You don’t need to outwork *everyone.* You don’t need to outsmart *everyone.* You just need to be better than you were yesterday...

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

Anyone have an extra #sora2 invite? 🙏

Handstands at Block by Block 2025 in Oakland, California #bxb2025

📣 The KotlinConf'26 Call for Speakers is OPEN! Share your Kotlin expertise with the world – server-side, web, desktop, mobile, AI/ML, and more! Submit your proposal and get a chance to speak at the year's biggest Kotlin event! 👉 https://kotl.in/conf26-submittalk 👈

Here is my 2 year old post on Compose Web (WASM): handstandsam.com/2023/09/05/c... I was super excited then, but I think now it has made it and it's awesome to use. Allowing us to have our same desktop app experience in the browser. Using it in GitHub.com/block/trailblaze and it's 🔥

Kotlin 2.2.20 Released and Swift Export now enabled by default for Kotlin Multiplatform! #KMP 🚀 blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

🤖 How is AI changing mobile testing? At #droidconNYC 2025, @handstandsam.bsky.social & Brian Gardner share how they’re training LLMs as testers + what it means for dev workflows. 📺 Watch the interview: youtu.be/bUcbFFd2f-E?... #AI #MobileTesting #AndroidDev

The senior developer you admire was once a beginner who Googled how to add a click listener and then copied the answer from StackOverflow. They’re not smarter than you, just further ahead.

📢 All talks from droidcon & Fluttercon 2024 are now live! 400+ sessions from SF, NY, Berlin, London, and both Fluttercons — all free on YouTube. Catch up here 👉 www.youtube.com/@DroidconDe #AndroidDev #FlutterDev #droidcon #fluttercon #MobileDev #DevCommunity

The video for my conference talk with @handstandsam.bsky.social is up on the DroidCon site! Check out how we're experimenting with AI-Driven testing at scale at Block and learn more about our new open source library Trailblaze #Android #AndroidDev #AI #Testing www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...

AutoMobile #dcnyc25 video of the talk is up! www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...

Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam

Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam

Pena Palace and Cabo da Roca in Portugal #handstandsam

Arco da Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal #handstandsam

Berlengas Island near Peniche, Portugal #handstandsam

Aviero, Portugal #handstandsam

Another Gradle footgun www.zacsweers.dev/dont-use-typ...

Pinhão, Portugal #handstandsam

Porto, Portugal #handstandsam

one of these days Gradle will implement parallel downloads and I won't have to wait 20 minutes after opening an empty Compose project

Way back in the day, when I was just a young kid, I remember my grandmother got a sales call at dinner, where the caller started with a line like, "I'm going to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime..." She interrupted, "I'm a very generous person. You can take it instead!" and hung up.

Thanks for attending my #dcnyc25 talk! You can find the slides here on Speaker Deck: speakerdeck.com/amanda_hinch... #AndroidDev #Android

We just dropped automatic model switching in Goose. This allows one model to do the big brain work and then a cheaper, faster model to execute the actions. Here's a look into our thought process when developing this block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

Finally tried looking for a #nintendoswitch2 and none there except the demo one.

speaking.jbaru.ch/L9elPq Slides and video there 👆

Well MCP finally clicked for me today. Combined with agents it can quickly become meta-programming in itself for every current tool in your arsenal.

Here we go! 🕹️

Vibe coders sharing their projects by air dropping localhost. 😂

The new agent in Android Studio is enabled in yesterday's canary build! This build doesn't have all the tools hooked up that I showed in the I/O demo last week (agent here: youtu.be/KXKP2tDPW4Y?...), such as the Gradle awareness -- and it also doesn't have the Upgrade Agent yet. Hopefully soon!

Watching E.T. with the kids. Forgot how good this is!

Can someone please make an MCP Server to expose everything that currently lives in an app's debug drawer?

Something I hear very little talk about: How AI coding tools are so much LESS useful when used on existing, large codebases at work (with custom frameworks, conventions, coding style etc) ... compared to doing greenfield/side projects "Yeah I love it on my side projects, but at work it's 'meh'"

💻 Claude Code now works directly in your JetBrains IDE! Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives right in your terminal and speaks your language (literally!) 🗣️ Get started: jb.gg/0e7ku5

i love kotlin

If you liked Compose Hot Reload at this year's #KotlinConf then you might also enjoy this podcast with personal stories and behind the scenes of hot (and why) it was built: thebakery.dev/98/

I don' think most people appreciate both the nuance and the importance of this UI that Microsoft is shipping with their new coding agent It works *on behalf of* a dev. This has lots of implications!

Our annual "What's new in Android Developer tools" presentation is now online! Most of these features are already available, but though the upgrade agent and the general agent are baking a little bit longer, should be out very soon if all goes according to plan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKP...

Everywhere: Duck, Duck, Goose! Silicon Valley: Tesla, Tesla, Waymo!

Found some friends just in time for dessert.

Day 2 of #googleio!

I was feeling dizzy after the I/O Keynote. It's clear that the focus for Google is purely on AI & Gemini. But the Android team is still cranking, and the updates to Compose and new libraries for Navigation & Media were really cool. Feeling energized after What's New in Android #googleio #androiddev

Solid Day 1 of #googleio

Long travel day and rebookings to last row middle seats, but made it here for #googleio in the morning!

2012 was my first #googleio and first visit to a Square office. 13 years later I'm flying to my 4th Google I/O. I miss the sky divers, beer taps with Androids, @chethaase.com and @romainguy.dev duo, GWT, Google Glass and more. But I'm excited for tomorrow to learn more about AI, Compose and more!

I meant.... Who would possibly do something like github.com/JetBrains/ko...

I remember when the #googleio app was THE app to emulate. It had best practices and was considered the bar to match. This was before AndroidX and Jetpack 👴. It stinks that there is only a web app for it nowadays.

How real development is done. 💪