🕸️ https://chrisbanes.me 👨‍💻 Senior Staff Software Engineerhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.mehttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3mibcbnbnls2tStarting 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. https://github.com/chrisbanes/ensemble/actions/runs/23736263277/job/6914157511630 Mar 2026 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibcbnbnls2thttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3mchghpivgs2bAfter 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 https://shittycodingagent.ai15 Jan 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchghpivgs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3mb4tp3xv422yIf your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': https://chrisbanes.me/posts/disappearing-middle-ai-software-apprenticeship/29 Dec 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb4tp3xv422yhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3mapn5h5rqk2jTried 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. 🧵…24 Dec 2025 06:29 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapn5h5rqk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3m7njoolfpk2zI've been looking into Liquid Glass details (experiment for Haze), and stumbled across this article by @kubekhrm.bsky.social. Simply wow. https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/10 Dec 2025 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7njoolfpk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lzwjxm23mk2cAs 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… https://g.co/gemini/share/5775882d3e9e28 Sep 2025 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzwjxm23mk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lyzqypp47s2pMy team is looking for a new Android + KMP engineer! 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Looking for someone in Boston, New York, Toronto, Washington DC 📺 Working on Ventura TV OS (https://www.thetradedesk.com/ventura-streaming-tv-os) If you have any questions, feel free to ask! 🔗: https://careers.thetradedesk.com/jobs/4870331007/staff-android-software-engineer-ventura-os17 Sep 2025 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzqypp47s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lwybku6cl225Looking forward to being back at @droidcon.bsky.social London this year. I spent quite a while on this talk title…22 Aug 2025 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwybku6cl225https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lucfqdat6s2nI 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jul 2025 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lucfqdat6s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lsykye3wb22eI don’t know how they expect anyone to know the location of this bar…02 Jul 2025 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsykye3wb22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lsez5hnnlc2pWhat 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.24 Jun 2025 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsez5hnnlc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lrn233he7223I'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).15 Jun 2025 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrn233he7223https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lrcu4ugdrc2rSeems 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.11 Jun 2025 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrcu4ugdrc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3loym57kjzs2b💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.012 May 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3loym57kjzs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lnho34kwpc2w💠 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! 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta0123 Apr 2025 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnho34kwpc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3ln3av2jok22dDug 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 1618 Apr 2025 08:57 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln3av2jok22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lmgzkywhdc2tHad 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.10 Apr 2025 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmgzkywhdc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lmexefnmzk2lFocus bugs in Compose are the absolute worst. The system is so opaque and hidden, that trying to deal with them is borderline impossible.09 Apr 2025 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmexefnmzk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3ljplym5b3s2wHaze 1.5.0 has been released: 💨 Optimised blur shader implementation (thanks to Kyant) 🖌️ New: HazeProgressive.Brush for custom progressive effects 🐛 Usual load of bugfixes https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.5.006 Mar 2025 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljplym5b3s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lima3qkttc2x🪢 Multiplatform Strings This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps. https://chrisbanes.me/posts/multiplatform-strings/20 Feb 2025 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lima3qkttc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3li2mub7px22j🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance? I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😱 #Kotlin #AndroidDev https://chrisbanes.me/posts/use-sequence/13 Feb 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2mub7px22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lhwnwcgvnc2cSpent 10 mins integrating Bluesky comments into my Hugo blog Shamelessly reusing @kau.sh’s code from https://bsky.app/profile/kau.sh/post/3lg7jpntysk2e [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Feb 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwnwcgvnc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lhvoz4w2pc2vJust tried asking ChatGPT and Gemini to convert a `composed` modifier to use `Modifier.Node`, and both failed miserably. Gemini probably got closest of the two, but it hallucinated all sorts of random callbacks which don't exist.11 Feb 2025 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvoz4w2pc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lgrz36p32s2pHaze 1.3.0 has been released! 🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects 🖌️ Brush support in tints 🧑‍💻 New samples 📑 New docs courtesy of @markallison.social https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.3.028 Jan 2025 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgrz36p32s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lfovujifac2nBig +💯 to this However, the same can be said about AndroidX bumping up the compileSdkVersion [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jan 2025 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfovujifac2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lfd2mpta7c26💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.009 Jan 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfd2mpta7c26https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3ldnhlmmav22vI'm thinking about renaming the modifiers in Haze but not quite sure what to use. If you want to help, you can comment here: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/discussions/45119 Dec 2024 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldnhlmmav22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3ld2oxrnnxk2d💠 Here's a sneak preview of something that I've been working on in Haze: overlapping areas With this you'll be able to implement those classic glassmorphic card effects. I still need to run the performance benchmarks, but it seems to be working nicely... 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/pull/44111 Dec 2024 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld2oxrnnxk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrisbanes.me/post/3lcuvzuixgc2uHere's the slides from a talk I gave at work about Haze. There's no recording or anything, but the slides should hopefully be self-explanatory https://chrisbanes.me/talks/haze-tech-talk/09 Dec 2024 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:ebql4lg3squ76xpzwer5ko56/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcuvzuixgc2u