2016: "You're overreacting!"
2017: "You're overreacting!"
2018: "You're overreacting!"
2019: "You're overreacting!"
2020: "You're overreacting!"
2021: "You're overreacting!"
2024: "You're overreacting!"
2025: "You're overreacting!"
2026: "Well there was no way of knowing it would get this bad..."

@zsmb13 I think that makes the most sense. If I actually need to use this other box to do work i'll either get a second seat _or_ use my license there instead.

@zsmb13 do you know how many Intellij Ultimate licenses I need in order to occasionally compile/build/run my project in more than one context? I use MacOS _normally_ and just found out my fancy new seat license for IJ Ultimate doesn't appreciate being used by a Windows machine (while active on MacOS as well).

@saket @hackbod @zsmb13 expert level trolling 😆

Google doesn't want you to know about this one weird trick to have convenient, global access to Context in your apps!

@lehtimaeki my brother in law has a YT channel that he posts fishing stuff on but it seems mostly aimed at monetizing the hobby than to be social with it. It's @ShowMetheHawgs if you wanted to check it out.

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.

They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.

But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

here's a few settings you may wish to consider for your firefox's about:config page.

browser.ml.chat.enabled = false
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts = false
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom = false
browser.ml.chat.sidebar = false
browser.ml.enable = false
extensions.ml.enabled = false

if your firefox is recent enough, you might want these to disable AI tab groups too (thanks @ilmari!)

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled = false
browser.tabs.groups.smart.optin = false
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled = false

@autonomousapps @hugo @donaldball @norootcause Tom DeMarco, author of 'Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation', 1982, famously said in the first line of the book: "You can’t control what you can’t measure".
In 2009, nearly forty years later, he admits he was wrong. In an article in the journal IEEE Software entitled "Software engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" DeMarco recanted, saying "In
my reflective mood, I’m wondering, was its advice correct at the time, is it still relevant, and do I still believe that metrics are a must for any successful software development effort? My answers are no, no, and no."
https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/172/resources/demarco-on-se.pdf

@MishaalRahman must be your doppelganger then ;)

@MishaalRahman Would be easy to ask them over in the Androidify booth. I think i'm sitting right behind you in the AI on Android talk rn.

@timbray wish it was goin off last fall when I spent a few weeks house sitting for friends a short drive away. absolutely amazing to see!

I thought blockchain was stupid (and I was right), but I've never seen something so "solution in search of a problem" as so-called AI. I don't have a joke here, I simply hate it being shoved down my throat every moment of my working day.

Please just let me contribute something towards my actual team goals, using my actual expertise, so I can feel like my pay is somewhat justified...

@commonsguy is there more info on the new floating toolbar mentioned?

Kamala is the only choice

Today we publish the 31st volume of the @thoughtworks Technology Radar - our regular survey of technologies that capture our attention in our client work. Again there's a lot we've learned about using GenAI here, reflected in the explosion of AI-adjacent tools, which we've found helpful in building useful AI-based systems. But we're also finding that coding assistants can often lead folks into trouble.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

If you're wondering why you'd want to add eSIM support to a phone that doesn't have it...it's because eSIM plans are incredibly cheap. Seriously, just look up the kinds of plans you can get on eSIMdb dot com.

To test this, I got a 30-day, 3GB T-Mobile data plan for $2.63.

And if you're wondering how the heck this is even possible, read this article I wrote a while back on the topic of removable eUICCs: https://www.esper.io/blog/android-dessert-bites-24-esim-me-1248143

Yes, they're actually a thing.

@Evansns I wanna see what the battery life is like on the PW3 before making that call myself.

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

@luboganev i'm kinda surprised you haven't thrown in the towel with Glance. I've been looking at it for about the past couple weeks and it's time to just use XML instead for me.