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Compose has progressive blur. Do you still need Haze?
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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.
Shopping Is Not a Category
·864 words·5 mins
Hermes connected my marketplace order emails to Actual Budget, turning opaque Shopping transactions into useful item-level categories.
Haze 2.0: A Pluggable Visual Effects Engine
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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.
The Disappearing Middle: How AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Software Apprenticeship
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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 protect junior engineer growth.
Multiplatform Strings
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Simplify multilingual app development with Twine! Learn how to manage and export strings for iOS, Android, and Compose Multiplatform efficiently