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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · 7d

Denizli is a city in Turkey and literally means "the one with the sea" in Turkish.

Here is its map

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Aug 20

I haven't tried the deep-focus thing yet. Once this half hour session ends, I'll give that a try.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Aug 20

@hankgreen.bsky.social I mean this goes against the spirit of the app but I don't want to know I can just do this. It feels dirty, like doing something behind its back 😞

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · Aug 14

We have a new episode of the Android Developers Backstage podcast up -- this time @chethaase.com and I are talking to Melba Nuzen and Ralston Da Silva from the Compose team about Autofill!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6b...

Autofill in Compose

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Aug 11

I would call Google Barcelona, due to how many AI scientists alumni it has.

Anthopic would then be more like PSG?

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Aug 11

Spurs are the bubble itself. It's gonna explode any day now but still hasn't happened yet.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Aug 10

It's so frustrating to go to the top paid apps page to weed out the junk but then seeing 90% of the apps have "in-app purchases" sticker on them.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Jul 23

I wrote a new post on why brush may behave unexpectedly in an AnnotatedString. #JetpackCompose

halilibo.com/2025/styling...

Styling, Spanning, Brushing, Composing

This is not going to be a regular android dev blog post. I’m going to try a new format that I want to call journaling to a solution. To give a sense of how different this is (to me), I’m using Google ...

halilibo.com

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Jul 8

We learned a little bit about font shaping on Android, now is time for font metrics?

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Jun 20

1.9.0-beta01 brings addStyle to OutputTransformation. This is just the start btw, more to come soon.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Jun 9

Looks great. Would it be possible to make the breakaway and restick points slightly different, so that re-adding the item after breaking away requires more swipe to the left. I don't know if what I said makes sense.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · Jun 2

I've started seeing the brown screen of death almost every time I open the bluesky app on my android. What gives?

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 20

I only bring my Chromebook with me when I'm traveling. But more than that, I'm deploying this project on my pi at home. It makes sense to also develop on it.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 20

And I ask why not? Maybe I'm asking the wrong question...

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 20

I got the active cooling but today it finally reached the maximum resource load after 2 hours of vibe coding😬

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 20

better late than never but I'm really sad that I discovered raspberry-pi + vscode.dev combo a bit too late.

Visual Studio Code for the Web

Build with Visual Studio Code, anywhere, anytime, entirely in your browser.

vscode.dev

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 14

Write things down for your own benefit. Don't even call them documentation until the very end.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 11

Gemini Assist in Visual Studio Code or Firebase Studio

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 11

vibe coding with Gemini 2.5 pro is giving me the chills. You can be as critical and as skeptical of AI but the progress is undeniable.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 11

Hi 👋

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Jorge Castillo @jorgecastillo.dev · May 10

Pretty sure many Android devs are still around on this platform.

Reply saying hi 👋 so everyone can find you.

This will help people find a big bunch of colleagues to follow 👏👏

RT this for more reach! 🙏

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · May 9

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · May 9

So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.

THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.

"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 4

Unfortunately Experimental APIs are like that. We are trying to limit their usage to a very minimum going forward. Luckily with 1.8 FlowRow and FlowColumn are now stable so they shouldn't break anymore.

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 4

That doesn't sound great. What was the binary incompatibility?

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 4

For the first time I'm officially a part of Google IO. Listen to us talk about text input in Compose and how it's changing. I promise you will learn something new :)

io.google/2025/explore...

Google I/O 2025: Mastering text input in Compose

Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

io.google

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