Hi, I'm Peter 👋🏼

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 🔥.

My recent posts on peterfriese.dev

• 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
• Creating a reusable action menu component in SwiftUI

My recent videos

• Implementing Auto-Tagging with Gemini & Firebase | Sofia S4E3
• I planned a feature, but my app crashed (Live debugging with Antigravity)
• AI-powered Swift dev: building a tagging system with Gemini & Firebase
• The Final Commit of 2025: Adding "Sign in with Apple" to the browser extensions - with Antigravity!
• Create Cinematic Code Animations in Keynote

My recent Firebase videos

• 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! ☁️

Find me around the web 🌎

• Answering your SwiftUI & Firebase questions on StackOverflow 📚
• Writing about stuff I built on my blog, peterfriese.dev ✒️
• Talking all things Firebase 🔥 and Swift 🍏 on YouTube: @peterfriese
• Chatting away on Twitter: @peterfriese 🐦
• Enjoying the breath of fresh air on BlueSky: @peterfriese.dev 🦋
• I'm also on Mastodon: @peterfriese@iosdev.space 🐘
• ... and Threads, as well: @peterfriese 🧵