Daily Reading List – January 22, 2026 (#705)

Once again, a great day of content about practices and how to think about tech topics. Love it.

[article] Hardened containers don’t fix a broken software supply chain. Interesting take on where security really needs to happen, which means building trusted software from the source.

[blog] MCP, Skills, and Agents. So good. Skills don’t “kill” MCP. Poorly done MCP is bad either way, and done well it’s useful. Lots of other great insights here.

[article] Best Practices for Claude Code. I’d like you to use the Gemini CLI, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use and learn from other tools too.

[blog] Conductor: Testing the new Gemini CLI Extension by migrating a Next.js app to Bun. Great read. Agentic IDEs seem eager to get through planning and straight to work. My experience mirrors Esther’s where the Gemini CLI (with Conductor) genuinely wants to plan and co-create with you.

[blog] Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey. Transparent, interesting data from this team, as always. What are Go devs doing, what are their concerns, and how they tackling AI? Get the answers here.

[blog] How Google SREs Use Gemini CLI to Solve Real-World Outages. The title says it all. We use tools like the Gemini CLI to help us keep Google running smoothly.

[article] Reimagining LinkedIn’s search tech stack. Lots of LLM stuff in there, which isn’t a surprise. Especially given the graph they need to navigate.

[blog] Personal Intelligence in AI Mode in Search: Help that’s uniquely yours. If you choose to turn it on, you can get personalized answers in Google AI Mode that leverage your Gmail and Google Photos.

[article] When Everything Is a Crisis, Nothing Is: The Numbing Effect of the Infinite Scroll. An important read, especially for those of us that can accidentally be perpetually online for periods of time. We’re not meant for this.

[blog] Review of Google Antigravity for Building Jira Apps. Solid real-world example, with highlights and gotchas. I like that once he had the right app (and corresponding specs) built, he deleted all the code to see if Antigravity could build it correctly just from the spec.

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