Sasikanth

✨ New Twine update rolling out ✨

In case you're wondering what the perf changes are, it's handling unnecessary recompositions because of dynamic theming I had implemented 😅

Thank you 😃

New Pinnit update rolling out with bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements.

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Yeah, one of the other options I was thinking was making it part of onboarding, so that they can at least select certain categories and app automatically adds some of the popular feeds. At least that way user can see the related topics they like when they are opening the app for first time.

TIL, there is `retryWhen` extension function for Kotlin flows. That's neat!

Have you tried pre-populating some feeds? I am doing that on Twine and so far I haven't received a warning for the category.

I don't like the idea of adding some feeds, but went with some popular options.

Oh yeah, it has bunch of issues. I was just curious if LookAheadScope will work with lazy layouts at all.

@sebastiano.dev it looks like LookAheadScope and animateBounds is enough to animate the LazyVerticalGrid cell changes.

Obviously the transition isn’t perfect but I think adjusting animation timings and playing around with fade spec for other items should improve it.

Let’s go! Finally we can match shadows from Figma properly without drawing them on canvas (at least that’s what I did in the past 😂)

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models. The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

This is very good.

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Add support for Fresh RSS Google Reader API integration by msasikanth · Pull Request #1215 · msasikanth/twine This should support other services that expose Google Reader compatible API as well fixes: #267

Nowhere close to done, but finally starting to setup Fresh RSS Google Reader API integration for Twine 👀

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be even sadder and bloodier More cyber sequels.

Oh god! Not another trauma filled story from night city 🙃

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This is a nice addition to Android Studio/Intellij Idea. I can just quickly test out all my API calls without having to switch to a different app.

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Fully deserved! Your new PC video is amazing, keep on making these videos :D

Thanks for posting this. Going through this, I have been getting more and more anxious. But it's better to just take a short break and be a little bit more kind to myself 😅

‎Twine - RSS Reader ‎Twine offers a beautiful user experience to browse your RSS feeds Features: - Supports RDF, RSS, Atom and JSON feeds - Feed management: Add, Edit, Remove & Pin feeds - Feed grouping - Access to pinn...

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It’s been a little over 2 years since me and @pratti.bsky.social started working on Twine.

v2 of Twine is now available on App Store and Play Store

- Updated designs
- New layout modes
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts widget
- Reader customisations

links 👇

Migrate from Decompose to Compose Navigation and ViewModel by msasikanth · Pull Request #1171 · msasikanth/twine Add ViewModel and Navigation dependencies Add Compose back handler dependency Migrate from Decompose to Compose Navigation and ViewModel Remove decompose and essenty dependencies Animate pop transi...

Well that took a bit of an effort. Time to work on shared element transitions next.

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Implement smarter refresh strategy when refreshing content by msasikanth · Pull Request #1167 · msasikanth/twine Add lastUpdatedAt and refreshInterval to Feed.sq Add query to fetch posts count for a given feed Add queries to update last updated at and refresh interval of a feed Implement dynamic refresh inter...

One more important change in the next version of Twine.

There is no reason to update all feeds at same interval. So, essentially ranking them based on their update freq and updating each feeds refresh interval.

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It’s just combination of animateBounds and AnimatedContent.

I place my changing view in AnimatedContent and then applied animatedBounds modifier to outer shell

✨New transition in Twine✨

No more manually importing the enum types 🙌🏾

I thought about it before, but it just felt weird cutting the OPML. But it’s worth a try.

Just to add, you can already try out the app now. It doesn't have the new paywall structure yet and you can use OPML importing to try out your feeds.

Please let me know if there are any issues with it.

fwiw, app does offer 7 days free trial and you can import an OPML in that period, and app will continue with those feeds even if the trial ends and you don't feel like paying.

Eventually I might start making some of the older paid features as free, and introduce newer features in the app.

That's a completely valid point. I was trying to figure out a way to balance out what features I keep behind paywall, and I didn't want to lock too many existing things in the app.

Since I am limiting 10 feeds in free version, went with OPML import since it can allow adding large number of feeds

Added first paid feature of Twine. I should be able to release an update by end of today or tomorrow.

Few shows I have been watching lately that I like

- Lazarus (Anime)
- Nine Puzzels
- Clarkson’s Farm
- Murderbot

Any remote Android engineering roles available? 👀

All my free time is consumed by this game now, not particularly good at it though yet 😂