Harsh Shandilya

@msfjarvis@androiddev.social
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He/Him | Recovering Android Engineer | Baby Rustacean and Nix enjoyer | Ask me for pictures of my dog!
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@FediTree feeling left out already

Slowly coming around the new Islands theme, it's actually pretty nice. The cost of slightly less screen estate in exchange for visually clearer distinction between different UI elements is a worthwhile tradeoff on bigger screens, less so so on a MacBook.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2025/09/islands-theme-the-new-look-coming-to-jetbrains-ides/

Islands Theme: The New Look Coming to JetBrains IDEs | The JetBrains Platform Blog

Starting with version 2025.2.3, JetBrains IDEs will offer a new look: the Islands theme, available in both dark and light modes.

The JetBrains Blog

Ended up getting distracted by other improvements unlocked by Metro so the PR is a bit of a message, but at the end the migration from Anvil was pretty straightforward once I got to it. Merry Christmas to me I suppose lol

https://github.com/msfjarvis/compose-lobsters/pull/1005

Migrate from Anvil to Metro for DI by msfjarvis · Pull Request #1005 · msfjarvis/compose-lobsters

Fixes #897

GitHub

@gsuberland

i am a

☐ man
☐ woman
☒ disk drive

seeking

One common reason people name to pick a big host like GitHub instead of Codeberg to host their projects on is the hope that the bigger platform will make it more likely to get more contributors. A nice thought, isn't it?

Sadly, realistically, most FOSS projects will forever stay 1 person, no matter where it is hosted, so just don't worry about it :)

Foss United's favicon being FU can't be helping its branding
🪞 New blog post about link previews. Which you're seeing as a link preview. Very meta. https://saket.me/generating-rich-link-previews-10x-faster/
Generating rich link previews 10x faster

My library was hilariously inefficient. 500KB down to 32KB, all because I finally RTFM'd the docs.

Saket Narayan

"AI is a force multiplier!!!"

Yes but some engineers should not be having their force multiplied. It's like giving a tank to a gerbil.

@joepie91 @soatok I rather enjoyed the quote from Heise's report: "Financially, it will make no difference to the vast majority of rights holders whether they receive no royalties from Spotify or from Anna's Archive."

RE: https://androiddev.social/@msfjarvis/115762725052448971

The real round of soreness hit today, had to cancel evening plans and just lie in bed.