Richard Lee

CTO @TNLMediagene · NASDAQ: TNMG
Digital media & AdTech · Taipei ↔ Tokyo · Opinions mine

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

@kyrylo Wow, I'm really looking forward to this!

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Google users can now change their @gmail.com username. If your app keys users by email, this can quietly break sign-in.

If you use Sign in with Google, stop treating email as identity. Use the stable `sub` (subject ID) as the primary key, support email updates, and add email-based account recovery to avoid duplicate accounts / “lost data” after OAuth grants get revoked.

https://t.co/x6jQRvYSuY

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

A bit sad to see Firebase Studio sunset. The concept (web IDE + agents across the full lifecycle) was genuinely great. That said, consolidating into clearer homes makes sense: AI Studio for prompt→app + Firebase integrations, and Antigravity for the agent-first IDE workflow.

[Firebase @Firebase]

As Google AI Studio evolves, we’re simplifying our AI tools to ensure you have the most powerful, integrated experience. To streamline your workflow and make it clearer where you should start building, we’ll be sunsetting Firebase Studio.

It will remain accessible until March 22, 2027 to give you ample time to migrate.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Deep links to recipe sites + lightweight AI summaries is the right tradeoff: users get faster inspiration, and creators still get traffic + attribution. I run @icooktw (Taiwan’s largest recipe community/app) and this kind of routing layer is exactly what we want to see as AI UI becomes the default.

[Robby Stein @rmstein]

We've heard feedback on recipe results in AI Mode, and we’re making updates to better connect people with recipe creators on the web. Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like “easy dinners for two,” you can tap on the dish to see links to relevant recipe sites, plus a short overview of the dish to help with inspiration.

We're also planning to bring helpful information like cook time to more recipe results, which testers have found useful for deciding on a recipe. We know there's more work to be done on this, so stay tuned for future updates.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Self-hosted, minimal complexity, maximum signal for AI dev agents. More tools should aim here.

[Kyrylo Silin @kyrylo]

"After more than 10 years running production systems, I’ve tried countless error tracking tools. Telebugs is the first one that finally feels like a sensible self-hosted solution without unnecessary complexity."

This @TelebugsHQ testimonial makes me so proud 🥹

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

ChatGPT ads end up looking a lot like search ads, because that’s what the market knows how to buy.

If that's the case, the hard part isn’t the ad unit. It’s everything around it: volume, attribution, and buyers trusting the numbers. Google has a 20‑year head start there.

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

ChatGPT ads spotted in the wild https://t.co/k8e5EX3k9z

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Rails is a philosophy; Laravel is a product.

Discovering the power of Laravel’s official paid ecosystem. It turns out that monetizing infrastructure is how you keep an open-source project thriving for decades.

Business models matter as much as code.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

AI bots are flooding the gates: 1 in every 31 human visits is now an AI bot (up from 1 in 200).

Most alarming data from @TollbitOfficial: licensing doesn't fix the CTR bleed. Licensed sites saw clicks drop from 8.8% to 1.33%.

The structural decay of search traffic is accelerating.

Full report: https://t.co/gW0gnAphtc

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

OpenAI confirmed a $200k minimum for ChatGPT ads. It’s the Netflix playbook: establishing scarcity and premium positioning before mass scaling.

For now, it’s a PR experiment, not an ROI tool. https://t.co/sq47aKcxaz

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Finally, a way to measure Search Grounding performance. Bing now provides data on how AI systems cite publisher content.

From indexing for bots to optimizing for citations. This is the new baseline for SEO in the agentic web era.

https://t.co/9JG8CkWgyB

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Netflix just did its first global live event and it was someone climbing my neighborhood landmark.

Grew up around 101. Now watching the world watch it in real-time.

Live + streaming + global scale. The media playbook is changing.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

A generation of developers learned APIs through Twitter. It was in every tutorial, every bootcamp, every CS course.

That generation is gone. No pricing model brings back a dead ecosystem.

[Developers @XDevelopers]

Officially launching X API Pay-Per-Use

The core of X developers are indie builders, early stage products, startups, and hobbyists

It’s time to open up our X API ecosystem and instill a new wave of next generation X apps

We’re so back. https://t.co/FS66GuIYJD

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

One thing that makes me really happy is that by using more AI agent tools, I can contribute to more open-source projects than ever, especially those I'm less familiar with.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Google just removed Unified Pricing Rules (UPR) from Google Ad Manager. Publishers can once again set different floor prices by deal type and buyer (including Google demand).

Years ago, many of us warned UPR would limit yield control. Turns out those concerns weren’t wrong. A rare case where regulation is clearly reshaping adtech rules.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Facebook Messenger’s macOS desktop app is officially gone (Dec 15).

Electron → React Native (50% faster load, −100MB binary) → Apple Catalyst → discontinued.

A reminder that strong tech choices don’t always survive product strategy.

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Whenever I get a Google Cloud email, I already know what it is: another service getting deprecated, another mandatory migration.

That’s not how enterprise platforms should treat customers :/

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

🚀 New open source: CloudFront Google Tag Gateway

Google docs show GCP and Cloudflare examples but skip AWS. I wrote a CloudFront Function that routes /metrics/* to Google Tag Gateway, preserves geolocation and keeps setup simple.

👉 https://t.co/SKPpRj1CtX

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

AI Mode soon as default in Google Search. Are publishers ready for this? The open web may be dying sooner than expected.

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Google AI Mode to be "default" Google Search "Soon" Google's @OfficialLoganK said after @rmstein and Google launched https://t.co/Ez0uub6j6E URL for Google AI Mode late Friday https://t.co/use5pMkRbl

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

After a decade of waiting, Rails finally delivers native mobile push notification support! Thanks to the new action_push_native gem. Rails can now directly push to APNs and FCM. 🎉 https://t.co/7MnOotSbf5

[Richard Lee @dlackty]

Google Apps Script is moving from Rhino to V8, bringing modern JavaScript features like let/const, arrow functions, template literals and classes. Faster performance, better tooling, easier coding. https://t.co/JRDm7q9bXQ