Adam McNeilly

I made it to a four digit elo in Chess! ♟️

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️

New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder.

Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

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Didn't expect to stream today but I was able to make it so going live for an hour to do some chill coding if you're around!

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ChessUp 2 Digital Chess Board

The Chess hyperfixation continues, excited to try out my new toy.

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First stream of 2026! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday night coding:

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The Disappearing Middle: How AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Software Apprenticeship How AI coding agents are automating away the developer apprenticeship ladder. Discover three personas for using agentic programming effectively, when it accelerates work, and critical guardrails to pr...

If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from?

New blog post on the 'disappearing middle':

chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

Successfully built a widget pulling real data, and a mock preview for the widget picker itself!

Live now! Come hang out, and if you're not following and getting notifications, you missed out on this pun. twitch.tv/adammc

I was watching Jurassic World on my flight, when I looked over and saw the one year old child next to me flipping through a book about dinosaurs. I never actually aged, did I?

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Live now! Attempting to revive an app I haven't touched in about two years. What could go wrong?

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I'll be back to live streaming tonight! What if we revived the TOA app from like two years ago? 👀

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉

Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well!
android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

Today I learned you can press F on the chess.com desktop site to rage smash the board when you're mad.

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Live on Twitch! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday evening coding: twitch.tv/adammc

I’m Slow — LocalThunk Hello people, long time no chat! I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025. I know, I announced that it would, but it has become clear now th...

I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date:

localthunk.com/blog/im-slow

TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done"

Please read the blog post for more details

Updates to the space station detail screen to view active crew members 👀

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Live now! Come hang out with me for some chill Wednesday coding, will be live a bit longer than usual today:

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Hi! I published jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #280! Compose Multiplatform alpha! weight()! Conditional layouts! @adammc.bsky.social on shared element keys! And... composables for audio?!? jetc.dev/issues/280 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

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Live now! Come hang out for your weekly Wednesday vibes:

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I wrote something small to celebrate an entire decade since my first blog post. So much of my life has changed since then, and I still have so many ideas for more I can do, but it's nice to just sit and reflect on ten years.

androidessence.com/reflecting-o...

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Live now! More chill #AndroidDev coding:

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I guess this is as good an excuse as any to rewrite the whole site

Realized my ten year anniversary of my blog is just a couple weeks away... 🤯

I'll never be free

omg it looks so good. The trailer video is hella spooky

Calling out your best friend in the digital public? Close enough, welcome back Twitter

Are you checking the store or your unplayed library?

I won a $10 steam gift card. Do I get Balatro for PC so I can play multiplayer mods, or are there other low budget, high quality games I should look into? Thinking in the $10-20 range.