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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Check your AI sources. This match, BTW. Amazing.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · 20/05/2026

✈️ Headed to #KotlinConf’? If your team is working with #KotlinMultiplatform at scale, don’t miss @tadeas.bsky.social's talk: Advanced Kotlin Native Integration. Add it to your schedule 👇 kotlinconf.com/speakers/969...

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Tadeas Kriz | KotlinConf 2026, May 20–22, Munich

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The AI model branding is just silly now. "Gemini 3.5 Flash" pricing is closer to "pro" 3.0 than Flash 3.0. And not by a little bit. I'd compare it to "3.1 Flash Lite", but what do these brand names even mean? TBF, Anthropic and OpenAI do the same, but they're meaningless and harmful.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Actual pic from an apartment listing. It feels like AI, but it could also just be a terrible photoshop. Maybe a cheap 3d scan thing. Either way, is this helping the sale?

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hats off to the old school digital marketing teams who still think a birthday is a great excuse to reach out.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I really like Goose, but this article is silly: venturebeat.com/technology/c.... I tried to do a "detailed" skim to see where it explained that a local model isn't going to be anywhere near as capable as a frontier model. Nope. The implication is that the $200 is for the tool. It's not.

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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Spent a lot of time with family this holiday season, exposing Eve to everything Christmas. If you actually count up the gifts of the "Twelve days of Christmas", and take the words literally, thats 184 birds, 140 people, and 40 rings. Your "true love" is an aristocratic stalker. Run.

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 12/11/2025

SKIE 0.10.7 just released with support now for Kotlin 2.2.20/21 #KMP github.com/touchlab/SKI...

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Release 0.10.7 · touchlab/SKIE

Change log

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Pro tip for Android dev with AI agents. Don't let them edit Gradle. They'll rip out the wiring before checking the circuit breaker when trying to fix something. Hopefully the Android Studio agent has some better tooling than stock agents. www.youtube.com/live/0vMDXa2... (updates look really nice)

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#TheAndroidShow: live from Droidcon, with Agents in Android Studio, Android XR and more!

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Love AI agents, hate AI agents. They can be fun. (It did seem to think about that longer than I imagine it would have with "Yes", but we'll never know...)

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Sometimes I'm amazed dogs have survived. Just found out onions are toxic to dogs. Onions, garlic, chocolate, almonds, various other nuts, on and on. Ours seems to be sensitive to chicken. Any time I'm about to break down and give him some of my food, quick check, and nope. Something's toxic.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I rarely post political takes. But Trump is full of surprises. I can't imagine anybody cared about the fate of George Santos. Beyond George, of course. Left or right, his shit conduct as a person was universally recognized. But why? Analysis? Yolo + wildcard? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRy...

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Always Sunny Wild Card Scene

YouTube video by Felino Kurian

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This sounds like a simple question, but you'd be surprised. Does anybody have a good recommendation of over-ear bluetooth headphones that have absolutely no noise-cancelling tech? Or at least, you can definitely turn it off?

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I know people are dunking on glass ui and iOS 26, but man. The home screen on its own. Contrast used to "just work"

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When somebody complains about Android and Gradle. Me about to get all serious about JS/Node...

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h... 'Ardayfio called the glasses “the first real step towards vibe thinking.”' Sometime I feel like I should be out in startup land a bit more, then I read something that makes me think "nah, home or the local dive bar are fine".

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

JPMorgan predicted a foldable iPhone coming. I tried to have AI create a list of a similar predictions for each year since the rumors started. That was more frustrating than I wanted to deal with. But, summary, that prediction has been coming like clockwork since 2016. But this time I'm sure!

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Ozzy is a huge part of music life. As a teenage guitarist up to now (I have a black SG and play in a band). The weirdest part of this post is that I heard the news in a debugging window.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Gemini and Claude are down. Actually trying out gpt. Crazy outage day.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Wow. I don't know the Roo Code community well (at all, really), but they're pushing hard. Just installed the latest. New features focused on context compression, but with visibility and settings. Tasks. A whole bunch of stuff. The open source AI agent world is intense.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · 02/06/2025

We’ve learned a lot about scaling for mobile. @namnum.bsky.social will talk about why “second-platform thinking” (web → mobile, iOS → Android) should start early - even before your AI-coded MVP ships. 🗓 Tues 6/3, 5:30pm 📍 Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders 🎟️ partiful.com/e/NRjzYND0fu...

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RSVP to Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders | Partiful

An evening of talks, real systems thinking, and good vibes for developers building AI-native, fullstack apps. Hear from founders, engineers, and early builders who are shipping the backends behind mo...

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Don't need a car. Just got rid of our Covid-era Nissan Rouge. Loved it, but in Manhattan, it was just a money pit (parking, basically). Still. I can't tell you how much I want a DIY electric. Slate is marketed as no frills, but the money/time I'd spend tweaking this... www.slate.auto/en/slatemake...

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SLATE Maker

You make your SLATE as unique as your lifestyle.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The new agent in Android Studio is enabled in yesterday's canary build! This build doesn't have all the tools hooked up that I showed in the I/O demo last week (agent here: youtu.be/KXKP2tDPW4Y?...), such as the Gradle awareness -- and it also doesn't have the Upgrade Agent yet. Hopefully soon!

