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Technical writer, Android DevRel @ Google, helping devs learn about security, passkeys, and AI/ML APIs. Posts about double bass, classical music, mountain biking, celiac & gluten-free cuisine, travel, 學中文, 臺灣文化, 谷歌技術, etc. Pourquoi ça ne brûle pas?
Pathfinder 1 dirigible leaving Moffett Field as seen from the Google campus in Mountain View.
View from my office window of LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1 flight tests. Looks neat against the hills. 🎈
To demonstrate how the various new FlexBox properties affect layout behavior, I created a little visualizer experiment: sanbeiji.com/experiments/...
Try adding items, messing around with the property values, etc., to see how things change! Example code changes appear at the bottom.
FlexBox is an experimental Jetpack Compose container that lays out items in a single direction, dynamically resizing, wrapping, and aligning them to optimally fill the available space. We just launched new documentation for this feature last week:
developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...
#androidDev
AppFunctions developer guide with a high-level overview of what to expect: developer.android.com/ai/appfuncti...
Excited to announce that we've launched Android AppFunctions to enable you to expose functions and enable agentic flows with the device's assistant. android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/02/the-...
Mountain with snow on top
Pastoral view of the east side of Mt. Diablo from Antioch.
Today East Bay Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan introduced the "E-Bike Accountability Act", proposing mandatory registrations & license plates for all Class 2 & 3 e-bikes.
Learn more & join us in opposition to this counter-productive proposal by signing our petition at bikeeastbay.org/SayNoToEbike...
Abstract illustration of ML Kit GenAI Speech Recognition API
Just launched: ML Kit GenAI Speech Recognition API for Android. 🚀 Transcribe audio content to text on-device. developers.google.com/ml-kit/genai...
Thinking a lot about this clip from Steve Jobs, where he likened the computer as a "bicycle for the mind". I think of #AI like this; it is a tool to help me think faster, to get things done faster, to spark new ideas faster. AI is absolutely a continuation of Jobs' assertion. youtu.be/NjIhmzU0Y8Y 🚲
"What we are watching right now is a set of leaders behaving as if reality is optional, as if the goal is not to understand what happened but to establish dominance over the narrative as quickly and as forcefully as possible."
youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo?...
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson on how incredibly dangerous and destabilizing the US actions in Venezuela are for the entire world in the nuclear age. youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I
Black and white photo of two guitarists busking on the street
Street blues, Las Vegas Strip. These guys sounded fantastic.
Ok I promise no more #GodotEngine 'watch-dev' after this one.... For at least a day.
Playing with flow fields again 😄
Boston Public Library reading room
Libraries are alive y'all. Boston Public Library Reading Room.
Today I learned: For pinyin Mandarin input on Android, you have to type a "v" in place of ü to get the right candidates to show up, e.g. 旅遊 (Lǚyóu). How did I not ever know this??
Aurora borealis
I have wanted to see this phenomenon my entire life.
Lawrence O'Donnell argues Johnson loses because his bill won't pass and the Epstein files will resurface in the House. Sober and reasoned. youtu.be/Eqe0Suhoats?...
Device support should be updated with the latest here: developers.google.com/ml-kit/genai...
Last week we added the ability to send custom multimodal requests to Gemini Nano w/ the GenAI Prompt API, for more flexibility & control when building on-device AI. Check it out!
Press release: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/ml-k...
Developer guide: developers.google.com/ml-kit/genai...
4.3 ounce jar of Feral Pear Butter. The pear logo is cute, has eyes and a mouth with fangs LOL.
Feral Pear Butter from the Oak Rock Animal Preserve. They put out a bunch of products for sale by the Finley Road Trailhead. I ride my mountain bike past this spot all the time, and finally stopped to purchase something. The wild pear logo is too cute!
Protester at a No Kings March in NYC wearing a frog costume holding a sign that reads "Do I look like the enemy within?"
Mike Johnson and the rest of the obtuse GOP fat cats in Washington are completely out of touch with the American people. Their idea of patriotism is supine acquiescence to authoritarian rule, and they react like spoiled babies when challenged.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Frog costume protester
Proud of protesters in Times Square
Anti-Trump protest signs
Checking in from Times Square in New York City. #nokings
Need more power? The Imagen model gives you advanced image editing capabilities, including masking and stylistic customization. Check out the developer guide here: developer.android.com/ai/imagen
To use the awesome capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Flash "Nano Banana" for image generation and editing, check out the Gemini Developer API guide! developer.android.com/ai/gemini/de...
#AndroidDev #gemini #imagen #NanoBanana
A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
A skeleton wearing a feather boa at a bar in Manhattan with 3 bottles of liquor.
The bartender at the Bar Hugo Rooftop has been here a long time.
Full moon
Moon over a trail marker
Sunday's moon, Morgan Territory, California. 中秋節快樂 🌕🥮
Pretty wild to see @jay.bsky.team burn the good will for Bluesky in just a few days.
Maybe if they had actually hired a head of comms, instead of leaving that job role open for months, somebody would give her advice on how not to communicate with users.
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
It was great. Loved Runnicles' interpretation of the Mahler, the energy and sound of the orchestra was fantastic, and I loved the Berg songs.
