Matt McKenna

Github PR settings menu showing options: Unified, Split (selected), Minimize comments (selected), Hide whitespace, Compact line height (selected).

TIL about the "Minimize comments" option in Github PRs.

Hide all pre-existing review comments on a PR to review without distraction.

Exactly! It's become a big pet peeve of mine.

Stop Calling AI a “Junior Engineer” They are tools, not teammates

Stop calling AI a "junior engineer"

blog.mmckenna.me/stop-calling...

You should read this super cool blog from Tom!

This is a result of a month long investigation where he found a core bug in the Android Framework USB handling code that led to VM freezes.

engineering.block.xyz/blog/ending-...

#AndroidDev

Nice! How did they track the results?

Does anyone run internal bug bounty, code deletion, fixit weeks, or other gamified things to add some focused fun to their teams flow?

If so are there products or other ways in which you host leader boards, call outs, prizes?

This is one of those things that actually connects the dots on useful AI and has some real "wow" moments.

The accessibility implications of this are incredible.

🪿📱Introducing Goose Mobile

An exciting new experimental project in the goose ecosystem!

Goose Mobile is an open agent that runs directly on your Android device, designed to maximize automation of your everyday tasks.

github.com/block/goose-...

10/10 would tip

Flow marbles illustrating filter and map.

Remember the marble diagrams used to explain RxJava?

My brilliant colleague Kostya 🧙‍♂️ has made an interactive explainer for Kotlin Flows to match!

Find the magic here: terrakok.github.io/FlowMarbles/

Ready Layer One: Intro to the Model Context Protocol Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connects AI to the real world. We'll explore the Model Context Protocol using the Kotlin SDK letting an Agent control Android devices with ADB! We’ll liv...

Hey! Sorry for the delay in getting these up.

Here's a link! Let me know if you have any questions too 😁

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/re...

YouTube video by Brandon Sanderson Artists on AI - Intentionally Blank EP. 212

Just watched this take from fiction authors on AI.

It's very interesting to see the correlation between disciplines: software engineering vs creative writing

youtu.be/fTIyTuAArtw?...

The quick settings internet tile on Android 16 on a pixel 9 pro showing Wi-Fi with a hyphen.

Weird. What device or OS? Mine is fine. Pixel 9 Pro, Android 16.

Love this idea!

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Slides and details of my #dcnyc25 talk last week on scaling large code bases. github.com/ericmaxwell2...

Thanks! I gotta get the slides up soon.

Lmk if you have questions! Just presented this topic.

Yes!

Not to brag but me and @mmckenna.me got to be up close and personal to @duolingoverde.bsky.social 's butt last night!
The things dreams are made of!
#dcnyc25 @droidcon.bsky.social

Probably even more fun 🫣

Hell yea!

Can I give this a shout out?

Very cool! I'll be demoing the same idea in the talk, but not as robust.

Whoa! This is sweet. Very similar to the crux of my talk!

Do you mind if I give this a shout out?

Thanks! 🙏

Sweet! Do you mind if I include these links on a "learn more" type slide?

Wow this sounds really cool! Do you have examples anywhere?

And yea they are terrible at doing _new_ things haha 😁

Anyone making cool MCP servers? Especially with the Kotlin SDK?

I'm giving a talk next week at #DroidconNYC and would love some examples to point people to!

I'm excited to be speaking at #DroidconNYC next Thursday, hope to see you there!

I'll be covering how to handle configuration changes in Compose, and specifically trying to answer the question of what you should put in android:configChanges and - probably more importantly - why.

#AndroidDev

Live now! Exploring navigation3 again, hopefully getting into persisting backstack:

twitch.tv/adammc