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Developer Relations Engineer, Android Camera, Media, and OS Experiences

Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and par...

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"More of thy conversation would infect my brain, thou snow-broth-cooled shave-beggar!" - Punish thyself with the Shakespearean Insult Machine! sanbeiji.com/insults/?ins...

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The Simpsons: Jay Sherman's Awkward Moment

Alt: The Simpsons: Jay Sherman's Awkward Moment

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I created an app titled 🪷 Lotus Pond Reader to help me to practice reading and understand Taiwanese Mandarin. It uses Gemini to generate stories with pronunciation and translation, and realistic text-to-speech. Grab the Android APK, web version, or source here: 👉 github.com/sanbeiji/lotus-pond

The Haiku of of Ancient Source Code: Don't touch that function Nobody knows why it's there It holds up the sky

There is this well-known curse where if you take the cushions out of storage and put them on the outdoor furniture, it will rain. Here in California today, Monday, June 8th 2026, is no exception.

On arrival in London, I made some substantial updates to my ridiculous Shakespearean Insult Machine: github.com/sanbeiji/lot... A few days later in the Westminster Abbey gift shop, I found this sheet of magnetic Shakespeare insult magnets. If this isn't divine providence, I don't know what is.

Ready to see and hear the opera Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns at the Royal Opera in London.

This was a nice roundup by Philipp Lackner of all the new Android developer announcements from last week. AI APIs, Compose-first, adaptive, etc. #androiddev youtu.be/yY428I0iw_A?...

These Android News Are INSANE - Google IO 2026 Special

YouTube video by Philipp Lackner

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Happy Google I/O week.

Just realized my first GitHub repo was created on 2009-01-31: A LilyPond project to arrange an easy violin and double bass duet of "Turkey in the Straw", which I arranged so my kid and I could play it!! github.com/sanbeiji/tur...

GitHub - sanbeiji/turkey-in-the-straw: A bit of a hoedown, for fiddle and bass

A bit of a hoedown, for fiddle and bass. Contribute to sanbeiji/turkey-in-the-straw development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. 🤣 youtu.be/JDy6UrHittQ?...

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O’Leary Accused Us Of Being Chinese Operatives On Fox News

YouTube video by Elevate Utah

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"Thou lute-stringing, earth-vexing ninnycock!" - Punish thyself with the Shakespearean Insult Machine! sanbeiji.com/insults

Spent last Saturday playing chamber music with friends: Excellent arrangement of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 for string quintet and piano soloist.

Donald Trump: he‘s just like us (losing his mind at the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions and posting his way through the emotional turmoil)

Congratulations to Hungary for having achieved the removal of Viktor Orban— excellent news. Best of luck to Péter Magyar.

It is stunning that we just sent four astronauts around the moon and back with an amazingly successful mission, and all you’ve heard out of the White House is BS about bombing Iran and now the Epstein Files. youtu.be/Ua0d7xnPUzo?...

Artemis II reentry, splashdown & recovery

YouTube video by CNN

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Big poofy clouds.

Gemini CLI v0.37.0 is here! 🚀 • 🌐 Experimental Browser Agent • 🛡️ Enhanced Sandbox Security • 🎨 New Tokyo Night Theme • ☁️ Google Cloud (gcloud) Extension Details: github.com/google-gemin... 🧵

View from my office window of LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1 flight tests. Looks neat against the hills. 🎈

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

FlexBox  |  Jetpack Compose  |  Android Developers

This document provides an introduction to FlexBox in Jetpack Compose, a flexible layout container inspired by CSS.

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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-...

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...

Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations - Bike East Bay

Tell the state legislature that increased regulation on legal e-bikes is counter-productive to traffic safety, sustainability, and equity goals.

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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 🚲

Steve Jobs explains why computers are a bicycle for the mind: “We humans are tool builders”

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"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?...

Truth

YouTube video by Hank Green

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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

Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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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 😄