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February 8th, 2026
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Yassine Sayah shows that adding extraBufferCapacity is essential when using tryEmit on SharedFlow to avoid silently dropped events with active collectors.
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Cedric Ferry shows how ServiceLoader plus Koin module providers enable runtime wiring of feature implementations while the app depends only on API modules for compile-time decoupling.
Ayush Bansal shows CompositionLocal values are attached to a node and resolved by upward lookup, so only composables that read them recompose.
Marcin Moskała explains modern Compose stability as reference versus equality change checks under Strong Skipping Mode, with automatic lambda memoization reducing unnecessary recompositions.
Tezov's fifth part of an educational series about dependency injection with Kotlin and Koin. This part introduces a small but important evolution: linked scopes.
rains shows how Koog’s built-in ACP support makes Kotlin agents IDE-connectable through IntelliJ AI Chat with minimal glue code.
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JetBrains outlines the Kotlin Foundation mentorship pilot that pairs maintainers with newcomers to land a meaningful merged contribution and strengthen Kotlin open source.
Videos & Podcasts
Jov Mit covers refactorings that are a important for every Android developer.
Upgrading Android Gradle Plugin from 8 to 9 in Compose Multiplatform is not a trivial update, so Mykola Miroshnychenko walks you through the necessary changes.
Philipp Lackner shows how we can encrypt and decrypt local preferences in Kotlin Multiplatform for Android, iOS and desktop.
Philipp Lackner goes over what has changed in the Kotlin ecosystem in January 2026.
Walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you understand it well enough to explain it. Walk away with a mental model that you can use for your next dinner party.
Sebastian and Márton host a special, audio-only episode where they discuss everything that’s new and noteworthy in the Kotlin 2.3 release.
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Eugene Petrenko shows how git alternates enable cheap full repo forks that avoid worktree limitations for parallel or agent-driven development.

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