Just released a first dev-preview of gradle-kotlin-delegates@0.0.1 - a utility library for gradle plugin authors, making use of kotlin delegates to make configuration UX lazy yet convenient for the end-users. Additionally it provides delegates chaining support as well as some unique delegates for gradle/system/env properties. Give it a go! Attached is a sneak peak from the readme.

In the end of December I've done a seminar at CASUS science about evolution of build systems with focus on Gradle and Kotlin: And there is a corresponding article on problems of Gradle: https://medium.com/google-developer-experts/what-is-wrong-with-gradle-a312a7ceb651 The focus of those two is Gradle, but I think it is closely related to Kotlin ecosystem.

Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin: Announcing the Winners About Advent of Code Advent of Code is an annual event that publishes fun, holiday-themed puzzles every day from December 1 to December 25. Thousands of people each year take part in Advent of Code.  We at JetBrains and on the Kotlin team have been taking part in Advent of Code for several years now. […]

The new AWS SDK for Kotlin with Coroutines support The new AWS SDK for Kotlin was announced at AWS re:Invent in December 2021. Using the SDK, you can build Kotlin applications that work with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, DynamoDB, and more. The SDK is currently in preview and is expected to become stable soon. The SDK was designed from the ground up to support […]

KVision 5.8.0 is out https://github.com/rjaros/kvision/releases/tag/5.8.0

Did a small writeup this weekend; https://blog.londogard.com/blog/kotlinjs-onnx-deep-learning-browser It’s on how you can use ONNX-webruntime from KotlinJS to run inference inside the browser (which works the same on all OS:s)! A .gif of the DL inference can be found here Thread in Slack Conversation

Object Detection with KotlinDL and Ktor I presented the webinar “Object Detection and Image Recognition with Kotlin,” where I explored a deep learning library written in Kotlin, described how to detect objects of different types in images, and explained how to create a Kotlin Web Application using Ktor and KotlinDL that recognizes cars and persons on photos. I have decided there […]

Let's learn how can we transform two flows into one, with merge, zip, and combine  https://kt.academy/article/cc-flow-combine by @marcinmoskala

We're at

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kotlin libraries on MavenCentral after last night's kamp.petuska.dev scan! An increase of

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since 2021-12-29 (just over a month ago). Apologies for the spam - over and out! K K

The first release of Arrow Analysis is out ! https://twitter.com/47deg/status/1488935292652326913

Join the Kotlin Basics Track Tour With a JetBrains Academy Expert We invite you to join us for the livestream Kotlin Basics Track Tour With a JetBrains Academy Expert, featuring Dmitry Sitnikov, JetBrains Academy Expert and consulting software engineer. The livestream will start at 3:00 PM UTC on Wednesday, February 16.  Use these links to save the date in your calendar: Outlook Calendar or iCal: Add […]

Let's learn how can we accumulate flow values with fold and scan. More in the article written by @marcinmoskala 👇 https://kt.academy/article/cc-scan

Kotlin News: 1.6.20 Preview, Multiplatform Web Wizard, and More It’s been an intense start to the year! Check out this Kotlin Monthly Digest for January to get a glimpse of everything we’ve been working on: The first preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 is out! Introducing Kotlin 1.6.20-M1! It brings the following changes:  Defining context-dependent declarations in Kotlin/JVM with prototype context receivers. Faster builds with parallel […]

Hi all, my colleague has ported to Kotlin Multiplatform a library for making a smart diff between strings. I use it and love it - may be you will also find it attractive. Please give it a star to support this project 🥰: https://github.com/petertrr/kotlin-multiplatform-diff

Hey everyone, Kotlin/JS bindings for PIXI.js are now published on 

mavenCentral

 and ready to be used ! There are a lot of helpers with new 0.2.0 release which simplifies a lot keyboard/mouse management, improves a lot event handling with sealed interfaces, precise number types etc. There are now multiple examples on the README page also. Please follow the Github Repository if you want to know where a new release comes out :)

Here Comes Kotlin Heroes: Episode 9! Kotlin Heroes is our Kotlin-only contest hosted by the Codeforces. It is a great way to play around with Kotlin’s features, learn something new, and practice using the language by solving fun problems. It is great for programmers of any level! Everyone has a chance to win some cool prizes: exclusive Kotlin Heroes t-shirts, stickers, […]

Context receivers enables context-dependent declarations. Can’t wait to use it in FModel library /

#DDD

#DomainModeling

Eventsourcing

Hexagonal

. It composes nicely! https://gist.github.com/idugalic/232bc21490f4a8976bc31e0acf548831

Hi all, we made a 0.2.10 release of our serialization library for TOML and Kotlin MPP. Thanks to all contributors from the community - finally we have done a huge refactoring and implemented several features requested by the community. At least we can finally deserialise libs.versions.toml from latest Gradle😂 You can support us here: https://github.com/akuleshov7/ktoml

Known as a replacement for Subject, LiveData, and many more. SharedFlow and StateFlow are powerful coroutines classes, every Kotlin developer should know. Read the article written by @marcinmoskala https://kt.academy/article/cc-sharedflow-stateflow

nice one https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/02/fleet-below-deck-part-ii-breaking-down-the-editor/

I've written a small kotlin script to help with synchronising github milestone issues with a project. It can both, import and clear milestone issues to/from the project without affecting anything else that might be there. Might come in handy to somebody else out there too.

The Jozi_JUG is hosting a virtual meetup on Monday 28th of February at 18:00 UTC+2 🔖: Kotlin Compose: What is it? When and How do I use it? 📑 : We will have 2 lightning talks providing an overview and some demonstration of Kotlin Compose Multiplatform and a panel discussion. We aim to provide and discuss these questions: What is Kotlin Compose? What can you achieve with Kotlin Compose? What is the status of Kotlin Compose? Should I use Kotlin Compose? What is the future of Kotlin Compose? Speakers: Corneil du Plessis: Introduction to Kotlin Compose. Maia Grotepas: Compose animations: a speed run. 🕑 : Monday the 28th of February 2022 at 18:00 🗺️ : Your favourite streaming location. 🔗 : https://www.meetup.com/Jozi-JUG/events/283549211/

Doodle 0.7.0 has been released. https://github.com/nacular/doodle/releases/tag/v0.7.0 Highlights include • New Date controls • Range Sliders • More Flexible Lists • Tick Marks For (BasicSliderBehavior and BasicRangeSliderBehavior) • New Platform-specific Desktop Artifacts See the release notes for more details.

Got a basic Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (Android & iOS) project going. Setup was by far the hardest part. I've logged in the README installation steps & common build pitfall fixes for anyone interested in replicating & wanting to save time. https://github.com/whether-jacket/weather-app-2022-kmm

New MockK release! v1.12.3 fixes a lot of open issues, one of which was open for a veeeery long time. Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed ❤️ https://github.com/mockk/mockk/releases/tag/1.12.3