Learner. Software Engineer. Blabberer.
Likes Anime and cars.
Currently in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦🍁
Gurpreet Singh
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Why!?
Gurpreet Singh
Canada I love you.
But. This is a teeny tiny bit much.
This is exactly why I got hooked to Android development during my college days back in 2017 - not only could I do it on a non-Mac, but I could actually build something and show it to my parents, my friends and derive **joy** from it.
"...went over to my parents to show them what I built. I often refer to this as my 'lightbulb moment'. Here in my hands was a real, tangible piece of software that I built and could interact with..."
Forgot that I'm supposed to tag the original author @adammc.bsky.social. Thank you for all your work towards the community and writing down what me and probably a lot more people feel.
Over the past two years, the joy of getting something to work, sharing it and discussing has depleted significantly. The connection I enjoyed building with people, sharing mistakes, openly and without judgement, is almost gone - one of the reasons why I loved job and engineering in the first place.
kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne... Kotlin 2.2.0 is here!
I do not generally post stuff anywhere, particularly because I do not want to spend my energy locking horns with strangers while living in a dystopia. However, reading Adam's latest post here androidessence.com/leave-me-beh... really struck a chord. Excerpt from the post:
