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A collection of 5 posts

Time in UI Programming

I've been digging around in time APIs a bunch lately. One thing I've found over time is that it helps to think of parts of time APIs as contextual in UI. This is similar to Locale or Android's resource system. You wouldn't

It's Nothing

Nothing is a special type in Kotlin often used for errors. Is that all it's useful for though?

API Design Case Studies: Intersection Types

API Design Case Studies: Intersection Types

My team recently cleaned up an API in an internal storage library. While it’s a simple case, it covers a couple interesting language tools and tradeoffs. Let’s dig in! The starting pointIt’s a function called enumStoreKeys that returns a Set of StoreKey enums for a given classKey.

Catching Up on CatchUp: API Quirks

I also wanted to do some practice with using different APIs. This blog is an account of how each one’s special in its own way. There’s no real overarching technical takeaway here other than some neat clever solutions along the way.

Catching Up on CatchUp: A Dagger-powered Plugin System

For context — see the introduction post [https://www.zacsweers.dev/catching-up-on-catchup-introduction/]. This is part of a series of technical deep dives into different things I’ve learned along the way. This post assumes some prior knowledge of Dagger [https://github.com/google/dagger]. In CatchUp [https://github.com/ZacSweers/CatchUp]