After introducing the boys to Star Wars the last couple of weeks, it's time to start on the next challenge!

Thanks for attending my #dcnyc25 talk! You can find the slides here on Speaker Deck: speakerdeck.com/amanda_hinch...

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Your post is also a good reminder of why writing abstractions for code that _seems_ similar is often a bad long-term idea.

What's better than lots of great code? No code! I wrote about a recent tech spec review and how a teammate and I helped simplify a proposal down to nothing!

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I just returned from a week in California for Google I/O and some other stuff at Google, which was amazing. I was a little surprised to come back to this kitchen renovation, however. 😅

I recently had the chance to share how we test at scale at Dropbox in a guest post on the Android Engineering blog!

⁨https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/how-dropbox-leverages-testing-to-maintain-high-level-of-trust-at-scale-b7b1bdf6161e⁩

I got to take part in @vinaygaba.bsky.social's newsletter this week, which was fun. There are a lot of interesting answers to the question "Where do you see Android development in 3 years?"
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Tonight I'm playing around with a C program to fetch my currently playing track from Last.fm. I'm thinking of using it as a CGI script so that I can have a fun current moment page at ryanharter.com while still keeping the site Javascript free.

I just booked flights and hotels for a family trip to Bologna, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal in two months. I'm getting really excited!

I'm watching The Fifth Element with Sara, who's never seen it. As soon as the cab says "Dallas", Sara reflexively says "Corbin Dallas". I asked how she knew that and she reminded me that I wanted to name our kids Corbin Dallas Harter. I totally forgot. 😅

After a year or so, I spent some time this holiday break to finally put a 4" touchscreen on my Volumio HiFi streamer. It was a nice addition, but I decided it could use a little more space for interaction, so I got a 7" touchscreen instead. It's nice to be able to control this without my phone.

We decorated our Christmas tree today, and set up a "new" train! The old one was from Sara's grandpa, from the early 50s. This one came from a family member in an unopened box packed with a Lionel catalog for 1988.

Are you terrified about your #Android app getting compromised through a build supply chain attack? (you likely should be!)

I wrote a post on how to enable signature verification of your Gradle dependencies to make that a lot harder for the threat actors

www.liutikas.net/2024/12/12/T...

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So true. I credit my unfinished projects for helping me land all the jobs I've ever had.

In 2015, I was rejected by my first company because I couldn't pass their (leetcode) interview rounds. They called me back the next week after discovering my side projects.

My mom has been in the hospital after a lung transplant and I've been sick so Sara spent the week in Minneapolis with her. We picked her up at the airport today and the boys made signs. I'm not sure they fully understood the "airplane pickup sign" idea, but I think these are great! 😂

I was reflecting on my feelings about unfinished projects, and realized that they're actually okay. I wrote about it here!

ryanharter.com/blog/2024/12...

It's opening day of deer season in Wisconsin, so I'm at my family's cabin in the North woods.