Alex Semin

Making software even softer, @gradle

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

Bugward compatibility

is a friendlier name for the Hyrum's Law

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

This game begs to be multiplayer, with progressively more erratic landscapes and sheep personalities

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This indie dev is making a game where you herd masses of lost sheep to a secret refuge

- Play as a loyal sheepdog
- Uncover a mysterious calamity that only you can stop
- Run fast and free in a beautiful but troubled world

It's called The Free Shepherd. Would you play this?

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@fullybearded_ It's just a better name imo than "grill me"

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

Robo-ducking is less ambiguous and more intent-revealing than "grill me"

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@fullybearded_ It's like rubber ducking but with a robot

[Frank Tisellano @franktisellano]

Meet Datatype, my new font that turns text into charts. Available on Google Fonts and of course in Workspace.

Simple syntax like {b:10,25,7,95} turns into sparklines, pie charts, and bar charts that look great in your docs, slides, and sheets.

https://t.co/0cgEkOcFfM

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

Motion photos are for "catching that moment" when you didn't snap in time. That's why it's a good default to capture them silently. But it's a bad default to animate on every view of that photo. *Most* of them are just blur and shake

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@telegram motion photos is a cool feature, but having to opt-out per photo is a poor choice of the default. It should be the opposite

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@nbaschez It's borderline

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

I am yet to see another company that makes you anxious literally on the sign-in page

It'd be strange if you can't immediately guess, but it says in the small font as well

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

Internet-of-AWS-Things

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@rfleury How are they generated?

Does it mean, something parses imperative code to extract the option names?

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@rfleury Thanks! I'm curious how the commands are defined in the table. It seems both parsing and commands would be filled with magic strings, like now

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

This is the way

[Nicola Corti @cortinico]

This is your yearly reminder that if you're doing any Android development, you want this in your .bashrc/.zshrc

[droidcon Berlin @droidconBerlin]

Ready for a double dose of brilliance? Join @alllexist & Mikhail Lopatkin from @gradle at #dcbln25 🇩🇪��In this #Android session, learn how to speed up your #MobileDev loop with Gradle’s Configuration Cache— how it works, its hurdles, & how to adopt it smoothly. https://t.co/4bVIMdj12b

[Gradle Technologies @gradle]

📢 #Gradle 9.0.0 is out!

Read the release notes 📄
https://t.co/lqO4W2PTi9

Watch the video (27 min) 🖥️
https://t.co/oqhrLkNGWs

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

The only Android 16 feature I've encountered so far is the asymmetrical margins for app notification icons

[Márton Braun (write-only account) @zsmb13]

The only new Android 16 feature I've encountered so far is that every other day my phone gets stuck in a weird landscape-locked orientation that it can't get out of until I lock it and unlock it again.

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@disruptnhandlr Given these two posts, I'd suggest to flip the current assumption, and assume most things are named after something! If they are not an acronym. Or even then

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@jamiegraydesign They have to convince 12 regular people in the jury

[Alex Semin @alllexist]

@zsmb13 I have been using the ">" shortcut for years. But I agree, every time I try to do it with a mouse I feel like a grandpa wrestling with a smartphone