# kotlin (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 92 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover kotlin. Page: Feed: --- ## [Almost Out!](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11437/almost-out) _2026-08-22 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Was discharged and then had blood going to the bathroom. Waiting for blood tests. ## [Wait-and-See](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11436/wait-and-see) _2026-08-20 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ The MRI won't happen until tomorrow. So far, nothing has really helped with the pain. For now, it's a wait-and-see situation. ## [Tab completion after colon](https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/08/20-tab-completion) _2026-08-20 · so…_ ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 19)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11435/toots-du-jour-aug-19) _2026-08-20 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Jakarta EE Learning Hub #eclipse #jakartaee #java jakarta.ee/learn/ # ## [Admitted](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11434/admitted) _2026-08-20 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ MRI tomorrow. Ultrasound and X-ray didn't show anything conclusive. ## [Ambulance](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11433/ambulance) _2026-08-20 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Transferring to Northwest. ## [Things 3](https://www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/things-3/) _2026-08-20 · Posts on Romain Guy_ Here is a list of tings I read/watched/played/etc. this week that you might find interesting or enjoyable: Things to read Link to heading SIMD in the 90s — Great article explaining what Intel's MMX was all about. Linear algebra done right — Contains a lot of stuff that I feel like I have to relearn every few years. Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU — I really , really… ## [In the ER](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11432/in-the-er) _2026-08-19 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ In the ER with shoulder pain. Fred Hutch wanted an MRI. We'll see... ## [How we think about text classification in the LLM era](https://medium.engineering/how-we-think-about-text-classification-in-the-llm-era-89a185f79b68?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-08-19 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Why we think LLMs can be useful and why we will not replace all of our models with them Context At Medium, we have many Machine Learning models that we use to label stories automatically. These affect what stories we recommend to readers. Here’s some examples: a few of our text classification models. All diagrams and charts made by the author Some Clarifications on our Machine Learning policy… ## [Atproto Gave Me Superpowers to Fix My Bookhive Data](https://www.davideaversa.it/bytes/202608191844-atproto-gave-me-superpowers-to-fix-my-bookhive-data/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-19 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ I let Claude log into my atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix my messy Bookhive reading data against my Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync. Imagine what we could do if this was the standard way of interacting with applications data. -- Read More ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SGnMQakm2hq3) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 18)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11431/toots-du-jour-aug-18) _2026-08-19 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Introducing BoxLang AI Explorer: A Local Catalog for Every AI Pattern #ai #boxlang #bxs #explorer #pattern foojay.io/today/introducing-bo… # Learn.java: The Destination for Java Beginners, Students, and Teachers #java #jdk #jvm #oracle #tutorials learn.java/ # ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## [There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (Sophie Alpert)](https://dankim.com/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text-sophie-alpert/) _2026-08-18 · Dan Kim_ Some lovely bits from Sophie Alpert : Spending time on the writing process — on deciding what to emphasize and how to structure your ideas clearly — teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will probably walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter. In Most docs are written by one person but are read by many people, so any extra time that readers need… ## [When the Agent Ports Too Faithfully](https://mmap.page/vibe/too-faithful-port/) _2026-08-18 · Recent Memories Mapped to Web Pages_ When the Agent Ports Too Faithfully Vibe coding with an agent is great at producing working code quickly. It is also great at producing the wrong kind of fidelity: matching yesterday’s prototype instead of today’s problem, or inventing a “clever” helper when the language