Mark Allison 

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The artist formerly known as Styling Android.

My toots may contain sarcasm / snark.

📍 Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

#AndroidDev

Websitehttps://blog.stylingandroid.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/StylingAndroid

Let me get this straight: The Nonce Formerly Known As Prince has been arrested on charges of misconduct in public office based upon information from the Epstein files released quite recently. That's a complex charge that lawyers will delay for years.

But he hasn't been arrested for sexual misconduct despite evidence and allegations dating back 6+ years. The Epstein files are only adding to the evidence supporting this, yet no charges are forthcoming.

If you ask any software developer if they prefer writing code to doing code reviews then I think the vast majority will say "writing code".

If you heavily rely on AI agents for code generation then your role becomes code reviewer rather than software developer.

I have just migrated my personal mail server, and (dormant) blog away from US corporations, to EU companies (I wish that EU still included the UK) and I feel a lot better.

I've seriously reduced the costs. And I mean **SERIOUSLY**

At school we were always taught that in the English language the letter 'Q' is always followed by 'U'.

So why does the alphabet go: M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V. Shouldn't it be: M-N-O-P-Q-U-R-S-T-V?

#cognitivedissonance

The whole appeal of AI development to many companies is that senior management wants to ask a simple question to deliver what they want without having to answer lots of stupid questions from developers.

AI may deliver exactly what they ask for, but not what they want.

Am I weird? (yes, probably)

But whenever I see the brand "Huel" it triggers an onomatopoeia of someone vomiting.

RIP Frederick Forsyth 😢
I find it ironic that people that use the adjective "woke" in a pejorative way are accusing people of being open minded and doing their own research rather than blindly accepting populist rhetoric. Isn't the opposite of "woke" ... erm ... "asleep"?
I'm currently looking for a new fully remote, contract role. I have 15 years of Android experience, and plenty more Kotlin, Java , C / C++, and even more obscure stuff

There are local elections going on where I live, and now at every level of politics my vote goes to the least worst candidate.

Dear USA, did you not get the memo that you have to vote for the *least* worst? Love, the rest of the world