Sam Edwards
handstandsam.bsky.social
Sam Edwards
@handstandsam.bsky.social
Human, Dad, Mediocre Handstander, GDE for Android and Kotlin, Engineer at Square/Block | handstandsam.com
Hopefully this is the last delay🤞 5 hours late so far. #mco
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

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October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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You don’t need to outwork *everyone.*

You don’t need to outsmart *everyone.*

You just need to be better than you were yesterday...
October 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Anyone have an extra #sora2 invite? 🙏
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Handstands at Block by Block 2025 in Oakland, California #bxb2025
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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📣 The KotlinConf'26 Call for Speakers is OPEN!

Share your Kotlin expertise with the world – server-side, web, desktop, mobile, AI/ML, and more! Submit your proposal and get a chance to speak at the year's biggest Kotlin event!

👉 https://kotl.in/conf26-submittalk 👈
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Here is my 2 year old post on Compose Web (WASM): handstandsam.com/2023/09/05/c...
I was super excited then, but I think now it has made it and it's awesome to use. Allowing us to have our same desktop app experience in the browser. Using it in GitHub.com/block/trailblaze and it's 🔥
September 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Kotlin 2.2.20 Released and Swift Export now enabled by default for Kotlin Multiplatform! #KMP 🚀
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...
Kotlin 2.2.20 Released | The Kotlin Blog
The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out! This version delivers important changes for web development and other improvements. Learn more!
blog.jetbrains.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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🤖 How is AI changing mobile testing?
At #droidconNYC 2025, @handstandsam.bsky.social & Brian Gardner share how they’re training LLMs as testers + what it means for dev workflows.

📺 Watch the interview: youtu.be/bUcbFFd2f-E?...

#AI #MobileTesting #AndroidDev
AI Mobile Testing - An interview with Sam Edwards & Brian Gardner | droidcon New York 2025
YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon
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August 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The senior developer you admire was once a beginner who Googled how to add a click listener and then copied the answer from StackOverflow.

They’re not smarter than you, just further ahead.
August 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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📢 All talks from droidcon & Fluttercon 2024 are now live!
400+ sessions from SF, NY, Berlin, London, and both Fluttercons — all free on YouTube.
Catch up here 👉 www.youtube.com/@DroidconDe

#AndroidDev #FlutterDev #droidcon #fluttercon #MobileDev #DevCommunity
droidcon & fluttercon
Welcome to the home of droidcon and fluttercon! Droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The video for my conference talk with @handstandsam.bsky.social is up on the DroidCon site! Check out how we're experimenting with AI-Driven testing at scale at Block and learn more about our new open source library Trailblaze
#Android #AndroidDev #AI #Testing
www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...
AI Driven Mobile Testing - Blazing the Trail at Block - droidcon
At Block, we have spent the past several months creating an LLM driven mobile testing framework, “Trailblaze”.
www.droidcon.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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AutoMobile #dcnyc25 video of the talk is up!

www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...
AutoMobile - droidcon
Mobile engineers have a hard time having high confidence when simple changes can have cascading consequences.
www.droidcon.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Alvor, Portugal #handstandsam
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Pena Palace and Cabo da Roca in Portugal #handstandsam
July 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Arco da Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal #handstandsam
July 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Berlengas Island near Peniche, Portugal #handstandsam
July 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Aviero, Portugal #handstandsam
July 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Another Gradle footgun

www.zacsweers.dev/dont-use-typ...
Don't use Type-safe Project Accessors with Kotlin Gradle DSL
Another Gradle footgun
www.zacsweers.dev
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Pinhão, Portugal #handstandsam
July 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Porto, Portugal #handstandsam
July 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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one of these days Gradle will implement parallel downloads and I won't have to wait 20 minutes after opening an empty Compose project
July 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM