Daily Reading List – October 30, 2025 (#655)

There’s a good mix of advice, industry news, and tech insight in the reading list today. Enjoy!

[article] The 4 Seasons Organizations Go Through—and How to Lead in Each. It took me too long to realize that leadership isn’t a blunt hammer that applies to every circumstance and person the same way.

[blog] Java relevance in the AI era – agent frameworks emerge. No shortage of frameworks for Java developers. Besides Python, it might have the best options for AI app/agent builders.

[article] Surviving the AI Sprint: up close with Google Cloud and Cisco. Fascinating discussion that shows how much innovation is happening in the infra tier, and why demand is outstripping supply.

[blog] Introducing ConfigHub. Maybe lost in all the AI stuff, there’s innovation happening up and down the stack. Brian and team are offering a new way to store configurations.

[article] What’s the Go language really good for? Most things, nowadays. But like every language, there are sweet spots and weaker areas.

[blog] Master multi-tasking with the Jules extension for Gemini CLI. Every developer is a “lead” now and coordinating the work of multiple parties.

[blog] How many pillars of observability can you fit on the head of a pin? Charity lays it down on people obsessed with pillars of observability, versus focus on unified storage model for signals.

[blog] Chat in NotebookLM: A powerful, goal-focused AI research partner. While wildly popular, NotebookLM is still underrated. And now it’s even more useful.

[article] GitHub Embraces the Coding Agent Competition With Agent HQ. Smart to drag agents closer to the source code in GitHub. We’ll see if that’s the true center of gravity moving forward!

[blog] Announcing docs.cloud.google.com: The new home for Google Cloud documentation. It’s not trivial moving 9m pages of docs and making a series of updates on the way. My team finished this first milestone, and it’s a great accomplishment.

[blog] Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? Nobody knows for sure, and I refuse to change how I write just because AI is stealing my style.

[blog] How I Made an MCP Server That Saves Me an Hour per Week. Aim lower. Not EVERY use of AI has to change the world. Making a particular task a little better is still a win.

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