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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.

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Sleepwalking into labor collapse

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 6h

edit: didn't realize at first but FYI it's subscribers only

Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 7h

Was on @codewiththeitalians.it today with @sebastiano.dev and Ivan chatting about Metro and some of the more nitty gritty of how the newer IDE features work! Some fun live coding

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In-depth on Metro — with Zac Sweers - codewiththeitalians on Twitch

codewiththeitalians went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 1d

Metro 0.6.9 is out now with improved cross-compiler version support, support for Kotlin 2.3.0-Beta1, improved IDE support, configurable max error reporting, and a whole bunch more!

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Release 0.6.9 · ZacSweers/metro

This release introduces new experimental support for multiple compiler and IDE versions. The primary goal of this is to better support running Metro's FIR extensions across different IntelliJ Kotli...

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 5d

Clearly a hardware problem amirite

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 9d

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

ALT: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 9d

Same. Not even glitches (though there’s plenty), there’s just an aimless push to get LG into apps and it rarely looks good unless the app was designed to be LG all the way down

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 12d

elmo and kermit from sesame street are standing next to each other and kissing .

ALT: elmo and kermit from sesame street are standing next to each other and kissing .

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 12d

Going to pull vector xml files in particular feels like a step backward, especially with KMP becoming more of a norm. Android feels like an afterthought on that site, and like it’s more for web use.

Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 13d

Metro 0.6.7 brings a dedicated `@AssistedInject` annotation, Dagger module interop, and a bunch of other goodies!

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Release 0.6.7 · ZacSweers/metro

New @AssistedInject annotation Assisted-injected classes must now use @AssistedInject instead of @Inject. This is for multiple reasons: It's more explicit at the source declaration site that this ...

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 13d

I suspect there’s a reason everyone there seems to love the guy

Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 13d

Designers when an android engineer ask to just use the system back arrow: “our custom back arrow is an expression of our brand, we cannot yield to looking like a Google app”

Designers when Liquid Glass looks like shit everywhere in their app: “LEROY JENKINSSSSSSS”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.

The modern American right in 2025, folks.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25d

> the shooter is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 25d

Your moderation policy should have no regard for your growth OKRs

Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 25d

Every tech CEO handling moderation this week 🤦‍♂️

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 25d

Video is already up (!!)

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 26d

Here are the slides for the "Navigating Dependency Injection with Metro" talk I just gave at DroidKaigi. Great conference and super well-organized.

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Navigating Dependency Injection with Metro

Metro is yet another compile-time dependency injection framework. How is this one different though? In this talk we’ll explore how it balances blazing-f…

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skydoves @skydoves.bsky.social · 26d

Navigating Dependency Injection with Metro by @zacsweers.dev at #DroidKaigi

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 28d

Couple Metro patches today!

0.6.5 - new @Origin annotation API + a bugfix

0.6.6 - same as 0.6.5 but targeting Kotlin 2.2.20 and another fix for conflicting overrides that relies on a fix in the compiler that came in 2.2.20

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Release 0.6.6 · ZacSweers/metro

Enhancement: Optimize annotation lookups in some places in IR. Fix: If a graph declares an overridable declaration that matches one of a contributed supertype, transform it to add the requisite ove...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · Sep 8

What a surprise www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · Sep 7

Today I ran a race down 5th ave, hung out in Central Park, got coffee in Hell’s Kitchen, played soccer in east river park, got bbq in Williamsburg, and now flying to Tokyo from JFK. Life in NYC’s feeling very rich today

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Ralf @ralf-wondratschek.com · Sep 5

Our KMP framework App Platform now supports Metro out of the box: github.com/amzn/app-pla...

@zacsweers.dev is pushing the boundaries with Metro and there are still some Kotlin compiler bugs that need to be resolved, but on the JVM / Android it works.

Release 0.0.6 · amzn/app-platform

Added Added support for Metro as dependency injection framework. User can choose between kotlin-inject-anvil and Metro. For more details see the documentation for how to setup and use both depende...

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · Sep 3

Seems a lot of setup to run a simple unix command

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · Sep 3

His district is also so squiggly that he doesn't know who his constituents are, evidenced by the fact that he sent a Christmas card to my grandma in the woodlands even though she's clearly not in his district.