Daily Reading List – February 26, 2025 (#500)

Today we reached issue #500. I think that’s pretty cool. There was no telling where this would go when I started a couple years back, but hopefully you’re enjoying it. Or at least tolerating it.

[article] Introduction to Frontend Development. I suspect that AI will keep making it possible to blur the lines between frontend and backend code, but there’s still very distinct tech and skills involved at either tier.

[blog] Start building with Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite. We’re cooking. The model we revealed in public preview just weeks ago is now GA. Great price performance!

[article] What makes a code review useful? Do you employ code reviews? Hopefully. This post looks at research that uncovers what attributes of review comments determine how useful a code review is, and how you can make your’s better.

[blog] Introducing the new Google Cloud Trace Explorer. Our logging and monitoring services get more attention, but Cloud Trace is a very cool service too. If you want more visibility into latency issues in your apps, use something like this.

[article] AI Essentials for Tech Executives. I thought this piece had a lot of helpful definitions and framing that can help someone a few steps removed from the AI tech itself.

[blog] The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer’s perspective. Great topic, not discussed enough. Ashley brings a lot of experience to this area, and helps us understand what it takes to keep software healthy.

[article] Google AI Coding Tool Now Free, With 90x Copilot’s Output. More coverage of our updated AI coding assistant with a generous free allotment. Here too.

[article] 5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions. I like these questions. Keep them in your back pocket when the team is rushing headlong towards a pre-determined conclusion.

[blog] Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents. Watch every platform vendor offer ways to build, support, or run agents. Cloudflare seems to have made some deep bets.

[blog] Drop the mic: Celebrating 1 billion monthly podcast users on YouTube. I wouldn’t have thought YouTube would be the most popular podcast platform in the US, but here we are.

[article] Event Destinations: A Faster Alternative to Webhooks. New to me. This looks like an abstraction for messaging and routing.

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