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Learning from the 2023 Book Fair

This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Three hardly makes me an expert, even in my specialization of architecture books, but it does help with gauging the value given to books on the subject and getting a sense of […]

The Goodbye Show : Invisibilia

In this moment when Invisibilia is forced to stop production, the team says goodbye by doing what Invisibilia does best: thinking hard about goodbyes. In this episode, we offer a bouquet of meditations on these tricky moments of departure. We’ll miss you. To keep in touch with our team members who are leaving NPR, you […]

GitHub Copilot for CLI for PowerShell

GitHub Next has this cool project that is basically Copilot for the CLI (command line interface). You can sign up for their waitlist at the Copilot for CLI site. Copilot for CLI provides three shell commands: ??, git? and gh? This is cool and all, but I use PowerShell. Turns out these ?? […]

Our 600th Episode!

On this week’s episode of the Android Central Podcast, Shruti Shekar is joined by Nick Sutrich, Andrew Myrick, Derrek Lee, Jerry Hildenbrand, Michael Hicks, Harish Jonnalagadda and Namerah Saud Fatmi to celebrate the Android Central Podcast’s milestone and discuss the next generation of smart watches, the lack of support for Android by certain manufacturers, whether […]

Encapsulate your @Composable functions

TL;DR Encapsulate your composable functions and associated types with a surrounding object and use the operator fun invoke of that object as your composable function. This is a convenient convention for complex components. Details Complex Composable functions often require numerous associated types for their implementation: state holders, UI models, default values, etc. While it does […]