I need to write a blog post called: "It depends" is the answer to every question in software.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

The Android Show is very soon!

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

Thank you @androidweekly for featuring my latest post! handstandsam.com/2026/01/07/…

📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights: ✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution. ✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25. ✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta. ✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters. ✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more. ✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources. ✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications. ✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing. Learn more: ➡️ kotl.in/2-3-0

Some nice Kotlin/Native related updates: - Improved interop through Swift export - C and Objective-C library import is in Beta - Faster build time for release tasks (up to 40% faster) #KMP

One more Nano Banana Pro generated infographic! #KMP #CMP

Say hello to hot reloading compose resources, supported from CMP 1.10.0-alpha01 🔥 One of the first feature requests from @zsmb13 and @Cypressious Thanks to Nikita Lipsky 😇

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human 🧵 what led up to this breaking point

gpt-oss is out! we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!) (and a smaller one that runs on a phone). super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.

We're having a great time at @droidconNYC and we're excited to see Maestro highlighted on stage by @HandstandSam ! We love seeing the community spreading the word on testing better and faster. Reminder: if you're around NYC, we're hosting a casual happy hour meetup tonight starting at 4:30 PM — join us: eventbrite.com/e/maestro-hap…

Got plans? Cancel them 🚨 @HandstandSam & Brian are speaking #dcnyc25! Learn how Block built Trailblaze, an LLM-powered mobile test framework that runs natural language #Android tests at scale. Get your #AndroidDev tickets before it's too late: nyc.droidcon.com/speakers/sa…

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 ❤️ Model Context Protocol blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025…

i love kotlin

Just got our first tariff bill. We imported $167k of floodlights and then paid $255k in tariffs. That’s more than any of our founders were paid last year. 😅😅😅

a few times a year i wake up early and can't fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature ive been so excited about for so long. today is one of those days!

I'm looking to sell my job board, Android Jobs - Androidjobs.io. Simply put … I no longer have the time nor passion to run it. If you have any interest in it, please let me know, just send me a DM.

Teach a developer on how to save JSONs to key-value storage and they'll dump the entire tables of data as JSON values and will write their own query processing in their frontend code to search for relevant data.

#50 issue of the Mobile Automation Newsletter is out 📬 🔗 testableapple.com/newsletter… Thanks a mill @albertodebo, @marcoGomier, @thaw_zin_toe, @jshchnz, @No_Wham, @kharrison, @adamwulf, @trinhngocthuyen, @HandstandSam, @Stefanoq21 and more! 👏 #ios #android #iosdev #androiddev #mobiledev #mobileapp #mobileappdevelopment #mobiletesting #mobileautomation #cicd