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Mark Murphy

@commonsware.com

Android app developer. Entrepreneur. Author. Fan of sentence fragments.

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Márton Braun@zsmb.co · 2mo ago

The grants from the Kotlin Foundation are a great way to get support for significant projects in the Kotlin ecosystem! Read on below for the details:

Kotlin by JetBrains@kotlinlang.org · 2mo ago

Applications are now open for a new round of the Kotlin Foundation Grant Program for library authors! If you're maintaining open-source Kotlin Multiplatform projects, including libraries, tools, and frameworks, apply here 👇 https://kotlinfoundation.org/news/grant-program-for-library-authors-2026/

Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...

The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough

Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Mark Murphy@commonsware.com · 3mo ago

I released the inaugural 0.1.0 of Knosh yesterday. Knosh is a Kotlin NO-SHell coding agent harness (hence, "Knosh"), designed for "one-shot" requests. It supports supplying a full prompt or having Knosh and your chosen model perform more structured tasks, like updating KDocs in specified files.

Mark Murphy@commonsware.com · 3mo ago

When I started my Jetpack Compose newsletter (jetc.dev), I got a few comments to the effect of, "um, why?". Once Compose was announced, I expected that this day would come, which is why I started the newsletter early. #ComposeFirst #ViewsRecedingIntoTheDistance

Nick Butcher@nickbutcher.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...