Pietro F. Maggi

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Post about hiking, Electronics and Android | The few opinions I have, are my own.
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with the debian popularity contest package we can finally know who truly won the editor war:

rank 1164: vim 86893 installs rank 4264: emacs 12198 installs rank 4321: ed 11992 installs rank 5841: neovim 6980 installswell that settles it. vim is the most popular editor by far--

wait. what's that in the distance

...
rank 123: nano 229022 installs
by god, it's nano with a steel chair!

Android's theft detection lock feature is finally starting to roll out!

The feature automatically locks your phone when it detects your phone has been snatched from your hand. It uses data from your phone's accelerometer and gyroscope and checks if common motions associated with theft are detected.

Our Developer Advocacy team is hiring! We're looking for a new Kotlin Advocate, specifically for Ktor and server-side:
https://www.jetbrains.com/careers/jobs/ktor-developer-advocate-1301/

And we're also looking for someone to cover our AI tools: https://www.jetbrains.com/careers/jobs/ai-developer-advocate-1299/

Ktor Developer Advocate - Advocacy - Careers

JetBrains
If you're interested in the current effervescence around AI, you could do a lot less useful things this week than listen to @bcantrill and @simon talk bucketloads of sense about it on Oxide and Friends https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1692510
Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison / Oxide

Are there any folk out there with #Qt #AndroidDev experience? It's a bit of a niche combination, so I suspect folk with this knowledge are hard to find.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juhani-lehtim%C3%A4ki-78b327186_am-i-connected-to-anyone-who-knows-qt-and-activity-7154049199616004096-B0Ty?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
By 'bunnie' Huang & Naomi Wu

https://crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen/

Everything you need to navigate the world's largest electronics market.

Completely updated for 2024 by Naomi Wu

(Reposts of the Crowd Supply page on other sites is very helpful given my present situation, thank you)

The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

Everything you need to navigate the world's largest electronics market

Crowd Supply
πŸ”΄ We're LIVE! This is not a drill! 🚨 Rahul Ravikumar from Google is on-air, revealing the secrets to silky smooth app performance. Join us RIGHT NOW to give your #AndroidDev skills a jetpack boost! πŸš€πŸ’‘
πŸ‘‰ Jump in: https://cwti.link/live
#PerformanceMatters #TechInsights
CodeWithTheItalians - Twitch

Two Italian coders live stream their sweary, mostly unsuccessful attempts at coding stuff.

Twitch
AndroidX moving to minSdkVersion 19

AndroidX libraries are moving to a default minimum supported Android API level 19 starting with releases this month.

Android Developers Blog

Have you entered our @droidcon Turin and London giveaway yet? You only have two days left to take the opportunity to win:

1 in-person ticket for Turin
2 online tickets for Turin
1 50% off voucher for London

It's easy, just head to https://cwti.link/giveaway ✨

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