is Barcelona Open AI is Man City Meta is Chelsea

You're so pressed for time you can't even churn your morning butter?

Deploying a Kotlin-based remote MCP Server to Google Cloud Run johnoreilly.dev/posts/remote... (I finally succumbed to creating an AI generated image to represent the post...using Gemini in this case 😀)

Who would have thought that Trump's second term would be this crazy 18 months in. Longest 18 months of my life.

Built a Gradle plugin to auto-generate Paparazzi screenshot tests from @Preview composables with ComposablePreviewScanner! Not published, just a showcase to avoid boilerplate in multi-module setups. Inspired by Roborazzi, built with Firebender 🔥 👉 github.com/sergio-sastr...

New favorite genre: hardcore coders directing coding agents slowly discovering from first principles that management is actual work

Hoo boy, from me and @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Michelle Obama: this Congress-passed law improving school lunch heath standards is good Right: THIS IS MARXISM Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU

I wrote an article about implementing the #Chicory #Wasm compiler backend for Android Dalvik/ART bytecode, tricks to run ART in an unconventional way inside! blog.evacchi.dev/posts/2025/0...

🚀 Release 4.2.0 of App Privacy Policy Generator is live! 🚀 Migrated to VueJS 3 — more speed, stability, and scalability 🔍 Searchable reviews page 📦 Dependency updates 🧩 Try it out: app-privacy-policy-generator.nisrulz.com ⭐ Star it | ⚙️ GitHub: github.com/nisrulz/app-privacy-policy-generator

Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Some people will believe that the government can change the weather immediately with some fantastic technology that scientists say just doesn’t work at scale. But the same people won’t believe when scientists show we’ve changed the weather as a result of over 100 years of carbon emissions. 🤦‍♂️

I've seen so much confusion around focus in Compose (TalkBack and keyboard), so I wrote a blog post about their differences, how to make components focusable, move focus programmatically, and change the traversal order for both of them. eevis.codes/blog/2025-07... #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev #a11y

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Owning a home seemed like a good idea until I found out the previous owner had sealed the concealed cisterns behind tiled walls, blocked in by 2x4s so fixing a 10c pneumatic flush tube involves demolition work.

Liverpool have announced that the number 20 shirt will be permanently retired to honour Diogo Jota.