Stojan Anastasov

The plan for today was to go to the gym. I woke up, and I really didn't want to go to the gym. Went anyway.

Wow, LINQ for #Kotlin Multiplatform! github.com/ExoQuery/Exo.... This looks really nice, especially coming from the developer of zio-quill (LINQ in Scala) 🤯.

📝 Blogged: "You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull" Wrote up some thoughts on push vs. pull queries, materialized views, and why data duplication isn't something to fear. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/you-got...

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? https://www.docker.com/b...

Exciting News 🎉 Spring Boot 4.0.0 is here: spring.io/blog/2025/11...

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

Note to self: Adding 15 sets of leg volume in a single day to the usual weekly volume of 12 sets was not a good idea. Especially when playing Padel on the "off" days.

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

Will be at #dcbln25 starting Wednesday. Look forward to meeting people from the community.

Realität und Satire sind nicht mehr zweifelsfrei unterscheidbar, Teil MCLXXXIV.

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The court found that Google has an illegal monopoly. But in this remedies decision, it found that the government is not actually mandated to pull that monopoly apart, or to deprive Google of the fruits of its illegal business behavior. So they are essentially going to do nothing about it.

To be clear, this article headline is deeply misleading. The real headline: Google is banning sideloading on Android. It's anti-competition, deeply intrusive, and extremely dangerous to those in countries with totalitarian regimes (which Google typically bends a knee to).

There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google. This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.

I wrote about how reorgs affect teams psychologically in today's After Burnout afterburnout.co/p/the-mental...

Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights On some routes, they are 26 times the price Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters

🚀 Dagger 2.57.1 is out! 🚀 Details: • Improved Hilt Gradle Plugin + AGP detection • No forced Kotlin 2.2.0 upgrade • Jakarta Singleton support • Removed redundant androidx.annotation deps • Clearer, less noisy error messages 🔗 github.com/google/dagge... #AndroidDev #Kotlin

“Google proposes being less of a dick” is the actual story here. Imagine what we could build if companies weren’t out to screw everyone who they engage with for every last cent.

Compose 1.9 is now stable! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what... On top of the many new features, there are significant performance improvements (which you can configure further, see the prefetch API for LazyList), and for debug builds, you can turn on richer stack trace information!

Jetpack Compose 1.9 is out and comes with a lot of great new APIs: outer/inner shadows, new visibility modifiers, a new prefetching behavior to improve scrolling performance in lazy layouts, etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...

"All I can confidently claim is that they don't learn a world model except by accident, and there's neither a theoretical reason nor empirical evidence for your being able to count on this accident in any defined and broad set of circumstances" Interesting look at what LLMs "understand"

When you use GPT5 to generate your charts

AGI is upon us.

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

EVs reduce emissions by 73% over their lifetime compared to petrol cars. Not 7. Not 30. 73% And yet… we’re still debating? The fossil fuel lobby has spent decades perfecting the art of delay. Now they’re peddling FUD about EVs: too dirty, too expensive, too inconvenient. None of it holds up. 🧵 1/8

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

The official Android docs on test doubles are quite needed today. Please write fakes 🙏 , avoid mocks as possible. Assert output state, not behavior. Think of a program or a logical part of it as: input->output https://developer.android.com/training/testing/fundamentals/test-doubles

Here’s the thing: my plan never changed. Microsoft added generative AI features, then tried to charge me more for them. Even though they clearly still had my old plan, without those features, as a hidden option it would only tell me about when I canceled. www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...

#SpringBoot 4 Released: A Full Analysis of 11 Major Changes!

Metro wouldn’t be where it is without the road that Anvil paved before it. I’ve really enjoyed working with Joel and Jacob on several Metro features already, with @ralf-wondratschek.com in its early design phase, and really looking forward continuing to work with all of them. Future’s bright 🚇

Anvil was quite successful inside and outside of Square, but now it's time for the next big improvement. Metro is 95% of what I pitched as Dagger 3 within Square. I'm excited.

I opened a perfectly balanced PR today #AndroidDev

Did you know... Android Studio has introduced resizable previews for Compose previews? Allowing you to test your layouts across the spectrum of device sizes easily inside Android Studio. 💻 developer.android.com/studio/previ...

Companies might blame layoffs on AI, but when I look closer, it just doesn't add up. TomoTom unlikely to be doing layoffs *just* because of AI. They are more likely to be doing it because they make ~20% less money today (in 2025) than they did in 2019 and it keeps decreasing

just a reminder - there is a #kotlin starter pack maintained by @iamkonstantin.eu

One of the challenges to understanding climate change is that extremes don't necessarily change in the same way as averages. In Western Europe, for example, the hottest day of the year is warming noticeably faster than the average summer day.

Soft vs. Hard Dependency. A Better Way to Think About Dependencies for More Reliable Systems

Looks like Kotlin's implementation of implicits is becoming a reality. I think the community doesn't realize that this feature changes Kotlin forever, even though it's still experimental and bare bones. #kotlin carrion.dev/en/posts/con...

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going! No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

🚀 Ktor 3.2.0 is out, bringing new features and performance improvements! ✨ New DI and HTMX modules 📦 Gradle version catalog support 🛠️ Automatic config deserialization 🔌 Unix socket support for CIO And more! Read the release blog post to learn more ⬇️ blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

The new version of my book "Functional Programming Ideas for Curious Kotliners" has been released! The final version has been updated to use context parameters, and contains updated sections on persistent collections and composables. leanpub.com/fp-ideas-kot...

ChatGPT gets tired and asks for a break

🚀 The HTTP Client plugin is now in Android Studio! Generate and run HTTP requests directly from your code, with support for Retrofit, OkHttp and Ktor. Enjoy seamless editor integration, code completion, and more. 🔗 Read our blog for full details! blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/06...