Android, music and random stuff. I worked on the Dutch CoronaMelder app in the past. Now working on Lees Simpel and potentially other apps that help people. New admin of androiddev.social 👋
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Oh look it's Cloudflare this time firing 1100 employees because AI adoption increased after forcing everyone to use AI 🙃
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
I'm sorry if you're affected by this big tech cost cutting playbook.
NOS zo: ja de brand ontstond bij een oefening van defensie met schieten enzo maar er wordt nog onderzocht of dat ook de oorzaak is...🤡
It's one of those days where work setting up things in the past week now makes everything just click into place 🎉
There's this VIES API to check EU VAT numbers. It's free and supplied by the EU.
There's also viesapi.eu that calls that API and made some wrappers around it and offers a subscription. It ranks #1 on Google.
I'm pretty sure their business model is people that cannot find the free API. It has a EU-like logo, .eu domain etc etc
Some would call that smart, but it's just very scummy to me.
We all love to hate the Play Store, but I just submitted an app update, it ran automated tests and reported a crash on older devices that I missed. That's pretty awesome.
as we say in the Netherlands: agentic workflow in je broekje
It's called skills.md but it's actually patterns in baby language. Again smart naming from the ai folk. In the real world me reading an Ikea instruction manual doesn't give me any skill as a carpenter either.
I keep coding until late so that I can throw away that code the next day after I have come up with a much simpler solution under the shower
I should know better and go to bed on time 😬
Two annoying bugs that I was chasing today and no closure...sad 🐼
Second time that I'm trying to have a composable draw outside of its bounds but not working. Last time it looked like it was clipped, but now the "clipping" is at a weird place...the layout inspector shows that the thing is laid out correctly 🤷♂️
Rocky times at the gig so I went out for dinner
Je mag een vegaburger of worst dus geen burger of worst noemen want dat is verwarrend voor de consument, maar je mag wel tuinbonen in je vlees stoppen en het dan gewoon vlees noemen? 🙃
I haven't worked for NRC in about 10 years or so but great that they are keeping my Slack account around 😂
De PostNL pakket bezorger legt tegenwoordig mijn pakketjes als vondelingen voor de deur en belt dan aan 🤷♂️
Misschien leuk voor mijn ex-collega's die ook via Head First ooit bij de overheid zaten: Ik heb mijn account lang geleden verwijderd. Ze zeggen dan dat je profiel anoniem gemaakt wordt, want wettelijke eisen voor bewaren van data etc. Vandaag krijg ik opeens vacatures in m'n mail.
Ik bel om opheldering te vragen. Aan de hand van mijn naam hebben ze in 1 sec m'n bedrijfsnaam en email erbij, maar mijn profiel staat écht op anoniem hoor
Lijkt er dus op dat er heel weinig anoniem is aan anoniem 🙃
You'll have to wait longer to be allowed to side load an app the first time than my bank makes me wait after increasing my spending limit (4 hours for that before you can trick me into sending you all my money)
Playing around with the sort of official MapLibre compose wrapper and it's a bit strange in that it for example passes around MutableState objects 🤔 And stuff that I want to get to in MapLibre is not accessible...tempted to roll my own little wrapper just for the things I need.
yesterday in overengineering was me having my two Android TV boxes with my custom launcher and some other tidbits sync the apks I installed manually over to the other box so that I don't have to adb twice 😬
Have a song^H^H loop and a sample singing "calling me". Put the sample in the thing and all of a sudden it sounds like "come in me" 🤦♂️ It wasn't meant to be a song I guess
People should stop asking a question followed up by "this is wat ChatGPT/Claude says" (followed by a wall of text).
Sure, ask an AI, try to figure out if it's correct or not, but don't put the burden on those you ask the question.
Also answering with "this is what the AI says about it"...don't, it's rude and I can do that myself if I want. Just assume I already did do some Googling/AI-ing/whatever-ing.