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Kirill Rakhman @rakhman.info · 30/09/2026

Companion Blocks & Extensions are ready for testing in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1. I've spent a good chunk of the last months working on this feature, so I'm very excited for the experimental release. blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/...

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The Companions to Come - The JetBrains Blog

Kotlin 2.5.0 introduces experimental companion blocks and extensions. Learn what they unlock, how to enable them, and what it means for companion objects.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm such a big nerd that this is what I get excited about but this is so rad: groundworkcollaborative.org/work/shopper... Skip to "Right to an All-In Price" for the good stuff

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Shoppers' Bill of Rights - Groundwork Collaborative

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 26/09/2026

Fuck. You. Instagram/Meta. Niki and I hand-drew over REAL pictures. I spent HOURS working on graphics in After Effects doing mattes, pixel pushing, and adjusting music MYSELF. This wasn't even fucking enhanced. Apparently, the only mistake I made was using your platform to publish it. #FuckAI

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's an odd feeling running into a useful github repo and wondering if you learned more from it than the person who had Claude write it for them

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Tony @autonomousapps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm available for work. If you manage a Java, Kotlin, or Android project that uses Gradle, let me be your expert! I have over a decade of experience as a build and DevEx engineer, and would love to help you achieve your goals github.com/autonomousapps

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autonomousapps - Overview

Build and tooling engineer. autonomousapps has 96 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1. True story 2. Megamerges rule But most importantly... 3. Understanding the megamerge is what cracked my brain open to using jj effectively as my code workspace #jj-vcs

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 22/09/2026

Guy who wants a pause on AI development just so people would talk about anything else at all

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Funranium is an excellent follow and this is a nice little thread!

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sigh Our cult to tear down big tech and make the internet useful again is just not catching on as well for some reason

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have heard this so much lately (also in the recent Pangram episode of Oxide and Friends) that I have started using AI tools more just so that I can better develop this sixth sense for AI prose they describe.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 12/09/2026

Blogs: the vinyl records of social media?

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't even know how to write Rust and I like Rust

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Okay, here's my first (published) attempt to write about what it's been like on the other side of the layoffs at Cash App (and all of Block): www.billjings.net/posts/title/... The answer is that it's been weird! Alienated, but not alone.

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Checking the Classrooms

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just want you all to know that, if you see someone making a bad argument, I am there with you in spirit, and I agree with you always that they are wrong in every respect. Namaste

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...

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The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wherein I rant about OO data modeling and slap an upbeat title on it: www.billjings.net/posts/title/...

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A Heartfelt Prayer For OO Data Modeling

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 30/08/2026

Holy shit

Google Maps screenshot showing ‘Lake Release The Epstein Files’ as the label where one would expect ‘Lake Huron’

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think AI might be an inflection point that shows how much our programming communities have diverged. Lilley Brinker is 100% right here, but ~nobody in Androidland would +1 this sentiment. I hear no stories of increasing quality. We get pressured to do more with less, and to maintain others' slop.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Context parameters are really giving me that familiar "I'm drunk with power"/"Is this okay" feeling

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's true, linked interview is delightful

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've only typed one command on my computer today and I've already been reprimanded for using GitHub stacks

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Raccoons are really overhyped as food thieves. My dogs *live in my house*. My child feeds them food he's not even done eating yet. That's A game from a whole different league than where these raccoons are operating

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I really can't say how much I disagree with this idea. It sounds quite intellectual, but it amounts to saying that Vegas preferences supersede church preferences, or that cookie preferences supersede vegetable preferences. An A/B test just doesn't tell you what your customer wants!

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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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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 07/08/2026

jj 0.44.0 is out! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. Below are some highlights of today's release ⬇️

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Release v0.44.0 · jj-vcs/jj

About jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See the installation instructions to get started. Release highlights Support for fetching and pushing tags has...

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I feel like such a narc when I appreciate some of the ways that Lurie has changed SF for the better, but then I see this and I'm like "Augh Lurie sucks" I have an easier time imagining Lurie riding a unicycle around town than imagining him crossing Target or Amazon in the slightest way

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Light bulb turned on over my head as I read this

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 03/08/2026

I wrote a post about what happens when you press the elephant button in Android Studio. www.liutikas.net/2026/08/03/What-Ar… #gradle #intellij #build

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So you see, Simba...even the most clueless engineer in our savannah plays their part in the circle of CI

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is absolutely wild to me how long it has taken the industry at large to catch up with what was already happening in house at FB a decade ago. I guess platform monopolies really can hold us back more than we realize news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911...

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Air Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Have seen some of this up close and personal. Not sure it universally applies, but if you are an engineer happily using claude wondering what people are so upset about...this is it.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One of my pet peeves: mocking people or factions who are fucking it up. People learn things by fucking up! So if something is self sustaining through the failures (whether that be AI driven development, or the Trump movement, or whatever), eventually they will figure it out.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This (temporary, no doubt) lacuna in @steveklabnik.com's guide matches my own #jj-vcs workflow lacuna Pushing changes: joyful Pulling extra changes introduced on remote: blissful Modelling complex changes: 😻 Rebasing onto main with merged PR: uhh did that work? bleh `jj rebase -s x -o 'x- ~y'`

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you think of yourself as a professional, as having a vocation, you should also be rooting for this antitrust suit. Observant SWEs know what the Ellisons do to their businesses already. Like @bcantrill.bsky.social said, don't get angry at them. They do what they do! Just don't let them do it.

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The broadest critique of American-style big iron SaaS LLMs has always been about centralization of power, which inevitably privileges big players over small. And now, in the name of security and defense, same for Anthropic as was the case for Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, IBM, Standard Oil...

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

1- Spacetwinks rec thread. A gold mine of cheap interesting games 2- I picked this up and now I'm obsessed. It's so good in a way that snuck up on me because it's so chill

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Here's another perfect and accurate thing you must read, this time about the two types of AI use (there are two! did you know? i didn't!)

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I think Charity lost me at the last turn into the finish line. Managerial cover and funding are all supportive of growth. But "straight with your employees that these are mandatory skills moving forwards" isn't cover, it isn't help, it's a straitjacket.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 01/07/2026

Rich diagnostics is something I've wanted to work on for a while and takes a lot of inspiration from Rust. Same focus on detail and bouncing you in the right direction, but now with markup and diagrams! This works safely in the IDE as well, where IDE builds will gracefully fall back to plain ascii.

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