Daily Reading List – July 28, 2025 (#596)

Day one of vacation with my two younger kids while my wife and oldest are away at college orientation. Mini golf and such were on the agenda today.

[article] Our Favorite Management Tips on Communicating Like a Leader. Super solid advice here for anyone (everyone?) trying to get better at communicating.

[blog] The agentic experience: Is MCP the right tool for your AI future? If you’ve got a bet on MCP, you better have a strong API strategy. This post uses that lens to offer direction.

[blog] Modern Java for Cloud-Native Apps: Is It Catching Up with Go and Node.js? Not a scientific breakdown, but the dated “Java is slow” idea should be put to bed.

[blog] Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI. Fantastic post that really solidified my understanding of the workflow from selection to serving of open models.

[blog] Scaling Inference To Billions of Users And AI Agents. I want to keep seeing posts on production-grade deployment and scale, not just “getting started” content.

[blog] How AI Is Improving My Wireframing Process. I *think* AI can improve just about any process. These are practical areas where designers are going to see an uplift.

[blog] How I Turned Gemini CLI into a Multi-Agent System with Just Prompts. Fun experimentation here, with a powerful result. Being able to spawn these agents, each with a unique persona, has many practical implications.

[article] ‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen. We took the wraps off this a couple months back, and now everyone will get to enjoy the results.

[blog] The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade. Goodness, there are a lot of runtimes for JavaScript. Check out this post for a run through.

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