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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · Jul 14

Woohoo - my talk 'Kotlin on CRaC - new JVM features to speed things up' was accepted! 🥳

@droidcon.bsky.social Berlin, here I come! 🌟🤩😻

Droidcon Berlin 2025

Kotlin on CRaC - new JVM features to speed things up

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 1d

Diese Petition gegen die #Chatkontrolle hat bereits über 200.000 Unterschriften - und es werden von Stunde zu Stunde mehr! ❤️👾

Campact e.V. @campact.de · 1d

🇪🇺 Bald könnten die Nachrichten auf deinem Handy automatisch gescannt werden: Die EU diskutiert über die „Chatkontrolle“.

Was das für Grundrechte und Datenschutz bedeutet, erfährst du auf unserem Blog.

👉 campact.org/U6rfI

EU-Chatkontrolle stoppen

Die EU will unsere Chats überwachen: Noch bevor Nachrichten verschlüsselt werden, sollen Algorithmen Inhalte scannen – auch in privaten Unterhaltungen.Kritiker*innen warnen: Das wäre ein gefährlicher ...

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 2d

Booked my trip to @droidcon.bsky.social London! 🎉

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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 2d

Ich schaue nach langer Zeit durchaus wieder mit Optimismus wieder in die Ukraine. Und zwar, weil ihre Kriegsstrategie aufgeht. Weil sie schneller innoviert als Russland. Letztlich, weil sie ein freies Land ist. Und Russland nicht.

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 2d

I feel you, Paket - ich auch.

Paket mit der Aufschrift:
Keep upright - do not drop
Bleib aufrecht - lass dich nicht fallen

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Mark Allison @markallison.social · 3d

The whole appeal of AI development to many companies is that senior management wants to ask a simple question to deliver what they want without having to answer lots of stupid questions from developers.

AI may deliver exactly what they ask for, but not what they want.

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 4d

Kotlin/JS and compose multiplatform to the rescue!

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly!

Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 4d

Plus: the whole promise of preventing users from malware falls apart when you look at iOS: if the hypothesis were true, there would be no malware for iOS. But there is. Bad actors adapt, as they always have.
Code signing and key handling for iOS has always been a huge pain - soon on Android as well.

Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 4d

Just listened to adbackstage.libsyn.com/android-deve.... Hate it.
This really is as terrible as it sounds.

Not even addressing the orange elephant in the room (bad government actors!), or that anonymity is often crucial for personal safety.
This feature can, and definitely will, be abused. 1/2

Android Developers Backstage: Android developer verification

To protect users from malware and scams, Android has announced a new layer of security: developer verification. While this is nothing new for Google Play Store apps, Android is extending this to the e...

adbackstage.libsyn.com

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 6d

Ohh, that's a nice one! Of course, if it's Kodee it's got to be Kroissants!

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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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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 6d

Ohh, that is so helpful - I didn't know that!

There seem to be more, too:
www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/wo...

And the diff even works for images, of course!
idea diff kotlin.png kotlin-logo.png

We can even use it as a default merge tool! 🤯

An IntelliJ window showing a diff window with two images.
The image on the left is showing just the Kotlin K, while the right image contains the K as well as the text 'Kotlin'

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 6d

So what's Kodee's favourite food? Is it IR bytecode? Haha, have a byte!

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 7d

Unfassbar. Nach dem Reiche-"Papier" nun das hier.

Ein geleaktes Positionspapier der Union zeigt, wie sich die Partei ganze Passagen vom Lobbyverband der Autoindustrie vorschreiben lässt. Für die CDU kein Problem.
Merz will Brüssel »das Stöckchen in die Räder halten«.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

CDU übernimmt ganze Passagen vom Lobbyverband der Autoindustrie

Ein geleaktes Positionspapier der Union zeigt, wie sich die Partei ganze Passagen vom Lobbyverband der Autoindustrie vorschreiben lässt. Für die CDU kein Problem.

www.spiegel.de

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 7d

I feel you 🙏

Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 7d

@mbonnin.net well, let's just say that the reasonable part of my brain told me that 100 might be a bit too much 😅

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Enrique López-Mañas @eenriquelopez.bsky.social · 7d

Our November KTUG Munich Meetup has been announced. RVSP before we run out of space, and looking forward to meeting you.

www.meetup.com/kotlin-user-...

Kotlin Meetup November, Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Hello folks! We will have our November Meetup at JetBrains! There will be an Agenda following soon 18:00 - Doors Open TBD

www.meetup.com

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 7d

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 7d

After seeing this cute Kodee keyring last week at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin, I couldn't help myself and ordered a bunch of them! They are sooo cute! 😍
@ogkodee.bsky.social will now be with me wherever I go!

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful! 🤩

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 7d

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.

They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.

But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

android-developers.googleblog.com

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 8d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

JUnit Release Notes

docs.junit.org

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 8d

Naaahh, that's too old!
Old and busted: Java applets.
New hotness: Kotlin applets! 👌

Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦 @mreichelt.bsky.social · 8d

If only we had an alternative of instantly available apps, right when loading an URL, and running on multiple platforms… 🤔