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Firebase Studio
Firebase Studio is an entirely web-based workspace for full-stack application development, complete with the latest generative AI from Gemini, and full-fidelity app previews, powered by cloud emulators.
Keybase
Keybase is for keeping everyone's chats and files safe, from families to communities to companies. MacOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, and Android.
A Graph-Based Firebase
This essay covers the design behind Instant. If the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise, would a database-looking solution solve them?
Your server environment and FCM | Firebase Cloud Messaging
Learn about the server environment for Firebase Cloud Messaging and the options for interacting with FCM servers.
A BlueSky thread by Jay Patel on Skyview
#SciComment I'm curious to know... ❓If you evaluate papers online using PubPeer, blogs, microblogging services, personal websites, etc... why do you like certain technologies over others? 🤔 What prevents you from using PubPeer or ResearcHub instead of other transient or hard-to-find platforms?
FCM Architectural Overview | Firebase Cloud Messaging
Understand the components and lifecycle of Firebase Cloud Messaging, from message creation to delivery.
Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
Dozens of facts about the SSH protocol and why we should use it for more things.
Keybase Book
Use Keybase for end-to-end encrypted chat messaging, file sharing, and team collaboration. Get the free app for iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.
Keybase Book
Use Keybase for end-to-end encrypted chat messaging, file sharing, and team collaboration. Get the free app for iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.
I built a self-hosted 2FA server so I don’t have to trust Google anymore
Why rely on big tech for your 2FA codes when you can be your own provider?
Google Has Your Data. Gemini Barely Uses It.
Google's Gemini has 650M users and sits on more personal data than any other AI. Yet its memory system is deliberately cautious. I explore how Gemini's memory works, what Google gets right, and what this restraint costs them.
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
Why ActivityPub is the future
We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.
#SciComment I'm curious to know... ❓If you evaluate papers online using PubPeer, blogs, microblogging services, personal websites, etc... why do you like certain technologies over others? 🤔 What prevents you from using PubPeer or ResearcHub instead of other transient or hard-to-find platforms?
App stores could be replaced by having apps published to a PDS, with safety provided using content moderation tooling, search indexed from the firehose, etc. thoufh. We strike aggregators everywhere that they stand.
Gordon
Software industry is probably going to look a lot like the music industry or games industry. Lots of talent, lots of supply, bottleneck shifts to distribution. Aggregators win again?
