Bridget Phillips
@jingibus.bsky.social
Android person at Cash App. http://www.billjings.net
It's so satisfying to kick the tires on Metro and see that it is, in fact, what I wanted and dreamed of: Anvil with the sucky parts removed
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's so satisfying to kick the tires on Metro and see that it is, in fact, what I wanted and dreamed of: Anvil with the sucky parts removed
New fun US political item to keep eyes on: prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...
At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.
At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation - The American Prospect
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
prospect.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New fun US political item to keep eyes on: prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...
At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.
At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.
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Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account.
So that's nice.
So that's nice.
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account.
So that's nice.
So that's nice.
CW is amazing. Subscribe!
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
CW is amazing. Subscribe!
If you start watching this and think "Oh, huh, that's kinda weird" just keep letting it ride, my friend
Uchuu Keiji Gavan
Episode 1: The Strange Fortress Beneath Tokyo
Episode 1: The Strange Fortress Beneath Tokyo
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you start watching this and think "Oh, huh, that's kinda weird" just keep letting it ride, my friend
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Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...
Cash Android Moves to Metro
The Cash Android team have completed the migration to Metro.
code.cash.app
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...
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We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android...
DING IS NING
(@egorand.dev did the thing.)
We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android...
DING IS NING
(@egorand.dev did the thing.)
Cash Android Moves to Metro
The Cash Android team have completed the migration to Metro.
code.cash.app
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android...
DING IS NING
(@egorand.dev did the thing.)
We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android...
DING IS NING
(@egorand.dev did the thing.)
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I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community
Droidcon NYC->Orlando is pretty rough.
This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences.
And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.
This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences.
And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Droidcon NYC->Orlando is pretty rough.
This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences.
And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.
This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences.
And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I can't tell you how concerning this is.
Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.
Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I can't tell you how concerning this is.
Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.
Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.
This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself
Hot take: Dependency Injection on Android just got a huge upgrade!!
Square just moved Anvil to maintenance mode to adopt Metro - a DI framework built by ONE PERSON that's 47-56% faster than Dagger+Anvil.
This is what "individual developers changing ecosystems" looks like 🧵
#AndroidDev
Square just moved Anvil to maintenance mode to adopt Metro - a DI framework built by ONE PERSON that's 47-56% faster than Dagger+Anvil.
This is what "individual developers changing ecosystems" looks like 🧵
#AndroidDev
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself
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Excited to share Metro's original design doc. Pulls back the curtain on a lot of the historical community feedback and discussions that went into it in its early days!
www.zacsweers.dev/metros-desig...
www.zacsweers.dev/metros-desig...
Metro's Design Doc
Back in December 2024, I was around a month into working on Metro (at the time still called Lattice) and realized it crossed the threshold from "is this anything" to "oh shit this has wheels". I'd bee...
www.zacsweers.dev
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Excited to share Metro's original design doc. Pulls back the curtain on a lot of the historical community feedback and discussions that went into it in its early days!
www.zacsweers.dev/metros-desig...
www.zacsweers.dev/metros-desig...
This is a valuable document to read in itself, but essentially:
* DHS is using face scanning tech that we technologies know is known bad
* You can't opt out
* DHS claims this supersedes any actual documentation you have as to your citizenship
* DHS is using face scanning tech that we technologies know is known bad
* You can't opt out
* DHS claims this supersedes any actual documentation you have as to your citizenship
This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.
Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition apps are laying the groundwork for a surveillance state.
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a valuable document to read in itself, but essentially:
* DHS is using face scanning tech that we technologies know is known bad
* You can't opt out
* DHS claims this supersedes any actual documentation you have as to your citizenship
* DHS is using face scanning tech that we technologies know is known bad
* You can't opt out
* DHS claims this supersedes any actual documentation you have as to your citizenship
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This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.
Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition apps are laying the groundwork for a surveillance state.
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 6 — Unbreaking
Unbreaking is built to be an antidote to information overload. Since we launched, we have been meticulously documenting lawsuits, executive orders, court rulings, countermoves, and other key events.
unbreaking.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.
Coding with LLMs is exciting and fast in some ways, and profoundly demoralizing in other ways.
I've worked for years to write better coroutines tests (see here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8k...), and it is just so much less work to write tests that I think suck.
