Welcome, @nitro.build to the Firebase App Hosting community! I'm overjoyed to see our first community-driven platform support!

Last week, @firebase.com Genkit Node went 1.0/GA! Despite "Firebase", in the name we did a lot of work to ensure no risk Google lock-in (models or infra). With Genkit you iterate quickly w/ high level abstractions. A property change lets you change models for flows or tools.

Do any of my real life friends want a free inexpensive injket printer? I need to print a few ink pages for my out of town wedding, but I have another. I also have a dual vesa mount that I'm no longer using.

I hate iOS’ choice of granting full access to photos & going in settings and grant access to a single photo before opening the dialog to select the picture. Why not an OS secure dialog from the get-go where an app only ever has access to a single photo (e.g. a la expiring token URIs) once I pick it?

Hey #NodeJS devs. Does anyone have a definitive explanation for which order import vs request should be in package.json.exports?

So… yeah…. Zuck bent the knee. How’s the water here nowadays?

I can’t quite explain why I get so many follows but not much engagement. Am I on a starter pack? If so, which? Startups? Parse? Firebase? Google serverless? GCP? I don’t mind catering to wherever my network prefers; I shitpost on threads enough for my personal needs anyway

Sometimes you have to stop to appreciate how good your life is. This is from a recent text: “[Wifey] is furious I watched an X-Men show without her and I’m about to find out if I’m so lucky I managed to marry into a family where punishment is rewatching X-Men ‘97.”

Somehow my phone decided that the correct wifi network to connect to in my house is the wifi network emitted by an unknown power strip. Now I have two questions.

The end of the year blog post for #Firebase App Hosting is here. It takes a look back at what we’ve done, announces a few new features, and gives a preview of the immediate next releases 🔗👇

Sf life How it started: I have a planned order of picking up prescriptions, groceries, and breakfast to keep the cold stuff cold and the warm stuff warm How it’s going: I guess we’ll do this in whichever order I find parking

I like to take people along my (volatile) emotional journey while coding:

I discovered my WiFi is getting errors establishing modern TLS connections and I’m being forced to downgrade. Does anyone else have #Xfinity and use their XB7-T router, especially in the Bay Area? I have a test site to see if it’s an XFinity bug or if my network in particular is FUBARd.

My wife got me a 43” 4K HDR USB-C monitor for Christmas. It’s so big that I can now see grain in my 4K RAW photos. And just in time Adobe Lightroom has AI tools to remove it! (At the cost of 10s/photo). For scale, that’s a 16” MBP next to it.

My new printer comes with a CD? And it’s only for Windows? Back until Vista? ok boomer

I really wish Google summaries were smart enough not to include text that’s only visible when you click a link that says “show spoilers”. I tried to catch a minor detail I missed in an audiobook with a Google search and it included a major twist saved for the epilogue.

I often wonder what I’d do if I retired. I think my first year would be spent playing #adventOfCode, one year per month.

I actually made #NodeJS deadlock today when tinkering with my SSE networking implementation. I deadlocked a single threaded language. I feel like I deserve a medal or something.

IOS 18 suggested a wallpaper of my dog and I said “sure.” Turns out it was a live picture and lock screens play live pictures now. Every time I unlock my screen I see my dog sitting sideways, looking at me, and wagging his tail. Best OS ever!

Hey #nodejs community. I see a lot of use cases where async generators would have made sense but aren’t used. Why are they not more popular?

Did you know #Firebase App Hosting now supports creating rollouts from the CLI ⌨️ It's as easy as `firebase apphosting:rollouts:create`. It supports both deployments by branch and commit.

Why does uber not have a “had windows down in winter weather” option for vehicle feedback?

@wyattjoh.ca Great talk, very informative and very compelling technology. A couple of questions 🧵: 1. I didn't quite get the "use cache" directive. Is this something that happens at runtime for what would otherwise be an SSR fallback or is this for the SSG phase? Is it the CDN or ISR cache?

I keep saying that the stress of scuba and work often compliments each other, letting me heal, rather than building upon each other. For example, being furious at students ignoring me and putting themselves at risk has been a delightful break from constant dread.

