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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have considered it and that's as far as it goes because I'm not entitled to it :(

Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every time I arrive at an EU border, I'm reminded how utterly moronic Brexit is and what an absolutely wasteful and destructive idea it was.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Go to www.edinburghtraveltracker.com and then click on "API Keys" in the footer and fill in the form which pops up. I know that some people had issues when the API first launched with getting their keys after submitting the form. I have no idea if that's fixed now.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What API are you referencing? Because if you're talking about bus tracker, that's City of Edinburgh Council and Trapeze. And if bus tracker, what do you mean by "new" API keys?

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Sorry sir - you can't wear a big plastic bin on top of your shoulders in to the chamber. It's against the standing orders of the house."

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I wonder, if Count Binface wins and takes his seat in the Commons, what happens with regards to the dress code that members of the Commons are supposed to adhere to?

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent some time today playing around with the new Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform which has just been made public alongside the release of Android/AAOS 17. The screenshot is SDV Cuttlefish images I built running the SDV solution. I'm looking forward to working more with this.

A screenshot of Android Cuttlefish running the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform. In this example, this includes an instrument cluster as well as the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) screens.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I gave a brief interview to Mohsen Mirhoseini about LLMs and the future of software development at KotlinConf last week in Munich, which features in his latest video. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybZG...

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Are We the Last Generation of Developers? KotlinConf 2026 Unfiltered AI Survey

YouTube video by Android Developer Tips

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If the question is "Should I fly to/from Glasgow airport?", the answer is no.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

While you're down in Leith, take advantage of visiting the Moonwake brewery taproom. And Teuchters Landing pub is well worth a visit.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yet, their lust for a neoliberal utopia with low taxes is so great, they are psychologically incapable of reconciling their ideology with the state of the country they caused while they were in government. Cause the mess and blame someone else for it. Great work, guys.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In appears to me that the Conservatives are engaged in political trolling, whereby they hand over a very shit inheritance to a new government and then they be like "Wow, the country is so broken, isn't it? Who done that?"

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Increasingly conservatism has become about returning to an imagined rose-tinted past.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I've just realised that if Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is charged and it proceeds to court, we'll witness the spectacle of "The Crown vs Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", which will be prosecuted by a member of the King's Counsel. That has an extra sting to it when the Crown/King is your brother.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A cabinet of none of the talents.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It turns out if you use `build-logic` instead (imported with `includeBuild("build-logic")`) then the classpath issues were no longer issues. Apparently the `buildSrc` classpath is resolved before other plugins in the main project(s) are included.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

While working on @mybusedinburgh.bsky.social this week I encountered an annoying subtle thing with Gradle. I tried to use convention plugins in the `buildSrc` dir. But I kept getting issues with classes not found. So there was clearly some classpath thing happening.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Ah but what about just north of Berwick-upon-Tweed on the ECML? :)

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It beats some pretty stiff competition, but I think I can confidently say that Charleroi is the most miserable airport experience I've ever encountered.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I would describe the queue for security at Charleroi airport as currently constipated.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The issues with the Edinburgh bus tracking API over the past few weeks have been a massive pain, but hopefully I can put it behind me now. After a massive effort, I'm glad to get this app update out. Now time for sleep.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Insights (continued); - All main values (consumed, generated, imported and exported) were all marginally up on 2024, with the export kWh being the biggest gain. - Despite export kWh being up, the money earned was down due to @octopus.energy's export rates being less generous since spring 2025.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Insights (continued); - This year, May rather than June was the best month for generation. - The worst month was of course December.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Insights; - Solar is still way better than no solar. It's the daily standing charge which kills the profitability. - I exported almost double than I imported, so I was by far a net contributor to the grid.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Total import cost (including standing charge): £437.29 Total import cost (excluding standing charge): £228.36 Total export earned: £310.08 Total cost for electricity for the year (import minus export):£127.21 Theoretical cost if I had no solar, based on average kWh price: £1,077.82 Saving £950.61

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Stats for 2025 (all units are kWh); House consumed: 3,295 Solar generated: 4,484 Grid imported: 1,227 Grid exported: 2,387

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Now that 2025 has concluded and I have the full energy stats for my usage, I can give some stats. Firstly my setup; 12x 405W solar panels 9.5kWh GivEnergy battery storage South facing roof - located in Edinburgh, Scotland (Solar and battery installed June 2023) Last year: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

2025 was a year of great conferences for me: KotlinConf Copenhagen, Droidcon Berlin and Droidcon London. 2026 is shaping up for another great year. I will be debuting at FOSDEM in Brussels this month, and returning to KotlinConf in Munich and Droidcon London. Perhaps others too?

