🔥+💥+🕸️ = 🚀 The Firebase team is considering adding support for web apps to Crashlytics, and is looking for what features to prioritize. I have no idea why they're gathering feedback on gitHub, but... go forth and comment/vote please!

Just wanted to introduce jpm here on Bluesky github.com/codejive/java-jpm It's a dependency manager for #java and other #jvm based languages somewhat inspired by npm.

I did a fireside chat with @StartupWeekend a few weeks ago, and had a blast sharing DevRel "war" stories about over-subscribed events, always being camera safe, and earning developer trust by nurturing empathy. No slides, just talk. Full video:

🌁🐋 Meet Street Whale - a 49-ft public artwork by Reuben Rude on the JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park. Tail + hump rise above ground, the rest painted across the street. Part of the Golden Mile Project in San Francisco. More on: puf.io/socials/2025-...

🎙️ Are multiple attendees joining your Google Meet call from the same room? They can now all stay unmuted, and Meet auto-selects the best microphone for each speaker. It's cool to note quality difference when it switches microphones, but also easy to get used to. 👇🧵 1/2

Just finished Crazy Is My Superpower by A.J. Mendez Brooks (aka AJ Lee) 🤼‍♀️📕 A sharp, heartfelt memoir about wrestling, mental health﹠smashing stereotypes - told with wit﹠grit. Recommend for fans of resilience, wrestling, or both 💪🧠 ★★★★☆ puf.io/books/crazy-i...

Alternative view of Hardly Strictly in Dan Francisco🚲🪕🌉

I'm generating Friday "art" with Nano Banana again, and it's a case of: > Make it *a lot* more abstract. Like, turn the pointillism up to 11! It didn't do a great job though, so not sharing that. But here's a scene of my home office setup (h/t to @peterfriese and @NoheDev) 1/4

🪐 The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks - a far-future sci-fi tale set outside the Culture universe. Brutal empires, banned AI, ancient aliens… and some slow world-building. ★★★☆☆ 📖 Read the full review: puf.io/books/the-alg...

I wrote most of the code in my career with this quote in the back of my mind: “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” ― John Woods Runner up and links below 👇🧵 1/2

📖 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman 🧑‍🔬 A book of entertaining stories by Richard Feynman, but a bit too many single-page anecdotes for my taste. I mostly enjoyed the deeper chapters, like Feynman’s Manhattan Project experience. ★★★☆☆ puf.io/books/surely-...

🕹️ Somebody is having write scalability issues in their Firestore game 📈 Since I was stuck at JFK for a few hours, I wrote a list of things they/you may not know/realize. 🛫✍️ Links are in the next post in this thread ⬇️🧵

It needs to stay "wrapped" for another 2 months, but I'm already looking forward to going through this year's Exit The Game Advent Calendar.

📖 The Forest of Lost Souls - Dean Koontz Fast-paced underdog-versus-bully story where a woman uncovers the conspiracy behind her fiancé’s death. Engaging﹠straightforward plot, but the supernatural elements felt out of place. Enjoyable read. ★★★☆☆ puf.io/books/the-for...

There's gonna be a trending search "How to watch Only Murders in the Building without a Hulu or Disney subscription" in a few weeks, right? RIGHT?!?!? 🕵️‍♂️🎙️🌆

IYKYK #SanFrancisco

🦆 Found another duck on the wall On Divisadero, just south of Oak in SF, there's a wall full of rubber duckies and a sign: > All in all, you're just another duck on the wall Silly? Yes. Fun? Definitely! Go see it: 📍 maps.app.goo.gl/jkbK... 📸 More: puf.io/socials/2025-...

Yes yes... there's definitely fun to be had with Gemini Nano Banana.

📚✝️🔥 Just finished The Burning God, final book in R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War. If you’re into dark, high-stakes fantasy with gods, war, and power struggles - this trilogy delivers. 🎧 Audiobook narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, published by HarperAudio. More 👇 in 🧵 1/3

When Gemini in Firebase Studio asks: > $ flutter pub add flame flame_forge2d 🤔😰🫣

Mission District flashback: The old Lucca Ravioli spot on 22nd/Valencia is now The Corner Store with pop-ups curated by Square. The York Street Collective is there through Dec and has art, coffee & non-alcoholic cocktails. Don’t miss it! More on: puf.io/socials/2025-...

Do you dabble in DevRel and are in San Francisco tonight? You're in luck! Join the Techstars Startup Weekend SF meetup tonight where I'll answer curated questions. And of course you can also ask your own live question(s). 🌁🎤🎉 luma.com/uscifr6j

Just finished Crazy Is My Superpower by A.J. Mendez Brooks (aka AJ Lee) 🤼‍♀️📕 A sharp, heartfelt memoir about wrestling, mental health﹠smashing stereotypes - told with wit﹠grit. Recommend for fans of resilience, wrestling, or both 💪🧠 ★★★★☆ puf.io/books/crazy-i...

🌁 ❤️🗿 We caught another heart statue in the Hearts in San Francisco series! This time it's the ColorFall of Hope by Deirdre Weinberg, at the Bank of America in Castro. Go check it out, and (or?) find the rest of my personal list on puf.io/socials/2025-...

🗽 Public Art Spotlight: Glass Goddesses at Trinity Place ✨ 7 stacked-glass sculptures carved with classical figures 💡 Gorgeous by day, glowing by night 📍 1177 Market Street, San Francisco puf.io/socials/2025-...

Are you feeling OK, Stack Overflow?

Encountered Bart Air on our ride home today: "flight attendants in training" making announcements, doing "safety demonstrations", handing out wipes, drinks, and a peanut or a pretzel. Yes. A single one. Hilarious troupe on SF Bart!

