iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Should this be a start of my series where "learning things the hard way is still fun" because I intentionally rejected the gemini summary and instead found a blog post of someone who solved my problem lol

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 4h

Came across this cool terminal trick to batch renaming files on macos: benfrain.com/batch-rename... My use case was having a bunch of `MyFeatureV2_` files that I wanted to rename to `MyFeature_` now that the old version was deprecated. Super quick and easy.

Macos terminal command to batch rename files that contain MyFeatureV2 in the name to just MyFeature.

Command is: autoload -U zmv; zmv '(**/)(*)MyFeatureV2(*).kt' '$1$2MyFeature$3.kt'

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 19h

One of those posts that starts out feeling like a pedantic nitpick about terms that ends up with me nodding in fervent agreement: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-too...

linkedin.com

'AI' is Not a Tool

(I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in...

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It was kind of funny because one person said "we don't have zoom controls on native" and I believed them until I was flipping through the code one day and saw the conditional there. It was a great reflection in 1) not realizing a "missing" feature and 2) how many helpful things are off by default.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So glad I found this! Just read the recent one on gesture controls - and I recently had to do some work around a map and zoom controls actually. The zoom controls were off by default (curious to hear your thoughts on that) but could be turned on via a11y settings.

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Eevis Panula @eevis.codes · 12/10/2026

Issue #11 of Inclusive Android Apps drops tomorrow 📬 This one’s about offline support: what happens when your app assumes there’s always a network connection, and what to consider when building for users who don’t have one. Subscribe to get it in your inbox: eevis.codes/newsletter/ #AndroidDev

eevis.codes

Inclusive Android Apps-newsletter | Eevis Panula, Mobile Accessibility Engineer

Inclusive Android Apps is a monthly newsletter about making Android apps more inclusive.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 02/10/2026

There's a defeatist vibe rn and I think there's an inevitability feeling washing over us. There is no inevitability. If you're in a position to speak up against the direction the industry is taking, I'd say now is the time to do that. I certainly try because I cannot be fired and it does help!

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, I will keep saying that it doesn't have to be this way. I believe we *could* have ai assistants that are more secure. But that's not what's happening. Not because they're fundamentally bad, but because the people building them don't want that.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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James @43081j.com · 24/09/2026

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

ai-policy.dev

AI Contribution Policies

Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alt text that surpasses the visual content, honestly

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

why search lot feed when few search do trick

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Am I crazy or does the graph (number of active users) have absolutely nothing to do with the point?

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But isn't that Aurimas' point - that using AI allows people to produce code they don't truly understand? What do you think will be the consequences (if any) of that over time?

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It definitely does not make you a bad programmer, it makes you human. However, it's a skill you could improve if you wanted to, or a skill you could lean on a coworker or friend to support. That collaboration is, ultimately, how the tech industry got to where it is today in the first place.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Waste of water" is just the tip of the multitude of consequences though. It erodes communication between us, it removes the friction required to learn, it's even reducing people's empathy for each other, and for what? To write some portions of code faster? What did we gain from that speed?

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I simply do not feel like I do more, nor better, with it. The cognitive load of thinking about how to prompt it, waiting for it to run, and then validating its output on things I already know how to do is both unnecessary stress and slower than if I went ahead using the skills I already have.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"AI generated code was trained on humans, so of course it will have the same flaws as human generated code." "But the more we invest and train it, the better it will get!" You know what else gets better the more you invest in and train them? People.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/08/2026

mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/11709465...

Mastodon post from Jake Wharton:

As of today, the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and the SQL Delight family) have a contribution policy that forbids LLM usage for creating code and for PR/issue descriptions and comments.
There is an exception for translation assistance provided you disclose its use.
If you choose to use LLMs locally for research, analysis, and/or experimentation we can't stop you. But for contributing we require you to write the code, and for our interactions to be with you.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is this meant to imply that humans write lots of sloppy features but GPT doesn't or am I misinterpreting?

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honestly my favorite answer to "why don't you use it" is simply "because I've been doing without for 10 years?" I've yet to encounter someone who can fight that lmao

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you asked engineers 5 years ago what the worst part of our job was, I think most people would say code review. Now, we review Claude's code, send it to someone else to review, and then we review their Claude's code, and all the sudden our whole job is literally the worst part lmao

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

> I had a conversation ... about how a developer's job is now is to teach the AI to be better, make fewer mistakes, etc. To review the code. And to test the changes that the AI makes. This is a horrible existence This is so relatable. brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

brettcodes.com

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 13/08/2026

Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

android-developers.googleblog.com

What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026

Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...

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Rob (RSS) @rss.coffee · 12/08/2026

Just sharing here for visibility. I have no part in the setting, rollout, or additional information. You can find the setting here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Screenshot of a TwitchSupport tweet that reads:

"We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

Click here to learn more:

https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchAccountSettings#FAQ"

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

lmao we got LLM bots responding to my comments about encouraging human interaction. We are in the worst timeline. The people who build and ship accounts like this should be ashamed.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Given how little impromptu learning happens now in our industry, I took a leap and messaged a coworker and asked if they wanted to help me rubber duck a problem. They got on the call and told me it made their entire morning. We spent 20 minutes talking through a naming convention. We are so back.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 09/08/2026

"While giving OpenAI free access to the code in GitHub’s public repositories was not illegal, it still felt like a violation of the user community’s trust. Much of that code had been shared in the spirit of fostering open-source software development, which was grounded in helping independent

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Beautiful keynote from @kaeawc.bsky.social at Droidcon last month. Just finished watching this, and I cried half way through. A master class in keynote presentations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSW...

youtube.com

Keynote - You are Load Bearing - Jason Pearson | droidCon USA 2026

YouTube video by nextapp devCon

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My latest crochet project - Charmander!

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What advice do you give in this situation? How do we maintain our skills and expertise in an environment where we're actively discouraged from doing so?

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So I asked each of them why they used something that had obvious negative consequences to them. The answer was a variation of corporate and peer pressure to not be left behind or not hitting internal metrics on token usage. It was devastating to hear people say they don't have true autonomy.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At Tuesday's meetup, I was asked a question about agentic coding and I responded "I'm the wrong person to ask." When they wanted to know why, I said it's because I don't use it. They were shocked at first, but then admitted "I feel like it's making me dumber." I heard this from at least two people.

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Celebrated 5 years of Compose at Google NYC today! 🥳

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We're guy friends, it's only like three photos 😂 This is my personal fave, though

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Android Faithful @androidfaithful.com · 16/06/2026

Happy Android 17 Release Day! We're breaking down the rollout of the new version of Android and WearOS Plus Nothing phones now on sale in Best Buy in the US and much more on this week's podcast! LIVE today at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKQ... Twitch: buff.ly/0d1z7sw

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am seething! Like don't get me wrong, ultimately I was able to schedule the appointment for a specific recall and even change the time it suggested, which is neat, but at least be real with me. Don't present as a human being when I can tell after a handful of sentences you're not.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just called to schedule a service appointment for my car, and they used an automated system which is FINE but if you're going to do that, at least say it up front. Don't say "I'm Alex" and talk to me like a human being when the whole interaction is clearly automated and rigid.

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 12/06/2026

If you're a manager at any company mandating LLM use, I'd recommend you try to ask your directs how they *really* feel about LLM adoption, promising to shield them from retaliation. Because it can be *very* costly for one's career to criticize LLMs right now. Empathize with your workers.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

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