Romain Guy

Are they aware of all other features? Why is AI getting this preferential treatment? It's weird.

The main problem I have with AI features in *all* the apps where they are present is how desperate the apps look to make me use said features. It's notifications, icons, banners, etc. everywhere. No other features get this treatment. It's weird and obnoxious.

Second Reality, along with the legendary Assembly party were among the earliest influences to the members of Conspiracy. Today we're honoring the 32nd anniversary with a gift to the community: a native 32 bit port of the demo that kicked off the PC demoscene era with a bang.

= 32 bits after 32 years =

We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be.

conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_...
github.com/ConspiracyHu...

I also use em-en dashing and I'm deeply annoyed it would cause folks to think I use LLMs (which I don't)

Exploring PausableComposition internals in Jetpack Compose Explore the internals of the `PausableComposition` API in Jetpack Compose to improve UI performance by pre-composing elements during idle time in Android

Shreyas Patil wrote a nice article about Pausable Composition!

We have been working on designs for this feature for quite a while until Leland asked "Why don't we just skip?". Ben Tengrove did a prototype to prove it would work and voila a feature is born.

blog.shreyaspatil.dev/exploring-pa...

The setup is easy. You might be surprised by the number of requests some devices make though 😕 (I had a Logitech remote I got rid of because it was talking to a remote server twice a minute, 24 hours a day)

If you're willing to go the extra mile, installing something like pi-hole on your network does wonders

I just fell into Gunpla, glad to see it's far from the worst 😂

Will do, thanks!

It's partly what turned me off last time. But it saved me from an impulse buy 😅

How's that deck? I've been tempted to pick one up

If you’ve never read her 1978 interview with Art Bell(?) for Playboy(??) about being trans it’s very good btw www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/nv9352...

Yeah I have this issue with English and French, it's infuriating.

Auto-dubbed videos on YouTube got worse. If I download an auto-dubbed video to watch offline, the original language is unavailable. YouTube doesn’t let you list languages you understand. One day Google will understand that some folks speak more than one language…

Playing around with the UI for fun. Designing such micro-interactions and animations is a breeze thanks to Compose.

P.S. If you didn't catch it, a full vinyl rotation takes exactly 1800ms. That's 33 RPM 🎶💿

Great talk, thanks for sharing! Impressive work too

Vector/path rendering (directly using drawing APIs or formats like SVG) is incredibly powerful. But don't forget that sometimes a simple bitmap is the easiest, cheapest, fastest, and overall best solution 😀

Yesterday was my last day at Google.
What started as a 2-year Green Card journey became 11 amazing years & meeting incredible people.
So many great memories from creating Jetpack to adopting Kotlin.
10/10, would do it again.
It is time to move on though, try new challenges and learn new stuff!

Need reviewers? :)

Indeed, we improved every parts of ADB Wifi pipeline. Besides support in Studio, you need ADB 36.0.1 (to be released soon) and Android 16.

Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3 Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

I wrote about my retro winter adventure where I built my childhood dream PC fabiensanglard.net/2168.

I did the same. It was fine at first when you can work on multiple things, but once you have only a goal or two and you know what to do but can't execute on them because of the RNG... Ugh. Not fun to feel like you're wasting time 😕

Yes absolutely. Because if JNI overhead it's not worth doing it for a single element but for an entire array, it helps a ton (and you can vectorize etc.).

New blog post, in which I show a real-world Kotlin example of manual inlining/merging computations to improve performance: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/m...

I'd have to check the assembly generated for native targets. I'd be surprised if it makes things worse.

New blog post! In this post I explain some of the techniques used to eliminate unnecessary array bounds checks when writing Kotlin code.

www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/e...

Yep exactly what I had in mind as well.

I keep meaning to write a blog post to show an example where a worse big-O is actually faster.

I've been reading the comic book but it's not quite the same. Still enjoyable though