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UK based Android GDE, freelancer or through my agency Apptaura. I wear flowery shirts. 🇬🇧 🇦🇹 tdcolvin.medium.com / tomcolvin.co.uk
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Hugging Face is a dumb name.

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Really interesting: The 80s computers banned by Romania's communist regime arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017...

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I tentatively say that Nav3 looks much better than the old Jetpack Navigation library... android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

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Thanks @androidweekly.bsky.social for including my article on implementing passkeys in Android! It's here, if you wondered: proandroiddev.com/implementing...

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I appreciate that I'm the very last person in the world to notice this - but OMG graphics cards are expensive now!

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Once, before digital photography, photos used to come back with these little advice labels. It was literally someone's job at the processing lab to LOOK THROUGH ALL YOUR PHOTOS and stick them on. The lack of privacy of the analogue era is wild!

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My article on Android + Passkeys just got published! A full in depth tutorial that builds a working back-end and front-end using Jetpack Credential Manager. proandroiddev.com/implementing... #androiddev #android

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.” - Carl Sagan

submitted 27 days ago • 180 comments

Bit of a jump in followers these last 24h! No idea where you all came from but thank you for wanting to listen to me 😀

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

They'll claw at you if you even try

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Ahh 😌 home is where there's no R above my network symbols

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Has anyone here tried to run Linux on Snapdragon Elite CPUs? Does it work?

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

This photo is from 105 years ago. Unedited, original colour, created by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont using the Autochrome Lumière process. Original in @rijksmuseum.bsky.social Amsterdam

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Woohoo, I'm @sessionize.com speaker of the day! 😁😁😁 Need someone to talk about Android or app development at your conference or place of work? Let me know!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I've written 39 articles over the last few years, on Android, coding and app startups. Finally now all linked in one place on my new site: tomcolvin.co.uk/articles

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

There's nothing like an eye-wateringly expensive API, with your own credit card behind it, to focus the mind on good debugging techniques

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

FINALLY got a complete end-to-end demo of Passkeys working in Android! This has been an very hard task; so much documentation that just falls off a cliff, and weird esoteric error messages. This demo uses Jetpack Credential Manager and SimpleWebAuthn #androiddev

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

French speakers: do you hear a pronunciation difference between "son" and "sans"? They're supposedly different phonemes but my English ears can't hear it.

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The Compose strong skipping mode does not fix the stability issue with Kotlin collections. Here’s a post on the main things to watch out for when using them 👇 open.substack.com/pub/effectiv...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

You can deploy a whole Express app in Firebase, for free: medium.com/@gisselle.po...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like a never-ending job

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