Didn't realize how much I had missed the caramel apple suckers 😀

Finally found some time to mess around with the Gemini CLI and the Docker MCP Toolkit and there's definitely a bit of ✨ magic ✨ to just managing some simple github tasks through plain human language at the command line. and adding the GitHub tools using the docker toolkit was surprisingly easy

I found this to be a pretty interesting look at where coding and AI tools have come from, and where they might be going. In particular, some of the ideas shared about multi-agent interactions gave me some fun food for thought. youtu.be/3KAI__5dUn0?...

Resisting the urge to buy the Switch 2 ZA bundle given I still haven't finished Expedition 33 yet 😬

I'm super proud of this webinar for underrepresented communities to CFP for KotlinConf. It has been a goal of mine to have this type of encouraging event since I started at JetBrains, and now you can watch the video 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTfH...

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

Soaking up some Cali sun this weekend ☀️😎

Let's see what this #GoogleIO Dev keynote has for us...

👀 "Eliminating most limitations of interop in Kotlin/JS"

Anyone using Telepresence to communicate with services in your k8s cluster from locally running services within a Docker Compose environment? Trying to get it working and can it understand why I can hit one service in the cluster, sometimes, but not the rest 😵‍💫

Really wish I was heading to KotlinConf. We've spent the past ~18 months rebuilding our core platform on Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform and now some Compose Multiplatform as well and I've got the itch to share about the cool work we've done! Crossing my fingers for next year 🤞

This seems to be the place to start for tackling this problem. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on where to start optimizing. kotlinlang.org/docs/native-...

What are folks doing to minimize the impact of slow native linking build tasks for the iOS targets in Compose Multiplatform projects?

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it! blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-... #gradle

Every time I think I have PagerDuty escalation policy settings figured out... someone on the team gets alerted in the middle of night for a low-priority issue and I'm reminded that I apparently understand nothing 😑

The Jetpack Compose and internals course is the result of years of deep exploration, experience working on Compose initiatives at big tech, and writing the Jetpack Compose Internals book 🧵

This @touchlab.co post has been super useful in getting up to speed with adaptive layout apis for Compose Multiplatform Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform touchlab.co/adaptive-lay...

Going down the Compose Multiplatform rabbit hole again...

Was very pleasantly surprised today at how well JetBrains' Junie worked for generating plantuml diagrams. It was a fantastic experience to just explain what I wanted and not have to comb through docs on puml syntax

Sadly, no longer a GDE as Google officially sunsetted the Kotlin category. Enjoyed my time in the program, and look forward to still sharing Kotlin content in the future... my team has been building with Kotlin more than ever and my content backlog is growing all the time 🙂

Not a bad view for pair programming this week

Very interesting talk if you're building container images - especially for the JVM. I had not really explored buildpacks for this. Definitely gave me some things to think about

🛫 Off to Mexico City for field testing and quarterly planning. And most importantly for some needed ☀️😎

Latest Android Weekly Issue 661 is out! androidweekly.net/issues/issue... #AndroidDev #Kotlin

After an intense 2024 that took a toll on my physical and mental health, I told myself I would really invest more in taking care of myself in 2025. 4 weeks in and I'm starting to feel a noticeable difference 🎉

Little bit of me time while I clean up my blog backlog ☕

Anyone have issues with IntelliJ using an undesirable build task when running 'Build Project' or know of a way to change that inferred task? As far as I know it can't be done and we've been using work arounds but the muscle memory is hard to break for some

Great hack week in Cancun last week. Tough to come back to our cold winter homes, but pretty excited about the computer vision capabilities we prototyped while together

The Grinch out here getting some hard earned vacation after the holidays

I really enjoyed this talk It's focused on the "architect" role and talks about what that means but I think the points on multidimensional problem solving and communication are very valuable for engineers of any level/role. youtu.be/Oib06l1CHME?...

Next stop ... ✈️ Cancun 😎

Went on an impromptu road trip through Utah and Arizona right after Christmas. We visited Zion, the Grand Canyon, Sedona and Arches National Park I was blown away with the beauty! Our photos hardly do them all justice.

Not ready to shift back into work mode this week, but traveling to a warm/sunny destination for a hack week is probably about as good as that first week of the new year can get

Tried fiddling with my GKE cluster to save some money... accidentally broke it.... And 1.5 days later I'm finally back to where I started 😅😭

Arcane, you will be missed ❤️

TIL: You can evaluate _any_ Kotlin expression in the debugger 🤯 You get access to everything that's in the scope of the breakpoint, with autocomplete and syntax highlighting, and get the `result` underneath it. IntelliJ never ceases to amaze me. #IntelliJ #Kotlin #AndroidDev

🚀 Mixing #ComposeMultiplatform with native iOS UI just got easier! devsrsouza.bsky.social 's latest article dives into how Touchlab’s new Compose Swift Bridge tool automates the process, saving you from boilerplate code headaches. #KotlinMultiplatform #SwiftUI #SKIE

lost my afternoon to "bouncer config error" on a pgbouncer deployment that looks indistinguishable from all our other services that work just fine 😅😭

BOI ✈️ MEX

Tomorrow's 7am flight sounded like a lot better of an idea when I booked it 🫠

Started experimenting with some custom prompts for the JetBrains AI assistant. It got me wondering if anyone out there has their own list of useful prompts?? Or if some list/repo of prompts exists somewhere 🤔

I've had a need to improve my understanding of JVM memory management and configuration here lately I found this to be a pretty useful and concise overview of the basics youtu.be/uJLOlCuOR4k?...

Anyone using the new-ish Workspaces capability in IntelliJ? Have done some quick experiments and it seems to solve several of my pain points from working with our monorepo in IntelliJ.... but I'm disappointed we can't share a workspace config in vcs yet(unless I missed something)

Going to be in Mexico City for work next week and my mouth is already watering thinking about some of the tacos and pastries I'll get to enjoy 🤤

First time using JProfiler. Was very impressed at how easy it was to connect to my Ktor service running in k8s. Now i just have to track down my memory issue...

Took the last 1.5 years off from speaking to focus on a big project at work - rebuilding the majority of our backend and core mobile experiences with Kotlin Multiplatform at the core Now I keep seeing the KotlinConf CFP deadline is coming and am thinking maybe it's time to submit a proposal again 🤔

Made an #AndroidDev Starter Pack! Please let me know if I missed anyone so I can connect with them as well 😁 go.bsky.app/Etd57t6

Didn't plan on spending the day dealing with PagerDuty alerts, but it did fast track the creation of some useful monitoring dashboards

Was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to start exporting Ktor request metrics to Prometheus. The Micrometer plugin has just worked out of the box so far 🎉

Hello World 👋