Darshan Parajuli

Everything About Google I/O 2026 for Android Developers. doveletter.dev/release-note...

What a day. I truly enjoyed working with some of the most talented people and will miss that part. It was awesome while it lasted.

To my former colleagues who have been treated so shockingly badly today and for the last few months: Square/Block was the best job I ever had, with many of the best people I ever worked with. None of you deserve to be dicked around like this. It's not you, it's Jack.

Casey Muratori pretty much sums up how I feel about LLMs for coding: "The AI will always be useless for me. I physically can't get what I want from programming when AI is involved, because what it is doing is robbing me of the experience that I wanted to have and the knowledge that I wanted to get"

Why does "Wi-Fi" on notification quick settings have an underscore instead of a hyphen? It's spelled with a hyphen in other places. Weird. #android

It takes 10 DAYS to update a column on a database row somewhere with my phone number?!! bruh...

It'd be nice if Android added a "clear all cache" button that deletes the cache for all apps.

PG&E's password reset page... 🤦‍♂️ #webdev

Tired of opening Android Studio and then immediately stopping the Gradle sync that auto started? If so, I built an IDE plugin just for you! plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26522...

We DO NOT throw perfectly good food away in this house. We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!

Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...

Who else is doing #AdventOfCode this year? My goal to finish this year's AoC before 2025 one lol.

I love Kotlin but please don't abuse its features. I regularly see code like in the first function when you can instead write a simple if statement: it's shorter, easier to read, and doesn't allocate an object! Thankfully both functions compile to the same assembly when R8 is turned on.

I hate "index.lock file exists" error when running git commands, so wrote this tiny wrapper that automatically waits until index.lock file disappears. There are obviously many ways to do this, but writing in #rust seemed the most fun.

@tornorbye.bsky.social and I were just discussing one of his new lint checks, and it reminded me that Kotlin lambdas can lead to boxing of primitive types if you're not careful. A non-inline function that takes a lambda will compile down to the generic Function* types and your primitives will box.

👋 I made a starter pack of past & present Android engs from Block (Square, CashApp..) Ask us what we think about fragments 😜 If you want to be in this lost, you know what to do 😘 block.xyz/careers/jobs... #AndroidDev go.bsky.app/SLiJNP5

Colors can be a confusing for developers who haven't spent time understanding the (deep) topic of color management. The main misunderstanding is see is that the values of an RGB triplets are absolute. They are in fact *relative*.

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