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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 18h

We're looking for a staff engineer at TIDAL, in Europe and East US timezones.

It's a small team taking on a big bet.. come help artists actually make a living!

block.xyz/careers/jobs...

#AndroidDev

Careers - Staff Android Engineer

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

block.xyz

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 4d

Oh!. Didn't know a store like that exists. Thanks for sharing.

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 4d

Which store in Waterloo to get it? Or generally available?

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Martin Bonnin @mbonnin.net · 6d

Small reminder that IJ is also a wonderful standalone "diff" tool.

It even unfurls your zip files content.

`idea diff old new`

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 10d

Totally! And they have unfortunately burried a setting to turn it on under advance settings.

Screenshot of Samsung S25 advance settings for notifications

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Russell Wolf @russhwolf.com · 13d

Learning about dependencies and Kotlin/Native from @tadeas.bsky.social at #dcbln25

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 25d

Want to publish your Kotlin Multiplatform library to the Maven Central repository but not sure where to start? 🔎 We've created a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it!

Check it out: 👉 https://kotl.in/9jwqoc

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 27d

It somehow doesn't link to @russhwolf.com in the post

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 27d

SKIE has touched so many developer's lives and made it easy for them to work with KMP.

Thank you @touchlab.co, @tadeas.bsky.social , Filip and others ❤️

Touchlab @touchlab.co · 27d

🎉 2 years of SKIE!

Shipping cross-platform apps is hard enough. Interop shouldn’t be. From flows & suspend functions to automatic CInterop, #SKIE has powered apps at powersync.com, mapbox.com, and more.

piannaf.bsky.social celebrates its impact > 💬 your story too! www.linkedin.com/posts/justin...

Touchlab Celebrates 2 Years of SKIE, Improving Swift-Kotlin Interop | Justin Mancinelli posted on the topic | LinkedIn

🎉 Celebrating 2 Years of SKIE! This month marks two years since Touchlab open sourced SKIE (Swift Kotlin Interface Enhancer). We set out to make #Swift+#Kotlin interop smoother and the #KMP developer...

www.linkedin.com

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 28d

📢 The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out, bringing important changes for web development! Kotlin/Wasm is now Beta, with improved exception handling in JavaScript interop, npm dependency management, built-in browser debugging support, and a new shared source set for js and wasmJs targets.

🔗 kotl.in/2.2.20

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!

kotl.in

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 28d

Working out well for me so far, but I do miss Pixel camera (software).

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Martin Bonnin @mbonnin.net · Sep 4

Gradle 9.1.0 has built in task dependencies report 🥳

No more `-m` trying to "guess" the dependencies, this is great!

docs.gradle.org/9.1.0-rc-1/r...

Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1 Release Notes

We are excited to announce Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1.

docs.gradle.org

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Mark Murphy @commonsware.com · Aug 26

Another issue, another set of uncomfortable questions. Time time, they are about the proposed Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08... #AndroidDev

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Sebastian Aigner 📡 @sebi.io · Aug 25

We're running the Kotlin Developer Survey 2025; make your voice heard! 🎤 Help us understand what's great when working with Kotlin, and what's not! You'll help make Kotlin better not just for yourself, but for everybody! Thanks in advance ❤️

surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/68aaa1b46...

Kotlin Developer Survey 2025

surveys.jetbrains.com

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · Aug 25

Great post.

Thanks @zacsweers.dev for putting the thoughts into words. A lot of it aligns with what I have been thinking lately but just couldn't formalize in writing.

Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · Aug 18

Wrote a lot of thoughts on junior developers, AI, and what I strongly feel is going to become the defining challenge of our industry's next generation.

www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-re...

Forklifts Require Training

Sleepwalking into labor collapse

www.zacsweers.dev

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Dan Lew @danlew42.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've been laid off! (Startup downsizing to a skeleton crew, sadly.)

I'm looking for my next dev role. Lots of experience in Android, most recently worked on Node/TS and Python.

Ideally landing at a mission-driven place (been focusing on sustainability recently, but any public benefit will do).

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · Aug 15

+1

John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · Aug 15

It's good to have different options for doing something and sometimes other factors at play....but....really can't see a reason why #KMP (and potentially #CMP) would not be chosen for an iOS/Android (and other platforms of course!) project today.

Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · Aug 14

🔥 Nearly 1 in 5 use Kotlin Multiplatform for their cross-platform projects!

📈 According to the last two Developer Ecosystem Surveys, its usage grew from 7% in 2024 to 18% in 2025.

kotl.in/deveco-24

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · Jul 29

Yay, Swift export now available by default in today's Kotlin 2.2.20-Beta2 release ! #KMP 🚀 kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne...

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · Jul 27

JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language www.infoworld.com/article/4029...

JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language

The as-yet-unnamed language in development would produce cross-platform applications and make AI code generation more controllable, transparent, and useful.

www.infoworld.com

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Saket Narayan @saket.me · Jul 27

github.com/saket/byte-s...

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · Jul 27

Weird. That dialog felt like something changed in the underlying file system.

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · Jul 27

If you're making changes through the IDE then "Cancel' and if you're making changes in other editors (like Cursor/VS code) while IDE is opened then "OK"?

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · Jul 21

New Android Studio Canary just out.....still catching up with what's new but cool to see following....will make folks using KMP happy 😀

"New setting to open new projects with the Project view"

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jul 11

A late, but sincere thank you to the folks at @mdevcamp.bsky.social! 🙌

Our own Filip Dolnik gave a packed end-of-session talk on #KotlinMultiplatform for iOS devs. Swift vs Kotlin, IDEs, build tools, debugging, and more. #mdevcamp

🎥 : slideslive.com/39043387/kot...

Filip Dolník · Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS developers · SlidesLive

Professional Conference Recording

slideslive.com

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ok, I've had whiskey and my flight is delayed, so...

time for some unadvised unadulterated software eng and management advice (thread)

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