Excited to launch my new book, Practical Kotlin Deep Dive 🎉 It takes you from “how to use Kotlin” into “how Kotlin really works,” revealing the internal implementations, desmifying bytecodes and compiler behavior, and internals that shape the language. kotlin.skydoves.me

We're thinking of doing following hike in Northern Spain this June......pointed #Gemini to this page and it created nice training program for us! www.macsadventure.com/holiday-571/...

Working on side projects is my gardening 🙂

Dog faithfully guarding my son while he works on his car 😃

I made a couple of unsuccessful attempts at using AI coding agent to update project to use Kotlin Multiplatform version of the Navigation 3 library.....I probably should have done this before but what finally worked was pointing it to existing repo that was using that library!

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...

Neat blog series from Mounir Boudraa about how they're using Circuit with native SwiftUI for their KMP iOS apps! www.quo.com/blog/moderni...

Landscapist 2.8.0 introduces a new core networking system! 🚀 It's very lightweight, highly performant, KMP/CMP-first, and fully compatible with all existing Landscapist image libraries. skydoves.github.io/landscapist/...

Form․ai now published to Play Store. Have several enhancements I'll hopefully add soon. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Again I think this is example of kind of activity that we should be happy to delegate to an AI coding agent!

Wembanyama free throw looks good....not too surprisingly 😃🏀 Continue to be very impressed by ability and speed of Gemini 3 Flash!

Christmas day walk on the beach in Galway....and what amazing weather for it! Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir ó Ghaillimh! 🎅

🏆Junie, powered by Gemini 3 Flash, ranks #1 on Terminal-Bench 2.0 with a success rate of over 64%. Junie is now available in JetBrains IDEs — and there’s more. We’re excited to share that Junie CLI is coming soon. https://jb.gg/ecer6x

Stanford CS230 | Lecture 8: Agents, Prompts, and RAG www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nj... Really nice overview of Agentic AI ecosystem. Also, are you a Centaur or a Cyborg? 😀

📢 The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest deadline is January 12! Students and recent grads, this is your chance to win a trip to KotlinConf 2026 in Munich – with tickets and hotels covered. All valid entries receive Kotlin souvenirs! Take part ⤵️ kotl.in/cntst-rmdr

KMP-NativeCoroutines preparing for transition to Swift Export github.com/rickclephas/... "Once Swift export is complete and stable it'll likely completely remove the need for KMP-NativeCoroutines."

Why would you "manually" code something like this any more?!

I added running as option in Form․ai app (me on treadmill here in this case!)....analysing for posture, foot strike, cadence, and arm drive. Any suggestions for other sports (baseball comes to mind but no way of testing that here 😀)?

You can't just let an agent loose on a repo and hope for the best. Coding is personal, so you'll likely have to build your preferences into the agent before you can trust it, and that means a lot of trial and error. Getting this right requires actual effort. iurysouza.dev/agentic-codi...

Publishing the Form․ai #KMP app to the Play Store atm and of course asked Gemini (Nano Banana Pro) to create feature graphic! 😀

Junie is really handy for these types of modifications. Speed of Gemini 3 Flash also makes iterating on stuff like this so much easier!

Making more progress on Form.ai (name suggested by Gemini 😀). Son also pointed out that the app of course doesn't have to be specific to golf (have custom prompts for both golf and basketball now and will probably add more)! Again this is using Gemini 3 Flash.

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

Android Studio Panda in Canary now! 🐼

Adopting Kotlin Multiplatform: A Practical Guide to Unifying Codebases medium.com/workday-engi... Cool to see that Workday has been adopting #KMP

Off this week and making good progress on talk preparation. Planning on doing a live coding session and very happy with how the pieces are falling together.

Thank you Junie, that worked! 😀

Gemini 3 Flash now the default model for the Junie AI coding agent. Nearly matches Gemini 3 Pro but significantly faster and cheaper.

Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 9: Career Advice in AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZo... Such an insightful and topical presentation by Laurence Moroney....focussed at least partly on those working in the AI space but can be applied to tech in general.

Followed instructions in blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2025/12/b... to add LangFuse (langfuse.com) tracing for the ClimateTraceKMP Koog AI Agent (part of github.com/joreilly/Cli...). Really useful option and super easy to set up!

Google AI Studio’s Interactions API for Gemini models and agents share.google/pzBYniBRejl7... The lines between agents, models and tools seem to be getting blurrier these days!

Adapted Romin Irani's Python example in medium.com/google-cloud... to use Kotlin. This is based on Java version of the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) in our case and some of the newly announced Google MCP Services.....along with use of Gemini as the LLM. #AI

Yay, off work until January (starting to make use of the unlimited PTO we have at work)!

I didn't fully appreciate before how useful NotebookLM (notebooklm.google) was. My son has college exams at the moment and has all his course notes and related material in a notebook.....from which he can then for example generate video overviews, flashcards and quizzes.

Tutorial: Getting Started with Google MCP Services medium.com/google-cloud... Nice option to have (tying it out here in MCP Inspector)!

Seems like very few Android only libraries being released these days....they're Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform from the outset.

How can a company like Apple, given all the really impressive stuff they do, produce something as bad (and buggy!) as App Store Connect!

It's very easy to be skeptical about certain aspects of current AI hype but as a whole it's here to stay and we'll need to adapt.

As year comes to an end this is probably talk I'm most happy with. I'm my own worst critic and definitely aspects of presentation that can be improved upon but seems like content is useful (as with all talks it "sits" on top of ton of open source effort) www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Bq...

This is 8th time visiting office in London this year and definitely the easiest trip I've had to make since starting to work remotely around 15 years ago (that includes 10+ years travelling to US west coast around every 3 months). So nice being able to fly from Shannon airport.

Demis Hassabis and Veritasium's Derek Muller talk AI, AlphaFold and human intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe2a... Sage advice! "Be prepared that things are going to move even faster....learn about adapting and learning to learn...learning quickly to adapt to a new technology"

Another Berlin company hiring people for a Kotlin Multiplatform project #KMP www.sumup.com/careers/posi...

Looks like a nice morning for my commute in to work 😃

Migrating a Jetpack Compose app to Kotlin Multiplatform kotlinlang.org/docs/multipl... #KMP

Not feeling very confident about my flight from Shannon to Heathrow going ahead this afternoon! #StormBram

"Starting December 22, 2025, Fleet will no longer be available for download. We are now building a new product focused on agentic development." blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/1...

Thought I'd ask Gemini for a joke 😀

One more Nano Banana Pro generated infographic! #KMP #CMP

Looks like Swift Export hit a pretty big milestone in last night's dev build with coroutine cancellation now working! 🎉 #KMP Have created minimal sample to test it out. github.com/joreilly/Swi...

Had another go at creating an infographic using Nano Banana Pro....this time "'Create an infographic showing architecture of a Compose Multiplatform application" #KMP #CMP