iOS Engineers must be the most patient forgiving people on the planet to deal with Xcode 🫠
Renee Vandervelde
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Engineer @ Block; Bitkey 🪨
Friend of Open Source.
Passionate about Kotlin, Security, and Plants 🌱
Doing #Kotlin K2 upgrades this weekend on my libraries. Going smoothly 😀
I've been complaining about this for years.
Finally someone else cares.
Ars Technica
Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that
Should sideloading Chrome on an old smart TV really compromise your entire account?
It's time to end phone numbers as a kyc login.
I hate this dystopia where creating an account requires a carrier number with all my info and even the burner/virtual numbers are typically blocked or used up by spammers.
Just stop. Find a better way to fight spam.
Inflation is a property of markets, not currency, and that's the last I'm talking about it.
The most satisfying feature in any hardware. #bitkey
I want to use GrapheneOS but I absolutely refuse to give Google money to buy a Pixel 😞
What are some good alternatives to Google Calendar?
ChatGPT is so lame
Google's app sideload blocking is extremely hostile. This sucks.
Shout out to the Java engineer that made the Calendar implementation's month zero indexed. You never know when we're going to add a few billion more months in the calendar year.
Really thinking ahead; Every bit counts.
Nostr has its problems, but at least it's interesting. I don't get the appeal of Bluesky. There's just not many new ideas in the product.
It's always tempting but incredibly rare that I actually want the kotlinx.serialization `polymorphic()` modules.
They're going to be so embarrassed when they realize git is already decentralized.
I want a good decentralized App Store on Android.
Has anyone tried to do Android App distribution via Nostr?
I know the last thing Nostr needs is *another* implementation. But it would be really powerful to use the platform to publish metadata and URLs for a store to do automatic updates from arbitrary URLs, signed by the publisher 🤔
#nostr #android #dev
Nobody can predict the future, least of all tech enthusiasts.
I finally released the ham radio APRS application that I've been working on for years now. It's not perfect, but it's nice to finally have a baseline release in the wild.
If you've got an amateur radio license in the States, maybe check it out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkapplications.ack.android
Still in progress.
