jamilxt

Learner & Explorer

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

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[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

I just published NVIDIA RTX Spark vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro: The Laptop War Nobody Expected https://t.co/reWpv1K1Ap

[Tom Krcha @tomkrcha]

Pencil just crossed 1M downloads on Cursor Extensions marketplace. With Composer 2.5, it's a killer AI design combo. Just flies.

Designs a full website for desktop and mobile sub-minute. Fully editable on canvas inside Cursor. Video at 1x speed.

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

I’m trying to build something similar to the popular Mac screen recorder 'Screen Studio'. We Linux users are always deprived of premium software. :)

I’ve been working on it for the past month.
Just finished building the core feature.
If I release it, would you use it? ^_^#linux

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

7/7 🔓 Open Source: I’ll be open-sourcing the whole repo (Client + Server) once it's polished!

Want the source code? Drop a comment/reply below and I’ll notify you once it's live! 🚀

#OpenSource #AndroidDev #iOSDev #KotlinMultiplatform #KMP

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

1/7 🚀 I’ve been diving deep into Offline-First architecture with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP).

To test it, I built a full-stack Todo App that works seamlessly across Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Shared logic + local-first storage = ⚡️ performance.

#KMP #Kotlin #OfflineFirst

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

6/7 It’s a subtle but powerful shift in how we think about data ownership and app performance.

I'm polishing the sync logic and UI states right now to make the transition as smooth as possible.

[Emmanuel Ikechukwu @emaike_]

Lots of love from this! Thanks for sharing, @Aurelien_Gz 🙏🙏

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

Now, LinkedIn down!! 🙄

[jamilxt @jamil_xt]

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[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Microsoft just killed the GPU mafia! 🤯

They've open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a blazing-fast 1-bit LLM inference framework optimized for CPUs.

This is a major step forward for running large models locally, without expensive GPUs or cloud costs.

Demo app + repo + paper in 🧵 ↓

[Java @java]

Java 25 is now available! #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK

👉 Download Now: https://t.co/rTCvIKI6W0
👉 Release notes: https://t.co/8GZk2epvDI
👉 API Javadoc: https://t.co/v8TedTS3Zy
👉 Features: https://t.co/L0Zmw3mmj9
👉 Inside Java on JDK 25: https://t.co/K3JZvZdUcm

[Paul Bakker @pbakker]

My "How Netflix uses Java in 2025" presentation from JavaOne was published on YouTube: https://t.co/0JyYfBz2NN. Watch to see how we're running Netflix on Java and the Java stack we're using. #Java

[Josh Long @starbuxman]

I <3 @Java 's virtual threads.

I constantly use a great demo from @ciberkleid that really lays bare just how good it is. in the demo, I have a Spring `RestClient` (which uses blocking IO) that calls https://t.co/2P4tVzmR6u from a Spring MVC controller method and then I drive 40 requests to the Spring MVC controller, two times: with and without virtual threads (`spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true`).

hey -n 40 -c 20 http://localhost:8080/delay

Here are the results on my machine when I force thread starvation (`server.tomcat.threads.max=10`):

virtual threads
Total:12.4675 secs
Slowest:7.2447 secs
Fastest:5.1068 secs
Average:5.4460 secs
Requests/sec:3.2083

no virtual threads
Summary:
Total: 23.2311 secs
Slowest: 16.7836 secs
Fastest: 5.1702 secs
Average: 9.1663 secs
Requests/sec: 1.7218

Almost double the number of requests per second! And the mean/median are all better, too.

But there's been a caveat: it didn't work (well, it didn't break, it just degraded to regular threads) in Java 21 IF you did a blocking thing (like InputStream#read, Thread#sleep, etc) inside a `synchronized` block. (but.. why would you?) This problem is called "thread pinning."

And it's fixed in @Java 24

UPGRADE TODAY!!

sdk install java 24-graalce