already has the boring answer. This is the story of a small Deno/TypeScript rewrite of some Python helper scripts, and of the… ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 17)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11430/toots-du-jour-aug-17) _2026-08-18 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Ben Evans: A First Drink In Valhalla #java #jdk #jvm #kotlin #openjdk #valhalla kittylyst.com/posts/a-first-dr… # JForum 2.9.0 released! #discussionboard #forum #java #jforum sourceforge.net/p/jforum2/wiki… # ## [VisionQuest](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11429/visionquest) _2026-08-17 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Welcome home, Vision. ## [Google keynotes are extremely weird](https://dankim.com/google-keynotes-are-extremely-weird/) _2026-08-16 · Dan Kim_ This take by M.G. Siegler on the Google event is dead on. They’re so weird and awkward! It’s a fucking weird strategy for a product unveiling! I would like to give Google credit for trying something different. This is not an Apple keynote. But I gave them credit for that last year. It didn’t work, yet they doubled down. Again, Noah is an upgrade over Fallon, but… ## [The Cookie Mill](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11428/the-cookie-mill) _2026-08-16 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Got in right before closing, not a lot of choices left. ## [Impressed by Kagi Assistant](https://dankim.com/impressed-by-kagi-assistant/) _2026-08-15 · Dan Kim_ Legit impressed by Kagi Assistant . It always does a web search and analyzes that first, meaning it doesn’t just rely on years old training data like a lot of other shit on the market. There’s also something about how it presents information – structure, word choice, relative brevity – that makes it more understandable and clicks better. It also defaults to chat being deleted after 24… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rWIFbjJVUaRU) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Pi-hole: Saving my network and privacy](https://dankim.com/pi-hole-saving-my-network-and-privacy/) _2026-08-14 · Dan Kim_ Finally got Pi-hole running in front of my network and good lord it’s wild/frustrating to see all the garbage traffic 2026 devices and software send. Will need to tweak over time, but right now over the first 12 hours 17% of traffic being blocked as garbage. Particularly problematic are, of course, IoT devices. I have them on a separate network and had intended to block liberally but never… ## [I'm done using AI (Brett C.)](https://dankim.com/im-done-using-ai-brett-c/) _2026-08-14 · Dan Kim_ Really interesting and relatable post , with stories that unfortunately sound eerily familiar. I really appreciate when folks like Brett take a principled stance on AI – it’s incredibly hard to publicly go against the grain, and while it’s probably never going away, we need strong counter-opinions like this to balance out the ridiculous hype. Real world experiences that are relatable… ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 13)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11427/toots-du-jour-aug-13) _2026-08-14 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Announcing Dart 3.13 #dartlang dart.dev/blog/announcing-dart-… # Project Valhalla's First Preview: JEP 401 Redefines == for Java Objects #java #jdk #jep #jvm #valhalla www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/jep… # ## [Lanterns](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11426/lanterns) _2026-08-13 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ The first 5 minutes of #Lanterns is here. ## [I’m Building for Shipaton 2026: Two Weeks In](https://darrylbayliss.net/im-building-for-shipaton-2026-week-two/) _2026-08-13 · Darryl Bayliss’s Blog_ Two weeks into Shipaton 2026: The Kotlin Multiplatform app is set up and speaking to Firebase. Here are some of the tools helping me along the way ## [Things 2](https://www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/things-2/) _2026-08-13 · Posts on Romain Guy_ Here is a list of tings I read/watched/played/etc. this week that you might find interesting or enjoyable: Things to read Link to heading The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of — I always enjoy reading about how floating point formats work. Neural Super Sampling and Denoising — Interesting deep-dive about super sampling and denoising from Arm. Moving integer division to… ## [Neagley](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11425/neagley) _2026-08-12 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Trouble is coming. ## [Animals](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11424/animals) _2026-08-12 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Desperate to pay their son's ransom, a mayoral candidate and his wife resort to extreme measures, revealing dark secrets they never intended to bring to light. ## [Stop lending your personal