Same Compose Code, but Tencent Pays for 150,000 More Lines of Native
Compose code on both sides, but Tencent picked native rendering over Skia: six platforms, four renderers, 155,000 lines of platform glue.
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After Upgrading DeepSeek Harness, All My Plugins Got Disabled
The version on npm is not the newest one. You have to pin the version number to get it. Once installed, three plugins were rejected on the spot. Not a bug. An exact-version lock doing its job.
JetBrains Swapped Its Terminal Engine, Because AI Agents Eat Too Much
The IDE terminal has a new engine: JediTerm, thirteen years old, steps aside for Ghostty’s core library. The reason is written on the AI agent line. I unpacked the new build and checked.
I Paid $25 to Learn That Google Play Lets You Install Your Own Apps for Free
In October, Google gave Google Play a new entrance: an app you generate by talking to AI needs no developer account, no $25, and no review — just scan a QR code. The catch is that only you can install it.
A 45,000-Star Security Audit Skill Spends Half Its Code Stopping AI From Making Things Up
1,778 lines of documentation, 3,498 lines of validation. The heaviest part of Cloudflare’s open-source audit skill is not finding bugs, it is stopping the agent from inventing them.
Compose 1.13 Shipped. The Interesting Part Is in 1.12
1.13 has one new feature and a pile of fixes. The heavy part shipped two months earlier, when hot reload got an MCP server.
AI Can Write Swift and Kotlin Now. So What's the Point of Cross-Platform?
On September 10, Shopify’s head of mobile published a post.
Kotlin 2.5 Changes Its Publishing Format, and the Compiler Gets Stricter
On October 21, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2 shipped. Most people open the notes, read the four promoted and two experimental language features, decide it is unremarkable, and close the tab.
Giving a Coding Agent Memory: First Figure Out Which Layer It Lives In
I have had memorix attached to my DeepSeek Harness the whole time. Months of use, zero problems.
My Google Play Account Got Banned, So I Opened a New One
The day my account got banned, my first reaction was the same as yours: register another one.
Google Play Registration: Your Address Has to Match Your ID
Someone asked me again last week what to do about a rejected Play developer account. Going through his materials: ID photographed, card linked, the $25 charged successfully. The problem was the address — his card’s billing address was the office, the address on his ID was his hometown.
A Google Play Developer Account: The Five Gates After the $25
Chinese tutorials on Play developer accounts mostly stopped updating two years ago: $25, a credit card, an address, wait a day. That is no longer enough.