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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@ashdavies.dev
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Google Developer Expert for Android, failed blogger, public speaker, maker (and breaker) of shiny things. Kotlin aficionado, Multiplatform manipulator, prolific facilitator of cute cat photographs, spends more time travelling than working (he/him).

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Bram Bos @brambosofficial.bsky.social · 11h
Do you still remember living in the primitive barbaric times before 2022? How did we survive?
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...
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greatsatan69.bsky.social @greatsatan69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woof
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/09/2026
Best case scenario is the new government Saxon-Anhalt is incapable of forming a functioning government, the most likely scenario is that they join the other right wing governments taking power, this isn't going to be like WWII, WWIII will be fascism vs China, personally I'm rooting for China.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon achieves enshittification inception; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #Pluralistic 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 22/08/2026
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Please Stop Authoring With Ai
Please Stop Authoring With AI Written word - especially technical writing - has a few particular purposes I find really valuable; When you write something down it creates clarity. You’re not just wri...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 19/08/2026
Hi Germany. Want your kids to have functioning lungs? Here's how...
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 17/08/2026
That's some well timed marketing right there
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026
One of the most disillusioning aspects of the AI boom has been the total abandonment of predictability, so much weight had been placed on the reliability of builds, predictability and idempotency of operations. But no, fuck that, lets go for hallucinations and randomness 🤷‍♂️
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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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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 13/08/2026
``` Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. ``` This rings very true brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai
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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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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026
With more and more AI content being generated, more of that content is inevitably being used to train AI models. In the UK during the late 80s, cattle remains had been used to feed livestock resulting in the outbreak of BSE, or "Mad Cow Disease". It's eerily similar...
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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...
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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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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in Pervert Glasses news, Meta glasses have been banned from court in England and Wales: Meta glasses have been banned from courts in England and Wales: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales
Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All this sweaty obsessing over vibe-coding is great. I don't use the stuff, never have. But now I get to put in about 40% the effort I used to. Everyone else's slowed right down, waffling on about agents or sandboxing or whatever. I'm more productive by comparison.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/08/2026
This is just so fucking crazy, from a country with a history like Germany, to weaponise a persons medical history against them, fucking vile 🤮
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/08/2026
Not wanting to disagree, but I got into computer science because I'm better at communicating with machines than people.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 05/08/2026
Woo!
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 04/08/2026
I had the same answer when my doctor asked me if I knew what might be causing my back pain
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Two people are walking down the street when they see a billboard that says "The AI singularity is on the horizon!" One turns to the other and asks, what's a horizon? The other one answers: it's an imaginary line that moves away as quickly as you can approach it.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 31/07/2026
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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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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 30/07/2026
Email templates are hard #Ikea #IkeaPunkte
A partial screenshot of an email from Ikea with a summary of "ikea points" accumulated, with "NaN" as a value, and the string tag "KEYS_EXPIRING" printed instead of having been resolved.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 26/07/2026
This one is going to be an interesting one to write... #Droidcon #Berlin #DCBLN26
"Your session "We are all Fucked: An Android Developer's Guide to the Post-AI Apocalypse" has been accepted for nextapp devCon Berlin 2026!"
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 25/07/2026
Gemini really needs to add some more idioms to its repertoire, I'm kind of getting tired of it having found the "smoking gun"
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 22/07/2026
I'd like to report a murder
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/07/2026
Yes.
Ukrainian president and creator and star of "Servant of the People" Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Sebastian Sellmair @sellmair.dev · 17/07/2026
Something big might happen to the Kotlin Multiplatform Ecosystem 👀 We were never too happy about how Kotlin publishes and resolves KMP libraries. It takes up significantly more space than it has to, produces a ton of artifacts and Maven modules, and is just... complex!
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Never Trump @nomagaallowed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Breaking: Eric, who along with his father, was caught stealing money from his foundation for kids with cancer, has released his new book.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 09/07/2026
"How do Germans cope with having Nazi grandparents?" Probably the same way they cope with having neo-nazi grand-children www.dw.com/en/how-do-ge...
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How do Germans cope with having Nazi grandparents?
Since millions of NSDAP membership cards have been made available online, many Germans have been surprised to discover that their ancestors weren't always as innocent as family stories had led them to...
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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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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 02/07/2026
Despite my distaste of AI, I must still test and play with the limits of this tool, the hallucinations are just beyond comprehension, does anybody recognise this? I obviously don't speak the language #AntiGravity #GeminiFlash
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 02/07/2026
It was never about productivity, sometimes side projects were just about the love of coding
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 01/07/2026
Haven't really shared this publicly, I lost my mum earlier this year, biological father left before I was born, so she was my only parent, it hit really fucking hard, not fishing for sympathy, just it changes how you see the world, I'm trying to be more careful about where I spend my fucks.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“It's entirely possible to build cities for people instead of cars. This square in Malmö was just a parking lot not too long ago.”
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 28/06/2026
Once again for the people at the back: Housing is a human right. www.berlin.de/en/news/1046...
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Berlin is building 3,000 new apartments for state employees
The difficulty in finding housing is considered a serious obstacle to filling job openings at the State of Berlin. The Senate hopes to alleviate the problem by providing new employee housing.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 25/06/2026
Droid scenarios #GoogleIOConnect26 #BuildWithGemini
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 25/06/2026
Some useful information about memory management on Android #Android #GoogleIOConnect #BuildWithGemini
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 14/06/2026
How do I disable Android Studio's "Tab to Accept" stupidity?
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 10/06/2026
"Also: your job might no longer offer what attracted you to this line of work. If you loved to write code meticulously by hand – instead of asking a chatbot to write the code for you – you’re probably not super stoked about this movement." Hammer, meet nail 🤝.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Danny Preussler 🇺🇦 @preussler.berlin · 10/06/2026
More AI responses!? Really? That's exactly what the Play Store needs... 🤦‍♂️
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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 09/06/2026
The Uuid type in the standard library is now stable with Kotlin 2.4! Work with v4 and v7 UUIDs, easily, with multiplatform support. I made this overview video when the type was first introduced: www.youtube.com/watc... And then more API updates in 2.3: youtu.be/_6PSSkqwbp8...
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UUID in Kotlin Multiplatform
UUID reference documentation https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.uuid/-uuid/ UUID KEEP discussion https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/382 Kotlin 2.0.20 release notes https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew2020.html#support-for-uuids-in-the-common-kotlin-standard-library 0:00 Intro
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 09/06/2026
I'm not an AI skeptic, I'm a human skeptic.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Imagine laying off employees because you believe AI can do their jobs only for AI vendors to raise their prices. 😭 And that’s before you find out that AI actually cannot do their jobs.
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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 02/06/2026
Writing code was never the bottleneck
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