credibility to AI (Jonas Downey)](https://dankim.com/stop-lending-your-personal-credibility-to-ai-jonas-downey/) _2026-08-12 · Dan Kim_ This is one of those posts 1) you must read and 2) it’s hard to pull out any individual quotes because the whole thing is so good. Go read it, but here’s a taste: But at some point, you need to bring your actual functioning human brain back to the occasion, and think for a moment about what you’re putting into the world. When you outsource your writing, you… ## [bubbles.town: A less shitty Hacker News](https://dankim.com/bubblestown-a-less-shitty-hacker-news/) _2026-08-12 · Dan Kim_ https://bubbles.town is kinda interesting! Upvoting of smaller, independent writing, so like HN/Reddit but not shitty. Automatically driven by RSS feeds and voting done with your Fedi account. Haven’t used it enough yet to determine overall quality, but promising idea. I only found out about it because somehow one of my random posts made it on there and someone chatted me up about it. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mOjbBh0elcZc) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 11)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11423/toots-du-jour-aug-11) _2026-08-12 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ ChaosTree v1.2.0: Zero-dependency Java search tree library #btree #java #performance #searchtree github.com/Chaos-vy/ChaosTree/… # Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes #application #flatpak #linux #sandboxing #security www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-… # ## [Peniche, Portugal](https://yashgarg.dev/travel/peniche-2026/) _2026-08-12 · Yash Garg · Yash Garg_ A few days by the sea in Peniche, Portugal. ## [The 2026 version of TiVo: Channels!](https://dankim.com/2026-tivo-channels/) _2026-08-11 · Dan Kim_ Finally setup an OTA antenna in my attic. Channels is a key part of that setup, and it’s seriously great. It’s serves as the UI and DVR for watching/recording live TV and does it all so well. Commercial skipping, 30 second fast forward, season passes, clients for every platform. It’s basically like a fast, modern, reliable version of what TiVo used to be, which is some of the highest praise I can… ## [FDE? More like FFS](https://dankim.com/fde-more-like-ffs/) _2026-08-11 · Dan Kim_ You can keep saying “forward deployed engineer” all you want, but we all know a client-site consultant when we see it. Legit hilarious how hard tech bros try to make their most basic jobs from the 90s sound cool. “If we rename it to sound like a military position, it’ll sound so hardcore!” Not so hilarious is how gullible execs are eating this shit up. ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 10)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11422/toots-du-jour-aug-10) _2026-08-11 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 Is Out! #ide #intellij #intellijidea #java #jetbrains #kotlin blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/0… # JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator) #java #jdk #json #jvm openjdk.org/jeps/540 # Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java #ai #copilot #github #java #microsoft #sdk github.blog/engineering/using-… # Apache NetBeans 31 IDE Adds Java Lambda Breakpoints, Improves Code… ## [Kagi not Google](https://dankim.com/kagi-not-google/) _2026-08-10 · Dan Kim_ Been using Kagi for search now for a couple weeks and there’s no going back to Google. Clean results, no bullshit ads everywhere, no pushing their properties like images and YouTube, no AI summaries (they do have a clever thing where if you add a “?” at the end of a query it will summarize for you). Just real, actual search results that link to real, actual websites. What a concept. ## [A pile of vibe coded shit](https://dankim.com/a-pile-of-vibe-coded-shit/) _2026-08-10 · Dan Kim_ Bought an app because on paper it had all the features I wanted. Opened it and key areas didn’t work. Sloppy, obvious use of non-standard (e.g., AI generated) UI. Website looked like a Claude artifact. 1.0 was released a few weeks ago and 2.0 was magically finished in the last week. The developer is a “creative professional”. I don’t care about the $5 but having to trudge through a pile of… ## [Simplify your Android library development with one line of configuration](https://autonomousapps.com/blog/simplify-your-android-library-development/post/) _2026-08-10 · Tony Robalik_ Photo by Núria Fosas Forns on Unsplash Fixing Google's strange decision to make all Android libraries multi-variant by default To save the suspense, here's the "one line of configuration": settings.gradle.kts plugins { id ( "com.autonomousapps.dedebug" ) version "0.1" } (It'll be a single line if you already have a plugins block in your settings script.) Back at the dawn of time, it was decided… ## [The Great 2026 Blog Renovation](https://www.davideaversa.it/bytes/202608091747-the-great-2026-blog-renovation/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-09 