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Filipe Baptista

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Mobile developer @ Volkswagen Digital Solutions - MDH ๐Ÿ’› Kotlin multiplatform ๐Ÿ’š Android Opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect my employer.

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You Donโ€™t Hate Code Reviews - You Just Hate Bad Ones As software engineers we spend a lot of time writing code fixing bugs and shipping features.. There's one thing that often gets ignored orโ€ฆ

I just published in @gitconnected You Donโ€™t Hate Code Reviews - You Just Hate Bad Ones levelup.gitconnected.com/you-dont-hat...

02.03.2026 21:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œClean Code Is a Guide, Not a Gospel: A Reflection on Pragmatic Software Architectureโ€œ : itnext.io/clean-code-i...

04.02.2026 20:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Modernize Your Kotlin Multiplatform Architecture โ€“ Part 1 Build cross-platform apps using Circuit and Kotlin Multiplatform. Share business logic while keeping native Compose and SwiftUI rendering on each platform.

Neat blog series from Mounir Boudraa about how they're using Circuit with native SwiftUI for their KMP iOS apps!

www.quo.com/blog/moderni...

28.12.2025 06:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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That โ€œSimple Backend Changeโ€ Just Broke Our Mobile App The challenges of the mobile ecosystems

โ€œThat โ€œSimple Backend Changeโ€ Just Broke Our Mobile Appโ€œ: itnext.io/that-simple-...

22.12.2025 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Avoid Turning Your App Into a Christmas Tree of Libraries The Android ecosystem is constantly growing, and in the last decade we've witnessed an incredible explosion in the number of librariesโ€ฆ

"Avoid Turning Your App Into a Christmas Tree of Librariesโ€œ: proandroiddev.com/avoid-turnin...

22.12.2025 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Compose 1.10 was released yesterday! ๐Ÿ”Ÿ

It includes some nice new features:

๐Ÿงžโ€โ™€๏ธ Support for dynamic shared elements
๐Ÿ‘ฐ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ New Enter/Exit Transitions: unveilIn / veilOut
โญ๏ธ Modifier.skipToLookaheadPosition()
๐Ÿ“ฆ New retain APIs influenced by Circuit

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...

04.12.2025 09:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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New blog post on how to render beautiful soft shadows projected by the user's finger with Jetpack Compose.

www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f...

29.11.2025 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 72 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You thought last year was cool?
Wait until you see whatโ€™s coming to KotlinConfโ€™26! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://kotl.in/conf2026-x ๐Ÿ‘ˆ

20.11.2025 17:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Deeper Performance Considerations News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Deeper Performance Considerations.

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/deep...

19.11.2025 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@filipebaptista.bsky.social on stage ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐ŸŽ‰

19.11.2025 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#droidconitaly #droidconitaly #androiddev #kotlinmultiplatform #kmp #crossplatform #apprewrite #mobilearchitecture #volkswagendigitalsolutions #mobiledev #droidcon2025 #kotlinconf #devtalksโ€ฆ | droidco... ๐Ÿ‘ค๐ŸŸข Speaker reveal #5 โ€” Welcome Filipe Baptista, Senior Engineer at Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions [Portugal], to this yearโ€™s edition! ๐ŸŽค ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Filipe will take the stage with a talk that every Androi...

โš ๏ธ Please make sure that you can attend the conference!
See you there ๐Ÿ˜Š

www.linkedin.com/posts/droidc...

08.11.2025 11:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹!

I have one free ticket for droidcon Italy, so if you would like to attend the conference just reply below in the comments with your name. At the end of the day I will do a random selection of all the names to select the lucky winner.

08.11.2025 11:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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After a long break from writing, Iโ€™m taking a detour from tech talk to share something personalโ€”my lifelong journey with music. Letโ€™s rewind to the days when discovering new songs felt like an adventure.

03.11.2025 11:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Google Docs: Sign-in Access Google Docs with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

TIL from colleague....very handy!

docs.new - Opens a new Google Docs document
sheets.new - Opens a new Google Sheets Spreadsheet
meet.new - Starts a new Google meet call
slides.new - Opens a new Google Slides presentation

12.09.2025 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‘ค๐ŸŸข Speaker reveal #5 โ€” Welcome @filipebaptista.bsky.social, Senior Engineer at Volkswagen Digital Solutions! ๐ŸŽค ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

๐Ÿ”ŽTalk: โ€œSpeeding Up on the Highway โ€“ MAN Driver App: A story of an app rewrite without Roadblocks Using KMPโ€

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Curious who else is speaking at #dcnit25? โ†’ it.droidcon.com/2025/speakers/

10.09.2025 13:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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But this topic honestly disturbs me, as we no longer live in a society that cares about human values. We just want to get to the end at all costs, including human lives.

18.08.2025 19:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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And what kind of values are we passing on to these new generations?
I don't usually speak out on controversial issues because I feel the discussion leads nowhere.

18.08.2025 19:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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and other health issues, longer term.
I'm no dreamer and know that companies need to make money but what I don't understand is this new model of 'slavery'. Long non stopping working hours donโ€™t guarantee success, and there are signs of this. Why insist on this?

18.08.2025 19:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Pulse #142: Crazy-hours culture at AI startups Also: Figmaโ€™s in-demand IPO could mark the end of the โ€œtech IPO winterโ€, Amazonโ€™s spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more

open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...
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This post from @pragmaticengineer.com about 'New trend: extreme hours at AI startups' really shows how rotten our tech industry it is. We went from a model where the mental health of people here priority and 4 weekday work to a model of burnouts

18.08.2025 19:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform Patterns for iOS Interop | John O'Reilly
Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform Patterns for iOS Interop | John O'Reilly YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains

Video of my talk at @kotlinconf.com 2025 now publicly available youtu.be/O0BqoLcRuJI?...

10.07.2025 07:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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can't wait to not be able to read anything on my iPhone

09.06.2025 18:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 216 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Google announced Material Expressive at #IO25 and Apple talking about Expressive Material at #WWDC25 ๐Ÿ˜€

09.06.2025 17:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Saw your talk in the live stream. Congratulations ๐ŸŽ‰ Great talk!

23.05.2025 18:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parallel Rendering Mode experimental option when using Compose Multiplatform #KotlinConf

22.05.2025 12:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is that Android Studio Narwhal with the latest KMP plugin (Beta)?

21.05.2025 16:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pretty sure many Android devs are still around on this platform.

Reply saying hi ๐Ÿ‘‹ so everyone can find you.

This will help people find a big bunch of colleagues to follow ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

RT this for more reach! ๐Ÿ™

10.05.2025 11:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 68 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 66 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hey ๐Ÿ‘‹

10.05.2025 19:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gradle Best Practices - A Path to Build Happiness Gradle Build Tool, also known as Gradle, is a highly flexible and extensible build system. It supports multiple ways to structure and configure builds, making it incredibly powerfulโ€”but also somewhat ...

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it!

blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-...
#gradle

01.05.2025 19:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 54 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Hundreds of Free Images From Studio Ghibli Films Well this is just wonderful: Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of high-resolution still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones: Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away, M

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download โ€œby individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli filmsโ€. [kottke.org]

28.04.2025 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 792 ๐Ÿ” 325 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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๐Ÿค— Mellum is now open source on @hf.co!

Itโ€™s a focal model that is small, efficient, and made for one thing: code completion.

โš™๏ธ Trained from scratch by JetBrains.
๐ŸŒฑ First in a growing family of dev-focused LLMs.

๐Ÿ”— jb.gg/hi_mellum

30.04.2025 12:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 63 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3