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💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released!
🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default
🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions
The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back!
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta01
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💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!
This is a big release:
🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android
🎨 Foreground (content) blurring
📐 Blurred edge treatment
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0
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💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released
The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas.
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0
6 views
Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices.
It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank.
I'm undecided whether to keep going with it. Let me know if this would be useful to you.
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Avg engagement / post
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Engagement vs followers
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On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where d · 21 likes + reposts
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Follows 98 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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💠 Haze 2.0-alpha01 is out!
This is a big release, splitting Haze up into layers, with the goal of enabling pluggable visual effects.
Let me know what you think!
https://chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2.0/
My team is looking for a new Android + KMP engineer!
🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Looking for someone in Boston, New York, Toronto, Washington DC
📺 Working on Ventura TV OS (https://www.thetradedesk.com/ventura-streaming-tv-os)
If you have any questions, feel fr…
Amen
https://mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw@jakewharton.com/115092064924190066
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💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!
This is a big release:
🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android
🎨 Foreground (content) blurring
📐 Blurred edge treatment
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0
▶
💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released!
🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default
🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions
The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please gi…
▶
Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices.
It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank.
I'm undecided whether to keep …
Haze 1.5.0 has been released:
💨 Optimised blur shader implementation (thanks to Kyant)
🖌️ New: HazeProgressive.Brush for custom progressive effects
🐛 Usual load of bugfixes
https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.5.0
🪢 Multiplatform Strings
This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps.
https://chrisbanes.me/posts/multiplatform-strings/
🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance?
I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin.
But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😅
#Kotlin #A…
Haze 1.3.0 has been released!
🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects
🖌️ Brush support in tints
🧑💻 New samples
📑 New docs courtesy of @mark
https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.3.0
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💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released
The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas.
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0
▶
💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!
This is a big release:
🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android
🎨 Foreground (content) blurring
📐 Blurred edge treatment
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0
▶
💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released!
🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default
🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions
The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please gi…
▶
Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices.
It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank.
I'm undecided whether to keep …
Haze 1.5.0 has been released:
💨 Optimised blur shader implementation (thanks to Kyant)
🖌️ New: HazeProgressive.Brush for custom progressive effects
🐛 Usual load of bugfixes
https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.5.0
🪢 Multiplatform Strings
This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps.
https://chrisbanes.me/posts/multiplatform-strings/
🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance?
I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin.
But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😅
#Kotlin #A…
Haze 1.3.0 has been released!
🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects
🖌️ Brush support in tints
🧑💻 New samples
📑 New docs courtesy of @mark
https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.3.0
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💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released
The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas.
🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0
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On Mastodon since
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Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 12 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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