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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Didn't realize how much I had missed the caramel apple suckers 😀

Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Finally found some time to mess around with the Gemini CLI and the Docker MCP Toolkit and there's definitely a bit of ✨ magic ✨ to just managing some simple github tasks through plain human language at the command line. and adding the GitHub tools using the docker toolkit was surprisingly easy

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Also, there's a comment in there about AI agents handling on-call duties; and that idea both excites and terrifies me 😅

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I found this to be a pretty interesting look at where coding and AI tools have come from, and where they might be going. In particular, some of the ideas shared about multi-agent interactions gave me some fun food for thought. youtu.be/3KAI__5dUn0?...

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Context Engineering & Coding Agents with Cursor

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Resisting the urge to buy the Switch 2 ZA bundle given I still haven't finished Expedition 33 yet 😬

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Pamela Hill-Galloway @pamelaahill.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm super proud of this webinar for underrepresented communities to CFP for KotlinConf. It has been a goal of mine to have this type of encouraging event since I started at JetBrains, and now you can watch the video 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTfH...

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Your Voice Belongs Here: Creating Compelling KotlinConf Proposals

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Also loading up on delicious baked goods today 😍

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Soaking up some Cali sun this weekend ☀️😎

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Let's see what this #GoogleIO Dev keynote has for us...

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

👀 "Eliminating most limitations of interop in Kotlin/JS"

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Anyone using Telepresence to communicate with services in your k8s cluster from locally running services within a Docker Compose environment? Trying to get it working and can it understand why I can hit one service in the cluster, sometimes, but not the rest 😵‍💫

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Really wish I was heading to KotlinConf. We've spent the past ~18 months rebuilding our core platform on Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform and now some Compose Multiplatform as well and I've got the itch to share about the cool work we've done! Crossing my fingers for next year 🤞

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

That's what has prompted my little emergency deep dive into the optimization. Our new CMP project is worked amazing so far for porting over some non-trivial functionality but for a still relatively small project we were already feeling the pain of linking.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Using Parallels is a really interesting idea when targeting those other desktop platforms 😀 Are there hoops to jump through to get it deployed onto those virtualized machines?

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Are you using internal and @/HiddenFromObjC together generally? Or do you use a set of team guidelines/conventions to dictate when to use one or both?

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Very interesting. I hadn't come across those before or looked into the linker much. Sounds like I should. Thanks for the tip!

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Avoid release at all cost" definitely seems like the right strategy.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This seems to be the place to start for tackling this problem. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on where to start optimizing. kotlinlang.org/docs/native-...

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Tips for improving compilation time | Kotlin

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This was a timely find in my feed. We've been feeling some of these build time pain points in our new CMP project. The article confirms a lot of my suspicions about where to start optimizing but also some stuff I hadn't seen before. Thanks for sharing!

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm not sure if maybe we should avoid building a Release build type for the simulator target by default since most the time we'd just want the Debug build type 🤔

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This has been a problem for us in our other KMP project, and nothing short of throwing more powerful CPUs at it seemed to help much. We eventually just introduced some build flags so we could run most builds against just the JVM target for local dev but our CI build times are still pretty awful.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Just avoid running any task that runs more than one linking task at a time? Maybe paired with doing most local dev again Android or Desktop first then test on iOS?

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What are folks doing to minimize the impact of slow native linking build tasks for the iOS targets in Compose Multiplatform projects?

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 01/05/2025

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it! blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-... #gradle

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Gradle Best Practices - A Path to Build Happiness

Gradle Build Tool, also known as Gradle, is a highly flexible and extensible build system. It supports multiple ways to structure and configure builds, making it incredibly powerful—but also somewhat ...

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Every time I think I have PagerDuty escalation policy settings figured out... someone on the team gets alerted in the middle of night for a low-priority issue and I'm reminded that I apparently understand nothing 😑

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

That sure would be nice!

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Jorge Castillo @jorgecastillo.dev · 18/04/2025

The Jetpack Compose and internals course is the result of years of deep exploration, experience working on Compose initiatives at big tech, and writing the Jetpack Compose Internals book 🧵

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This @touchlab.co post has been super useful in getting up to speed with adaptive layout apis for Compose Multiplatform Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform touchlab.co/adaptive-lay...

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Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts is a way of adapting your UI to fit different display sizes on Android, and it's now available for Compose Multiplatform.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Managed to get access to WindowSizeClass across both Android and iOS. Will hopefully get more time tomorrow to really start experimenting with nav rail and some of the more tailored Scaffold implementations.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Started digging into the adaptive layout apis today. A little bit confusing at first trying to find the latest available apis and how to get them imported properly. Seems like one of those areas where things are advancing quickly; so it's a good problem to have I suppose.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Was quite simple to get Koin integrated into my small sandbox project. Reminded me a lot of Hilt with how easily it integrated with the Compose NavController

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Not 100% pure vibes, but was pretty happy with how much of the lifting Junie did in creating a plantuml service map for me this week.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

First thought. The whole idea and ecosystem has definitely matured since the last time I poked around at it around a year ago

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Going down the Compose Multiplatform rabbit hole again...

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Was very pleasantly surprised today at how well JetBrains' Junie worked for generating plantuml diagrams. It was a fantastic experience to just explain what I wanted and not have to comb through docs on puml syntax

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sadly, no longer a GDE as Google officially sunsetted the Kotlin category. Enjoyed my time in the program, and look forward to still sharing Kotlin content in the future... my team has been building with Kotlin more than ever and my content backlog is growing all the time 🙂

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If you don't mind my asking, in your experience how significant is the image size difference between jib and using link/jdeps? I imagine it probably depends largely on the application?

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Not a bad view for pair programming this week

Rooftop view from an AirBnB in Mexico City

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Very interesting talk if you're building container images - especially for the JVM. I had not really explored buildpacks for this. Definitely gave me some things to think about

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

🛫 Off to Mexico City for field testing and quarterly planning. And most importantly for some needed ☀️😎

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

After an intense 2024 that took a toll on my physical and mental health, I told myself I would really invest more in taking care of myself in 2025. 4 weeks in and I'm starting to feel a noticeable difference 🎉

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Blows me away how often I've had to remind Product & Design teams of this over the years 😅

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Little bit of me time while I clean up my blog backlog ☕

Latte and a black MacBook pro on a wooden table in a coffee shop

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Anyone have issues with IntelliJ using an undesirable build task when running 'Build Project' or know of a way to change that inferred task? As far as I know it can't be done and we've been using work arounds but the muscle memory is hard to break for some

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Great hack week in Cancun last week. Tough to come back to our cold winter homes, but pretty excited about the computer vision capabilities we prototyped while together

Three male software engineers coding with their legs dangling in a swimming pool

Three male software engineers standing on the beach in Cancun

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

That's what I would hope for, but great to hear that's how it's worked in practice

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