Eric Seidel

@kr0der This is why we built @shorebirddev :)

making my first mobile app and it’s so weird, you’re telling me you can’t just push and see your changes live in 2 min? if there’s a bug it’s stuck there for 2 days? maybe mobile app devs are the best at testing their work since it literally takes days for a fix to deploy 🤣

So @claudeai appears to be blocking one of our SWEs from using it on compiler work. ☹️Doesn’t like it if you deal with compiler crashes I guess.

Release Insights now support hourly granularity 🎉 When you're pushing a patch to tens of thousands of devices, knowing *when* things are happening matters just as much as knowing *how many*. You can now see downloads and installs broken out by the hour, across every patch in a release. Try it out today at console.shorebird.dev

There are over 1.5 MILLION developers building with Flutter every month 🤯🎉 That’s over 50% growth from a little over a year ago. It's been incredible to continue to see the Flutter community grow!

Learn how Toyota is leveraging Flutter to revolutionize their infotainment system 🚘🩵 Chapters: 1:09 - Why Toyota chose Flutter 2:22 - Leveraging Flutter developer tools 3:31 - Looking Ahead: The 2027 Highlander BEV

Shorebird is growing! Senior AE/Head of Revenue & Senior PM/Head of Product roles: shorebird.dev/jobs

If you're using Flutter, and at Google I/O, I'd love to talk! I'll be there again all day tomorrow, and in the audience for both Flutter talks. Come say hi! 👋

the co-founder of Flutter is speaking at FFDC. Eric Seidel (@_eseidel) built Flutter at Google. now he's building ShoreBird. he's been inside the tool that FlutterFlow is built on longer than almost anyone alive. on may 27th he's on stage in San Francisco talking about what he's learned and where it's going. alongside him: Abel Mengistu (@asmengistu), CEO of FlutterFlow (YC W21), and Abdallah Shaban (@AbdallahSh07), product at @Google and former co-founder at Celest (YC W24). three @ycombinator founders talking about next steps with Flutter. FFDC. may 27–28. The Midway, San Francisco. in person and on livestream. ffdc.io

I genuinely think if you’re vibe coding, you should be building cross platform. Let one codebase do all of the work, deploy to iOS and Android while vibe coding one thing. That’s one of Flutter’s competitive advantages in 2026 and beyond.

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

💻👀 Tune into our #GoogleIO What's new in Flutter livestream on May 20th at 10am PT → goo.gle/3P47FQF We'll explore framework updates, from performance improvements to new features, and how these innovations are shaping the future of fast, multi-platform app dev.

Looking forward to seeing the Flutter and Shorebird community at Google I/O next week. 💙

So glad to hear it! Medium seems to be providing negative-value at this point.

The Sam Altman and @miramurati texts from the day he got fired from @OpenAI in 2023 just became evidence in the @elonmusk v. @sama trial. It felt like a meaningful moment in AI history, so I turned it into a musical. The lyrics are the texts.

Every company is realizing they’ve got once-in-a-generation air cover to fire their worst 30% of employees Many of these companies have been hoarding talent for a decade. They don’t need to anymore AND they have a free pass to unwind it You better believe they’re gonna do it

You have to review all LLM code! Codex 5.5 tried to push this awful hack to our Metal backend when it was coding font rendering. It decided to implement hacky "robust buffer access" style OOM check inside the shader and hacked our whole Metal binding architecture to add a special bind group slot 30 (hardcoded) to deliver sizes of all buffer bindings. This of course made the binding model super slow and required extra data for each buffer.

May all of your `dart format` invocations be at least 10% faster - github.com/dart-lang/dart…

@kevmoo Agents have been fun.

Anyone else see this pattern for themselves? #vibes

@birch_js I'm pretty sure this one was just via calling Whole Foods in Cupertino. 🤣

@_eseidel Daaaang! So local cake shops are happy to draw intricate browser logos? How did this arrangement work exactly

We used to have regular lunches between the RN team at Meta and the Flutter team at Google. Nice folks all around. We're all questing after the similar ends, just from different approaches.

@birch_js I sent several of those cakes. :)

@_eseidel It’s great to hear how amicable and open-minded the core teams are to each other. Just like how browser vendors used to send each other cakes. I’d love to see the community have as much cross-pollination, which is exactly why I suggested we hold yesterday’s event!