My week ahead is going to be a little more Kotlin focused than usual. Heading into that, I'd love to hear from people their impressions of using Kotlin libraries from Java, including any impedance mismatches they might encounter, and any protips.

I've spent the past week or so in heads-down engineer mode, and it has been delightful. It's great to have the backing of my manager to 'go dark' every now and then to push the boundaries, and I'm excited about what I'm developing.

Over the past week I've filled my spare time with a new custom circuit board project, for a popular kind of spa pool controller. I even worked out how to generate a 3D model for a case / lid for it. And I even wrote a blog post about it here: jonathangiles.net/posts/2024/cus…

First PCB revision just arrived. Blink app runs fine, from both USB-C port, as well as when 12v is delivered over the network jack. Next revision is already ready to order with a few nice revisions. Such fun.

Trying out bluesky. You can find me over there at Jonathan Giles.net

This is my team too.... But I've got a few more years to go until I've been at Microsoft for 40 years like Larry!

Final sunset of 2024. I hope everyone had a great 2024, and all the best for whatever your goals and dreams for 2025 are. Here's our dog Yoshi doing one last beach run.

It was my 18th wedding anniversary last week, my birthday today, and now my age ends in a zero again. I wonder what the next decade holds for me?

Awesome haul of Lego for my birthday! Going to be busy for a few days on these.