Around every new year I try to recall what music defined the past year. Let's continue the tradition. Here are ten albums I can't imagine 2025 without. This …

If you think your approaches to agentic development are somewhat impostor-ish and somewhere out there someone is doing real beauty, that's partly true, of …

A couple weeks ago I got fired up about a small pet project idea. It's a web application, and this is my first experience where I want to overcome the feeling …

Continuing the notes topic, I want to emphasize again that it's become for me the main entry point into neural networks. First of all because I always start …

A small life hack for working with an agent that I've gotten very used to. Add some folder like ai/ to gitignore and in AGENTS.md leave some rules like this: - …

Before, maintaining a note system would devolve into procrastination under the guise of configuring Obsidian. Now I'm already at the far next level, where I'm …

About a week ago Dima from Drinkit wrote a post about them experimenting with algorithmic generation of the network layer from OpenAPI spec with models, …

Not long ago we got around to updating some dependencies in the project for hygiene reasons. And it was coil's turn. Version 3.0 came out last November. We …

https://github.com/pavelkorolevxyz/diff-coverage-report Just 4 days of ping pong with Gradle Plugin Portal for them to approve my publish, plus several free …

There's surprisingly little information on the internet about how to technically set up increasing test coverage levels on projects where, for historical …

So we stress about not breaking something in production. About some untested changes not going to final users. We conduct regressions. Many people participate …

This video by Theo is excellent. I watched it about a week ago and have been mulling it over all week. It finally solidified all those thoughts that I was …

Today I want to recommend two events to you. First, Almaty, tomorrow evening, September 12. The first meetup from our local nullptr.party community - …

Just two months ago in my last talk I mentioned that there's an AGENT.md approach from some enthusiastic folks who formalized it as a manifest/proposal to agent …

I've noticed that lately I've consistently adopted this approach to working with code - I often do work twice. The first time - I still don't fully understand …

This past week I programmed significantly more than usual. At work there's a small side project - a console Kotlin application for exporting the design system …

Largely because of Claude Code, the time I spend in the terminal has multiplied. Though even before that, I always had it open just in case. Not out of luxury, …

▶️ The video of the talk arrived. And the full playlist. Once again thanks to Ilya for stepping up, organizing recording for us in short deadlines and then …

I've had a habit for a long time of starting each day with creating a daily note, into which I dump all my RAM during the day: what I did, what's the status, …

Maybe everyone in Android has been bugged with this topic already, but I'm about the same thing. If you happen to be related to some Android app, and you don't …

Categorically support the initiative to bring everyone together in the mobile community. Add the folder to yourself, or they say it's gotten boring with us in …

Wow, things really took off. In a week, the event turned from a small meetup for our own into quite a large meetup for a hundred people. For me, this is the …

A story about how meeting Rodion last week turned into a spontaneous meetup about neural networks with talks. Almaty, registering.

First thing after vacation, I brought 100 bucks to Anthropic to play with their agent with fresh energy. For those who don't know - they have Max subscriptions …

I'm having infrastructure weeks. Rewriting CI pipelines, setting up automations, enjoying it. Now the turn came to danger-kotlin, I was adding several new …

We often say that we have our own design system in the project. Actually, it's ours, of course, partly. Essentially, we abstracted from the product developer …

What could be simpler than just changing an app's icon, right? Designers draw a 1024x1024 icon with a margin, we understand that for adaptive icons we need …

Historically, Roboto was hardcoded everywhere in our project. Now, instead of it, two new typefaces appeared: one for headings, another for everything else. It …

Got around to the Claude Code docs from Anthropic. I generally love reading docs and various guides from AI tool creators lately. There's always a lot of …

An attentive viewer has probably noticed from the screenshots that our buttons are now not solid colors, but gradients. And in general, gradients are a very …

We launched a quite large redesign and rebranding of the "My Beeline" app to "Janymda". If you look only at the technical side of things, …

Yesterday, news started spreading that Google showed Firebase Studio. Funny that it's especially active in Android circles, although it has almost nothing to do …

I somehow missed that Google showed pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro. It's something between 4o, if you run less than 200k tokens, and Sonnet 3.7, if you run up to a …

A bit about our talk It went much better than during rehearsals before. We wanted to fit too much in, which made the preparation not the easiest. In the end, we …

So, the Podlodka season about Compose has ended (almost). It was optimistic of me to plan so many things outside of work for such a short week after the …

On this occasion I have an extra promo code for Podlodka, which I'll give to a random person in the comments under this post today closer to night. Well, so you …

March 24-28 the next Android Podlodka will take place. This week will be dedicated to Compose, the program has many interesting topics. I'm a speaker this time …

Yesterday we held our first Android meetup. I liked it. For the first time I was on the other side of all these events. Thanks to our devrel Anton and everyone …

The Koin roadmap flew through all channels in recent days. I read it for some reason and thought longer than I should have. Purely as a developer of a developer …

We're organizing the first Android meetup from the company. If you're in Almaty come by, we're trying to make it interesting)

I quite often mention my thesis that modern software can now only be used if you're a developer or tester yourself. Because any normal person who doesn't think …

Finally the talk recordings from Kolesa appeared, including mine about Decompose. Turns out there's one more plus to going first in the lineup - your photo on …

It seems everyone already knows that in some LazyColumn you can set keys for elements and they're used so that the same composable isn't bothered unnecessarily. …

Sometimes I make cautious forays out of the Google world to see what's going on with the competition. And if for some services in principle you can find a …

Recap, yes. I'm already tired of all this myself. Largely the mood is absent due to some extremely unpleasant cold, from which I can't normally recover for the …

We need to talk seriously, instead of closing our eyes to this time after time. Am I understanding correctly that in the entire ten-year history of Android …

Lately I've started noticing that a large share of my working time goes not so much to some tasks, achieving personal and team goals, but to attempts to digest …

On air the regular rubric "someone fought on the internet". Today on the agenda is this exchange of tweets. It all starts with mundane hating on …

Respect to conferences that publish recordings not in six months, but immediately, while you still haven't forgotten what you wanted to watch. And often the …

Yesterday was a busy day. Spent it from morning till evening at the CodeTalks conference. Keynote by Vitaliy Sharovatov - such a typical keynote. Motivational …