Android Developer @ Doist (Todoist and Twist). Words are my own.
I write on https://afzal.me and https://doist.dev
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Work | Android @ https://Doist.com |
| GitHub | https://github.com/AfzalivE |
| Twitch | https://www.twitch.tv/afzal____ |
Tech workers don't need unions.
We can, after all, just hop jobs if we want significant salary increases. We all love intermittent employments and hustle culture. We dislike forming stable attachments, becoming experts on projects, or seeing them to fruition.
9,4% p.a. - or a total of 38% for the next four years - is something every single one of y'all individually successfully negotiates, right?
https://www.dw.com/en/boeing-factory-workers-end-7-week-strike/a-70690180
Let's build an Electon video conferencing app (Around.co alternative maybe?) with Gemini!
Marc Andreessen: “And another thing! We would’ve solved climate change in the 70s if the pesky environmentalists hadn’t killed nuclear power!”
Also Marc Andreessen: “I’m proud to announce we’re working with one of the most brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes in history to help them launder their oil money on a computer that uses ⅛ of the global electric supply to generate ransom notes.”
Container transform animation can be a reality in Jetpack Compose.
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/2833541
The Gradle docs tell you to use Java toolchains…
The Android docs tell you to use Java toolchains…
…but Gradle's toolchains are rarely a good idea. Let’s look at why!
https://jakewharton.com/gradle-toolchains-are-rarely-a-good-idea/
I'm looking for podcast guests! Would you be interested in talking about mental health on a ~30min podcast episode?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4GfLCpEnIXD1lJ62wh67kXUDpFYHgW8Y8PwhpP9agVF594Q/viewform
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I'm brewing up a "Debugging Your Brain" podcast!
I love hearing stories from people about how they've dealt with stressful experiences challenges -- the highs and lows, the techniques and approaches used, and the huge impact that you can have by being patient with yourself and "working on yourself".
Note that you can't set ChatGPT as your default assistant app yet, which means you can't invoke it by long-pressing the home button or power button, but I previously spotted evidence that they're working on that: https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-replace-google-assistant-3399920/
(Thanks to Bartok Adrian Gabriel on Telegram for the tip!)
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
Code with the Italians 🤌
jimray
Jaewoong Eum 🥑
Jake Wharton
Casey Watts! (he/him) 🌈🫧
Ivan Morgillo 
nano's old account's rotting corpse
Mishaal Rahman