Daily Reading List – November 24, 2025 (#672)

I’m taking off from work for the rest of the week in light of the US holiday on Thursday. So, I tried to fit five days of work into today. Mixed results. But still, a good reading list.

[blog] Tutorial : Getting Started with Google Antigravity. This will feel familiar, but different. We’ve gone through this when GitHub Copilot first came out, and then with Cursor. Here’s another evolution of software development.

[article] The AI Gold Rush Is Forcing Us to Relearn a Decade of DevOps Lessons. Maybe this is the moment where well-tested software principles truly take hold everywhere because a use case (AI) has demanded it.

[article] Enterprises split on how AI will affect long-term tech debt. Likely more in some areas, less in others? I’d be surprised if there’s a uniform response.

[blog] Real-time speech-to-speech translation. When this capability becomes mainstream, it’s going to change humanity. Communicate with anyone, regardless of language? Amazing.

[article] 7 ways AI is changing software testing. Good list. It wasn’t a bunch of things I’d thought about already.

[article] Google’s upgraded Nano Banana Pro AI image model hailed as ‘absolutely bonkers’ for enterprises and users. That’s an accurate label. I’ve made a few diagrams and charts with it lately, and am blown away each time.

[blog] The age of personalized software. Fascinating trend. But software for an audience of one. It’s fine, and super empowering.

[blog] How To Deal With Difficult People At Work: 4 Secrets From Experts. We’ve all worked with these types of people. At one time or another, maybe we WERE one of these difficult types.

[blog] Antigravity and Firebase MCP accelerate app development. The integration with MCP makes these agentic IDEs so much more interesting. Instead of purpose-built IDEs (one for web, another for mobile, yet another for data science), you can make a single one serve all purposes.

[blog] Next-Generation Google Apps Script Development: Leveraging Antigravity and Gemini 3.0. Would have used your coding IDE to write Google Apps Script? Maybe, maybe not. But now Antigravity is suitable.

[blog] From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing. Charity’s head is close to exploding over the misuse and misunderstanding around what observability should be.

[blog] 7 tips to get the most out of Nano Banana Pro. These are actually great tips for steering this image model. I’ve found that it’s pretty terrific even with my lousy prompts, but this is useful next-level stuff.

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