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h/t @rahulrav.com for starting the tracing work!

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

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Plus a bunch of other improvements to diagnostics and the usual laundry list of bug fixes!

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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 · 24/06/2026

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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Coming in Metro 1.3.0! Was awesome working with Rahul on this

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 23/06/2026

Introducing kempt: a single-entry point CLI that delegates to language-specific formatters with easy installation, automatic binary management, git hook integration, license headers, whitespace handling, and simple configuration. www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-...

zacsweers.dev

Introducing Kempt

Formatting should be boring, in the best possible way.

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

Amazing!! What a game to get to see

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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

See bsky.app/profile/zacs...

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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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I’m not privy to internals but if I had a magic wand - transparent pricing model, no “contact sales” - transparent (even vaguely) view on infrastructure costs, specifically how publishing relates to that - proactively engaging large groups (companies or ICs with large OSS footprints) re: exemptions

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It was sarcasm and he was talking about Jesse

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Your blog post is not really clear on this, and the damage control you’ve been trying to do here and on Reddit since kind of speaks to that I think 😅

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You do see why those solutions aren’t being warmly received though, right?

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Your solution has so far been extremely harsh limits, “ask for an exemption”, no upfront pricing, and a sales contact for the rest. I totally get that it’s not a straight line but it does seem like some things could be more proactive and transparent.

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That chart was included as an explanation in the post so that’s why I point to it being unclear. No one disputes that funding is needed, but if you’re going to point at a chart and also say “1% are responsible for 83% of traffic” in a post, it’s hard not to feel like there’s an elephant in the room?

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Namely: it’s not clear. One company could be responsible for 90% of the volume with that scaling. Or maybe 100 are. It’s unclear, but there’s a general perception that we’re all paying a tax because of some whales at the end of the

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

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

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But instead they’re squeezing everyone

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 16/06/2026

Also charting gore to justify this

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Super sympathetic to Sonatype's situation, hosting isn't free. But announcing this with paltry limits and no public pricing options (a sales contact ain't it) is bad for everyone and going to be a major disruption to the JVM and Kotlin ecosystems. central.sonatype.org/publish/mave...

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Maven Central Publishing Limits

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Oh and ~4% of the island's population was in the stadium today. There's around 300k of us total on this little planet between the island and in diaspora. Today was a very special day for all of us.

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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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- 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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