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ I spent the first week of my summer vacation redesigning this blog. Now the home page is richer and more information-dense. There is still much to do but, for now, we are open for business! -- Read More ## [Squaring the AI circle](https://dankim.com/squaring-the-ai-circle/) _2026-08-09 · Dan Kim_ Literally every day I’m trying to square the circle of using an LLM. I’m not going to bullshit/lie and say I don’t use them, because I do. I avoid using it for actually important stuff (work or life stuff that I need to understand, learn, know, repeat, and care about), but there are admittedly scenarios where something I’m researching benefits from having more specific… ## [Weezer C.E.O](https://dankim.com/weezer-ceo/) _2026-08-08 · Dan Kim_ Man I love this song. This is the closest song I’ve heard to “early Weezer” maybe ever, certainly since the Green Album. New album has had three singles so far and it’s shaping up to be one of their best in while. =w= 🤘 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4AaLSoric ## [‘Big tent’ is a red flag](https://dankim.com/big-tent-is-a-red-flag/) _2026-08-08 · Dan Kim_ The phrase “ big tent ” is a new red flag phrase for me. Hearing CEO types bandy it around more and more under the guise of “we welcome everyone!” But what they’re really saying is “we are totally ok bending whatever principles we used to have to get more users, especially right wing asshole users!” ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 7)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11421/toots-du-jour-aug-7) _2026-08-08 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall? Part 2 #clanguage #cplusplus #cpp #java #javascript #objectivec #pascal #php #programming #python #ruby www.lpi.org/blog/2026/08/06/wh… # ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 6)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11420/toots-du-jour-aug-6) _2026-08-07 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open, vendor-neutral specification for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. #ai #amazon #cursor #google #mcp #microsoft #openai #vercel developers.googleblog.com/agen… # ## [I’m Building for Shipaton 2026](https://darrylbayliss.net/im-building-for-shipaton-2026/) _2026-08-07 · Darryl Bayliss’s Blog_ Kicking off Shipaton 2026: building a Kotlin Multiplatform app that alerts developers to GitHub CI build status via widgets, backed by Firebase and RevenueCat. ## [Scanning bus stop codes with ML Kit and Vision in the GalwayBus Compose Multiplatform app](https://johnoreilly.dev/posts/galwaybus-scan-stop-kmp/) _2026-08-06 · John O’Reilly_ Every bus stop in Galway has a plate with a 6-digit stop code printed on it. We recently added a “Scan” tab to the GalwayBus app that lets you point the camera at that plate and jump straight to the stop’s departures. The text recognition runs entirely on device (ML Kit on Android, Apple’s Vision framework on iOS), with the camera preview, matching logic and UI all living in the shared Compose… ## [That's not 'good'](https://dankim.com/thats-not-good/) _2026-08-06 · Dan Kim_ Saw a dude proclaim that xitter was “good again” so yeah I’m gonna go ahead and stop paying for your app now. There is no world where we can disagree that hard on the word “good” and I can support any version of your future work. 🚮 ## [AI can’t workout for you](https://dankim.com/ai-cant-workout-for-you/) _2026-08-06 · Dan Kim_ I kinda like this framing of how LLMs can do work for you, but it most definitely can’t exercise for you. And that distinction matters, big time. It ignores on all the ethical/environmental/worldly concerns and accepts them as givens so that’s not great, but if we can get folks to use it less and avoid brain rot, it’s still a step in the right direction? At work, if your job is… ## [Toots du Jour (Aug 5)](https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/11419/toots-du-jour-aug-5) _2026-08-06 · Erik C. Thauvin · Erik's Weblog_ Jakarta Agentic AI Hits Its First Milestone #ai #jakarta #java foojay.io/today/jakarta-agenti… # Stop re-downloading the JDK: setup-java can now cache it #cicd #github #java #jdk #workflow www.reddit.com/r/java/comments… # Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4 #ai #android #assistant #gemini #google arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/goo… # Meta introduces Muse… ## [Things 1](https://www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/things-1/) _2026-08-06 · Posts on Romain Guy_ Here is a list of tings I read/watched/played/etc. this week that you might find interesting or enjoyable: Things to read Link to heading A Deep Dive into C++26 std::hive: The Ultimate Container for Active Data — Some details about the internals of C++ 26’s new data structure. How fast is C++26’s std::hive? — Pretty self-explanatory and useful numbers to keep in mind. A Spectral BSSRDF for…