Here’s a bonus Christmas Eve reading list for you. I’ll be back with a couple editions next week before returning to the regular daily schedule on January 5th.
[blog] The Product Model at Google. Here’s a great deep dive into how Google orients around product strategy, discovery, and delivery.
[article] A modern guide to SQL JOINs. Under duress, I could possibly recall most of this. But I’ve probably forgotten most of my SQL knowledge. This was a good refresher.
[article] Using an ADE: Ancient Development Environment. Feeling left out because you’re not using an IDE that someone released a month ago? Relax. Some people are using dev environments from the 90s.
[article] 8 old programming languages developers won’t quit. Relatedly, some of you are still rockin’ Pascal. Respect.
[blog] 60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2025. Nobody did more with AI in 2025 than Google. I don’t think that’s controversial to say! This is an impressive roundup.
[article] Microsoft’s Bold Goal: Replace 1B Lines of C/C++ With Rust. I guess this is what Microsoft is focused on instead. Best of luck!
[blog] Antigravity ruined the Advent of Code for me. Fun post. These modern AI tools make it somewhat boring to tackle low-level objectives. It’s too easy!
[article] The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients. Such a good post and worthy of a full read. AI progress isn’t even across categories, but once a bottleneck breaks, a flood of use cases become possible.
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