Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.

I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community

I should have taken a screenshot, but I just got a full screen interstitial about using Gemini when performing a logged Google search about a programming topic. Never have I ever seen Google show interstitial ads on their search results. I guess search really is dead xd

fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/

GET OUT AND VOTE NEW YORK

it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.

this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections. Added: - NVIDIA investing in OpenAI - NVIDIA investing in Intel - AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph? Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.

This is what a bubble looks like (image with alt text)

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My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

had to dig out some old embedded programming concepts and Java concepts from my memory before it clicked. Kotlin compiler feels a lot more Java-y than Kotlin-y, but that makes sense given the JVM is (historically) Kotlin's primary build target, or maybe that's just the general shape of a compiler

I did figure out how to rewrite it as a compiler plugin, but yeah my brain hurts

rewriting a KSP as a Kotlin compiler plugin over the past week has really kicked my ass. I thought I had a good mental model of code generation, but it turns out that was just based around the nice abstractions of Java's annotation processing and KSP.

LLMs love to write 10 unit tests where a single one would suffice 😭

Very disappointed by this. It increases the barrier of entry to making apps, as it seems likely that it will require you to create some sort of developer account just to install an APK you develop.

Google product development in 2025

Does anyone know how to motivate teams to review and merge Renovate/Dependabot PRs?

The Glean AI integration for Slack support channel requests is not only useless, but actively harmful, in my opinion.

one of the worst app UX that I run into regularly is the swipe-to-delete feature within the Google Authenticator app. it's way too easy to delete a code that could leave you locked out of your account. yes, there is a confirmation dialog, but it's presence just tells me they know it's a shitty UX.

I didn’t vote for Gillibrand or Schumer the last time I had the chance. I left it blank. It felt good. It felt right not supporting their behavior. I will never vote for them again. I will never tell them I support their actions. I will never let my guaranteed vote give them freedom to betray me.

idk if there's a better way, but burning most of a day verifying that an AI generated PR does not, in fact, do what the author purports it to do does not feel very satisfying.

Shout out to Cursor for kicking off thousands of unnecessary Gradle builds per day, unnecessarily inflating our local build counts and making our local build data set almost entirely useless

👀🚗🤖 @kaeawc.bsky.social

Metaprogramming with @anthonycr.bsky.social 🎉🙌🤠 Programming programs that program programming programs #AndroidDev

Happening today, see you later 🤖

Time to early vote. No Cuomos

Documented my efforts to get Gradle Configuration Cache reuse on CI with detail about latest performance efforts #AndroidDev #Gradle www.jasonpearson.dev/gradle-confi...

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

This article links tech layoffs that started in 2022 to a Section 174 change in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which ended immediate R&D write-offs. The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.

The criminalization of riding a bike in this city, while car drivers continue to kill people, is beyond imagination and parody

Kotlin coroutine anti-pattern: making analytics functions suspending

I don't think enough people in tech understand just how much the tech layoffs in 2022 and beyond (maybe even 2021 at more aggressive companies) were a direct result of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act changing R&D tax exemptions to be amortized over 5 years for FY 2022.

10 years ago, in college, I turned down an offer to buy a privacy-focused app that I built, rather than risk my users' data being exposed. Instead, I licensed the app's source code to them for half the money, and accepted a job offer to work on their forked version of the app.

Happy to announce that I'll be talking about Metaprogramming with Kotlin Symbol Processing in June at @droidcon.bsky.social NYC 🤓

Published a new version of my test fake generating framework that simplifies the API for verifying parameters using custom matchers! github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

Updated my Mockingbird library to improve the error message when users forget to apply the KSP dependency 🐦‍⬛ github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

There's a cottage industry of people who have never once spent time advocating for an accessible transit system who claim that congestion pricing is "ableist," and folks, those people are full of shit.

Also, released a new version of my verification mock generator Mockingbird to support verification of abstract classes 🐦‍⬛ github.com/anthonycr/Mo...

I finally rewrote my Kotlin annotation processor that generates static string content from resource files into a combined Gradle plugin + KSP and released the updated version github.com/anthonycr/Me...

As I said earlier tonight, the content and tone of the letter - and the fact that it was fed to a pair of reporters at The Post first - make it abundantly clear what the letter was intended to accomplish: Drum up negative headlines about urban/transit safety. Let's not be naive about this.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

New blog post: Parallelism with Android SQLite blog.p-y.wtf/parallelism-... What started an ANR investigation ended up with a deep dive into Android SQLite's connection pool... #AndroidDev