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tysmith.me
Principal Engineer at Uber - Mobile, AI, Open Source, Dev Productivity & Dev Relations Advisor, Investor, Founder, GDE, Public Speaker & Open Source Foundations Formerly at Twitter (Fabric), Evernote. @tsmith from Twitter tysmith.me
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🚀 The Kotlin Foundation Annual Report 2024 is here! 🔹 2.5M+ developers coding in Kotlin 🔹 $182K+ invested in ecosystem growth 🔹 Student contests, grants and open-source contributions Check out the full report to learn more and see what’s next! 👇 📖 kotlinfoundation.org/news/annual-...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

@tysmith.me had some fantastic predictions. He has a front seat view at how engineering is changing in real time, given his influential role at Uber. You'll find his thoughts here - jetpackcomposeapp.beehiiv.com/p/dispatch-i... Not available in the main site yet so use this link in the meantime

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for including my insights on the future of Android in the latest issue of Dispatch, @vinaygaba.bsky.social ! www.jetpackcompose.app/newsletter

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Some great opportunities to push the Kotlin ecosystem forward in this year's Google Summer of Code with Kotlin. Several will have you working closely with my team. kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-20...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

I was at @evernote.bsky.social when they started migrating to React Native in 2018. Against all advice from tech leads the SVP of engineering (coming from Amazon) pushed through. The quality of the Android app went downhill over the years not only performance wise.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

*sniff* i cry every time youtu.be/Nuz6iNjTkjo?...

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

** It's happening!! ** We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

submitted 121 days ago • 112 comments

Calling for Kotlin for Server-Side Content Creators blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/... #KotlinServerSide

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

New Square Feature Allows Customers To Tip With Bible Quote theonion.com/new-squ...

submitted 122 days ago • 88 comments

adrian dittman is elon musk confirmed

submitted 146 days ago • 197 comments

There are 21 million Black people in the US. Fewer than 6% of us earn over $100K a year. The median net worth of Black households fluctuates between about $20K and $40K, depending on how much scamming happens that year (eg crypto, asset forfeiture). Black. People. Are. The. Working. Class.

submitted 150 days ago • 16 comments

More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

submitted 166 days ago • 67 comments

Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

Will I understand Luigi's Manifesto if I haven't played Luigi's Mansion?

submitted 169 days ago • 151 comments

I’m building out Uber's first dedicated Kotlin Language platform team in our Amsterdam office to make Kotlin first class across Bazel, IDE, LSPs, Android, KMP, AI language migrations, backend services, and to help in our Kotlin Foundation particiption. Apply here: www.uber.com/careers/list...

submitted 175 days ago • 4 comments

Traveling in Japan and still incredibly annoyed that Google doesn’t enable FeliCa for Pixel phones sold outside of Japan, even though the hardware exists and can be used under root. Brought my test iPhone just for easy Suica cards in Apple Pay. github.com/jjyao88/unlo...

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

This is so on point. So many use cases are barely working reliably (if that) with state of the art models and non-deterministic operations makes testing a beast. I cannot begin to imagine trying to build apps on anything that's not top of the line.

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment