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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 08/09/2026

I had a follow up question/comment! Recorded a video, hope it makes sense. Loved the episode as a long time/semi-competitive runner myself. The TL;DR though being they’re def faster in the shoes, but they’re also legit in better shape because they can do higher volume training too

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 13/08/2026

MadeByGoogle events continue to be weird influencer-washing and, at best, disingenuous

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 31/07/2026

Is founders not using caps the new faking a vocal fry?

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 01/07/2026

And finally, this release's copilot: Honey! She's a deaf 6-month-old red heeler and chaos incarnate.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 01/07/2026

Runtime tracing is a new integration with the upcoming androidx.tracing 2.0. If enabled, you just pass a Tracer instance into your graph and Metro will generate code that traces binding materialization throughout your graph. This is especially useful for profiling app startup or a CUJ.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 01/07/2026

Rich diagnostics is something I've wanted to work on for a while and takes a lot of inspiration from Rust. Same focus on detail and bouncing you in the right direction, but now with markup and diagrams! This works safely in the IDE as well, where IDE builds will gracefully fall back to plain ascii.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 21/06/2026

Yes every game is effectively a home game for the other team. We were the ones partying in the stadium after

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 21/06/2026

So fucking proud of this team 🇨🇼 . One more to go in Philly

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 18/06/2026

One thing I’m not clear on is the repeated use of the word “unusual”, where it seems to mean anything that exceeds the given (small) limits. By this criteria, any KMP or gradle project is often “unusual” no? Or a maintainer that has more than a couple projects/artifacts

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 18/06/2026

It's hard to square "it's not meant to be hard" with what appears to be a lot of signs warding me away from asking for this Some of these questions also don't make sense. What's "publishing pattern"? What if it's multiple projects? If FOSS alone is justification, why not allow me to say that?

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 17/06/2026

Doing things by namespace means everything is under broad grouping. What if a branch is published locally and not pushed, for instance? What if it’s 10 OSS projects and one private SDK? I’m stuck on why this added friction is necessary at all, transparency on the numbers in this chart would help

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 17/06/2026

Here’s me with 3 libraries (two very small) on the new limits this month

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 17/06/2026

Here’s me after 7 releases of three projects this month

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 17/06/2026

Also charting gore to justify this

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 15/06/2026

My dad and I are regular listeners. He's born/raised/still lives there and attended all the WC qualifying matches too. If you ever want a connect to learn bout the country's football history (including the dutch players past and present with lineage there and Suriname), I'd love to put you in touch!

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 15/06/2026

- after every German goal the second half, Neuer would run over to the ball boy and beckon for a ball. He'd then proceed to juggle it for a bit and throw it around during the celebrations before tossing the ball back. Is this a thing? - German team came and applauded us at the end too, class move

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 15/06/2026

Was in the Curaçao supporters' section and have some fond stories to share! - Match was essentially a home game for Germany. More Mexican kits in the stadium than curacao - That equalizer was unforgettable. Watch the replay with stadium sound and hear the roar despite the numbers difference.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 08/06/2026

Moreover, what Apple and Google and all these other companies haven't learned that movie studios have is you need to make the non-human companion character functionally a cat. Toothless, Rocky, BB8, R2, Stitch, WALL-E, Groot, list goes on

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 20/05/2026

I'll be giving a talk about Metro's internals tomorrow at @kotlinconf.com! This'll be an advanced talk that assumes familiarity with Metro, and is a sort of part 2 of my "Navigating Dependency Injection with Metro" talk last year. You can find it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVfm...

The first slide from the talk - "Metro Under the Hood"

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 14/05/2026

Speaking of dawg, this release’s copilot: Coral! Coral’s been through hell and back, even by shelter dog standards. But despite that she’s incredibly sweet and gentle. Very much enjoyed watching her last week for another volunteer.

A dog with a mottled gray, black, and white coat, large upright ears, and amber eyes sitting on green artificial turf looking directly up at the camera.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 10/05/2026

Not my own dog but my last *foster dog: Coral!

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 27/04/2026

LOTS of notes, probably a few dozens of pages like this over the past year and a half

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 27/04/2026

Come a long way since these scratch notes

A note pad with some scratch notes about a project called "Lattice", with early thoughts on what would eventually become Metro

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 13/08/2025

Always ask why the position was available

A tweet from Nikita Bier that reads

I am assembling the Android Dream Team.

The 1991-1998 Chicago Bulls of Android teams.

You will be working alongside the most elite engineers of your career.

Books will be written about this team.

This app will be regarded with more reverence than the moon landing

The code will change history more than the invention of the wheel.

Come rebuild the 𝕏 Android app.

DMs open. No remote candidates.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 08/08/2025

Last day at Slack! Nothing planned next yet, gonna enjoy some time off 🌴

Me holding a red velvet cake in an office

Me and five female coworkers in the New York office

A red velvet cake that says “Happy last day Zac” spelled out in the icing on top

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 03/05/2025

Big Friday over here - Foster pup Helga got adopted! - Raced another mile and lowered my (adult life) best to 4:46 in a big breakthrough - Finished a huge rewrite of Metro's internal binding graph, runs in O(V+E) complexity now + fixed a few bugs along the way

Me kneeling with a big white dog with brown spots

A view of a track looking down the straightaway under the lights. There are spectator stands on the right and the track is blue

Screenshot of a race video right after the finish

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 19/03/2025

The world if corporate IT orgs stopped doing vanity projects

“The world if” meme featuring a futuristic, peaceful society

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 18/03/2025

Rolled back the years a bit on Sunday and did something I never thought I’d do again: chased a PR. 1:24:24 chip time, 1:23:28 watch split. Sights set on the track this summer now 🌞

Three runners running in front of a well lit billboard

A bunch of runners running through Times Square

A grid of metrics from a Strava workout. The average pace is 6:22 per mile and the total distance is 13.19 miles.

Strava screenshot showing mile splits for just over 13 miles. Each split is between roughly 6:10 and 6:30.

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