somehow I don't feel very different about reviewing AI slop it was always part of my job to review random apps code for performance issues... and llms are fairly consistent with how people actually write code

fun fact, themes and design systems are consistently the most expensive thing in Compose, especially for startups for some reason, everybody LOVES storing every value in hashmaps

my lukewarm take about coding llms is that we are too focused on oneshotting tasks for higher benchmark numbers that gets us into situations where the model is doing extremely stupid shit just because it is stuck

For years I've been told that I can shove 16 bits of data into a 64-bit pointer. Today I tried it out, just to realize that both macOS and Android use those bits for safety cookies 🫥

github is such a joke, apparently if PR hits a certain file limit, it just pretends the files are not there

Full Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbg...

i dreamt about a realistic mafia game where i am awake at night to witness everything but wake up too late to influence any decisions

This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

my favourite part about LLM adoption is that everyone is finally documenting their workflows

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

my favourite part of the exploratory projects is when I come up with an idea within minutes and then go on a multi-day bender to try everything else just to return to the original idea which was actually perfect the whole time

yes macOS notes app, I definitely wanted you to replace my ASCII single quotes with your fancy unicode that looks exactly fucking same

so they say css... is not... a programming... language? 🤔

I introduced Factorio to a friend who is very particular about his sleep schedule, like always in bed before midnight we played for 12 hours straight until 8am yesterday.... just straight up crack, especially multiplayer / 10

my god i am reading python code where everything is expressed in tuples, dicts and arrays and it took me 2 hours to realize that the function that accepts tuples can also work on dicts untyped languages were a mistake

PSA: Starting Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 (or the latest stable version of R8): R8 will automatically optimize all Intrinsics.check* APIs in Kotlin automatically ! This should greatly help improve app performance (especially Compose given the large Kotlin library API surface).

Oh you have "depression" and "anxiety"? Funny way of saying you're fundamentally weak of spirit

ok I found my new favourite arm instruction - ubfx (sorry fjcvtzs) developer.arm.com/documentatio...

i've spent hours trying to understand why my assembly contains frame pointers in all functions and why godbolt output doesn't turns out, rust compiler forces them /specifically/ for my arch (x86 mac) lol

Here's the new page about the new stack traces in Compose, in case you were wondering how it all is supposed to work: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

This release also adds support for Compose stack traces that work with minified apps! (requires R8 and Kotlin 2.3.0+)

Finally a government project to unite the humanity. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

the pm who decided that tapping on full screen photos should go to the next one should get off tinder

being in japan is extremely weird because all of my fave streamers i used to watch before bed stream at 9am now

sometimes I read shit like this and it makes me sad that we struggle with rendering some rectangles with text smoothly blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g...

Kotlin backend for .net bytecode when?

i randomly watched a vid from .net team about new perf improvements I am extremely impressed considering I never used .net in my life

Not sure whether this is right, but Allan Blomquist's engine looks something along those lines? www.reddit.com/r/programmin...

~3 years ago i saw a video on twitter with a demo of a custom game runtime with hot reload and time travel (both for game logic and memory values). From debugger, you could time travel to the stack state that modified the value last time. I can't find it anymore, maybe somebody knows what that was?

a sudden urge to run around a starting area of a mmorpg for a couple hours

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

heyyy they finally did it

tried to read the rules for const placement in C++ for 1000th time, ended up adding const after each symbol just in case

Casey Muratori pretty much sums up how I feel about LLMs for coding: "The AI will always be useless for me. I physically can't get what I want from programming when AI is involved, because what it is doing is robbing me of the experience that I wanted to have and the knowledge that I wanted to get"

new season of dandadan just keeps on giving i legit did not expect a power metal insert song to be this good

reminder to myself to never apply for conferences, because i just procrastinate on slides by making another compiler plugin i swear i promised myself to stop making them the world does not need another compiler plugin

Some news to share - Today is my last day at Google. It's been almost 8 years now since I was offered what was basically my dream job at the time: reimagine Android's UI Toolkit. Working on Compose has been incredibly rewarding, and now it is time for what is next.

🚧 We are getting started with formatted text editing in TextField / Compose! 🚧 📋 I'm gathering all use cases, from the common to the complex. What are your daily needs for formatted text? Think mentions, hashtags, links, and simple styling. Reply with your requirements below! ⚒️

anyone knows if it is worth reading?

*me looking at this book cover*: nice mountain road you got here man, probably it is very fun to drive there

no way we are going to have offline trade in poe2 i am finally ready to step out of my ssf cave

i really should (not) play factorio

comparing sha-256 hashes by bouba vs kiki vibes

Compose 1.9 also introduces some tooling updates! There's experimental support for Composable stack traces when source information is present, and we are planning to support apps minified by R8 in the future releases

that satisfying feeling when the name of the album that does not match any of the song names is woven into lyrics (usually during a random bridge)

TIL news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674...

the final season of attack on titan didn't have to go that hard on op music esp the second part, i cannot skip when i hear rumbling