🪄 Dial with sweep gradient and rounded edges

A nice post from @mbonnin.net on different the Kotlin version knobs you have at your disposal.

Comparison of benchmarking, profiling, and tracing in case you could use some clarity. www.liutikas.net/2026/02/20/B...

I continue to be amazed by coworkers doing cool work. Dany on my team found a really non-obvious deadlock in `androidx.room` JVM tests triggered by Kotlin coroutines library. r.android.com/3949020

Join us in 3 hours for some AI fun with Tor Norbye, Senior Engineering Director at @Google

It is the year 2026, people are still confused about compileSdk and targetSdk. (e.g. you can have targetSdk that is higher than compileSdk) www.liutikas.net/2026/02/13/R... Maybe this will explain it a bit more. #android

🎤 Creator and maintainer of widely used Android and Kotlin libraries, Jake Wharton, is coming to KotlinConf'26! His talk focuses on how command-line tools interface with modern terminals, and on exploring advanced terminal capabilities using Kotlin.

How bad can a single "❤️" emoji be?

Gradle now enables strict Gradle plugin validation for published plugins and automatically infers plugin id Both are requests that I've pushed for! docs.gradle.org/9.4.0-rc-1/r... Excited to see it land!

It looks like I'll be presenting at @kotlinconf.com 2026! I'm excited about this opportunity! #kotlinconf

Dear f***ing lord! Nearly one every three Meta ads showed in the EU and UK over 23 days pointed to online scams This should be the easiest layup for govt agencies in the history of enforcements www.gendigital.com/blog/insight...

✨ New article on how to use the default dial in my ChromaDial library www.sinasamaki.com/how-to-creat...

Number change animation using blurs and scaling

📢 New KEEP published 🎉 We now have a proposal for sharing internals between modules ready for your review and comments. (Spoiler: The KEEP includes a very important explanation of why modules just can't be friends.)

Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S

A chat with @zsmb.co about benchmarking and profiling Gradle configuration.

Okay, here's the plan: @liutikas.net will teach me how to profile Gradle configuration times, and maybe we'll fix something in kotlinconf-app! 24 hours from now: Thursday, 8am PT / 5pm CET twitch.tv/zsmb13 Mark your calendar for a reminder: addcal.io/e/5t99s5irjfqs

I wrote a post on Spotless Gradle Plugin misconfiguration in Androidify app. Are you costing yourself performance in the same way? www.liutikas.net/2026/01/27/S... #gradle

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

IntelliJ is turning 25 -- and there's a documentary coming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwMX... Can't wait to see it. I'm really interested in history -- and there are a lot of good books about the tech industry too, but not developer tools!

"A billionaire leaves CA due to proposed 5% tax", oh please these people already don't pay any taxes and simply get more back from the society than they give.

Fun musings about picking a version

@ericmigi.com and Pebble getting a shout out for going Fully Open Source!

Tim Cook is one of the biggest complicit actors in all of this. He's quiet and maintains the lowest profile he can, but he's implicitly (explicitly?) let this shit slide for years. Like, remember this? www.cnbc.com/2022/11/30/e...

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...