Pablo Baxter

Paparazzi version 2.0.0-alpha05 has shipped! Highlights include: support for the new Android library multiplatform plugin and decoupling from JUnit 4 through new setup/teardown hooks! github.com/cashapp/papa...

Gotta say, VA healthcare has gotten a lot better recently. Got an appointment for the next day for a small medical issue and walked out with medication. I jokingly asked for a sucker (lollipop) and got handed a gun lock instead. 🤷

Hard to understate how massive of a performance gain this is. This is going to make your app faster with no work other than upgrading AGP (I know that it is not easy to do)

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Beers, tacos, and open source, oh my!

Let's talk AGP 9.0 by @zsmb.co. A perfectly cut 20:00 runtime. 👏 youtu.be/m0Cq6J-V_RY

Please don't boycott OSS... Follow the authors, maintainers, and contributors to them, as many of them will continue to support their projects regardless of the company they go to. Also, if you can, sponsor these individuals too! Many of them have links for sponsorship on their Github profiles.

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Most of you have heard about Block's 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder, we've lost close to 70% of our engineers. Our leadership is plagued by false promises of "intelligence". The company you once knew as a prolific OSS contributor no longer exists.

A short post about an **internal** tracing feature inside of Gradle www.liutikas.net/2026/02/25/o... #gradle #performance #perfetto

😭 for all my ex colleagues at Square. You all made this place a wonderful place to work at ♥️ I'm still there... Scratching my head, wondering how we can keep things up for our customers

Estimates are that 70% of Block engineering was laid off today.

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.

Beer and anger do not mix....

I suspect it will be a different watershed moment: Jack has just torpedoed Square and Cash App, and when real people start losing real money as a result this will become the horror story that people point to when warning of the limits of AI driven coding.

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

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.

Almost all of Cash Mobile Engineering was laid off today. None of us have any clue what their rubric was for choosing who stayed and who went, but whatever it was, I'm on the job market again!

"Don't mind me, I'm just vibe coding a whole ass feature to commit before a Friday release."

So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213... Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

Thanks @mbonnin.net for making me realize I never posted the AGP 9 tracker on Bluesky. If you are having issues with a Gradle plugin working with AGP 9 and want to know if/when it will be fixed, check out: agp-status.frybits.com/agp-9.0.0/ Don't see the plugin listed? Add it! PRs are welcome!

AGP9 is sooo 2025! New page for your 2026 Gradle project isolation tracking from @pablobaxter.com ! agp-status.frybits.com/gradle-proje...

My day with the crappy AI I deal with daily. AI: * Makes a sound and great decision * Me: Wow, that's a great suggestion! AI: Actually, let's not do what I just suggested for these reasons.... * Gives the most bullshit reasons * Me:

Excited to see a project I worked get to release! techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/l...

Watching UFO and alien documentaries right now, and as much as I want to believe they are among us, this is probably their take on humanity...

This week's #JetpackReleaseNotes includes Window 1.5.0, Compose Material3 1.4.0 plus bug fixes in Compose 1.9.2, Navigation 2.9.5, Room 2.8.1, Sqlite 2.6.1, Wear Compose 1.5.2, and WorkManager 2.10.5. developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...