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Ryan Harter

@ryan.harter.us
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Dad, Husband, Programmer, Google Developer Expert, Gradle Fellow. He/him.

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Ralf @ralf-wondratschek.com · 16/07/2026
I'm glad that the same ideas are working for you too. I extracted this module structure with enforcement of these rules into a library vrallev.github.io/app-platform...
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Module Structure - App Platform
A lightweight application framework for state and memory management suitable for Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 15/07/2026
Here's a post about a Gradle module structure that I helped institute at Dropbox 4 years ago which has been serving us well. ryanharter.com/blog/2026/07...
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A Great Gradle Module Structure :: Ryan Harter
Flattening my Dependency Graph Jesse Wilson Jesse explores a Gradle module structure that he likes. Read now ➡ I liked this not-so-recent post from Jesse Wilson, which outlines a Gradle module convent...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 21/06/2026
A few weeks ago I ordered a new (from 2018?) NES game, Micro Mages, and it came in yesterday. Naturally, it made for a great Father's Day afternoon activity.
Me and my boys sitting on the floor of a very Lego and Hot Wheels heavy play room, playing a Nintendo game. A brand new box, instruction manual and cartridge for the indie game Micro Mages.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 19/06/2026
The annoying thing about doing a subscription drive is having to keep yelling about it. Doesn't work if I say nothing. Strange, eh?
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 20/06/2026
Oh no, I'm watching on Telemundo in Spanish, and have no idea what this red card is for!!
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 18/06/2026
I'm having fun printing frames from this trip to the racetrack. #darkroom #filmphotographt
A printed black and white photograph of midget cars driving around a racetrack at night.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 15/06/2026
@dankim.com turned me on to Plain Text Sports, and its now my go to! plaintextsports.com/world-cup/
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Today’s World Cup Scoreboard
Instant live sports scores, play-by-play, and box scores
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 13/06/2026
I went with the family to a local speedway for some races. It was my first time, and lots of fun. Here's a photo of a driver chatting up the race official as his car is being towed off the track. 😅
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 13/06/2026
Yesterday I sent off my Canadian citizenship application for my boys and I! I've been working on this for months, so I'm super excited to have this part taken care of.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 31/05/2026
Just ordered Micro Mages as a new NES cartridge! morphcatgames.itch.io/micromages
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Micro Mages (NES / PC) by Morphcat Games
A platformer developed for the NES. Now available on PC! ROM included. Play solo or with up to 4 players simultaneously.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 18/05/2026
ORD 🛫🛬 SFO for Google I/O. If you're going and see me, come say hi! #GoogleIO
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 14/05/2026
I'm often working with old code, and it's not that bad. It's even easier if you practice incremental maintenance. ryanharter.com/blog/2026/05...
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Incremental Maintenance :: Ryan Harter
I recently reviewed some code at work that made me pause. The change affected a part of the codebase that we affectionately call “The Monolith”, which is some of the oldest code in our 16 ...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 10/04/2026
I spent spring break in Arkansas, where I got to visit Crater of Diamonds State Park and Hot Springs National Park. I also go to try out the new Harman Switch Azure film, with some color couplers switched, which is really surreal.
A surreal image of a mine shaft building under a yellow sky. The colors are flipped in unexpected, unexplainable ways. A surreal photo of a tall building with a Hot Springs National Park sign in the foreground. The sky is yellow, the building looks cyan.A surreal photo of the facade of a spa. The building looks cyan and the sky looks yellow.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 06/04/2026
Does it count as "using" Bluesky if you're just here for @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social? Asking for a friend.
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 07/03/2026
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‘Humans use Energy and Water too’
An engineer I admire was lamenting about AI. He said that his new programming agent is excellent at fixing bugs! And all that it costs is a bunch of energy and many litres of water. He said that he co...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 14/02/2026
I've been working with an artist for months to design a piece that captures my fascination with light and color. I've spent 15 years learning to simulate it with graphics programming, then moved to analog processes in the darkroom. Today the piece was installed, and I love it!
A piece of art hanging on a wall, above a record player. The art is made up of a white panel with a light in the corner, and several dichroic glass panels sticking out, creating colored reflections.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 24/01/2026
It's Friday night! Let's go!
The title screen of the 1996 movie Hackers.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/07/2025
After introducing the boys to Star Wars the last couple of weeks, it's time to start on the next challenge!
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Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez @amanda-hinchman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Thanks for attending my #dcnyc25 talk! You can find the slides here on Speaker Deck: speakerdeck.com/amanda_hinch... #AndroidDev #Android
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Kotlin Coroutine Mechanisms: A Surprisingly Deep Rabbithole
Sometimes you think you know coroutines, and then after a while, you’re like, “Wait, do I really know coroutines?” Inspired by the O’Reilly book _Progra…
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Saket Narayan @saket.me · 06/06/2025
Your post is also a good reminder of why writing abstractions for code that _seems_ similar is often a bad long-term idea.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 06/06/2025
What's better than lots of great code? No code! I wrote about a recent tech spec review and how a teammate and I helped simplify a proposal down to nothing! ryanharter.com/blog/2025/06...
