I’ll be honest, I don’t cover smart TV deals very often, but occasionally an OLED TV discount comes along that’s simply too good not to mention. Case in point: Amazon’s Labor Day sale is currently carving 44% off the 65-inch C6 Series OLED TV by LG, which is widely considered to be one of the…
What you need to know Google rolls out two major updates for the Translate app to end the week, beginning with multitasking capabilities for Android. Android users can now continue translating speech in the background, giving them the freedom of opening other apps or locking their device. For iPhone users, Google says they now have…
Tecno continues to wow us at every trade show with some very interesting smartphone concepts. At IFA ShowStoppers 2026, the company unveiled its new Next-Gen Bezelless Concept Phone, which sports a 0mm bezel. I had a short hands-on with the device, and I immediately want every phone to sport this technology. Smartphone bezels have continued…
I like portable SSDs a lot, and I have one always on hand in my EDC tech bag. I look for two things in a portable drive: fast transfers, and long-term durability. I don’t really think about the size or weight, as SSDs tend to be smaller and lighter than mechanical drives anyway. But Lexar…
What you need to know GPT-6 Astra is the first OpenAI model to hit the “critical” cybersecurity threat level, but deployment is moving forward with significant safeguards in place. It is currently limited to defensive tasks like secure code review. Advanced capabilities like exploit creation are blocked for now, but trusted users in the Daybreak…
Working with threads always feels hazardous to me. Non-determinism limits how much we can exercise with simple tests. Stress tests can shake out some bugs, but they’re slow and potentially flaky. I don’t like flaky tests. So I have a few concurrency patterns that I trust, and I use ’em a lot. AtomicReference is one…
I presented this at KotlinConf on May 22, 2026. Also available on slides, YouTube, and Speaker Deck. OkHttp is a popular library for making network calls. You might use it directly, or with Ktor, Retrofit, Coil, or gRPC. But this is not a talk on how to use OkHttp. Instead, we’ll open up the code…
An engineer I admire was lamenting about AI. He said that his new programming agent is excellent at fixing bugs! And all that it costs is a bunch of energy and many litres of water. He said that he could also have fixed those same bugs, and that he also consumes a bunch of energy…
Rounds has a Kotlin server that integrates a few things: PostgreSQL persistence via SQLDelight (hosted on PlanetScale!) WebAuthn4J for Passkeys kotlinx.html for dynamic web pages Ktor for HTTP binding The service uses six database tables. The business domain tables are Game and GameEvent. Support for auth, sessions, and collaborative editing adds Account, Cookie, Passkey, and…
Google is building a digital lock into Android. It’s a very bad idea and I hate it. The excellent organizers at keepandroidopen.org encouraged me to complain to the Competition Bureau of Canada. What I sent wasn’t well edited but it captures my anger. Please send your own! I found this website on the Keep Android…