New year's resolution, engage with open source developers on our new Bluesky account. ✨

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

A good critique of MacOS new menu icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i... It highlights Scott Jenson's point from youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?... on how desktop UX keeps getting worse, not better. #ux #macos

A neat deep dive in using Bluetooth headphones to pivot into your phone to steal data. youtu.be/TK5Tz4Bt94Y?... #security

"Most AI Startups Don’t Rent GPUs, And There Isn’t A Market For AI Compute" An extremely long, very depressing but sobering post on where we are and where we are headed financially in terms of genAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

If you live in the US you likely have one of these insecure passwordless stacker dream cameras in your city. WTF Flock www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Right in time for the holidays a post about going offline ... in your Gradle builds! www.liutikas.net/2025/12/19/G... #gradle #hermetic

Slack folks gave an interesting talk about their Gradle to Bazel for their Android builds journey and why the effort ultimately got cancelled. youtu.be/cSYeCx--teA?... #gradle #bazel #android

Losing the Signal (and its movie adaptation, BlackBerry) Operation Elop (about Nokia) General Magic (documentary film of this very early smartphone attempt) Revolution in the Valley (about the original Mac) Soul of a New Machine (classic book about an early 80s project)

One of the most fascinating reads about the history of a software product I've ever read. Grab a copy if you haven't read it yet. You also get Chet Jokes as a bonus! And if you have read it, pick up "Show-stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"

A fantastic talk on why desktop has been stuck where it is for a decade by Scott Jenson youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?...

Who wakes the knocker uppers?! A post on how to validate that the tool that is meant to download your Gradle distribution is actually built by Gradle and not by a too friendly malicious contributor! www.liutikas.net/2025/12/12/K... #gradle #security

You shared that androidx libraries are constantly in alphas and we listened. In the past two years while adding a ton of new libraries we actually increased the percentage of libraries that are complete or actively developed. The combo of these two groups went from 64% to 76%. #androidx #androiddev

Switching from one test method to another when running Android tests from IDE today invalidates configuration cache, that sucks! When using Gradle 9.1+ and the next AGP you will start getting CC hits! issuetracker.google.com/issues/44522... Thanks to Gradle and AGP folks for making this work!

In case you want to become a benevolent Gradle overlord, I've got you some tips Recording: youtu.be/o99f54pYGgc?... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/the-... #gradle

Pebble going fully open source is a big win for hardware preservation. ⌚️🔓 But for mobile devs, the real story is in the repo. The new app is a pure KMP + Compose Multiplatform rewrite. 230k lines (Legacy Java/ObjC) ➡️ 37k lines (Kotlin) Shipped in 6 months with just 2 devs 🔥

Probably my favorite talk at Droidcon London 2026 was @stevepenna.bsky.social on rebuilding Pebble app. The part that I really liked was the contrasting of the Android development and library ecosystem 11 years ago and today. It was also nice to see AndroidX appreciation. youtu.be/UOQMDkCsCSw?...

Perfetto performance traces can be very intimidating. A talk by perf wizard @rahulrav.com makes it a tiny bit less scary. youtu.be/WJHNBN_19F8?... #performance #android

If you are hitting a bunch of Gradle configuration cache invalidations, you might find my post helpful www.liutikas.net/2025/11/21/E... #gradle

Messing with Displate by @danlew42.bsky.social Good lessons on things to avoid when building a service. blog.danlew.net/2025/11/18/h...

How often can you make something 30% faster with this little work? Please give this a try!

It's true. By the time we are in beta we are generally API stable unless there was a huge mistake requiring us to release a new beta with an API change. jakewharton.com/you-should-u...

If not DNS then it is always a bad config, this time it was a bad config. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Um...Focus Friend is Google's...App...of the Year. OF THE YEAR?! Not like, in a category. But APP OF THE YEAR. BRIA, LOOK WHAT YOU MADE!!! @bobabria.bsky.social blog.google/products/goo...

It is absolutely bonkers how Flock cameras have such poor security practices. They are all over the US. There is one 100 ft from my house. Thousands of them in the Bay Area (map here deflock.me/map) This is a dream for a hostile actor. youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?... #flock #security

A fun talk on handling fun Unicode bugs in your app by @vladimirj.dev One of my first bugs in Chrome was due to Turkish letters "i" and "ı" that need special handling when changing to upper vs to lower case. youtu.be/CHRgrgCLaOE?... #android #unicode

To improve AndroidX release binary transparency we have made all of our release branches visible to the world. E.g. collections: ci.android.com/builds/branc... What that means is now you can go from a released version of a library to an exact buildId and the source tree state for that release.

"my configuration time went down from ~1s per project to ~350ms per project." @[email protected] was able to drastically speed up his project's configuration time. mbonnin.net/2025-11-08_g... A goalpost to reach: 100ms per project. Where are you with your projects? #gradle

15 years ago, this happened: github.com/JetBrains/ko... #kotlin

Sometimes you've got to celebrate the small wins. Android Studio project wizard will add distributionSha256Sum entries to gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to make reduce your chances of getting a malicious Gradle distribution! issuetracker.google.com/issues/26963... #gradle #security

The administration has pulled the plug on IRS Direct File, a tool that helped eligible taxpayers file for free. This decision comes despite Direct File’s immense popularity with its users.

yup it's fully KMP/jpcompose and works great on Android and iOS!! But we're always interested in connecting with more KMP people to get help and tips.

A reason to upgrade to Gradle 9.2 if you are suffering from this issue.

If you are using Gradle and your per project configuration time (total configuration time / number of subprojects) is more than 100ms there is likely something suboptimal in your build set up. #gradle

You might have seen CVE-2025-36852 that affects the use of Gradle remote build cache. I wrote a short post of when to use and when not to use remote cache www.liutikas.net/2025/10/28/C... #gradle

🚨 #dcldn25 kicks off Thursday! Don’t miss The Android Show live from London—Gemini in @AndroidStudio, fresh dev news & live #AskAndroid. Also catch the Day 2 Keynote with #Android leaders Matthew McCullough, Tor Norbye, Clara Bayarri & Jingyu Shi. 🎟️ Last chance for tickets → london.droidcon.com

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

It is wild to see that AndroidX repository has 2.6M lines of Kotlin code and 1.1M of Java. Just 4 years ago it was 1:1 and 4 more years before that was ~0 of Kotlin. It is awesome to see similar growth of Kotlin out there in the Android ecosystem. #kotlin #android

Come see @hoford.bsky.social and I in London next week -- we have some cool stuff to show off :-) #RemoteCompose: an #AndroidX framework to project rich, animated #UI from apps or servers onto remote surfaces. #dcldn25

I really enjoyed this keynote as it applies even outside of software

Cooking beautiful and highly accurate graphs for my @droidcon.bsky.social London presentation!

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

Despite the confusing name, this runs entirely offline and you don't need develocity license and a server instance to use it. Give it a spin if you want to get a sense where your build is slow.

The recording for my talk from DPE Summit 2025 titled "Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules" is out! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWx_... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/grad... #gradle

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki... #gradle

A week ago I learned about largely undocumented GradlePluginApiVersion API. I wrote a post about it! www.liutikas.net/2025/10/15/G... #gradle

Come hear me talk about keeping your large Gradle builds in order at @droidcon.bsky.social London!