🪐 I just posted my review of The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks - a far-future sci-fi tale set outside the Culture universe. Brutal empires, banned AI, ancient aliens… and some slow world-building. ★★★☆☆ 📖 Read the full review: puf.io/books/the-alg...

Firestore scales wonderfully for reads, but not so much for aggregations/counts. Have a huge collection and want to know roughly how many docs are in it? ⒈ If document IDs are uniformly distributed ⒉ Read 100-200 document IDs ⒊ Do some math 🧮🪄 puf.io/posts/firesto...

At FlutterConf LatAm last week there were lots of Dash representations: plushies, 3d printed, stickers, etc. I thought I'd seen them all before, but a Dash wooble was new to me. Thank you crochet'ing friends in the Flutter community! 💙🧶🪡

In its summary screen, LinkedIn says I have 500+ connections. When I open the details, it shows I have 2609 connections. Sure sure, 2609 > 500 - so it's technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct. 😂

Early on in my tenure at Firebase, James Tamplin taught me *how* to think about part of my work, and I noticed how much more powerful that was than telling me *what* to think. So: Teach people *how* to think, Not *what* to think. More on this: puf.io/posts/was-it-...

New to Firestore and can't explain the document read count from your code? 😬 This usually happens when you keep the Firestore console open during development, as the console also causes charged reads. Close the console to measure just your code. 👇🧵 1/2

Next week (Sep 23) I'll be answering any and all questions at Techstars Startup Weekend SF about all things DevRel. Pre-submit your questions below, hear what others asked, or come heckle me live! luma.com/uscifr6j

I usually ask ChatGPT to check my (longer) posts for factual and textual errors. When it catches things, I then manually fix them in the source. This was one of its recent suggestions though. Sneaky ChatGPT, suggesting a change that everyone nowadays perceives as "written by AI"

🌁🐋 Meet Street Whale - a 49-ft public artwork by Reuben Rude on the JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park. Tail + hump rise above ground, the rest painted across the street. Part of the Golden Mile Project in San Francisco. More on: puf.io/socials/2025-...

I wrote about the Hearts in San Francisco public art project before, which places large heart-shaped statues all over San Francisco. Today we saw two more of them on Union Square: * Double Delight–Michael Osborne * There is no try–Lawrence Noble More on puf.io/socials/2025-...

Just finished Inferno (Awaken Online, Tarot #3) by Travis Bagwell - the final book in Finn’s story arc. Loved the build-up and emotional depth, but hoped for a more resonant conclusion. ★★★★☆ Full review: puf.io/books/inferno...

🏙️ Book Review: Walkable City by Jeff Speck “How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.” Loved this deep dive into what makes a city thrive through walkability, bikeability, and smart planning. Lots of data﹠anecdotes make it a compelling yet easy read. More 👇🧵 1/2

I usually speak about Firebase and Flutter, but at FluterConf LatAm this week I presented my approach to personal growth. On September 23 at Techstars Startup Weekend SF I'll answer any questions you may have about Developer Relations. Register today on luma.com/uscifr6j

Find your most expensive and slowest Firestore queries with the (relatively) new query insights panel in the Google Cloud console. I've already been using this on my projects, leading to both a better experience for my users and a lower bill for me! 🙌 cloud.google.com/fir...

😅 I finished Rhythm of War (Book 4 of the Stormlight Archive) I still love Sanderson’s epic world building, but this one dragged for me. Great character work, but after 4,000+ pages I’m craving more plot momentum. The final 'sanderlanche' delivers though! ★★★★☆ Link👇 1/2

🇪🇨💙 Day 2 of FlutterConf LatAm was as awesome as day 1, I just had a bit more time to chat with folks because I had no speaking duties. 😂 We ended the day with an afterparty on a chiva (a booz bus) through Quito. Thank you LatAm community for having me! 🙏

✋ Implementing a server-side write rate limit in Firestore 🔐 Contrary to popular belief you can limit the number of writes a user can do with Firebase's (server-side) security rules. Check the link for a longer explanation and many more examples. stackoverflow.com/qu...

🥩 San Francisco's Tenderloin Museum celebrates the neighborhood’s gritty history, from concert halls and SRO hotels to Herb Caen’s famous line: > Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all Small in size﹠price, but packed with stories. puf.io/socials/2025-...

📚✝️🔥 Just finished The Burning God, final book in R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War. If you’re into dark, high-stakes fantasy with gods, war, and power struggles - this trilogy delivers. 🎧 Audiobook narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, published by HarperAudio. More 👇 in 🧵 1/3

💙 Day 1 of FlutterConf LatAm has been wonderful so far 🇪🇨 A beautiful city (Quito) and venue (UDLA), lots of excited attendees, and great sponsors and speakers. If you're around, come take a selfie with me! flutterconflatam.dev/

I woke up with a bad headache this morning in Quito. Most likely culprits: 1. Lack of caffeine 2. Not enough water 3. The altitude of the city Two of those are in my control - and some 💧 and ☕️ later I feel much better now. Luckily because it'd be quite a dig otherwise. 🪏

If you’ve ever walked around San Francisco, you’ve probably seen these big heart statues - like Butterflight on Union Square. ❤️🗿🌁 There are 100+ of them all over the city. Read on for a few I saw on recent city walks. 🧵👇 1/2

The Shepherd’s Crown closes Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series (and his own 5 star career) with a heartfelt farewell. A touching, if less polished, finale where Tiffany steps into Granny Weatherwax’s shoes﹠even Mrs. Earwig gets a moment. ★★★★☆ puf.io/books/the-she...