@tysmith.me
Principal Engineer at Uber - AI, Dev Productivity, Mobile, & Open Source Advisor, Investor, Founder, GDE, Public Speaker & Open Source Foundations Formerly at Twitter (Fabric), Evernote. @tsmith from Twitter tysmith.me
At KotlinConf’25, @tysmith.me discussed the strategies and tooling implemented by his team at Uber to migrate millions of lines of Java code to Kotlin.
Join us at KotlinConf’26 for even more insights, best practices, and deep dives!
👉 https://kotlinconf.com/ 👈
🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
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GREAT example by Yuan
Games is actually a fantastic example of what happens when you remove the obstacle that everyone thought was the biggest hurdle in building a game: needing to build a game engine
Easier to build games… still very hard to build great games!
Gen Z with their hip email signatures like "Would you like a slightly more persuasive version or one that sounds even more casual?"
The video for using Agents, LLMs, and LSC techniques to migrate Java to Kotlin for Uber's Android apps from @kotlinconf.com is now public.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2PN...
#Kotlinconf
🚀 The Kotlin Foundation Annual Report 2024 is here!
🔹 2.5M+ developers coding in Kotlin
🔹 $182K+ invested in ecosystem growth
🔹 Student contests, grants and open-source contributions
Check out the full report to learn more and see what’s next! 👇
📖 kotlinfoundation.org/news/annual-...
@tysmith.me had some fantastic predictions. He has a front seat view at how engineering is changing in real time, given his influential role at Uber.
You'll find his thoughts here - jetpackcomposeapp.beehiiv.com/p/dispatch-i...
Not available in the main site yet so use this link in the meantime
Thanks for including my insights on the future of Android in the latest issue of Dispatch, @vinaygaba.bsky.social !
www.jetpackcompose.app/newsletter
Some great opportunities to push the Kotlin ecosystem forward in this year's Google Summer of Code with Kotlin. Several will have you working closely with my team. kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-20...
I was at @evernote.bsky.social when they started migrating to React Native in 2018. Against all advice from tech leads the SVP of engineering (coming from Amazon) pushed through. The quality of the Android app went downhill over the years not only performance wise.
Same experience...
** It's happening!! **
We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble
With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
Calling for Kotlin for Server-Side Content Creators
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...
#KotlinServerSide
New Square Feature Allows Customers To Tip With Bible Quote
theonion.com/new-squ...
Loved this series.
adrian dittman is elon musk confirmed
There are 21 million Black people in the US.
Fewer than 6% of us earn over $100K a year.
The median net worth of Black households fluctuates between about $20K and $40K, depending on how much scamming happens that year (eg crypto, asset forfeiture).
Black. People. Are. The. Working. Class.
I can never go back to a browser without vertical tabs. Fortunately Brave and Firefox both implemented it, even if not quite as good.
Depends how in the weeds you want to get. I considered this option, but ended up building my own running TrueNAS with ZFS to get better hardware at a better $ value. At first I run it as my home server and storage, but eventually moved most services to different proxmox hardware.
And if we already lost it when we did it, and someone else took it?
I would pay for this super power
More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...
#fomo
DRG during winter is always super fun.
and the new Elden Ring trailer!
Washing clothes at the hotel and buying necessities > packing for “just in case”
Was bummed to miss this since it conflicted with our vacation.
Proton is pretty solid these days. Been running it as my primary all year and played everything I wanted to (Many new releases) on highest settings on enthusiast hardware, without really much tradeoffs.
