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Sam Edwards

@handstandsam.bsky.social

Human, Dad, Mediocre Handstander, GDE for Android and Kotlin, Engineer at Square/Block | handstandsam.com

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Well, we sat on a plane for 2 hours and finally cancelled 7 hours after the original departure time. Hotel and driving 11 hours tomorrow πŸ€ͺ #mco #jetblue #faa #shutdown

10.11.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopefully this is the last delay🀞 5 hours late so far. #mco

10.11.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

23.10.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9219    πŸ” 4314    πŸ’¬ 764    πŸ“Œ 569

You don’t need to outwork *everyone.*

You don’t need to outsmart *everyone.*

You just need to be better than you were yesterday...

11.10.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

11.10.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6684    πŸ” 1174    πŸ’¬ 458    πŸ“Œ 70

Anyone have an extra #sora2 invite? πŸ™

07.10.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ivoted

02.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Compose Multiplatform 1.9.0 Released:Β Compose Multiplatform for Web Goes Beta | The Kotlin Blog Compose Multiplatform for web is ready for real-world use by early adopters.

blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

22.09.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Handstands at Block by Block 2025 in Oakland, California #bxb2025

19.09.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ The KotlinConf'26 Call for Speakers is OPEN!

Share your Kotlin expertise with the world – server-side, web, desktop, mobile, AI/ML, and more! Submit your proposal and get a chance to speak at the year's biggest Kotlin event!

πŸ‘‰ https://kotl.in/conf26-submittalk πŸ‘ˆ

15.09.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Here is my 2 year old post on Compose Web (WASM): handstandsam.com/2023/09/05/c...
I was super excited then, but I think now it has made it and it's awesome to use. Allowing us to have our same desktop app experience in the browser. Using it in GitHub.com/block/trailblaze and it's πŸ”₯

13.09.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kotlin 2.2.20 Released | The Kotlin Blog The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out! This version delivers important changes for web development and other improvements. Learn more!

Kotlin 2.2.20 Released and Swift Export now enabled by default for Kotlin Multiplatform! #KMP πŸš€
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

10.09.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
AI Mobile Testing - An interview with Sam Edwards & Brian Gardner | droidcon New York 2025
YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon AI Mobile Testing - An interview with Sam Edwards & Brian Gardner | droidcon New York 2025

πŸ€– How is AI changing mobile testing?
At #droidconNYC 2025, @handstandsam.bsky.social & Brian Gardner share how they’re training LLMs as testers + what it means for dev workflows.

πŸ“Ί Watch the interview: youtu.be/bUcbFFd2f-E?...

#AI #MobileTesting #AndroidDev

27.08.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The senior developer you admire was once a beginner who Googled how to add a click listener and then copied the answer from StackOverflow.

They’re not smarter than you, just further ahead.

17.08.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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droidcon & fluttercon Welcome to the home of droidcon and fluttercon! Droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android...

πŸ“’ All talks from droidcon & Fluttercon 2024 are now live!
400+ sessions from SF, NY, Berlin, London, and both Fluttercons β€” all free on YouTube.
Catch up here πŸ‘‰ www.youtube.com/@DroidconDe

#AndroidDev #FlutterDev #droidcon #fluttercon #MobileDev #DevCommunity

28.07.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Driven Mobile Testing - Blazing the Trail at Block - droidcon At Block, we have spent the past several months creating an LLM driven mobile testing framework, β€œTrailblaze”.

The video for my conference talk with @handstandsam.bsky.social is up on the DroidCon site! Check out how we're experimenting with AI-Driven testing at scale at Block and learn more about our new open source library Trailblaze
#Android #AndroidDev #AI #Testing
www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...

23.07.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AutoMobile - droidcon Mobile engineers have a hard time having high confidence when simple changes can have cascading consequences.

AutoMobile #dcnyc25 video of the talk is up!

www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...

23.07.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam

15.07.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam

15.07.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pena Palace and Cabo da Roca in Portugal #handstandsam

11.07.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arco da Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal #handstandsam

10.07.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Berlengas Island near Peniche, Portugal #handstandsam

09.07.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aviero, Portugal #handstandsam

07.07.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't use Type-safe Project Accessors with Kotlin Gradle DSL Another Gradle footgun

Another Gradle footgun

www.zacsweers.dev/dont-use-typ...

02.07.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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PinhΓ£o, Portugal #handstandsam

05.07.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Porto, Portugal #handstandsam

04.07.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one of these days Gradle will implement parallel downloads and I won't have to wait 20 minutes after opening an empty Compose project

02.07.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Way back in the day, when I was just a young kid, I remember my grandmother got a sales call at dinner, where the caller started with a line like, "I'm going to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime..." She interrupted, "I'm a very generous person. You can take it instead!" and hung up.

01.07.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kotlin Coroutine Mechanisms: A Surprisingly Deep Rabbithole Sometimes you think you know coroutines, and then after a while, you’re like, β€œWait, do I really know coroutines?” Inspired by the O’Reilly book _Progra…

Thanks for attending my #dcnyc25 talk! You can find the slides here on Speaker Deck: speakerdeck.com/amanda_hinch...

#AndroidDev #Android

26.06.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I should have scrolled down further. But do you just send a link?

26.06.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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