It’s good to be back at my home office today, even if I feel like I’m running at 70% after last week’s international adventure. Fun reading list today!
[article] Gemini CLI, Explained: Everything You Need to Know About Google’s Free AI Coding Agent. Excellent profile of Gemini CLI’s creator, and our momentum with the Gemini CLI.
[blog] Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale. Configuration changes shouldn’t be exciting. Ideally, it’s boring and completely stress-free. That’s only the case if you’ve got a great system in place. Here’s what Airbnb does.
[blog] How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks. Good example of guiding a step-by-step upgrade of a web project’s dependencies.
[blog] Introducing the 185 Organizations for GSoC 2026. This amazing program brings new contributors to established open source projects for mentoring.
[blog] Better code, fewer tokens: Introducing Agent Skills for Firebase. Study best practices for your preferred product, tool, or framework. And then you can use something like Agent Skills to ensure you take advantage of those practices.
[article] Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open. There’s so much open territory for entrepreneur types. Tons of untapped domains that can take advantage of AI agents.
[blog] Teaching AI to read a map. Why can’t AI systems read maps very well? Their training sets don’t include much on the rules of navigation. Here’s new Google Research that shows a solution.
[article] State of Containers and Serverless. This latest report from Datadog has some new data points about who is doing what with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless runtimes.
[blog] Get ready for Google I/O 2026. Short post, but it’s about us getting the date out there for I/O.
[blog] The Agentic Web is Here: How WebMCP Transforms Websites into AI Toolkits. I’m getting more bullish on this browser feature every time I read something about it. Seems like a much more dependable way for AI agents to work with browser than Computer Use options.
[blog] This Week in Open Source #15. This is turning into quite the reliable look at what events and news are impacting the open source ecosystem.
[blog] Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents? Useful topic. When you’re building with your favorite web framework, does it take a lot of tokens to figure it out? Minimal frameworks performed well here.
[article] The Unreachable Engineering Managers. Slow is worse than off. An unreachable manager is much worse than one on vacation. We have to work hard to stay available and avoid becoming a bottleneck.
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