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Sam Cooper

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Author of Kotlin Coroutine Confidence https://pragprog.com/titles/sckotlin

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · May 30

New book! 📚 Kotlin Brain Teasers is out now in early access beta. If you like #Kotlin and enjoy yelling "Wait, WHAT?!" at your IDE, this is the book for you. Reviewers said: "I hate this code so much" and "This code is actively making my day worse." 🧠🧩

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Kotlin Brain Teasers

Level up your Kotlin the fun way! Solve mysteries, dodge traps, and banish bugs. Sharpen your critical thinking to ace interviews and ship rock-solid code.

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 16h

I've seen a lot, but I've never seen this one before!

Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 18h

Which isn't far off from how I feel when writing code, sometimes

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 18h

It's giving a cross between "entangle" and "pickle"

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 18h

Just learned that the German for software developer is Software-Entwickler.

Kind of want to start using "entwickle" as an English verb now. Along the same lines as verbs like "entangle," "enforce," or "enliven."

I entwickle, you entwickle, he/she entwickles...

"Just entwickled some great Kotlin"

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 21h

Glad you found it interesting! I now know exactly two Turkish words, which is two more than I knew before I wrote the article 😄

Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 21h

I didn't see secrecy, blame, or bruised egos—just open collaboration and communication all round. That's how you build a killer programming language with a strong and engaged community! A great example from @kotlinlang.org and @jetbrains.com of what good open source software development can be.

Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 21h

One thing that struck me after writing this piece was just how much detailed information I was able to gather about the history of this interesting series of bugs.

Source code changes, bug reports, discussions, design proposals—everything is carefully recorded, and available to the public.

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 1d

"It took a month for someone to spot the smoking gun."

I had a lot of fun researching this long-form write-up of what I think is one of Kotlin's most interesting bugs. Hope you enjoy reading it and maybe learn something you didn't know!

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The Country That Broke Kotlin

Logic versus language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 1d

I worry LLMs are giving AI a bad name. People look at ChatGPT hallucinations and ask, "we're trusting this stuff to diagnose cancer?"

No, medical imaging AI and LLMs are very different! (Thankfully)

I guess it benefits the LLM companies to associate themselves with genuinely useful technologies 😬

Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 4d