Haze 2.1: Shatterproof Glass 🪟 Glass is now stable 🫧 Merging container surfaces 🎨 Blur and Glass styles that respond to animated state 🌍 Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform 🔗: chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

Not every agent task needs a plan. Two tasks helped me decide when to go straight to implementation and when planning has something useful to settle. Either way, testing and review stay. chrisbanes.me/posts/not-ev...

Not every agent task needs a plan

Two Haze tasks show when direct implementation is enough, when planning earns its place, and which checks still matter either way.

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Haze 2.0 is here, and it's a big one! 🎉 For Compose Multiplatform: 🫧 Glass with refraction & lighting ⚡ Faster blur 🎛️ Adaptive rendering quality 🎨 Reusable styles 🛠️ Build your own effects chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

Haze 2.0

Haze 2.0 brings Glass, a new effects API, performance improvements, and experimental Android native backdrop support to Compose Multiplatform.

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Compose now has progressive blur. Do you still need Haze? chrisbanes.me/posts/compos...

Compose has progressive blur. Do you still need Haze?

Compose’s new progressive blur API blurs a composable’s own content. Here’s how that relates to Haze and Android’s new backdrop API.

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🚀 Haze 2.0.0-alpha05 has been released! 🔎 Glass visual effect (finally) ⚙️ New Style-like API structure 💨 HazePerformanceMode toggle This should hopefully be the last alpha release chrisbanes.github.io/haze/

Introducing Portico: a native macOS menu-bar app for private HTTPS doorways to services running on your Mac, via your @tailscale.com tailnet localhost:1234 → https://my-service.<tailnet>.ts.net github.com/chrisbanes/p...

GitHub - chrisbanes/portico: A private doorway to your local apps

A private doorway to your local apps. Contribute to chrisbanes/portico development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Here's a little preview of the new glass effect coming to Haze 2.0 Should be in the next alpha release

🛍️ Shopping isn’t a category I got Hermes Agent to match marketplace orders with my bank transactions, then categorise each item by what I actually bought. Same spending. A much clearer picture of where the money went. chrisbanes.me/posts/shoppi...

Shopping Is Not a Category

How I used Hermes Agent to match marketplace order emails with Actual Budget transactions, split purchases into individual items, and reveal where the money actually went.

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Hunting down Jetpack Compose recomposition issues manually is a huge time sink I’ve spent the past few weeks using @mmckenna.me’s Dejavu to simplify this: - Write Dejavu tests to establish a baseline - Tell the agent to hunt for issues and A/B fixes - Profit

🤖 I've just open-sourced a new set of skills, covering Kotlin, Compose and Android development. Very early days, but it covers a lot of things which crop up in code review regularly. github.com/chrisbanes/s...

GitHub - chrisbanes/skills: Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development

Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development - chrisbanes/skills

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💠 Haze 2.0-alpha01 is out! This is a big release, splitting Haze up into layers, with the goal of enabling pluggable visual effects. Let me know what you think! chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

Haze 2.0: A Pluggable Visual Effects Engine

Haze 2.0-alpha01 turns blur into a pluggable effect, splitting it into a separate module and opening the door to custom visual effects built on top of a shared rendering infrastructure.

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Starting hacking on an AI Agent orchestration tool (for myself). Decided to build it in Rust (because why not), and holy cow: the entire CI run takes ~40 seconds, and most of that is setting up the toolchain. github.com/chrisbanes/e...

feat: ACP agent client, orchestrator state machine, and multi-agent p… · chrisbanes/ensemble@930a0e7

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✨ ChromaDial is a new #ComposeMultiplatform library that enables you to create beautiful Dials for your #JetpackCompose app Its API is similar to the Slider, but instead works in degrees Just pass in and set the degree state #buildinpublic

After becoming infuriated by Codex (the tool) lately, I've switched to @mariozechner.at's `Pi` and it's like a breathe of fresh air 🧘 All of the stuff I actually use, it's super fast, and most importantly it doesn't constantly ask permission to run `git` shittycodingagent.ai

buildwithpi.ai

A terminal-based coding agent

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If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

The Disappearing Middle: How AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Software Apprenticeship

How AI coding agents are automating away the developer apprenticeship ladder. Discover three personas for using agentic programming effectively, when it accelerates work, and critical guardrails to pr...

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Tried out @github Copilot to write a small feature for Haze, all from my phone. It’s the ultimate in lazy programming, but I’m pretty mind blown. 🧵…

I've been looking into Liquid Glass details (experiment for Haze), and stumbled across this article by @kubekhrm.bsky.social. Simply wow. kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG — kube.io

Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.

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As a little experiment I asked Gemini 2.5 (Pro) to compare itself to ChatGPT-5. It ended up telling me about Gemini 1.5 and that “Google has not announced a Gemini 2.5 model.” I think I’ll be sticking with ChatGPT… g.co/gemini/share...

‎Gemini - Gemini Advanced vs. ChatGPT-5 Comparison

Created with Gemini

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My team is looking for a new Android + KMP engineer! 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Looking for someone in Boston, New York, Toronto, Washington DC 📺 Working on Ventura TV OS (www.thetradedesk.com/ventura-stre...) If you have any questions, feel free to ask! 🔗: careers.thetradedesk.com/jobs/4870331...

Looking forward to being back at @droidcon.bsky.social London this year. I spent quite a while on this talk title…

I migrated our entire codebase over to it last week, and we’re now fully on the Metro train. 💺 It has pretty much everything y’all will need, right now.

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Metro wouldn’t be where it is without the road that Anvil paved before it. I’ve really enjoyed working with Joel and Jacob on several Metro features already, with @ralf-wondratschek.com in its early design phase, and really looking forward continuing to work with all of them. Future’s bright 🚇

I don’t know how they expect anyone to know the location of this bar…

What is it with Facebook adding pull-up gestures for the most random actions: Instagram DMs: Pull up to toggle disappearing messages. WhatsApp: Pull up to call. The amount of times I’ve triggered these actions: too many. The amount of times that I’ve meant to perform them: absolutely zero.

I've been trying out @jetbrains.com Junie over the past few few days, and have pretty blown away with it. I've managed to do everything from a complex refactoring of Haze (with follow up tasks), to fairly complex string manipulation (pretty printing data class toString).

Seems to be a lot of talk about Haze and Liquid Glass… At its core, Haze is a background content transform library, and the ‘visual effect’ (blurring, etc) is just an implementation detail. Liquid Glass will be a runtime shader like others which Haze already uses.

💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/h...

💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back! 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/h...

Dug out an old Pixel 3 today, to do some testing on earlier Android versions. I forgot how small and light devices used to be. Feels like a feather compared to my iPhone Pro Max 16

Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices. It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank. I'm undecided whether to keep going with it. Let me know if this would be useful to you.

Focus bugs in Compose are the absolute worst. The system is so opaque and hidden, that trying to deal with them is borderline impossible.