Nate Ebel

Didn't realize how much I had missed the caramel apple suckers 😀

Finally found some time to mess around with the Gemini CLI and the Docker MCP Toolkit and there's definitely a bit of ✨ magic ✨ to just managing some simple github tasks through plain human language at the command line. and adding the GitHub tools using the docker toolkit was surprisingly easy

Also, there's a comment in there about AI agents handling on-call duties; and that idea both excites and terrifies me 😅

YouTube video by OpenAI Context Engineering & Coding Agents with Cursor

I found this to be a pretty interesting look at where coding and AI tools have come from, and where they might be going. In particular, some of the ideas shared about multi-agent interactions gave me some fun food for thought.

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Resisting the urge to buy the Switch 2 ZA bundle given I still haven't finished Expedition 33 yet 😬

YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains Your Voice Belongs Here: Creating Compelling KotlinConf Proposals

I'm super proud of this webinar for underrepresented communities to CFP for KotlinConf. It has been a goal of mine to have this type of encouraging event since I started at JetBrains, and now you can watch the video 🥰

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

Shrinking Elephants Managing very large projects with Gradle and Intellij IDEA-based IDEs

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE

engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki...

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Also loading up on delicious baked goods today 😍

Soaking up some Cali sun this weekend ☀️😎

Let's see what this #GoogleIO Dev keynote has for us...

👀 "Eliminating most limitations of interop in Kotlin/JS"

Anyone using Telepresence to communicate with services in your k8s cluster from locally running services within a Docker Compose environment?

Trying to get it working and can it understand why I can hit one service in the cluster, sometimes, but not the rest 😵‍💫

Really wish I was heading to KotlinConf.

We've spent the past ~18 months rebuilding our core platform on Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform and now some Compose Multiplatform as well and I've got the itch to share about the cool work we've done! Crossing my fingers for next year 🤞

That's what has prompted my little emergency deep dive into the optimization. Our new CMP project is worked amazing so far for porting over some non-trivial functionality but for a still relatively small project we were already feeling the pain of linking.

Using Parallels is a really interesting idea when targeting those other desktop platforms 😀

Are there hoops to jump through to get it deployed onto those virtualized machines?

Are you using internal and @/HiddenFromObjC together generally? Or do you use a set of team guidelines/conventions to dictate when to use one or both?

Very interesting. I hadn't come across those before or looked into the linker much. Sounds like I should. Thanks for the tip!

"Avoid release at all cost" definitely seems like the right strategy.

This seems to be the place to start for tackling this problem. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on where to start optimizing.

kotlinlang.org/docs/native-...

This was a timely find in my feed. We've been feeling some of these build time pain points in our new CMP project.

The article confirms a lot of my suspicions about where to start optimizing but also some stuff I hadn't seen before.

Thanks for sharing!

I'm not sure if maybe we should avoid building a Release build type for the simulator target by default since most the time we'd just want the Debug build type 🤔

This has been a problem for us in our other KMP project, and nothing short of throwing more powerful CPUs at it seemed to help much. We eventually just introduced some build flags so we could run most builds against just the JVM target for local dev but our CI build times are still pretty awful.

Just avoid running any task that runs more than one linking task at a time? Maybe paired with doing most local dev again Android or Desktop first then test on iOS?

What are folks doing to minimize the impact of slow native linking build tasks for the iOS targets in Compose Multiplatform projects?

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it!

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Every time I think I have PagerDuty escalation policy settings figured out... someone on the team gets alerted in the middle of night for a low-priority issue and I'm reminded that I apparently understand nothing 😑

That sure would be nice!

The Jetpack Compose and internals course is the result of years of deep exploration, experience working on Compose initiatives at big tech, and writing the Jetpack Compose Internals book 🧵

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform Adaptive Layouts is a way of adapting your UI to fit different display sizes on Android, and it's now available for Compose Multiplatform.

This @touchlab.co post has been super useful in getting up to speed with adaptive layout apis for Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform touchlab.co/adaptive-lay...

Managed to get access to WindowSizeClass across both Android and iOS.

Will hopefully get more time tomorrow to really start experimenting with nav rail and some of the more tailored Scaffold implementations.