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One of These Phones Wants to Burn Down my House - T-Mobile G1 & HTC Magic in 2025

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 11d

I reviewed the T-Mobile G1 and HTC Magic in 2025. It was a trip... and a fire risk. 😅

Watch the full video now!

👉 youtu.be/ke1knrGTl74

PeerTube: devwithzachary.com/w/9WhhhXHpf8...

#TmobileG1 #HTCMagic #RetroGaming #Android #TechNostalgia #SpicyPillow

Keynote - Android Exploits & Insights - Lauren Darcey | droidcon Berlin 2025

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 21d

droidcon Berlin was incredible this year, my first as Head of Developer Community at droidcon

Loved catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and feeling the support from the Android & Flutter communities 💚💙 (yes, even a Zach for Present campaign).

#AndroidDev #FlutterDev #droidconBerlin

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 22d

🚀 The cat’s out of the bag!

Next year we launch Next App DevCon – THE conference for mobile developers.

📱 Tracks for Android, Swift, Flutter, React Native, XR & Gaming – all in one massive event!

👉 www.nextappcon.com

#NextAppDevCon #AndroidDev #iOSDev #FlutterDev #ReactNative #GameDev #XR

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 22d

Day 2 keynote from droidcon Berlin 2025 is live on YouTube today! 🚀

🎥 Android Exploits & Insights – Lauren Darcey
👉 youtu.be/61z1ZejrZO4

Big thanks to the AV team — we’re publishing talks daily this year 🙌

#droidcon #AndroidDev

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

Keynote - The Future of Android...And How to Prepare For It | droidcon Berlin 2025

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 22d

The pleasure was all mine!

Marco Gomiero @marcogomiero.com · 23d

It was really a pleasure chatting with @devwithzachary.bsky.social at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin!

Now, it's almost time for my talk! See you soon for some Compose/Kotlin Native & JNI magic! 🪄

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 23d

I wasn’t lying, bedsheets work well!
@droidcon.bsky.social #dcbln25 #droidcon #androiddev

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 23d

Interviews have a big upgrade at #droidconberlin make sure to be subscribed to the YouTube channel to see these in the coming weeks! #dcbln25 @droidcon.bsky.social

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 23d

Huge milestone! Day 1 keynotes from droidcon Berlin 2025 & Fluttercon EU 2025 are live on YouTube — same day as they happened!

▶️ Android keynote: youtu.be/CmTSnxCTyIk ▶️ Flutter keynote: youtu.be/lgG3O_sScqU

#droidcon #Fluttercon #AndroidDev #Flutter

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

I mean I’m not saying it would butttttt

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

You have time to find a store 🤣🤣

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

There is certainly white ink, not sure if there is others too

Turning an 800MHz G4 iMac into a Linux Terminal | Adélie Linux, Debian, FreeBSD & OSX Attempts

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

Don’t forget this year we are doing something special, bring your own T-shirts, bags, hoodies, bedsheets to get them screen printed!!

@droidcon.bsky.social #dcbln25

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

Can a 25-year-old iMac G4 still be useful? 💻 I turned an 800MHz G4 into a Linux terminal for my home servers, after testing Debian, FreeBSD, OSX Tiger & Adélie Linux (twice!).

Full video:
▶️ youtu.be/mTXscNYyIoI
▶️ PeerTube: devwithzachary.com/w/aFT9UfsNGy...

#RetroComputing #LinuxOnPowerPC #iMacG4

FlyWithZachary takes you on a journey around the world, one flight at a time! ✈️ From in-depth airline cabin reviews and hotel stays to immersive travel vlogs and aviation content, this channel is you...

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · 25d

Berlin I am in you! See you all soon for another amazing #dcbln25

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 16

🚗✈️ I’ve launched a 2nd YouTube channel all about travel, reviews & vlogs → www.youtube.com/@FlyWithZach...

Big UK→Berlin road trip coming soon for #droidconBerlin!

Currently on 99 subs – every sub helps 🙌

#Travel #TravelVlog #RoadTrip #YouTubeTravel #HotelReview #Aviation #FlyWithZachary

FlyWithZachary

www.youtube.com

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 16

🤖 Automation at Enterprise Scale!
At #FlutterconEU (Sept 24–26), Anna Leushchenko shows how automation can streamline dev, PRs, releases & maintenance for large Flutter projects. 🚀

🎟 fluttercon.dev 
▶️ www.youtube.com/shorts/Ebj3d...

#Flutter #Automation #DevWorkflow #fluttercon2025

Fluttercon EU | Flutter Developer Conference | Berlin, Germany

fluttercon is the premier flutter developer event. Become a better developer, learn from the community, expand your network at fluttercon europe 2025.

fluttercon.dev

Can a NAS replace my home server?! - UGREEN NAS DXP4800 Plus Review

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 15

Can a NAS replace a home server? 🤔
Tested the UGREEN NAS DXP4800 Plus with Plex, Pi-hole, Resilio, Minecraft & more.

Watch here:
▶️ YT: youtu.be/lWAIF2OG06o
▶️ PeerTube: devwithzachary.com/w/qquwTDi5Qz...

#NAS #HomeServer #UGREEN #Plex #Homelab

🔮 The Future of Android | Alejandra Stamato at droidcon Berlin 2025

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 12

Stepping away from coding as my main job has been freeing. 4 months focused on community and growth have been some of my best. I still code for fun. It is messy, framework free, and full of edge cases, and I love it. Anyone else?

#DevRel #Community #CareerGrowth

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 12

To be fair a “I’m not a Tory” badge would solve the issue and it would still be a great pic 🤣

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 12

If you can signup online for a service, you should be able to cancel online as well! Nothing worse than having to call or live chat to cancel

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 11

🔮 The Future of Android and How to Prepare for It!

At #droidconBerlin (Sept 24–26) Alejandra Stamato joins a keynote panel of Android experts to share predictions, advice & hot takes on where Android dev is heading.

www.youtube.com/shorts/ah78C...

#AndroidFuture #AndroidDev #Keynote #droidcon2025

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

www.youtube.com

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Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 10

What’s next for Flutter Desktop? And why is Golden Testing so important?

At #FlutterconUSA we interviewed Matt Carroll on his journey from Google to independent Flutter advocate + the future of Flutter 🚀

📺 Watch now: https://youtu.be/u0T_779...

#Flutter #FlutterDesktop #GoldenTesting #droidcon

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 10

Being a developer is spending an hour writing a bash script to sort some files, when it would have taken 20 minutes to manually sort them

Zachary Powell 🥑 @devwithzachary.bsky.social · Sep 10

Happy days!