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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Love that Android wireless debugging actually works now 😁

Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 23/01/2026

Those ICE / Gestapo comparisons aren't far fetched. Communities protecting themselves from indiscriminate government raids, snatches and horrific violence. It's really sad to see America fall so fast. I've really enjoyed my past time there, working and touring. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...

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In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer

The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...

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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 31/12/2025

Happy new year, from me and my new hat

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 13/12/2025

Getting up late and having cake for breakfast

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Fact of the day: the space shuttle had 30,000 tiles to make up its heat shield, each of which was different, with a separate part number. The crew attaching them were known as the "Puzzle People"

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 02/12/2025

How do I get rid of these inane AI suggestions? Stupid WhatsApp, I can communicate better than that

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 28/11/2025

The trouble with Eurostar is that At Pancras. Horrible terminus, can't even sit down. Surely trains haven't got any bigger - so presumably it was built at like half the capacity needed

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 24/11/2025

I still value a good StackOverflow answer, from someone who's actually experienced and solved the problem, above an AI-generated solution to it.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 13/10/2025

Massive @vodafonegroup.bsky.social outage. I guess this about sums it up!

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 10/10/2025

Goodness me, Thessaloniki is already beautiful and I haven't even landed yet ❤️

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 05/10/2025

Ushering in a new period of low productivity

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 02/10/2025

Thanks Google Maps, that really is a highlight

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 15/09/2025

I'm not sure it's divisive. Pretty wide agreement that it's bad.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 20/08/2025

Why is tailrec needed for tail-recursion optimisation in Kotlin? Surely the compiler already knows that a function is tail-recursive, so why do we have to manually request the optimisation?

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 17/08/2025

Important parenting rule: if you wake me up to ask, then the answer is no.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 17/06/2025

As dictated by my 3-year-old nephew

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 08/06/2025

Android apps are now better than iOS apps

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 28/05/2025

Hugging Face is a dumb name.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 19/05/2025

I appreciate that I'm the very last person in the world to notice this - but OMG graphics cards are expensive now!

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 16/05/2025

Once, before digital photography, photos used to come back with these little advice labels. It was literally someone's job at the processing lab to LOOK THROUGH ALL YOUR PHOTOS and stick them on. The lack of privacy of the analogue era is wild!

Photo quality control stickers from the 1990s

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 13/05/2025

My article on Android + Passkeys just got published! A full in depth tutorial that builds a working back-end and front-end using Jetpack Credential Manager. proandroiddev.com/implementing... #androiddev #android

proandroiddev.com

Implementing Passkeys in Android — A Full-Stack Guide

The internet would be a much more secure place for its users if passkeys replaced passwords. They are phishing-proof, guess-proof and…

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.” - Carl Sagan

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 11/05/2025

Bit of a jump in followers these last 24h! No idea where you all came from but thank you for wanting to listen to me 😀

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 17/04/2025

They'll claw at you if you even try

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 11/04/2025

Ahh 😌 home is where there's no R above my network symbols

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droidcon @droidcon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🇫🇷🚨ATTN #ANDROIDDEVS! ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT! 🚨🇫🇷 #AMxDC25 expert-led #Android talks & 'Unconference Roundtables' let you learn, discuss, & problem-solve all in one event. Sharpen your skills by joining top #AndroidDev minds! LAST CHANCE TO GET TICKETS: androidmakers.droidcon.com/tickets/

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 23/03/2025

Has anyone here tried to run Linux on Snapdragon Elite CPUs? Does it work?

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 23/03/2025

This photo is from 105 years ago. Unedited, original colour, created by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont using the Autochrome Lumière process. Original in @rijksmuseum.bsky.social Amsterdam

Sleeping girl in oriental clothing by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 23/03/2025

Woohoo, I'm @sessionize.com speaker of the day! 😁😁😁 Need someone to talk about Android or app development at your conference or place of work? Let me know!

My face on a certificate type thing showing speaker of the day

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 22/03/2025

I've written 39 articles over the last few years, on Android, coding and app startups. Finally now all linked in one place on my new site: tomcolvin.co.uk/articles

Scrolling view of the articles page of my site

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 20/03/2025

There's nothing like an eye-wateringly expensive API, with your own credit card behind it, to focus the mind on good debugging techniques

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 06/03/2025

FINALLY got a complete end-to-end demo of Passkeys working in Android! This has been an very hard task; so much documentation that just falls off a cliff, and weird esoteric error messages. This demo uses Jetpack Credential Manager and SimpleWebAuthn #androiddev

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 03/03/2025

French speakers: do you hear a pronunciation difference between "son" and "sans"? They're supposedly different phonemes but my English ears can't hear it.

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Jorge Castillo @jorgecastillo.dev · 28/02/2025

The Compose strong skipping mode does not fix the stability issue with Kotlin collections. Here’s a post on the main things to watch out for when using them 👇 open.substack.com/pub/effectiv...

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Strong skipping does not fix Kotlin collections in Jetpack Compose ⚠️

Things to watch out for when using List, Map, Set, etc

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 18/02/2025

Feels like a never-ending job

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 04/02/2025

"I started reading it, then I fell asleep" - my partner, when asked to read over my latest blog article 💤🌛

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 28/01/2025

My partner's car's satnav reroutes immediately to any location I send it on the app. So I can now send her rude words whilst she's driving.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 23/01/2025

The thing that most disappoints me about Android "Baklava" is that I was really looking forward to finding out what sweet thing begins with X

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 19/01/2025

In Android Studio, can you set a specific virtual device as default? My environment always selects a way-old API24 tester for new projects.

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Tom Colvin @tomcolvin.co.uk · 13/01/2025

Why is Droidcon copying my entire article, in whole, without attribution? 🤔

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