#OpenToWork

Alas, my previous employer hit a bumpy patch. As a result, for the first time in a very long while — before LinkedIn really existed — I am #OpenToWork.

If anyone out there is in need of an Android/Kotlin Multiplatform developer, a serial entrepreneur, or a client-side developer advocate, perhaps I can be of service!

In the meantime, I am back to what I was doing as CommonsWare: working on interesting technologies, writing about them, helping others with them, and seeing where things go. There are a few changes:

• My personal preference now is toward Kotlin Multiplatform, rather than pure-play Android projects.

• I have long considered myself to be a teacher and a toolsmith. I did little toolsmithing during my main CommonsWare years, but I expect to be doing more of that, and more open source in general, in the future.

• Part of that toolsmithing will be in service of using coding agents with local AI models alongside of, or in lieu of, hosted frontier models. I expect that those frontier models will get a lot more expensive, and I have ethical concerns about them. So I want to help developers leverage coding agents, just with less impact on their budgets and on society writ large. Pedal Assist Coding is where I will be doing most of my writing on that.

• I hope to get into ATProto and ActivityPub this year and next, as a sneak peek of one of the areas you will see me working on.

But, while I am on those journeys, if your organization could use an extra pair of hands, maybe I can help!