Tom Colvin

Love that Android wireless debugging actually works now 😁

7 years ago

Those ICE / Gestapo comparisons aren't far fetched. Communities protecting themselves from indiscriminate government raids, snatches and horrific violence. It's really sad to see America fall so fast. I've really enjoyed my past time there, working and touring. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...

Happy new year, from me and my new hat

Getting up late and having cake for breakfast

Fact of the day: the space shuttle had 30,000 tiles to make up its heat shield, each of which was different, with a separate part number. The crew attaching them were known as the "Puzzle People"

How do I get rid of these inane AI suggestions? Stupid WhatsApp, I can communicate better than that

The trouble with Eurostar is that At Pancras. Horrible terminus, can't even sit down. Surely trains haven't got any bigger - so presumably it was built at like half the capacity needed

I still value a good StackOverflow answer, from someone who's actually experienced and solved the problem, above an AI-generated solution to it.

Massive @vodafonegroup.bsky.social outage. I guess this about sums it up!

Goodness me, Thessaloniki is already beautiful and I haven't even landed yet ❤️

Ushering in a new period of low productivity

Thanks Google Maps, that really is a highlight

Those smiling faces

I'm not sure it's divisive. Pretty wide agreement that it's bad.

Why is tailrec needed for tail-recursion optimisation in Kotlin? Surely the compiler already knows that a function is tail-recursive, so why do we have to manually request the optimisation?

Important parenting rule: if you wake me up to ask, then the answer is no.

So this:

Google confirms it's 'combining' Chrome OS and Android into a single platform www.androidauthority.com/google-combi...

As dictated by my 3-year-old nephew

Android apps are now better than iOS apps

Hugging Face is a dumb name.

Really interesting: The 80s computers banned by Romania's communist regime arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017...

I tentatively say that Nav3 looks much better than the old Jetpack Navigation library... android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

Thanks @androidweekly.bsky.social for including my article on implementing passkeys in Android! It's here, if you wondered: proandroiddev.com/implementing...

I appreciate that I'm the very last person in the world to notice this - but OMG graphics cards are expensive now!

Once, before digital photography, photos used to come back with these little advice labels. It was literally someone's job at the processing lab to LOOK THROUGH ALL YOUR PHOTOS and stick them on. The lack of privacy of the analogue era is wild!

My article on Android + Passkeys just got published! A full in depth tutorial that builds a working back-end and front-end using Jetpack Credential Manager. proandroiddev.com/implementing... #androiddev #android

“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.” - Carl Sagan

Bit of a jump in followers these last 24h! No idea where you all came from but thank you for wanting to listen to me 😀

They'll claw at you if you even try

Ahh 😌 home is where there's no R above my network symbols

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This photo is from 105 years ago. Unedited, original colour, created by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont using the Autochrome Lumière process. Original in @rijksmuseum.bsky.social Amsterdam

Woohoo, I'm @sessionize.com speaker of the day! 😁😁😁 Need someone to talk about Android or app development at your conference or place of work? Let me know!

I've written 39 articles over the last few years, on Android, coding and app startups. Finally now all linked in one place on my new site: tomcolvin.co.uk/articles

There's nothing like an eye-wateringly expensive API, with your own credit card behind it, to focus the mind on good debugging techniques

French speakers: do you hear a pronunciation difference between "son" and "sans"? They're supposedly different phonemes but my English ears can't hear it.

The Compose strong skipping mode does not fix the stability issue with Kotlin collections. Here’s a post on the main things to watch out for when using them 👇 open.substack.com/pub/effectiv...

You can deploy a whole Express app in Firebase, for free: medium.com/@gisselle.po...

Feels like a never-ending job

"I started reading it, then I fell asleep" - my partner, when asked to read over my latest blog article 💤🌛

My partner's car's satnav reroutes immediately to any location I send it on the app. So I can now send her rude words whilst she's driving.