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Public Objectby Jesse Wilson13 Jul 2026
Working with threads always feels hazardous to me. Non-determinism limits how much we can exercise with simple tests. Stress tests can shake out some bugs, but they’re slow and potentially flaky.
50%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson22 May 2026
I presented this at KotlinConf on May 22, 2026. Also available on slides, YouTube, and Speaker Deck. OkHttp is a popular library for making network calls.
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson7 Mar 2026
An engineer I admire was lamenting about AI. He said that his new programming agent is excellent at fixing bugs! And all that it costs is a bunch of energy and many litres of water.
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson21 Feb 2026
Google is building a digital lock into Android. It's a very bad idea and I hate it. The excellent organizers at keepandroidopen.org encouraged me to complain to the Competition Bureau of Canada.
53%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson3 Feb 2026
Rounds has a Kotlin server that integrates a few things: - PostgreSQL persistence via SQLDelight (hosted on PlanetScale!)
53%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson30 Jan 2026
I’ve been trying to build a remarkable UI for Rounds.app. One feature that turned out quite well is tinting the game name & menu bar icons when the winner changes.
49%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson22 Jan 2026
Here’s a program that launches 3 jobs. The first runs forever and the other two exchange a value.
56%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson15 Jan 2026
In 2012, I published an Android score pad app named Rounds to the Play Store. I was quite proud of it! It used an iPod click wheel-style score entry UI and balanced capability with simplicity.
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson6 Sept 2025
I recently posted on the Cash Code Blog announcing Burst’s new test interceptors feature. They are similar to JUnit rules in API and capability.
44%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson25 Jun 2025
I presented this at Droidcon NYC on June 25, 2025. Available as code, video, slides, Droidtube, & Speaker Deck. Coroutines are an important tool in the Android developer’s toolbox.
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson26 Jan 2025
I was using the old UIView APIs when I found some code that broke my brain. Here’s Swift code to animates a UIButton from opaque to transparent over one second. let button = ...
47%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson5 Jan 2025
The late Joe Armstrong had a great rule for error handling that stuck with me. ‘If you can’t do what you want to do try to do something simpler’ I was thinking about this recently.
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson20 Nov 2024
I’m adding edge-to-edge UI support in Redwood. My code asks the host platform how much of the screen is consumed by system bars and notches and things, and it returns us a measurement like ‘40...
47%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson13 Nov 2024
My son’s swim meet is coming up. If he’s healthy, he’ll compete. My daughter’s hockey team has a game coming up. League rules say they must forfeit if they have fewer than 10 players.
55%plop scorePublic Objectby Jesse Wilson7 Nov 2024
I’ve been posting on this website throughout my career. Many posts are motivated by my own suffering! These go like this: - I learned a thing. - The hard way. - It sucked.