Shawn Rainbow

There are a lot of benefits of building for local-first offline-only. Offline apps are severely underrated. You don't need a server for most things (terms might vary; we're building different things, too).

Release 2.3.0 · google/ksp What's Changed KSP1 has been deprecated #2657 KSP is now independent of Kotlin Versions #2658 Full Changelog: 2.2.20-2.0.4...2.3.0

KSP is now independent of Kotlin versioning!

github.com/google/ksp/r...

Geodesics on spheres are always arcs of great circles. Geodesics on a cylinder can be segments of spirals, though.

Geodesics are (in one definition, at least) the shortest distance paths between two points on a surface.

I personally keep all my app modules together in an app folder (so technically they are submodules of :app), and also stick a kmp :app:shared module in there as the entry point for all of the platforms. Then everything else is just pure kmp modules (no "shared" prefix needed)

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

Y'all gotta stop buying smart TVs, so they stop making them. There is literally nothing appealing about them.

My TV doesn't show me ads when I'm just turning it on. It can't be ruined by a software update. It turns on and off when I want it to. It immediately responds to all inputs.

I wonder if "Accessibility" would be less of an afterthought, and more people would be interested in it, if we renamed it "Best Practices"

Magic the Gathering card with text "Exquisite Blood. Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life"

Magic the Gathering card with text "Sanguine Bond. Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life."

The very first infinite combo I discovered on my own while building decks in Magic the Gathering

Which is all to say that @johnoreilly.dev is right here, but it applies 100x more when someone raises an issue about clarity and confusion.

If someone says they don't understand a process, then the documentation of that process needs to be created or updated, etc.

After thinking about it for another minute or two, I realized he couldn't be wrong. A piece of code is confusing if someone reads it and is confused, which was the case here. Objectively, he had to be right to at least some degree.

Early in my career, I wrote a piece of code that I thought was the most beautiful idiomatic piece of Kotlin code one could write. My manager commented in the code review that it was confusing.

My gut reaction was that he was wrong and probably too entrenched into Java idioms still...

It always seemed insane to me that I was in the minority in grad school for preferring whiteboards. When I asked people why they preferred chalk, they would often tell me that whiteboards are messy? Like... messier than chalk?

Neat. What defines a "valid" location? Not within a distance of r from any other point?

Model holding a concept version of the Project Ara phone. It features a number of modules in colored plastic or metal, a camera, and a simple display screen for the back.

I'm sad that Project Ara never came to be. The idea of modularity for a phone was a cool idea. Definitely get why it never went anywhere, but dang it would have been cool.

The idea was you buy a phone chassis and then modules that give features, storage, extra battery, etc.

Birth cerificate: born Jan 01, 1970 at midnight on null island to parents "" and "".

Arguments and return values of your service methods should be models and not services.

Constructor injected objects should be services (most of the time).

The "glue" in this article is going to include the things that do actually take services as arguments/return values (like your DI framework).

Services/injectables should have their own unit tests.

Models/newables are tested implicitly by the unit tests of the services they're used in, and thus shouldn't need their own unit tests.

Knowing this difference is important if you are trying to write clean testable code w/ dependency injection:

Services/injectables should always be injected as a dependency where they are used and you should use test doubles where they are injected.

Models/newables should never use test doubles

To add to the nomenclature of this short article:

I have also seen "value classes" defined as "models", "entities", and "newables"

"Service objects" would equivalently be "services" or "injectables"

Lol, it's me at a punk show.

That's a really interesting bug. I don't think I fully understand why the objects aren't instantiated when the companion object is instantiated, though. Seems like a language bug rather than a dev-side bug to me.

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

Wrote a lot of thoughts on junior developers, AI, and what I strongly feel is going to become the defining challenge of our industry's next generation.

www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-re...

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

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This is a very well written article that explains what LLMs (and Machine Learning algorithms in general) actually are. Highly recommended read for anyone who actually uses these tools (most people).

This picture just made me realize how great the design of Star Destroyers are.

Kind of insane, since Metro's not even at 1.0... But it is pretty damn good and is my current default choice already (with an extremely bright future)

It's here! (as is the new Lorde album, btw)

YouTube video by The Kabin Studio “The Spark” - Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew

It's been over a year and this song still goes 100x harder than it has any right to (The Spark by Kabin Crew, aka a bunch of Irish preteens):

youtu.be/njE3EknkkBY?...