Bridget Phillips

This executive order would remove those restrictions for lots and lots of tech companies.

It's not just that they will respond by cheating us. It's that they have *already* responded to the lack of enforcement by cheating us.

Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation - The American Prospect The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.

New fun US political item to keep eyes on: prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...

At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.

Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account.

So that's nice.

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If you start watching this and think "Oh, huh, that's kinda weird" just keep letting it ride, my friend

Cash Android Moves to Metro The Cash Android team have completed the migration to Metro.

Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...

Here's the beef, btw:

Cash Android Moves to Metro The Cash Android team have completed the migration to Metro.

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We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android...

DING IS NING

(@egorand.dev did the thing.)

You gotta make that boy some etouffee

Gotta categorical imperative, though. The argument must play itself out.

To politicize everything is unsustainable. But some politics cannot be set aside without a real compromise.

I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community

But, y'know, it's dumb! It's very dumb!

And it's Florida's way of signaling, "Hey! We aren't your home! We don't welcome the same people as you! We don't have the same values as you!"

You can drink in Dubai, but I can't use the women's bathroom in Florida.

So, y'know. That's what it is.

I have so much appreciation for the organizers of this conference, which has always been a highlight of my year, and I know they could not have made this decision lightly. And I hate to be a special snowflake. It's just a bathroom, after all. I feel a little out of place wherever I go right now.

Droidcon NYC->Orlando is pretty rough.

This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences.

And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.

You might not believe me, but there is actually a movie about exactly that

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I can't tell you how concerning this is.

Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...

That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.

Me too

I'm not saying that nobody can ever cowboy a library up and have it be awesome. But if you want to learn from *this* example?

Writing a shitload of code would not have been sufficient by itself. It takes years for an overnight success, as they say — years of collaboration and contribution

Square has/had pathologically complex needs — that's why Anvil came out of that shop. Selling Square on Metro was huge for being an Anvil successor, and it required migration to be seamless in complex integrations.

You can't do that alone. You have to live in each other's heads to ship that.

There are projects like git that just wipe the slate clean and expect people to learn things a new and different way. But a dagger+anvil successor was never going to be like that — Android is so mature that migrations can be truly hellish.

Second, temperamentally Metro is the opposite of a DJB-style one person "I'm going to do this, but right" show. It is jam packed with APIs and decisions that are there to make contributors and consumers happy and successful.

Knowledge comes through work. I learn that every time I start a writing project — you just have to write code and see what works and what doesn't. Ain't no easy way

I say that because I had seriously talked about the idea of working on a dagger2 successor myself. But could I have done it? I am delusional, as a rule, but almost certainly no — b/c I know nothing about the compiler side, I just have API opinions

First, he didn't just waltz in. I was ranting about the need for a dagger2 successor for a while on social media; Zac, otoh, had been doing the grunt work of helping to maintain Anvil for ages

This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself

Or use dinosaur rules and just eat the smaller car

Same experience here. It was something on the Embarcadero that invited engagement, not just observation.