Screenshot of the new agent tab in Gemini in Android Studio showing the input prompt and sample queries

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If you're using Linear and periodically need to write issues that would use some context from your codebase, we have an MCP for you: touchlab.co/linear-mcp-f.... For conversational AI tools with project context, it can save a lot of painfully manual work. RE: blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/05...

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Linear MCP Integration for AI Agents

Touchlab’s enhanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for Linear allows your AI agent to interact directly with Linear, streamlining workflows and saving you time. Building upon existing ...

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Vibe coding hackathon in Brooklyn talking about agents and mcp. Hanging out with some folks I haven't seen in a while

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I used Perplexity deep research to build an "about me" kind of page for a personal site refresh. Whoever this guy is, he sounds pretty amazing. Starting with my military service, then, "A medical discharge following traumatic injury redirected his path toward software engineering." Compelling!

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Fired up Claude 4 Opus. Did some planning (good). Then I was like, "OK, let's set up that module" and it started generating what looked like valid Gradle config. Too bad this is a Typescript project :) My fault. I didn't really prime the context well, but reminder that agents aren't magic...

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The amount of news this week(s?) is just wild. Sonnet 4: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4, Gemini Agent in Android Studio (and Jules, but I'm less interested in that). Copilot open source. Kotlin LSP and VSCode support(?) Claude Code SDK. There's more, but I have to get to the airport...

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Introducing Claude 4

Discover Claude 4's breakthrough AI capabilities. Experience more reliable, interpretable assistance for complex tasks across work and learning.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Ah! Not just Jules! Conversational agent in android studio! AI coding hasn't impacted mobile much yet, relative to other parts of tech, but that's going to change fast (no source link, talk at I/o)

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If you’re at google.io and in the parking lot, public service announcement. There’s a lot of holes in the grass that you can twist your ankle on.

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Google I/O 2025

Don't miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Here's an amazing example of click-slop: opentools.ai/news/googles.... It talks about the possible new AI dev agent that Google may be releasing. It says a lot, but then you realize the only source is www.reuters.com/business/goo..., cited ~15 times. Really amazing.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I haven't had the time, nor currently the focus (it's pretty late), to process any hints as to *why* that was added, but my recent months essentially living inside AI tools and LLMs are rather excited about the implications. And @skydoves.bsky.social , if you just organically spotted that...

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ALT: the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The AI tooling landscape is kind of a mess. I was having really good luck with the new VSCode Copilot agent, until I decided to evaluate actually paying for Copilot and maybe making it the default for the team. Result? Agent no longer lets you choose models. Paying for it drops functionality.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A person who has a particular vein of humor that I vibe with suggested that I give "Walk Hard" another watch, and under 5 minutes in, I feel like it is undiscovered country for memes. Perhaps not funny without context, but memes rarely suffer your need for explanation.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest this, but it would be great if bsky could show the mouseover from xkcd directly in the app (even if it said "Don't be lazy. Click the link." or similar)

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · 16/04/2025

Fresh from the Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform community: Storytale is a new plugin to preview Composables in isolation—think Storybook for Compose. @kevinschildhorn.bsky.social breaks down what it does, how it works, what’s promising (and what’s not). touchlab.co/previewing-s...

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Taking a Look at Storytale

Storytale is a Gradle plugin that generates interactive component libraries for your UI. We'll go over how it works and how it can help your design system.

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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 15/04/2025

Finally did it. I wrote down how to build a code-editing agent. In 315 lines of code. And yes, it works. Very well. There is no moat. Read it here: ampcode.com/how-to-build...

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I spent some time with GPT 4.1 yesterday. Surprisingly good, but Gemini 2.5 is really good, and my current go to. Sonnet 3.7 is also really good. It'll be interesting to see if the next gen do anything really meaningfully better, or if this becomes incremental improvement.

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ALT: a man in a helmet says " it 's only a model " next to another man

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Not a UX expert, but if I was going to put a small button that a user might frantically try to click when they see Cursor's agent going off the rails, it *probably* wouldn't be in the exact spot where a button that will remove all of your changes, without confirmation, might suddenly appear.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We'll see how all this AI coding stuff plays out in reality. I've been very deep-diving lately (MCP party). But, if nothing else, the thought of never needing to write a regex again is pretty comforting.

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 22/03/2025

This is just a personal anecdote but probably worth noting for job hunters and learners: I've been asked 3 times just in the past week (!) by hiring managers for native Android developers! If you're deciding what you want to pick up/hone, that seems to be in pretty high demand right now.

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Tip to Anthropic. I have Claude doing refactors, and it regularly runs out of context. When I clear and reload, it phrases errors and issues as things I've done. I guess that's technically true, but it gets old. Example phrasing, if it helps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVJ...

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Every once in a while it's a dildo | Fight Club

YouTube video by [ VIMOJI ] English

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Kevin Galligan @kpgalligan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I asked Claude how likely it thought its own refactor would be successful. I appreciate the honesty. "Based on my analysis of the codebase and our progress so far, I'd give this refactoring effort a moderate chance of successful completion - around 60-70%." Git is your friend, friend.

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