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Nate Ebel

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🖥️ Software Developer & Tech Lead 👨‍💻 Ex Kotlin Google Developer Expert

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 25

Also loading up on delicious baked goods today 😍

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 25

Soaking up some Cali sun this weekend ☀️😎

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 20

Let's see what this #GoogleIO Dev keynote has for us...

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 13

👀 "Eliminating most limitations of interop in Kotlin/JS"

JetBrains @jetbrains.com · May 13

🌐 Kotlin for web: What's new and what's next 🚀

Significant progress has been made in enhancing Kotlin Multiplatform support for web development. 🛠️ A lot has been going on behind the scenes – and now it’s time to share the latest updates 👉 jb.gg/ho9gtk

Present and Future of Kotlin for Web | The Kotlin Blog

We've been focused on enhancing Kotlin Multiplatform for web, and a lot has been going on behind the scenes. Now, we're ready to share it!

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 11

Anyone using Telepresence to communicate with services in your k8s cluster from locally running services within a Docker Compose environment?

Trying to get it working and can it understand why I can hit one service in the cluster, sometimes, but not the rest 😵‍💫

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

Really wish I was heading to KotlinConf.

We've spent the past ~18 months rebuilding our core platform on Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform and now some Compose Multiplatform as well and I've got the itch to share about the cool work we've done! Crossing my fingers for next year 🤞

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

That's what has prompted my little emergency deep dive into the optimization. Our new CMP project is worked amazing so far for porting over some non-trivial functionality but for a still relatively small project we were already feeling the pain of linking.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

Using Parallels is a really interesting idea when targeting those other desktop platforms 😀

Are there hoops to jump through to get it deployed onto those virtualized machines?

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

Are you using internal and @/HiddenFromObjC together generally? Or do you use a set of team guidelines/conventions to dictate when to use one or both?

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

Very interesting. I hadn't come across those before or looked into the linker much. Sounds like I should. Thanks for the tip!

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 9

"Avoid release at all cost" definitely seems like the right strategy.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

This seems to be the place to start for tackling this problem. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on where to start optimizing.

kotlinlang.org/docs/native-...

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

This was a timely find in my feed. We've been feeling some of these build time pain points in our new CMP project.

The article confirms a lot of my suspicions about where to start optimizing but also some stuff I hadn't seen before.

Thanks for sharing!

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

I'm not sure if maybe we should avoid building a Release build type for the simulator target by default since most the time we'd just want the Debug build type 🤔

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

This has been a problem for us in our other KMP project, and nothing short of throwing more powerful CPUs at it seemed to help much. We eventually just introduced some build flags so we could run most builds against just the JVM target for local dev but our CI build times are still pretty awful.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

Just avoid running any task that runs more than one linking task at a time? Maybe paired with doing most local dev again Android or Desktop first then test on iOS?

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · May 7

What are folks doing to minimize the impact of slow native linking build tasks for the iOS targets in Compose Multiplatform projects?

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · May 1

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it!

blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-...
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Gradle Best Practices - A Path to Build Happiness

Gradle Build Tool, also known as Gradle, is a highly flexible and extensible build system. It supports multiple ways to structure and configure builds, making it incredibly powerful—but also somewhat ...

blog.gradle.org

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 27

Every time I think I have PagerDuty escalation policy settings figured out... someone on the team gets alerted in the middle of night for a low-priority issue and I'm reminded that I apparently understand nothing 😑

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 24

That sure would be nice!

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Jorge Castillo @jorgecastillo.dev · Apr 18

The Jetpack Compose and internals course is the result of years of deep exploration, experience working on Compose initiatives at big tech, and writing the Jetpack Compose Internals book 🧵

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 14

This @touchlab.co post has been super useful in getting up to speed with adaptive layout apis for Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform touchlab.co/adaptive-lay...

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts is a way of adapting your UI to fit different display sizes on Android, and it's now available for Compose Multiplatform.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 14

Managed to get access to WindowSizeClass across both Android and iOS.

Will hopefully get more time tomorrow to really start experimenting with nav rail and some of the more tailored Scaffold implementations.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 14

Started digging into the adaptive layout apis today. A little bit confusing at first trying to find the latest available apis and how to get them imported properly. Seems like one of those areas where things are advancing quickly; so it's a good problem to have I suppose.

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 13

Was quite simple to get Koin integrated into my small sandbox project. Reminded me a lot of Hilt with how easily it integrated with the Compose NavController