Ray Ryan • Abolish DHS

A screenshot of code that reads: // Create a Recomposition Tracking Rule @get:Rule val composeTestRule = createRecompositionTrackingRule() @Test fun incrementCounter_onlyValueRecomposes() { // Perform an action composeTestRule.onNodeWithTag("inc_button") .performClick() // Assert that Composables change like you expect composeTestRule.onNodeWithTag("counter_value") .assertRecompositions(exactly = 1) // Or assert that they remain stable composeTestRule.onNodeWithTag("counter_title") .assertStable() // asserts recompositions = 0 }

Today I’m open-sourcing Dejavu!

Testing UI performance in Jetpack Compose is frustrating. We profile and watch tools, yet regressions still creep in.

I built Dejavu to make recomposition behavior something you can actually test.

The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes. The goal...

Good writeup.

This is indeed a real and urgent problem.

rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, photographed in his military uniform near the Great Sphinx of Giza. 1960s

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

-Yuri Gagarin #BOTD

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Riker and Geordi, in uniforms red and gold, meet at a Enterprise corridor intersection. Riker is *very* tall. You don't always see it, but here facing and compared to Geordi, sheesh he's a tall drink of water. Anyways, his hair's a bit messy. Closed caption reads, "I'm having trouble waking up."

I am tired and cranky.

I'm retired. There is no reason for me to start getting up earlier when the clocks change. But I'm so conditioned to react to "the time" that it happens anyway. Consider this my official protest.

moved my email provider from Gmail to Fastmail and I gotta say, it feels like taking a nice warm shower. FEELS GOOD. (I'd been meaning to for a while, but Google ending POP3 importing gave me the push to say bye for real.)

Email is still ryan@qwantz.com, you won't notice anything different!

set your clocks back again, we fucked up

Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office

Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office

ANNOUNCEMENT INCOMING!

Card Crawl 2 will release on the 26th of March 2026,
on the App Store and Google Play.

🍻 Pre-Orders available NOW! 🍻

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Marin could get a Transbay-style transit hub in this city’s downtown A new complex would bring a San Francisco Transbay vision to this downtown in Marin County, where the current transit hub is really a grid of canopied bus shelters bisected by train tracks.

Golden Gate Bridge officials are planning to move the San Rafael Transit Center up a block. But they're really moving continents. How marrying bus and train connections could transform mobility in the North Bay: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

But it's already getting lighter at night without us screwing with the clocks and breaking people. Why isn't that enough?

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

A whole fish sits next to salt and rice filled barrels, I think. It's got stylized kanji in vertical lines along the side. There are trays of cuts of fish, or vegetables next to the barrels.

I'm craving sushi: let's talk about who *invented it*.

Our story starts in the Mekong River valley: Laos, Cambodia, Thailand.

Locals realize they can preserve river fish in barrels with layers of salt & rice for YEARS, a precaution against drought, famine.

Home - Reading Pilgrimage ReadingPilgrimage.com is intended to help readers discover and appreciate Dorothy Richardson’s masterpiece Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, published in 13 “chapter-volumes” (her preferred ...

A group of us are reading Richardson's Pilgrimage right now, shepherded by @neglectedbooks.com We're only a couple of months in at a slow place: a dozen or so short novels, once a month. It's still a good time to join!

readingpilgrimage.com

Mary Olivier: A Life, by May Sinclair

And I'm nearly done producing the Standard Ebooks edition of May Sinclair's autobiographical novel _Mary Olivier: A Life_, which is an honest to goodness page turner. I'm nearly done, watch this space: standardebooks.org/ebooks/may-s...

Home - Reading Pilgrimage ReadingPilgrimage.com is intended to help readers discover and appreciate Dorothy Richardson’s masterpiece Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, published in 13 “chapter-volumes” (her preferred ...

A group of us are reading Richardson's Pilgrimage right now, shepherded by @neglectedbooks.com We're only a couple of months in at a slow place: a dozen or so short novels, once a month. It's still a good time to join!

readingpilgrimage.com

Both Sinclair and Richardson were incredible authors, pioneers of modernist literature. It's a shame how obscure they've become.

The term "stream of consciousness" was first used in a literary context by May Sinclair in her review of Dorothy Richardson's _Pilgrimage_. Here it is, on page 57.

modjourn.org/issue/bdr522...

The Fist of Memory Fist Of Memory is simultaneously a near-future thriller…

Hey y'all! The official book page for my forthcoming novel The Fist of Memory is up so you can pre-order it. Here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-... or here: www.amazon.co.uk/Fist-Memory-...

You can also add it to your GR “Want to Read” list!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

🙏🏾🚀📖🤖

Wait, you're Roddy Ho?

It will _tell you_ that it took you out of the Epstein files.

A bird's nest wedged between the top of a wreath and a door. Three tiny eggs are visible inside the nest.

The same nest, but one of the eggs has been replaced with a baby bird. It looks like a fuzzy dinosaur.

We forgot to take the wreath off of our front door, and last week we discovered that a bird had made a nest on it. We have since been avoiding the use of our front door so we don't risk scaring it off or damaging the nest.

Today we discovered that one of the eggs has hatched.

New @thehornesection.bsky.social podcast series coming up soon - these ones are being recorded live at the Leicester Sq Theatre. If the rest of the series is anything like last night, we're in for a real treat!

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

Hey that's me

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Super valuable! Especially on big projects where no one quite feels like they have the big picture.

I love molas. I've seen them several times on dives around Monterey CA and they're fascinating oddballs. They survive well beyond our expectations for them which says less about them and more about our understanding of survivability.