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Making things for your phone and generally having fun. Let's be honest though this feed is probably mostly cat photos. Staff Android Engineer at Airbnb | Ex-Dropbox, NYTimes 📍St Louis
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Star Trek: The Next Generation

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

Being in line behind Al Roker in the cab stand at Port Authority

Just setup BirdNet-Go to listen to my Unifi doorbell camera and report back the birds it hears github.com/tphakala/bir...

My team is hiring! We are remote friendly within the US. Lots of info below, but feel free to DM me with any questions about it: careers.airbnb.com/positions/69...

everyone: no you can’t do this UI, the glass effect makes everything illegible apple: lol shaders go brrrrrrr

Refreshingly honest

Going to ask if I can't expense an Aston-Martin as a dev device

We absolutely do not need Facetime Stories

I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia. The answer is: quite a lot! Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis. Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

Dear Android developers: for all that is good and holy please test your app to make sure password manager autofill works, and apply the semantic hints to the fields if it doesn’t I setup a new Pixel this weekend and autofill was broken on more apps than it worked

"As summer sets in and New Yorkers escape to greener, milder, beachier pastures, Broadway performers are flocking elsewhere: the great, landlocked outdoors of St. Louis, where summers are known for … bugs. Humidity. Unpredictable storms. Oppressive heat."

ya'll have no idea how excited I am for this. We're shooting for the moon this year I want to find every mobile community organizer in the world to make this year's #Shipaton a massive global event And all you companies who wanted to get involved last year? hit me up đź‘€

I've been "that guy" for why new company travel and expense policies have been handed down, but it must be fun to be @swank.ca and be the reason Google's adding a new Android system feature

They're clearly not running KMP on the shake machines, yet

I have been thinking of switching back to Android but every time I try to transfer my eSim to my Pixel 9 from my iPhone, Verizon's app craps out Guess I'm stuck with iOS until this drops or I get off my butt and go to Verizon for a hard SIM card www.androidauthority.com/ios-19-esim-...

tldr: FB/IG app ran a local socket on their Android app, and their web tracking pixels used it to report back. This didn't just get built out of nowhere. Lots of people at Meta probably wrote a PRD, eng design docs, and sat in meetings to discuss developing this tracking method.

I made a short video with examples of the contents of the slot table in the context of Compose UI. I am sharing how state is stored in the slots. These are internals of Compose that you can explore in AndroidX! #Kotlin #Android youtu.be/vxdxb6VudyA?...

My son has truly captured @alexhorne.bsky.social and Greg, I think. Hang it in the Louvre.

it’s always the bugs that take a work day and a half to decipher and two lines to fix

Dear Google, you of all people should know I am browsing Gmail with Chrome and so there's no need to put an ad for Chrome in my Gmail

“tower, we’re headed back to the gate, got a bird strike problem. no, the engines are fine, the birds struck the passengers”

“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”

But they are great for creating the glue and throwaway tool scripts that we spend time writing over and over.

My laptop sticker situation makes sure I’m the one who brings the dad jokes to the table