I turned off the keynote. I feel like I'm going certifiably insane. They admit that people can detect high quality AI only 25% of the time, and so their solution is to watermark AI content, with a watermark invisible to the naked eye? That solves absolutely nothing. I'm disgusted, honestly.

Setup my walking pad at my desk today so I could walk while watching Google IO, and then got the cursed exercise idea of "what if I increase the speed every time Sundar says AI" 💀

I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.

Last Friday, we announced a ✨ new default structure ✨ for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. (Nothing like a late Friday afternoon release!) In case you missed that, here’s a quick recap of what’s new! 🧵👇

If you're an Android developer building using Jetpack Compose for your you UI, consider using Compose State for your state production over StateFlow: www.tunjid.com/articles/emb...

Developers have had impressively strong communities for a couple decades now, and we've accumulated a lot of power. Big corporations would prefer labor not have power, so what's a good way to take out one of the most powerful labor forces? Turn them back to cogs in the machine without community

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

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Slightly increase a band: M&Ms

We had a cleaning service come by the house today and while they were here I heard another noise and realized our roborock vacuum was going off. Doesn't it know it's been replaced by a human?

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

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Wrote up something small about how I started using interface inheritance to handle inserting into multiple tables at a time in Room, when you have a common type used by multiple Daos and don't want to duplicate code. #AndroidDev androidessence.com/multi-table-...

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

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This is the good shit.

Say it with me for the people in the back (aka, those stuck in the AI slop hype bubble): WRITING CODE HAS NEVER BEEN THE BOTTLENECK.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive. In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

Was part of a record setting crowd tonight! Largest attendance for a professional women's hockey game in the US. Everyone watches women's sports. ❤️

I built a tiny IntelliJ IDEA plugin for something that had been bothering me for years github.com/saket/intell...

Gemini output looks like me trying to convince my ADHD brain to get off the couch.

Can't wait to be part of a potential women's hockey attendance record at MSG next month! 🚨 www.thepwhl.comen/news/2026/ma...

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UI design gallery for Android developers. developer.android.com/design/ui/ga...

Ask anyone who worked at Block/Square what they loved most and I guarantee you the first thing they'll say is "its the people". blog.mmckenna.me/cook-togethe...

I made it to a four digit elo in Chess! ♟️

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️ New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder. Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

Didn't expect to stream today but I was able to make it so going live for an hour to do some chill coding if you're around! twitch.tv/adammc

The Chess hyperfixation continues, excited to try out my new toy.

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If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

Successfully built a widget pulling real data, and a mock preview for the widget picker itself!

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I was watching Jurassic World on my flight, when I looked over and saw the one year old child next to me flipping through a book about dinosaurs. I never actually aged, did I?

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I'll be back to live streaming tonight! What if we revived the TOA app from like two years ago? 👀

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

Today I learned you can press F on the chess.com desktop site to rage smash the board when you're mad.

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date: localthunk.com/blog/im-slow TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done" Please read the blog post for more details

Updates to the space station detail screen to view active crew members 👀

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Hi! I published jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #280! Compose Multiplatform alpha! weight()! Conditional layouts! @adammc.bsky.social on shared element keys! And... composables for audio?!? jetc.dev/issues/280 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

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I wrote something small to celebrate an entire decade since my first blog post. So much of my life has changed since then, and I still have so many ideas for more I can do, but it's nice to just sit and reflect on ten years. androidessence.com/reflecting-o...

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