Brian Norman

Kotlin 2.4.0 ships with a HUGE power-assert update I've been slowly working on for *years*. It's the culmination of efforts I started before joining JetBrains. It's subtle from the user's perspective, but it helped fixed a bunch of problems and unblocks tons of future improvements! 🚀

But why a runtime library? It fixed: array content in diagrams, multiline string handling, and excessive vertical space. It unblocks: diffs, local variables in diagrams, and non-assert use cases. And assertion libraries can support power-assert out-of-the-box, without custom Gradle config!

Kotlin 2.4.0 ships with a HUGE power-assert update I've been slowly working on for *years*. It's the culmination of efforts I started before joining JetBrains. It's subtle from the user's perspective, but it helped fixed a bunch of problems and unblocks tons of future improvements! 🚀

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at two conferences recently: KotlinConf and DroidCon NYC! As a speaker, it's always fun to share something I'm passionate about with people. And as an attendee, chatting with all the fantastic developers in these communities is just the best!

For KotlinConf, I presented "Writing Your Third Kotlin Compiler Plugin". This talk was about much of my current (and future!) work in the Kotlin compiler. A recording is already available: youtu.be/9P7qUGi5_gc and I've made my slides available as well: deck.bnorm.dev/kc25.

*I'm* speaking at Droidcon NYC? About *Compose*? Who approved this?! nyc.droidcon.com/brian-norman/

Wanted to share a project I've been working on for the last year: github.com/bnorm/storyboard It's a library for building presentations in #kotlin and Compose! I've built a couple presentations using it, and I'm really excited about the potential!

This weekend's Storyboard project: prototyping a presentation companion website which allows sending live reactions that rise from the bottom right of the slide. I also get a count of each reaction type for the last 15 seconds in the assistant window. It's kinda dumb ... ... but I love it so much!

Wanted to share a project I've been working on for the last year: github.com/bnorm/storyboard It's a library for building presentations in #kotlin and Compose! I've built a couple presentations using it, and I'm really excited about the potential!

Today I created a webpage with an embedded presentation that follows an active one. Thinking about using this to reveal additional content as the presentation progresses. Though maybe this would just be too distracting? But look at that awesome animation! (Stolen from the KotlinConf website...)

Open source is so cool! 7 years ago I made a big change to UTF-8 processing in okio. I moved on to other things. Meanwhile, kotlinx-io copies a lot of code from okio (with approval, nothing shaddy). I then join the Kotlin team. Today I found the same code I wrote for okio, comments and all. Wild.