Todd Yates

Principal Engineer for Android at @MoonpigTech 👨‍💻 / @QPR season ticket holder ⚽ / Red panda enthusiast

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

Droidcon London naming all the conference rooms after things that have been @killedbygoogle is perfect.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@jsimmonsc @SlackHQ They didn't.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@SlackHQ If I edit an @ mention into an Slack existing message does it retroactively notify that person/group? I think it does, but just want to be sure and can't test it by myself!

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@Gingerelle1999 She has several!

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@GergelyOrosz We just stopped even setting that text on Google Play. I'd rather be honest about the fact that we're not providing release notes than put the same pointless canned text on every release.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

On one hand I obviously don't need a Bluey Xbox but on the other hand I definitely need a Bluey Xbox.

[XBOX @XBOX]

The perfect way to play Bluey The Videogame: with a #Bluey Xbox!

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[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@Gingerelle1999 @coder_jedi Unclear. I was not aware these photos were taken at the time 😅 so clearly something else was distracting me. At least all the smart members of the family were paying attention.

[Akanksha Singh @coder_jedi]

Spotted the youngest and the cutest DroidCon London attendee 💖
#dcldn23 @droidconLondon

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@crafty Awesome, thank you!

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

I'm not sure who owns it @crafty but the Adaptive Icon docs seem to be wrong:
https://t.co/jHtMSaKSwX
This claims a 72dp square safe zone but that part actually gets clipped. The real 66dp circular safe zone isn't mentioned at all. Had to dig your old blog out to check!

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@SReds28 You can switch away from Agile at any time but you can't switch back for 30 days.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@mar15sa We do this by giving new joiners an editable copy of the onboarding docs and encourage them to edit and add things as they go. After a month or two we informally review their version together and pull useful stuff into the master copy for the next person to benefit from.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@Gingerelle1999 The coffee machine, presumably?

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

The coffee machine in the hotel I'm at just made a latte by filling a cup with milk foam and then adding a drizzle of coffee and absolutely none of that is okay.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@madebygoogle This one came out great. Pixel 6 Pro.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

Genuinely wondering whether LLMs will be the unexpected catalyst for wide-scale adoption of TTD. Write the tests, have AI generate code to make them pass. Engineering becomes more about defining constraints/requirements and overall system design rather than feature boilerplate.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

ChatGTP and coding problem

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@droidconLondon Are there still more to come? My talk - Practical TDD for Android - doesn't seem to be there yet.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@retrotap @duck_travels Played loads of this on Amiga, what a classic, didn't realise it had a C64 version. Also loved Aquatic Games.

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

@gusandrianos @droidconLondon That's awesome. Would be great to hear how you get on - especially any particular difficulties you run into. I'm sure there's much more to be said on this topic. 😀

[Todd Yates @ToddYatesUK]

Thanks to everyone who came along to my talk about TDD at @droidconLondon on Friday, it was great to see so many people taking an interest in technical practices.

The slides are available here:
https://t.co/7Pl3aeuQSq

#dcldn22