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This is such a good summary about the state of Germany. I left 8 years ago and could not see myself raising our daughter there anymore. He discusses quality of life degrading, safety concerns, tax and insurance rates being unsustainable, abuse of the wealthfare system, free speech concerns, state propaganda, undemocratic values, waste in tax money, bureaucracy, and many other things.
I picked up some work on App Platform again, which I created during my time at Amazon. Metro now works perfectly well in KMP projects and therefore it's the recommended default! The latest version also comes with a compiler plugin to avoid KSP.
We're wrapping up our migration to Metro internally for Square Android. I summarized some of our challenges and steps we took in a blog post. If you use Dagger 2 for a Kotlin project, then you should migrate to Metro sooner rather than later.
https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/metro-migration-at-square-android
Metro 1.0.0-RC1 is out now! Last call for feedback on the public, non-experimental runtime/metrox/gradle APIs!
Rounds has a Kotlin server that integrates a few things: PostgreSQL persistence via SQLDelight (hosted on PlanetScale!)WebAuthn4J for Passkeyskotlinx.html for dynamic web pagesKtor for HTTP bindingThe service uses six database tables. The business domain tables are Game and GameEvent. Support for auth, sessions, and collaborative editing adds Account,
👋 Hi everyone, I’m enabling GitHub Sponsors for Metro
If Metro has improved your developer experience or saved your team's build times, I’d appreciate the support!
Full pitch and ROI napkin math here: https://www.zacsweers.dev/sponsoring-metro/
Metro is the proudest work of my career. Ever since starting it on vacation in November 2024, building it has been an incredible journey and the community reception has been nothing short of wonderful. It sits at the intersection of several fields I've come to specialize in, ranging from metaprogramming
The Cash Android team wrote a post on their experience migrating to Metro. The build performance results 😍🫶
After three wonderful years at Amazon I'm happy to share that I started this week at ... Square / Block again on my old team 🪃 I'm excited to think about developer productivity more deeply again.
I'm quite proud of what I accomplished with my team at Amazon and will miss them. I'll keep working on App Platform as much as I can thanks to open source! https://amzn.github.io/app-platform/
Zac Sweers
Jesse Wilson
