Tony

I'm available for work. If you manage a Java, Kotlin, or Android project that uses Gradle, let me be your expert! I have over a decade of experience as a build and DevEx engineer, and would love to help you achieve your goals github.com/autonomousapps

That's our mayor.

more people should read the Wikipedia page on category error

Not every day I get to create a PR to Gradle on an issue found by my team that speeds up the Square Android project by 33% for some benchmarks. github.com/gradle/gradl...

How to lose a friend On anti-systems approaches to software development autonomousapps.com/blog/how-to-...

does anyone at google use google maps? that app is so broken anymore. pita user experience

when I worked at the Brandywine Conservancy, some homeowner in an HOA complained about the trees we were planting by saying he wouldn't be able to keep an eye on his neighbor

reading a book called "The Secrets of Consulting," which has a lot of anecdotes about consulting at software companies (published in 1985), and it's like a secret history of why all our modern ai-infused practices are *bad* at producing good products and healthy work environments

do we think google maps would change Iceland's name if Trump proclaimed it Americaland?

"A city that values the pursuits that create beauty and community, whether or not they ever turn into careers. A city that thinks you should have time to read a book and lay on the grass looking up at the clouds." -Katie Wilson

@ifbookspod.bsky.social omfg did you see that Bari Weiss is now editor in chief at CBS News theintercept.com/2025/10/03/c...

This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.

A palette cleanser for your timeline today: Introducing Metro! Metro is a compiler-plugin-based dependency injection framework that draws heavy inspiration from Dagger, Anvil, & Kotlin-Inject. www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-...

When POM files lie dev.to/autonomousap...