Throughout my career, people have compared software development to “traditional” engineering, usually in a way to scold software developers for not doing a proper job. But this way of thinking is flawed because most people have the wrong impression of how engineering works in practice. Here I suggest where to go to understand more

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwareAndEngineering.html

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

#ikea #chair #hardware #weird

The Retrofit 2 converter for kotlinx.serialization has shed its experimental annotations and gone 1.0!

https://github.com/JakeWharton/retrofit2-kotlinx-serialization-converter/releases/tag/1.0.0

This requires a bump to Kotlin 1.8.10 and kotlinx.serialization 1.5.0 where the APIs we relied upon have now been stabilized. Enjoy!

Next steps: move the converter into the Retrofit repo as a proper first-party offering.

Bluesky is a React “““Native””” Twitter clone and you can tell both of those things after using it for 2 secs.

It is extraordinarily jank and it just feels like every other janky React app on Android. Which is to say: not native at all. The UI is nice because it just clones Twitter. But like, why in 2023 would you launch a new app using a non-native framework?

Actual modern Android development from a clean slate would result in such a better-feeling app…

#Bluesky #Android #React #ReactNative