Chris Sinco

@csinco.com

UX Lead on AI tooling in Android Studio // pretty okay at bikes 👨🏻‍🎨 csinco.com 👨🏻‍💻 github.com/c5inco

Android Studio finally gets embedded browser power 🚀 This is a big unlock for all Android developers and plugin authors! Embedded web browser (JCEF) in Android Studio just got a lot more real 👉 tool windows, auth flows, onboarding, browser-powered plugin UX. platform.jetbrains.com/t/experiment...

Experimental JCEF Web Browser API support for Android Studio

We’re excited to announce that the JCEF (Java Chromium Embedded Framework) web browser API is now experimentally available for Android Studio — a capability previously limited to other JetBrains IDEs....

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I love AI coding simply for the fact I can ask it to get any old webpack based app to run on 8 year old dependencies in under 5 min 🤪

Currently we aren’t allowed to use most if not any 3P AI coding tools at Google, not even Antigravity w/o constraints. So I decided to just build my own agent manager that I can vibe code in above board because it’s 2026 and I can, like many motivated builders out there.

YouTube clips has a weird way of getting to you to play old games again. Playing Fallen Order now since I never finished it. And Jedi Survivor is only $10 for a limited time on PSN!

An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates purchased nearly half of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company last year, making the family business partners with the UAE even as President Trump negotiated foreign policy matters with the Middle Eastern nation.

U.A.E. Firm Quietly Took Stake in the Trump Family’s Crypto Company

The $500 million agreement raises new concerns about the propriety of the president negotiating foreign policy with his own business partners.

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New survey from Pew 🧵 Trump's approval is down to 37. He's 24 points underwater. Only 27% of Americans support most/all of Trump's policies. By two-to-one margins, Americans say the Trump administration has made their life worse, not better.

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🚀 Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop is out 🚀 It brings A LOT of new & stable features, like Bring Your Own Model, Journeys, and many Compose dev AI tools 🥳 Check out the release blog, try them out and please submit feedback 🙏 android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/llm-...

LLM flexibility, Agent Mode improvements, and new agentic experiences in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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The official message of the U.S. government to ICE is if you kill an American citizen while trying to deport brown people, not only will we cover it up but we will try to jail their spouse instead. We all died during COVID and this is hell.

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Decided to cancel my Cursor sub for now. With Antigravity and a Claude Code Pro sub, and paying for a Gemini API key (mainly for Android Studio), I think I'm covered. ;)