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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 28/09/2026

My experience with Control Resonant so far: Pet a dog, Sang karaoke, Did laundry. 10/10

Dylan Faden - the protagonist of Control Resonant - pets a dog. Buildings in the background are at weird angles, like reality is warped, and Dylan and the dog are not obeying the laws of gravity

Dylan Faden sings karaoke in a blue lit room while people dance in front of him. These people are "possessed" by a karaoke speaker sitting on a small table next to Dylan and cannot stop dancing until Dylan finishes the song.

The lyrics "Just be what you want to be..." being sung by Dylan are along the bottom of the screen.

Dylan Faden stands in his boxer briefs in a laundromat. A man behind Dylan in the laundromat is floating with his head tilted back at an unnatural angle. Monsters controlled by The Hiss are lurking outside the laundromat, kindly waiting to attack until after Dylan is done with his laundry.

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 04/06/2026

Kotlin 2.4.0 ships with a HUGE power-assert update I've been slowly working on for *years*. It's the culmination of efforts I started before joining JetBrains. It's subtle from the user's perspective, but it helped fixed a bunch of problems and unblocks tons of future improvements! 🚀

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 27/01/2026

Large fascist the size of a small fascist leaves MN.

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 14/11/2025

⚡ The Kotlin Power-assert is now available for 🪶 Maven! The plugin makes debugging easier with detailed failure messages and no extra libs needed. Enable it in the <plugin> section of `kotlin-maven-plugin` in your `pom.xml`. Read more in the docs 👇 kotl.in/wtpugg

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Power-assert compiler plugin | Kotlin

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Kirill Rakhman @rakhman.info · 29/08/2025

Blogged - Kotlin: Emerging Patterns with Context Parameters rakhman.info/blog/kotlin-... #programming #dev @kotlinlang.org

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 02/07/2025

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at two conferences recently: KotlinConf and DroidCon NYC! As a speaker, it's always fun to share something I'm passionate about with people. And as an attendee, chatting with all the fantastic developers in these communities is just the best!

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 02/05/2025

*I'm* speaking at Droidcon NYC? About *Compose*? Who approved this?! nyc.droidcon.com/brian-norman/

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 15/04/2025

And it includes beta support for context parameters!

A "All The Things" meme with the text "CONTEXT PARAMETER ALL THE THINGS" along the top.

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Omg, I love this 😍 I think this convinced me to try it! Really amazing showcase of alternative use-cases for Compose and #Kotlin power assert at the same time 😄👏👏 If you don’t know about power assert check it out here, kotlinlang.org/docs/power-a...

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 03/04/2025

A palette cleanser for your timeline today: Introducing Metro! Metro is a compiler-plugin-based dependency injection framework that draws heavy inspiration from Dagger, Anvil, & Kotlin-Inject. www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-...

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Introducing Metro

I'm excited to share something new I've been working on the past few months!

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Sebastian Sellmair @sellmair.dev · 01/04/2025

I just had one of the coolest calls in quite some time with @bnorm.dev. We wanted to talk about a potential issue, but then drifted into him explaining his project, github.com/bnorm/storyboard, to me. I wish he had shown me this before I started preparing for my next talk. 🤯🔥

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GitHub - bnorm/storyboard: Library for building presentations using Compose Multiplatform.

Library for building presentations using Compose Multiplatform. - bnorm/storyboard

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 26/03/2025

Open source is so cool! 7 years ago I made a big change to UTF-8 processing in okio. I moved on to other things. Meanwhile, kotlinx-io copies a lot of code from okio (with approval, nothing shaddy). I then join the Kotlin team. Today I found the same code I wrote for okio, comments and all. Wild.

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kotlinx-io/core/common/src/internal/-Utf8.kt at 0329b9d0ebbf614634f48d9f69b1e14350d4d7e2 · Kotlin/kotlinx-io

Kotlin multiplatform I/O library. Contribute to Kotlin/kotlinx-io development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 26/03/2025

We know that publishing a library to Maven Central is a nontrivial quest. Take this guide to aid you on your journey! www.jetbrains.com/he...

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 23/03/2025

Wanted to share a project I've been working on for the last year: github.com/bnorm/storyboard It's a library for building presentations in #kotlin and Compose! I've built a couple presentations using it, and I'm really excited about the potential!

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GitHub - bnorm/storyboard: Library for building presentations using Compose Multiplatform.

Library for building presentations using Compose Multiplatform. - bnorm/storyboard

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 24/02/2025

Want to know something cool? The multiple output values for interactive scripts is thanks to the same code transformation behind Power-Assert. That's how it can display a before and after result. So cool to see that technology find its way into unexpected places!

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