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good to know doc, time for me and Rory to start grinding the discography 🫡

I'm ecstatic to learn that I'm 2 full DLC's behind on The Rise of the Golden Idol 😍

One suggestion for doing dev work with #claude code or some other ai - document the prompts you used to get to your current result. I often compose my prompts in a separate md file that acts as a record after the fact. But you can always prompt the helper to "print a list of prompts I used", etc.

Still haven't beaten the main quest after hundreds of hours 🙃❤️

a happy hacking keyboard professional classic on a wooden desktop

Alright it's growing on me quickly. #hhkb #topre

If using Gemini in Android Studio is not your cup of tea, you can now use whatever model you want via API key! Now available in latest canaries developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

#topre / #hhkb day one impressions:

- finding delete (backspace) is my main friction based on my previous keyboard
- the switches feel closer to a dome than an mx switch
- cap profile taking a little getting used to
- looks sick

D&D started to go downhill when @toddkenreck.bsky.social stopped shaving his head. Coincidence? #dnd #wotc

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

AI as a force multiplier.

"Junior developers using AI cause damage 4x faster than without it"

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

I bought an HHKB in 2025. AMA. #mechanicalkeyboards

asciiflow.com can be super helpful when you're trying to get your LLM to help you with weird UI issues during development. #dev #androiddev

Sunrise at Mount Fuji

My local coffee spot changed their sip lids and I hate the new ones. Do I bring it up?

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

No child should go hungry. 🌍

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Wasting Light

When I was in college I remember a semester where I measured the time I spent studying for finals in the library by the number of times I listened to this particular Foo Fighters album. #music #unrelatable

open.spotify.com/album/5lnQLE...

Today Claude helped me get over the hump of just utter brain fog and exhaustion to fix a minor UI bug, simply by finding something for me in the code that my tired human eyes couldn't see. IDK if I have a comment, but it's maybe the most useful interaction I've had so far with one of these tools.

It’s either that kind of thing or dating apps for the elderly, ambulance chasers, ED meds, etc.

I’m getting what I deserve for watching golf round reruns but yeesh.

The battery pack being sold by ex-military grifters selling independence from the “failing grid”. With bonus solar panels. Like bro why do you think the grid might be failing and how’s the battery gonna help. You’ve been voting against solar infrastructure for your whole life.

Watching Golf Channel on linear TV with the in-laws this weekend and I swear 90% of the commercials seem like blatant satire.

I wonder where Android sits in the list of priorities right now. Not to mention they continue to lay people off. Can't be going too smoothly over there.

A few little updates to the site dropped today (content & style). Forever tweaking 🤓

ajkueterman.com

import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue

These 2 lines are up there with these two - #androiddev

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Android devs, pitch yourself.

– 5 bold words
– Link to app, repo, or profile

100k+ people got this on their timeline last time we did it.

🚀 This is how it starts
👀 Be seen or be silent!

Android dev, generalist nerd, TTRPGs 🤍
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I was feeling dizzy after the I/O Keynote. It's clear that the focus for Google is purely on AI & Gemini. But the Android team is still cranking, and the updates to Compose and new libraries for Navigation & Media were really cool. Feeling energized after What's New in Android #googleio #androiddev

What's New in Jetpack Compose Explore the latest performance improvements, input support, adaptive layouts, updated libraries and more for Jetpack Compose at Google I/O 2025.

👀 Jetpack Compose updates from #googleio

What are you excited about using? What do you want us to add to Compose?

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/what...

Finished 'The Lemurian Phoenix' DLC for The Rise of the Golden Idol, and it's just not fair how all I want to do is solve puzzles and unravel strange scenarios. Nothing scratches quite the same itch.

Will just have to wait for later in 'Q2 2025' I guess 😮‍💨

GitHub - robotsquidward/lazyviewmodels: Convenient extensions built on top of the Android ViewModel Extensions library to enable easy ViewModel creation and Dependency Injection. Convenient extensions built on top of the Android ViewModel Extensions library to enable easy ViewModel creation and Dependency Injection. - robotsquidward/lazyviewmodels

It's a lot easier to do this now, and I wrote it before Compose navigation or Hilt, but I just updated my micro-library of extension functions for constructing ViewModels. Was just happy to get it to 100% Kotlin and that the publishing still worked 😅

github.com/robotsquidwa...

love that feeling when you get a new pair of shoes and you kind of feel like you're a new person there for a day or two