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Cutting some Slack, for leaks and giggles

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, ...

May 7, 20245 min readblog.p-y.wtfUpdated Jun 6, 2024Read the article

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Pierre-Yves Ricau

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My pronouns are he / him. Android Engineer at Square / Block. 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

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Blanca Gomez

Jun 5, 2025

Hey! I went to your talk at the Droidocon SF and I really want to implement this at my company. What is the best way to contact you? I've seen you don't use LinkedIn so I'm giving this a try

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