I'm a Staff Developer Advocate (which is just a fancy word for "Software Engineer who loves to tinker around with technology and teach other people") on the Firebase team ๐ฅ.
My recent posts on peterfriese.dev
- Agentic Coding in Xcode with Gemini CLI
- Turn Your Photos Into Miniature Magic with Nano Banana
- Reverse-Engineering Xcode's Coding Intelligence prompt
- Extracting structured data from PDFs using Gemini 2.0 and Genkit
- Understanding SwiftUI Preferences
- What is Pickle Rick?!?
- I let an AI agent build a Swift SDK (Pickle Rick & Gemini CLI)
- Gemini CLI: How to activate Agent Skills (NEW: Slash command-style)
- Smart Tags Evolved: Renaming, Grounding, Better UX | Sofia S4E6
- Multi-agent coding with Antigravity | Sofia S4E5
- Firebase After Hours #20: Make It So
- November 2025: Gemini 3, Crashlytics MCP, Data Connect Admin SDKs
- Implementing chat with Firebase AI Logic on iOS
- Firebase After Hours #13: From Zero to Hosted: Pushing the Limits of Firebase App Hosting
- Firebase After Hours #12: Streaming in Cloud Functions for Firebase! โ๏ธ
- Answering your SwiftUI & Firebase questions on
StackOverflow๐ - Writing about stuff I built on my blog,
peterfriese.devโ๏ธ - Talking all things Firebase ๐ฅ and Swift ๐ on YouTube:
@peterfriese - Chatting away on Twitter:
@peterfriese๐ฆ - Enjoying the breath of fresh air on BlueSky:
@peterfriese.dev๐ฆ - I'm also on Mastodon:
@peterfriese@iosdev.space๐ - ... and Threads, as well:
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