I've worked for years to write better coroutines tests (see here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8k...), and it is just so much less work to write tests that I think suck.
Bill Phillips Few Tools: How To Write And Understand! Coroutines Tests
YouTube video by John Wilker (360Conferences)
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Coding with LLMs is exciting and fast in some ways, and profoundly demoralizing in other ways.
I've worked for years to write better coroutines tests (see here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8k...), and it is just so much less work to write tests that I think suck.
I've worked for years to write better coroutines tests (see here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8k...), and it is just so much less work to write tests that I think suck.
Not only is it a series of videos for the month of November in which no effort has been made time
It's also time to play the @techconnectify.bsky.social hits
youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...
It's also time to play the @techconnectify.bsky.social hits
youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Not only is it a series of videos for the month of November in which no effort has been made time
It's also time to play the @techconnectify.bsky.social hits
youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...
It's also time to play the @techconnectify.bsky.social hits
youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...
Live from kingston harbor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVr7...
🟢 Kingston Harbour LIVE 24/7 – Jamaica Waterfront View 🇯🇲
YouTube video by See Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Live from kingston harbor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVr7...
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
Oh lawd, true vibe
People like to say feedback is a gift and so like to remind them that the Trojan Horse was also a gift.
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oh lawd, true vibe
It is difficult to maintain AI skepticism in the face of the impact it has on remote junior engineers.
I would rather our juniors learn the ropes in person with senior engineers, but.... they're not, at least not at our company. Having access to genAI tools has wildly improved their learning.
I would rather our juniors learn the ropes in person with senior engineers, but.... they're not, at least not at our company. Having access to genAI tools has wildly improved their learning.
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It is difficult to maintain AI skepticism in the face of the impact it has on remote junior engineers.
I would rather our juniors learn the ropes in person with senior engineers, but.... they're not, at least not at our company. Having access to genAI tools has wildly improved their learning.
I would rather our juniors learn the ropes in person with senior engineers, but.... they're not, at least not at our company. Having access to genAI tools has wildly improved their learning.
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A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
Spin this out a bit?
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
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I've been going down a stats + Android macrobenchmarks rabbit hole
Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread.
I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet...
#AndroidDev
Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread.
I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet...
#AndroidDev
Practical performance problem solving in Jetpack Compose | Android Developers
Make your Compose app run fast by analyzing system traces and fixing common lag causes.
developer.android.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I've been going down a stats + Android macrobenchmarks rabbit hole
Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread.
I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet...
#AndroidDev
Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread.
I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet...
#AndroidDev
When I read someone say, "Anyone who votes for a Nazi is a Nazi," and the "Nazi" in question is, like, supposed to be a crypto Nazi
I just shut my pie hole. Like, "Nothing good happening here, nothing good happening if I get involved"
When I see a mob, I generally run the other way
I just shut my pie hole. Like, "Nothing good happening here, nothing good happening if I get involved"
When I see a mob, I generally run the other way
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
When I read someone say, "Anyone who votes for a Nazi is a Nazi," and the "Nazi" in question is, like, supposed to be a crypto Nazi
I just shut my pie hole. Like, "Nothing good happening here, nothing good happening if I get involved"
When I see a mob, I generally run the other way
I just shut my pie hole. Like, "Nothing good happening here, nothing good happening if I get involved"
When I see a mob, I generally run the other way
This is 100% true.
If you want the PRESENTATION to be great, the slides should complete your words, or vice versa. Punchlines, conundrums, summaries, even emphasis - they help you command the audience's attention.
If they're standalone, they must work without you there at all.
If you want the PRESENTATION to be great, the slides should complete your words, or vice versa. Punchlines, conundrums, summaries, even emphasis - they help you command the audience's attention.
If they're standalone, they must work without you there at all.
probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is 100% true.
If you want the PRESENTATION to be great, the slides should complete your words, or vice versa. Punchlines, conundrums, summaries, even emphasis - they help you command the audience's attention.
If they're standalone, they must work without you there at all.
If you want the PRESENTATION to be great, the slides should complete your words, or vice versa. Punchlines, conundrums, summaries, even emphasis - they help you command the audience's attention.
If they're standalone, they must work without you there at all.