Siggi Gunnarss

It is unbelievable how many people use AI to write everything. It's like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you. You don't get stronger that way.

Writing is the same: it's a skill that you build by doing it. If you let a machine do all the work,you never develop your own voice

A recent discussion has led me to realize that many folks do not fully grok the parts of Gradle that can be made parallel. By default almost all of Gradle runs in a serial way.

So I wrote a post about it

www.liutikas.net/2025/07/29/P...

#gradle

Do not add Google Play Integrity integration · Issue #10 · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...

The EU app for age verification is... using Google Play Integrity.
Please, consider upvoting the following issue, to bring attention to the fact that this can't be happening under the current circumstances.

github.com/eu-digital-i...

"We argue that the JVM can automatically control the maximum Java heap size and balance CPU and memory consumption better than the user can manually with explicit configuration"

That sounds interesting 👀

openjdk.org/jeps/8359211

How screwed would you be if you lost your Google Account today??

1. Go to takeout.google.com and download a copy of everything, especially if you use Google Photos

2. Instead of using GMail directly, use your own domain and set up forwarding, you can do it for free with Cloudflare even

Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...

Interesting study from Germany on e-bikes and the modes they replace:

"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions"

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Hey @kotlinconf.com, isn't it time to ditch that X field or replace?

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

'They are deliberately killing many, many, many thousands of innocent civilians...They are destroying the whole infrastructure of living here...It's not just bombing the hospitals. They're going in and dismantling all the laboratories, dismantling all the dialysis machines.'

YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains State of Kotlin Wasm and Compose Multiplatform for Web on Modern Browsers | Pamela Hill

My KotlinConf video is now live! If you have an interest in what Kotlin is doing on the modern browser with Wasm and Compose for Web, this is a quick intro!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEB...

It's honestly still staggering to me how good 2001 was for games. So many amazing sequels and brand-new IPs were born that year and many of these sequels are considered the best in their respective franchises or at least ultra influential.

the only free cheese is in the mousetrap!!! OMFG so good

In case you were still using any service owned by Bending Spoons (or any other private equity), I'd recommend seeking alternatives

Git Client from JetBrains - Closed Preview New Git Client by JetBrains - join the Closed Preview Program.

People have been asking for the Git client from IntelliJ to be available as a standalone app for almost a decade.

You can now get it in early access - see the link below for details!

lp.jetbrains.com/clo...

I would submit that there are vested interests which are trying to convince people that solar energy is a lot more complicated than it is and the status quo is a lot simpler than it is.

But whatever.

A very simple framework for going through life is that racists are stupid and most of their ideas and actions are easily explained by stupidity

Europeans, while it's been clear for a long time already, now at the very latest, stop using American services, buying products from US companies wherever possible.
Do you really need the Netflix subscription? Do you need the Nike sneakers? Buy Adidas instead. Consider your spending strategy.

Dear Spotify,

The absolute last thing I want your app to do, on any platform, is to display anything that moves. Stop reopening panels and showing me videos. Please.

PS. I'll also never ever use you to listen to a podcast, so if I could just disable all of that, would be great

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

PROGRAMMER: I've saved so much time!

NARRATOR: They did not save any time whatsoever. In fact, they spent as much time as they claimed to have saved. Again.

bsky.app/profile/metr...

Solar becomes EU’s largest electricity source for the first time The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.

‘Europe is becoming a solar powerhouse’: Solar tops EU electricity as coal sinks to new low share.google/jCbP98a87dpk...

When Kotlin object Stops Being a Singleton Kotlin object looks like a safe singleton but under certain conditions that guarantee silently breaks

Here's your latest reminder to stop using Gson with anything that touches Kotlin, as every alternative is much better.

kotlinx.serialization is especially a great choice to be multiplatform-ready, with whatever code you're writing.

proandroiddev.com/wh...

OkHttp 5.0 has a stable API. 🗿

100,000 Dead: What We Know About Gaza's True Death Toll The death toll in Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, understates the true scale of the crisis, researchers say. Hunger, disease, and Israeli gunfire at food distribution centers have made the war in the Strip one of the bloodiest of the 21st century

This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq.
archive.ph/tfOaG

First we outsource software dev organization to engineering managers, then taste and vision to product managers, then code writing to text bots, and it still does not make better software.
There is no world where you get quality software without experienced engineers who care about their work

YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains Implementing Compose Hot Reload | Sebastian Sellmair

A fascinating talk by @sellmair.dev about the journey in creating the Compose Hot Reload. I highly recommend it!

youtu.be/UebhKUdO2sQ?...