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Celebrate the code you didn't write :: Ryan Harter
Over the past few years I've been driving an architecture and tech spec review process at work. This has been helpful in breaking down certain silos, distributing knowledge across the organization, an...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 24/05/2025
I just returned from a week in California for Google I/O and some other stuff at Google, which was amazing. I was a little surprised to come back to this kitchen renovation, however. 😅
A photo of my kitchen, with a large terrarium with two Russian Tortoises sitting in the kitchen island.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 24/04/2025
I recently had the chance to share how we test at scale at Dropbox in a guest post on the Android Engineering blog! ⁨https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/how-dropbox-leverages-testing-to-maintain-high-level-of-trust-at-scale-b7b1bdf6161e⁩
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 09/02/2025
I got to take part in @vinaygaba.bsky.social's newsletter this week, which was fun. There are a lot of interesting answers to the question "Where do you see Android development in 3 years?" jetpackcomposeapp.beehiiv.com/p/dispatch-i...
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Dispatch Issue #11 - "Future of Android" Special
💌 In today's issue, we talk to some Android experts and hear from them about their hot-takes, predictions, wishes and advice about how they expect the Android ecosystem to change and how to best prepa...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/01/2025
Tonight I'm playing around with a C program to fetch my currently playing track from Last.fm. I'm thinking of using it as a CGI script so that I can have a fun current moment page at ryanharter.com while still keeping the site Javascript free.
Screenshot of my computer screen. On the right is a Sublime Text window with a C program called "lastfm.c", behind that is a browser with the last.fm API docs and a terminal with the getenv man page open.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 30/12/2024
I just booked flights and hotels for a family trip to Bologna, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal in two months. I'm getting really excited!
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 28/12/2024
I'm watching The Fifth Element with Sara, who's never seen it. As soon as the cab says "Dallas", Sara reflexively says "Corbin Dallas". I asked how she knew that and she reminded me that I wanted to name our kids Corbin Dallas Harter. I totally forgot. 😅
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 27/12/2024
After a year or so, I spent some time this holiday break to finally put a 4" touchscreen on my Volumio HiFi streamer. It was a nice addition, but I decided it could use a little more space for interaction, so I got a 7" touchscreen instead. It's nice to be able to control this without my phone.
A display showing Fall Out Boy on Volumio, sitting on a powered bookshelf speaker with an aquarium next to it.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 15/12/2024
We decorated our Christmas tree today, and set up a "new" train! The old one was from Sara's grandpa, from the early 50s. This one came from a family member in an unopened box packed with a Lionel catalog for 1988.
A Christmas tree with a Lionel train set around the base. Two boys and I sit on the floor playing with the train.
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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12/12/2024
Are you terrified about your #Android app getting compromised through a build supply chain attack? (you likely should be!) I wrote a post on how to enable signature verification of your Gradle dependencies to make that a lot harder for the threat actors www.liutikas.net/2024/12/12/T... #gradle
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Trust But Verify - Enabling Gradle Signature Verification for An Android Project
In my post on Gradle Security Considerations I suggested enabling Gradle dependency signature verification. It is an important practice given today’s landsca...
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Saket Narayan @saket.me · 08/12/2024
So true. I credit my unfinished projects for helping me land all the jobs I've ever had. In 2015, I was rejected by my first company because I couldn't pass their (leetcode) interview rounds. They called me back the next week after discovering my side projects.
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 08/12/2024
My mom has been in the hospital after a lung transplant and I've been sick so Sara spent the week in Minneapolis with her. We picked her up at the airport today and the boys made signs. I'm not sure they fully understood the "airplane pickup sign" idea, but I think these are great! 😂
Two marker on cardboard signs. The one on the left reads "I love you Mom and I hope you had a grate trip and I love you and I and Vader and Ohana love you. From Milo, to Mom". The one on the right has a large, lopsided heart and reads "I am sorry that I messed up on the heart. I love you."
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 07/12/2024
I was reflecting on my feelings about unfinished projects, and realized that they're actually okay. I wrote about it here! ryanharter.com/blog/2024/12...
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Start More Projects :: Ryan Harter
A couple of months ago I was pair programming with a colleague, sharing my screen, and he was amazed to see the number of branches I had in my git repo. This wasn’t simply a case of poor git hyg...
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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/11/2024
It's opening day of deer season in Wisconsin, so I'm at my family's cabin in the North woods.
A broad forest and prairie landscape, with a small cabin with smoke rising from the chimney in the mid-ground. A photo in the woods, of nothing in particular. In the foreground you can see horizontal branches stacked up, serving as a hunting blind.
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