Three lanyards for three conferences I attended in 2025. The conferences were; KotlinConf in Copenhagen, Droidcon Berlin and Droidcon London.

At KotlinConf and Droidcon Berlin I was an attendee only, but at Droidcon London I was a speaker.

The Droidcon lanyards state that I work for Code Chateau Ltd (my own personal consuilting business) and that I am a Senior Android Developer/Engineer.

The KotlinConf lanyard has stickers containing pictures of Ash Davies' cats.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's possible to simultaneously hold the following views; - That Maduro is a piece of shit - a terrible person. - The behaviour of the current US administration is utterly contemptible.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A short thread explaining the issues with My Bus Edinburgh and bus tracking in general over the past few weeks.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I've not heard this album but I have a couple of other albums ('I Robot', 'Eye in the Sky') from The Alan Parsons Project and really like them. Interesting fact: Alan Parsons was the engineer on Pink Floyd's epic 'The Dark Side of the Moon'.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Ah, so they found somewhere then. A relative of mine is a church warden and they said they turned down a request from GB News to have their carol service at their church because they knew it'd become a circus.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My Droidcon London 2025 talk, "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates", is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_o1... So happy to see my first ever conference talk now online :)

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Dual booting for testing and curiosity - Niall Scott | droidcon London 2025

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

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My Bus Edinburgh @mybusedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It took far longer than I hoped, but this morning Google finally approved the update to My Bus Edinburgh which fixes the issue loading bus times. This is now starting to roll out to users. If you don't immediately see the update, please check the Play Store throughout the day.

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My Bus Edinburgh @mybusedinburgh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A change was made to Bus Tracker without my prior knowledge which means bus times are not currently working. Fortunately the fix is simple and I am currently publishing a new app update this morning to fix it. I will update here when the update is out.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who came along to my Droidcon London talk. Now it's over, I can relax for the rest of the conference. Here's a link to the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Me, Niall Scott, standing in-front of my speaker card for the talk "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" at Droidcon London 2025.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

On my way to London to attend Droidcon this week. Looking forward to meeting with my fellow Android developers and friends.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

LLM voice: "you're absolutely right there Thomas!"

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The biggest threat to the way of life of those who spout "go back to your own country" is that enough people actually do. However, the bigots are usually too stupid to realise this. Study after study shows that on the whole, migrants contribute way more than they take. Show them respect.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A brand new update for My Bus Edinburgh is rolling out. It's been over 2 years since the last update, so this was long overdue. This is the first release with some features written in Compose. This project started in 2009 while I was at uni, and it's still rolling along. 25.5k active installs!

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

So what might appear like a common pattern to you might not appear like a common pattern to others. In my case, this has been because my typical developer workflow has not demanded it.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I started using them at least 2 years agoon a personal project but not extensively as I did this week due to previous flakiness. I've mostly been doing Android Automotive for the past 2.5 years, so I tend to target a single device, thus not leveraging the full capability of Gradle Managed Devices.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I just want to say, I'm using Gradle Managed Devices to run instrumentation tests across groups of virtual devices and it's amazing. Prior to a release, I'm getting very valuable feedback that the tests do indeed pass across many versions of Android.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Only 2 weeks to go until @droidcon.bsky.social London! I will be presenting the 20 minute lightening session "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" on the Dalvik Domain stage at 15:30 on October 30th (1st day).

A speaker card for Niall Scott's talk "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" at Droidcon London 2025. Niall is a contractor senior Android engineer. This is an intermediate level talk.

Droidcon London takes place between October 30th and 31st 2025.

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Niall Scott @niallscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

People go on about how long it takes to get through passport control in the EU for British citizens post-Brexit. But somehow it takes even longer to get back into the UK at Edinburgh Airport as a British citizen.

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