Tony Robalik

Photo by ALMA on Unsplash On anti-systems approaches to software development Several years ago, I met a coworker who would become a friend.

Photo by Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash ...providing context files does not generally improve task success rates, while increasing inference cost by over 20% on average.

Photo by Núria Fosas Forns on Unsplash Fixing Google's strange decision to make all Android libraries multi-variant by default To save the suspense, here's the "one line of configuration": settings.gradle.kts plugins { id("com.autonomousapps.dedebug") v…

Photo by Jean on Unsplash More times than I can count, but twice in the past two weeks, a colleague has said something like this to me: I can't say what I really think.

Photo by 7 on Unsplash Kraken Technologies, which maintains a Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) project of roughly 600 modules, was recently able to cut its average build time from about 6 minutes to about 1 minute and 50 seconds, or ~70%.

Photo by Ayush Kumar on Unsplash I am not one to "just set aside ethics for a moment."

Photo by Anurag Yadav on Unsplash We still doing this?

Photo by Jake Weirick on Unsplash I was first introduced to the term bus factor about five years ago, by my then-manager.

Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps I'm reading The Rebel, by Camus.

See also: enshittification.

I am the author of the moderately popular (⭐ 2k) Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin, a static analysis tool that helps Gradle build authors maintain a healthy dependency graph.