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Brian Norman

@bnorm.dev

I do the clickety-clackety that make the computer go brrr! @KotlinLang.org compiler developer at @JetBrains.com; all opinions are my own.

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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 · 15/05/2025

Current schedule for Droidcon NYC stage 1: Keynote, Jake, and then me. *gulp* That's not intimidating at all...

Droidcon NYC schedule for Stage 1 showing the first 3 talks: "You're Not an Android Developer Anymore" by Stacy Devino, "KMP with non-Kotlin languages" by Jake Wharton, and "(Re)creating Magic(Move) with Compose" by 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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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 12/04/2025

Not from this weekend, but I have to brag about this slide: I defined a list of code samples which are each highlighted by Storyboard using an ANTLR parser, and each transition is completely automatic thanks to a "MagicText" Composable. LaunchedEffect to loop though samples and done.

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 12/04/2025

This weekend's Storyboard project: prototyping a presentation companion website which allows sending live reactions that rise from the bottom right of the slide. I also get a count of each reaction type for the last 15 seconds in the assistant window. It's kinda dumb ... ... but I love it so much!

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 07/04/2025

For my project this weekend, I implemented a slider so I can seek through the animations of my slides. This is thanks to Storyboard being built on top of SeekableTransitionState.

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Brian Norman @bnorm.dev · 23/03/2025

Today I created a webpage with an embedded presentation that follows an active one. Thinking about using this to reveal additional content as the presentation progresses. Though maybe this would just be too distracting? But look at that awesome animation! (Stolen from the KotlinConf website...)

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