Kevin Block

@JorgeCastilloPr I mostly follow Android devs, and my feed is iOS-related. At least I'm learning about SwiftUI as I scroll

I think the number of Android devs in this platform is huge, but they don’t show up on my timeline because I follow people from lots of unrelated topics. Let me know if you’re an Android dev and you read this 🥲

@jackprice Could argue that familiarity helps conversions

90% of website now have the exact same UI Do you think this is an issue?

@AndroidDev Adaptive UI + KMP is a huge win. Love that I can write code once and deploy it just about any device of any size.

Give your tablet users the experience they deserve. Don't simply stretch your mobile UI, design it to own the larger screen. Support configuration changes to ensure your app looks and works great in every window size, orientation, and posture → goo.gle/4dKCFeI

@EOEboh Interviews should test your code review skills instead. Says a lot more about an engineer than building an alien dictionary in 45 minutes

We're never going back to writing code by hand. Maybe interviews are the exception

@JorgeCastilloPr Took me a long time to realize that health > work. Taking care of yourself is so important

A few days of rest can do more for your productivity than months of forcing yourself through burnout. If you don’t feel motivated anymore and your brain feels exhausted all day, stop trying to push harder. Take a real break.

@catalinmpit Codex app is great. Seeing it build/navigate/debug websites in real-time is just too good

Since I discovered the desktop apps, I didn't once use the CLIs for tools like Codex.

@ogbuildsapps Yup. When the crash log is ambiguous, AI can guess, but in my experience, it's never been right. Requires a human to step into the loop

@kevnblock interesting - even when feeding it context, device logs etc?

what’s the biggest problem you have right now that AI can't solve?

@romxdev That's why it's important to enforce formatters and lint rules in a code base. Levels up your org by forcing them to focus on what's important.

If your review comments are mostly about formatting preferences, minor style choices, or rewriting working logic just to match your personal taste, you're not improving the codebase. You're just wasting everyone's time and slowing down production.

@DanielSmidstrup Codex for the app. Claude for speed. For my workflows, Codex just feels better.

Are you team Claude or Codex right now ?

@seraleev I still have the block syntax bookmarked goshdarnblocksyntax.com

Did you ever ship an app written in Objective-C? Dinosaur roll call 😁 12 years ago today, Apple introduced Swift

@android_poet I'm assuming hidden companies == small organizations. If so, it's probably so they can create impact and move quickly. That's much harder to do when an org has hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers

Why are some extraordinary engineers, who have done truly incredible work, working and building something amazing at hidden companies that almost no one knows about? 🤔

@zeroxjackson Claude, use opus 4.8 with max effort to change this buttons color

Who knew that writing code would become so compute intensive.

@ionleu You don't build alien dictionaries or algorithms to trap rainwater in your day-to-day?

software engineering is the only job where the interview is harder than the job itself

@CodeWithAmann Reject the PR. It's not sensible to review it. Next step, get AI to split it into smaller chunks.

Interviewer: The AI opened a PR with 5,000 lines changed. What's your first step? - review the diff - run the tests - check for security issues - prepare for surprises

@EOEboh Boring answer: try to max out your 401 (k) & Roth early. Be informed about what's happening in the world and invest in those opportunities.

Tech folks, how do you invest the money you make? Share ideas

@azamsharp For aspiring engineers, this is a big issue. Sometimes you need to move slow to move fast.

People who are vibe coding 100% of the time will never get to experience deep thinking state where you have to stop and validate different options, their tradeoffs etc. They are just committing 20K lines of code a day without understanding anything.

@Zinny_Edmund Lua. Such a simple yet powerful language

Which programming language made you enjoy coding the most?

@TTrimoreau Programming by hand will become a hobby like woodworking

Drop a tech opinion that will trigger everyone !

Hot take: Job hopping won't be the same career hack for programmers anymore. If AI is doing all your thinking, your career has a ceiling.