My pronouns are he / him. Android Engineer at Square in San Francisco. A few things I enjoy:
Publishing Open Source libraries (LeakCanary, Curtains, Radiography, square/logcat) Rollerblading Writing technical blogs (previously on dev.to/pyricau) Cooking Giving tech talks Reading sci-fi
tech talks, panels, bake offs, and rollerblades.
Feb 5, 2025 · 11 min read · The SQLDelight documentation provides this example: val players: Flow<List<HockeyPlayer>> = playerQueries.selectAll() .asFlow() .mapToList(Dispatchers.IO) This looks reasonable, right? In the Square Point Of Sale application, we recently ...
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Sep 25, 2024 · 9 min read · Exploring heap dumps I have investigated many heap dumps over the years, and I usually switch back and forth between two tools: YourKit Java Profiler to poke around the heap and look for interesting things (ask your company to buy a license!) Shark...
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May 7, 2024 · 5 min read · In this article I run the new LeakCanary toolkit against the Slack Android app. Read on to learn a bunch! A new LeakCanary toolkit In two months, I will give a talk at Droidcon SF: Cutting Edges: universal heap trimming with LeakCanary 3 At Square, ...
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Feb 15, 2024 · 5 min read · Today I was mob programming with Square's Mobile & Performance Reliability team and we toyed with an interesting idea. Our codebase has classes that represent screens a user can navigate to. These classes are defined in modules, and these modules hav...
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Jan 18, 2024 · 17 min read · Dependency Injection libraries are powerful tools, but they're often also intimidating & confusing. When that happens to me, I find that understanding how a tool works helps me get over the initial scare of the dark magic internals. In this article, ...
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