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OK friends.

Is Gemini/Google AI Search trying to be funny here, or something else?

> Yes, there is no


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Taking my first steps with Gemini Spark, which presents itself as a stateful agent.

The naming suggest that this is a fully stateful computer, which it isn't.

It's more like a stateful browser, similar to what Tasklet.ai offers.

I wish the naming reflected that 🤨

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📚⛈️ I discovered Brandon Sanderson relatively recently and still have plenty of his prolific output to explore. I limit myself to one of his books per year though, as The Stormlight Archive books are very, very long﹠tend to disrupt my reading schedule. 😅

More ⬇️ in 🧵
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📍🗺️ Geoqueries on Firestore used to mean geohashes and 5.4x read overhead. 💸

With multi-field inequalities, you can now drop that overhead to ~1.3x. But there's a catch: you now pay for index scans. Those *are* much cheaper, but... details 👇

puf.io/posts/how-to-...
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📚 Much to my surprise, I didn’t enjoy A Blink of the Screen as much as most of Terry Pratchett’s other works. The longer the story, the more I enjoyed it, with The Sea and Little Fishes the clear standout. 🧙

Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 of 5)

Full review: puf.io/books/a-blink...

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“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

- Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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Is it judging me?

🛒🥾👞👞📦

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A beautiful Google doodle today to celebrate the world cup final.

🇦🇷 ⚽️ 🇪🇸

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Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve in San Francisco has a dense forest area, with eucalyptus trees (up to 200 feet tall), and lots of underbrush (lots of ferns, blackberries, and ivy) rolling over the hills.

It's a great area for intermediate-level hiking on a hot day.

More 👇
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❤️🌁 The Hearts in San Francisco statue series never disappoints.

Here's Open Heart, which has been at the end of Pier 39 since 2014.

So if you're visiting Fisherman's Wharf, grab a shot of this one after you've seen/smelled the sea lions. 🦭

puf.io/tags/hearts-i...

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For those who fear knowledge work is going away: the biggest constants I've brought to all my tech jobs are:

* Unbridled curiosity
* Belief in/insistence on forward motion
* Healthy disregard for the impossible

Nothing has changed there.
Skills change, values are more stable.

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OK, an empty battery is prolly not the unboxing experience anyone hopes for.

But look at that cute \"charge me please\" screen!

(for those curious: PicPak uses an e-ink screen, so *showing* the image consumes zero power)

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✍️ I liked the novel The Correspondent most for its form: letters and emails that slowly pull together Sybil’s upbringing, family life, and professional life. The audiobook’s almost-full-cast narration really helps the format work. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Full review: puf.io/books/the-cor...

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Firebase Remote Config will transition to usage-based pricing on Sep 1, 2026

The free plan will have a limit of 100,000 fetch requests per day.
On the paid plan, the first 100,000 fetch requests will be free - then $0.06 / 10K requests.

Tead all on:

Pricing for Remote Config  |  Firebase Remote Config

A guide to...

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📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl mixes universe-building, nail-biting fight scenes, and social commentary on both our world and its universe.

A fun page turner. It didn’t fully live up to the hype for me, but I’ll gladly continue the series.

⭐ 3/5

Full review: puf.io/books/dungeon...

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📚 A Blink of the Screen collects 32 short fiction works by Terry Pratchett, from The Hades Business to Sir Joshua Easement. Some connect to Discworld and other works, but the collection didn’t quite work for me.

Rating: ★★★ (3 out of 5)

Full review: puf.io/books/a-blink...

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I'm finally reading @munificentbob's Crafting Interpreters book.

I initially found his explanation of how `and` and `or` are implemented confusing, which is *very* unusual for his writing.

Then I read that last paragraph about the short-circuit nature of these operators and 💡

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Amazon added *Alexa for shopping* to its top menu and as a (luckily dismissible) left sidebar.

If anyone outside of Amazon asked for this, please raise your hand - and answer.... WHY?!?!?!?

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It seems stackoverflow.com was briefly down/not responding just now.

That matters a lot less nowadays than it used to matter a few years ago. 😂

Newest Questions

Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers

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Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve is often overlooked by visitors to San Francisco, but this centrally-located city park has some of the lushest greens with its giant eucalyptus trees and lavish underbrush on rolling hills.

For more on this beautiful hike: puf.io/socials/2026-...

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Yup yup, that's some brilliant UI work there in ChatGPT's submit button. /s

#ui-fail

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\"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time.
The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.\"

—  Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

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✍️ I just read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. It’s an epistolary novel told through letters and emails, and the format is very well done. It's somewhat simplistic story, but the audiobook narration really supports the format. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Full review: puf.io/books/the-cor...

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🗿 Public art alert!

Check out \"Fibers of Life\" by The Apex. This 2024 addition to the Hearts in San Francisco series is currently brightening up China Basin Park in Mission Bay.

It is perfectly situated right across from the ballpark. Go check it out!

puf.io/tags/hearts-i...

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I just read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, book 1 in the DCC LitRPG series.

Earth is being harvested by aliens, and surviving humans are put into an intergalactically televised dungeon crawl.

Fun, punch-packing page-turner. ★★★

Full review: puf.io/books/dungeon...

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@paul.kinlan.me

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> . val.town is an amazing service and has the concept of inbound email “vals”. Vals are small chunks of TypeScript/JS attached to an email address that when emailed will run.

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How the heck is this part not in the main feature list, while outbound email is?!?

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Email is the original queueing system, and it still scales very well.

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@paul.kinlan.me 👍👏🚀

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