My optometrist is booked until February 12, so I guess I need a new referral. Anybody have recommendations? Esp ones easy to get to from Noe Valley (can drive, but need parking)

Seeing a bit of my social network creeping on here. Is it worth giving bsky another chance? Are you fleeing Twitter or threads?

It always weirds me out when tech doesn’t work in the Bay Area. Like Uber dropping me off on the wrong corner for an apt building Uber uses for corporate housing. Or Tesla randomly decreasing speed on the 101 or driving in the wrong lane in Santa Clara.

Well that didn’t take long. Five days after Hashicorp decided to change the license on Trraform, the OpenTF consortium sprung up, pledging to fork the code at the point of the old license and keep an open standard.

What I thought I’d use my home whiteboard for: architecture brainstorming What I use my home whiteboard for: a kanban with sticky notes categorized as overdue, in progress, blocked, delegated, today, tomorrow, next 7 days, next few weeks, and completed

A hard part of career growth (esp in mgmt) is the increased time between an action and a result. As a Junior eng, I ran a test and got validation. As a TL/M, I prototyped and pitched Python functions a year before AI took off and it had clear value. Data driven decisions are 🔑

You can't make this shit up. Meta (Facebook) already owns a trademark for media-sharing software called "X". https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

Am I the only one who dreads macOS updates nowadays? The additions don’t improve my life and the updates seem buggy. One update made my laptop crash while not in use and plugged into my dock 3-5x/w. 11.4.1 seems to have fixed the problem by disabling multi-monitor support on it.

Long resumes aren't a big brag. I have 16YoE and keep it to one page. I'm reviewing candidates with 2YoE and four pages. I just assume that no line item was a very deep investment if 2 years takes up so much space.

Know anyone affected by the Netlify layoffs? Send them my way! I’m hiring an L4 SWE to help build the post-experimental version of Web Frameworks for Firebase Hosting. You’ll own our CLI experience and mapping the rich feature set of modern web framework to our unified architecture.

Side project: Kubernetes but for Twitter. Create thousands of unverified accounts and rotate through them throughout the day.

Sorry to direct people to the bird app, but I could use your help voting on how we manage secret values at Firebase! https://twitter.com/inlined/status/1671301609735979009

If you want to start a fight between junior and senior eng, just suggest fixing a demo/test by adding sleep()

Twitter is displaying hate speech by known neo-nazi hate groups with blue checkmarks alongside paid ads by Apple, Disney, Adobe, and other major advertisers. Brand safety on Twitter is non-existent.

It makes me mildly uncomfortable to find a race condition in a library for massive event parallelism, even if it is in sample code. https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/blob/5f8c606accbcc6913853fe7e083ee461d181d88d/cmd/fsnotify/dedup.go#L91

Anybody in my network have tips on visiting Dubai? I'll be there for about 36hrs at the end of the month, but I haven't had time to do research and haven't even booked my hotel yet 😬

Nothing says "I might have fun paying bills this month" like a receipt for transferring $NaN.

In case you missed it, there is a Reddit strike happening today and tomorrow to protest policy changes that will, among other things, make it impossible for blind users to use the site. To not cross the digital picket line, don't click on any Reddit links you see. https://reddark.untone.uk/

Managing@Google seems to be a good precursor for being a minder at a daycare. I'm now being advised to make attendance a subject of regular 1:1s so I can "support" Googlers who are having "difficulty" coming to work (irrespective of situations like being assigned to a different office than the team)

Though moving is a pita, I have a feeling I’m going to like my morning coffee from the balcony

Really not loving working at Google right now. Forcing a return to office even for people who don’t work near their team, while denying travel to see said team, and after closing amenities due to lack of attendance is ridiculous.

The Uber rating system takes accountability away from discrimination. My gf and I ride together on almost all rides. I call when we have our service animal and she calls when we’re alone. I can’t get rides anymore (despite 4.89⭐️); she readily can.

They let me dive into user reported issues and code for a week. By Friday I'm chugging Red Bull and head banging to Fall Out Boy classics. It's like riding a bike.

When non-handy people get cheap. Looks like the last tenants decided to patch the wall everywhere to keep their deposit. They patched *over* screw anchors 😩

Neat. The debt limit will be reached on my birthday. I know what I want: avoidance of a cataclysmic collapse of the US economy 😎