Good day. Tomorrow I’m flying to Seoul for a week of customer meetings. Assuming I have airplane wifi, expect a reading list tomorrow. And one every day next week, albeit at weird times 🙂
[article] Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering. I liked this perspective, especially the reminder that sharing prompts with others can be dangerous. Make sure you gather your own requirements!
[blog] Getting it Done Even When You Don’t Feel Your Best. Great piece. Most of us aren’t born with this skill, but we can all develop it.
[blog] Create Custom MCP Servers in Minutes with MCP Toolbox. This is cool. Use this open source product to quickly create your own MCP servers out of most any database type.
[blog] How to secure your remote MCP server on Google Cloud. Here’s a very good reference architecture view of a secure MCP server. Swap out the services, run on a different cloud, whatever. But these core capabilities seem important.
[article] Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B. DX authors many of the posts I share here in a given month. Good for them!
[blog] New DNS Armor can help detect, mitigate domain name system risks. Protect your internet-bound queries with this interesting new service.
[article] Designing AI-ready architectures in compliance-heavy environments. There were more details here than I expected. AI isn’t just for tech companies and quirky startups. You can take advantage of it in every type of environment.
[blog] We’re investing in connectivity, products and skills for Africa’s AI future. Love seeing this. Digital access can transform lives and entire societies.
[article] The Emotional Strength You Need to Lead Through Change. This offers a good list of traits we need to exhibit (and internalize) if we’re going to lead during changing times.
[youtube-video] The Agent Factory – Episode 7: Gemini CLI with Taylor Mullen. Fun episode where you can get fresh insights into agentic CLIs and how the open source Gemini CLI came to be.
[blog] Let’s kill vibe coding and bring back prompt engineering. I get the point. Prompt engineering isn’t the target, but context engineering might be closer to the right destination.
[blog] Announcing the new Practical Guide to Data Science on Google Cloud. I’ve read this ebook. It’s good. There’s a nice mix of detailed info and strategic advice.
[blog] Read Google.org’s first ever Impact Report. Nice content to flip through. We get encouraged to donate time and (matched) charitable contributions.
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