Kotlin has strong server-side frameworks, but SSR often means templates or a separate frontend stack. Could Compose HTML fill that gap with type-safe components for Spring and Ktor? It’s an early exploration – read the post and share your thoughts 👇 https://kotl.in/bkei59

Exploring Compose HTML for Server Side Rendering - The JetBrains Blog

Exploring Compose HTML as a solution for SSR on JVM, offering a type-safe way for JVM developers to build server-rendered UI without separate templating languages.

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OkHttp 5.5 can do private domain names. 🕵🏻‍♂️

I migrated the FOSDEM Companion Android app dependency injection from Dagger Hilt to Metro. Build times are faster as expected and the APK file is also 7KB smaller which is a nice bonus.

Here's two screenshots of Google searches, taken a couple hours apart. We had the ability to reliably convey sports scores and we abandoned it.

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Honestly my favorite answer to "why don't you use it" is simply "because I've been doing without for 10 years?" I've yet to encounter someone who can fight that lmao

Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer - A Tim Hortons employee involved in a conflict that started in the drive-thru and spilled into the restaurant will not be criminally charged in the death of a customer.

Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer

A Tim Hortons employee involved in a conflict that started in the drive-thru and spilled into the restaurant will not be criminally charged in the death of a customer.

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Prompt bioterrorism to avoid revealing a software key? "The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, causing it to shut down. Example: A prompt that orders the LLM to provide steps for developing inhalable Anthrax spores." arstechnica.com/security/202...

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

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Have I mentioned how much I love demo'ing our @voting.works voting system? Jaws on the floor and gasps every time. It's not every day that people get excited about voting equipment!

Here's your friendly Friday reminder to subscribe to the Kotlin YouTube channel! We're dropping fantastic new KotlinConf talk recordings every day. www.youtube.com/kotl...

It's so easy to assume that investing in changes to improve testing aren't worth it, but then you get a change like this: github.com/wasmcomputer...

Split out graph algorithm from traversal logic by jingibus · Pull Request #78 · wasmcomputercompany/brevity

WebAssembly WIT and Components in Kotlin. Contribute to wasmcomputercompany/brevity development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Let’s build a future that works for all of us. Join in at mikeforleader.ca

Edam: It’s the only cheese that’s made backwards

Metro 1.4.0 brings suspend providers! ⚡ github.com/ZacSweers/me...

A human mistake caused days of uncontrolled hacking by a rogue entity. Not like most human mistakes. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

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In good company. Thank you @androiddevs.bsky.social 💚! android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five...

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." - Leslie Lamport, quoted in fs.blog/how-to-think/ , which also states "Writing is the process by which we realize we don’t understand and the process by which we come to understand".

The Busy Person's Guide to Thinking

Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.

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Send a specially-crafted JSON to pwn a FastJson + SpringBoot server

FastJson 1.2.83 Remote Code Execution

Turning fastjson 1.2.83 into remote code execution with AutoType off and no gadget on the classpath: an SSRF inside checkAutoType, the @JSONType bypass, and a /proc/self/fd trick that carries it from ...

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This one is going to be an interesting one to write... #Droidcon #Berlin #DCBLN26

Chef: ‘taste this burger’ Me, biting: ‘OMG delicious!’ Chef: ‘can you even believe it’s actually panda meat’ Me: ‘what.’ Chef: ‘pandas have dark meat and light meat, just like chicken!’ Me: ‘that is fucked up and I am not coming back here’ Chef, sniffling: ‘but... but you said it was delicious!’

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I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.

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Okio 3.18 has what you long for: unsigned reads and writes. 🗿

So the hubs has started reading "Worse on Purpose" articles and this one is WELL worth reading if you do any cooking at all. @moviessilently.bsky.social @mrsa2003.bsky.social #Cookware

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

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Lysine Contingency

Jurassic Park (1993) "Shutting Down The System " HD

YouTube video by erve1986

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I wanted my nine-year-old twins to have easy cameras for some traveling this fall. I bought ’em refurbished Android phones *without SIM cards or data plans*. Same idea as the ‘iPod Touch’, but in 2026...

I recently learned the term "competency porn" in context of discussion of "The Pitt": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compete... It's not an especially new term but I just learned it. And I love it. In this world we need more of this.

Here's a post about a Gradle module structure that I helped institute at Dropbox 4 years ago which has been serving us well. ryanharter.com/blog/2026/07...

A Great Gradle Module Structure :: Ryan Harter

Flattening my Dependency Graph Jesse Wilson Jesse explores a Gradle module structure that he likes. Read now ➡ I liked this not-so-recent post from Jesse Wilson, which outlines a Gradle module convent...

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✈️ Heading to #droidConUSA26 this week? Don’t miss @tadeas.bsky.social talk "Advanced Kotlin Native Integration"! Learn what happens when an app includes multiple #KotlinMultiplatform native binaries, and explore approaches for scaling complex project structures. usa.droidcon.com/droidcon-spe...

Tadeas Kriz | droidCon USA

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