Sam Edwards

Transforming my top of the line 2014 MacBook Pro into an Ubuntu machine to give it a new life. Mac you've been good, but Mac OS 11 doesn't cut it. 🫡

Android is now Compose-first: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... It was years in the making, and I'm happy to see it's finally here!

Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...

Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 was released last week. It improves your iOS and web experience with experimental native iOS text input, concurrent rendering on iOS by default, smoother scrolling on the web, and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Explore what’s new 👇 https://kotl.in/01k82s

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

Last minute conference submission to @droidcon.bsky.social usa.droidcon.com 😅 🤞

KotlinPoet 2.3.0 supports typealias declarations inside types, has new convenience API for adding annotations and ships with a healthy dose of bug fixes. Time for a version bump! 🤜🤛 github.com/square/kotli...

Koog is going polyglot! Built in Kotlin, it now also offers an idiomatic API for Java teams. Share this with your Java colleagues so they can start building agent workflows without leaving their favorite ecosystem 👇

Jumped from 20 TPS to 80 TPS ⚡ on my M4 Pro. The trick is that this version uses a MoE architecture with 3 billion active parameters. That makes it way faster. I was running the base model via GGUF (ollama), and now running on MLX (vlm - because this is a vision model too).

Just deleted five 1-1s from my calendar for this week since none of them work with me anymore. 😬

Claude Code permissions UX

Gemini just gave me feedback: "This is arguably the most rigorous, agent-friendly documentation system I've seen. Your repository is now fully structured for rapid, autonomous development." - We are all totally having to change the way "we" work to make "them" effective. 🤖

Really nice episode on the history of Kotlin and the future of programming languages by Andrey Breslav & @pragmaticengineer.com https://pca.st/episode/8d6081d6-3419-4e9a-bbf7-332257cf7da2

Yes, this!

The last month has been a non-stop (nights & weekends) wild ride of coding with agents and shipping. I've been genuinely excited and learned so much. Definitely am burned out, and glad for the long holiday weekend with fun things to do and no computer. So many ideas that will have to wait. 😂

Valentine 💘 or openclaw.ai 🦞

ChatGPT spotted in the Barnes and Noble magazine section.

So... this work got done in under an hour using this strategy w/Firebender and multiple parallel agents using Claude Opus 4.5. How long will it be before these estimates get updated to new agent development strategies in these models? 😱🤖

I'm at about 12 "You're absolutely right!" messages today from Claude. I guess I've still got a job for a little while.

Learning about Open Telemetry Specs. Always heard of it, but never used it. This viewer was helpful to visualize: github.com/CtrlSpice/ot...

Ktor 3.4.0 is out! 🎉 The release improves stability and brings new features: 🔶 Zstd compression 🔶 OkHttp duplex streaming 🔶 Structured concurrency for the HTTP request lifecycle 🔶 OpenAPI generation from code Read the blog post for details ⬇️ https://kotl.in/n31gtm

I always thought it was CloudFare from hearing people mention it, but it's CloudFlare it seems. Just in case anyone else didn't realize that either... 🫣

@johnoreilly.dev You were mentioned as Firebender was trying to upgrade to the latest Compose Multiplatform and Navigation 3. 😲

Here's our overview and links to our initial materials to help you with AGP 9.0 migrations of your Kotlin projects! blog.jetbrains.com/k... More to come later still, such as updates in the KMP wizard and in our samples.

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 is out! 🎉 What’s new: ✨ Common @​Preview annotation 🧭 Support for Navigation 3 on non-Android targets 🔥 Stable and bundled Compose Hot Reload Learn more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/01/compose-multiplatform-1-10-0/

🎧 Episode 300 is now out! 🎧 From Vibe Coding → Software Engineering Announcing our biggest pivot and our new cohost @iurysouza.dev 🤭 You have to listen to the episode just to hear Iury's take on AI. 🤭 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/300

Thank you @androidweekly.bsky.social for featuring my latest post! handstandsam.com/2026/01/07/h...

Spec-driven Development is not Task-driven AI martinelli.ch/spec-driven-...

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

This is a really good talk youtu.be/eIoohUmYpGI?...

Every year is the year of Kotlin Multiplatform

2026 is the year of Kotlin Multiplatform!

I just pulled in the Navigation 3 library for the first time in a KMP project. I can't tell you if it is any good since I didn't write the code myself... But it's working!

Extremely minimal Compose Multiplatform sample that demonstrates use of on-device AI on iOS and Android. github.com/joreilly/OnD... #CMP #KMP #AI Just basic initial implementation so far that uses the following: 👉 Foundation Models Framework (iOS) 👉 MLKit Prompt API (Android)

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

You don’t need to outwork *everyone.* You don’t need to outsmart *everyone.* You just need to be better than you were yesterday...