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February 25 2026 · Edited Feb 25, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 24, 2026 (#728)

Today's links look at how to build an elite engineering culture in 2026, how to make better strategic choices, and what a developer-friendly MLOps pipeline looks like. View post to subscribe to the

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February 24 2026 · Edited Feb 24, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 23, 2026 (#727)

Today's links look at how to safeguard dynamic config changes at scale, how to teach AI to read a map, and which web frameworks are the most token-efficient for AI agents View post to subscribe to

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February 20 2026 · Edited Feb 20, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 20, 2026 (#726)

Today's links look at 14 lessons from 14 years at Google, takeaways from a new "state of software delivery" report, and how one company reduced the size of their software component.

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February 19 2026 · Edited Feb 19, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 19, 2026 (#725)

Today's links look at the power of the new Gemini Pro 3.1, a guide for when to use which AI in the agentic era, and whether dev environment setup complexity impacts productivity.

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February 18 2026 · Edited Feb 18, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 18, 2026 (#724)

Today's links look at what it means to have a bias towards action, which language produces the best-performing MCP server, and CFOs growing their IT budgets but not staffing.

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February 17 2026 · Edited Feb 17, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 17, 2026 (#723)

Today's links look at why cognitive debt is a growing challenge, whether OpenClaw is still that exciting, and using a unified interface for models and agents.

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February 16 2026 · Edited Feb 16, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 16, 2026 (#722)

Today's links look at why OSS maintainers should fix the contribution process, how to stop wasting 1:1s with your manager, and how to give your agent some skills.

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February 13 2026 · Edited Feb 13, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 13, 2026 (#721)

Today's links look at why you don't need to read the (generated) code, why you should learn fundamentals instead of frameworks, and how to fix latency issues in your APIs.

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February 13 2026 · Edited Feb 13, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 12, 2026 (#720)

Today's links look at why you should ship types instead of docs, what happens when an AI agent publishes a hit piece on you, and what we learned from using AI to generate code samples.

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February 12 2026 · Edited Feb 12, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 11, 2026 (#719)

Today's links look at why you should just use PostgreSQL, why you have to get the "main thing" right, and what the purpose of continuous integration really is.

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February 11 2026 · Edited Feb 11, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 10, 2026 (#718)

Today's links look at whether AI is killing open source, why you're not taking on ENOUGH tech debt, and what it means to do agentic engineering.

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February 10 2026 · Edited Feb 10, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 9, 2026 (#717)

Today's links look at the hidden danger of shipping fast, 3 signs it's time for your next career chapter, and whether IDEs have become less important.

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February 7 2026 · Edited Feb 7, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 6, 2026 (#716)

Today's links look at whether AI is keeping us from doing deep thinking, why AI pilot projects fail, and whether GitHub Actions are slowly killing your engineering team.

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February 6 2026 · Edited Feb 6, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 5, 2026 (#715)

Today's links look at a new way to get up-to-date knowledge into your AI tools, what would happen if tech debt magically disappeared, and why you should rethink how MCPs interact with context.

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February 5 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – February 4, 2026 (#714)

Today's links look at how agents should consume external data, how to make self-improving coding agents, and why the AI Slopageddon is wearing out OSS maintainers.

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January 22 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – January 21, 2026 (#704)

Today's links look at architecture for disposable systems, why code is cheap now but software isn't, and why AI coding requires devs to be better managers.

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January 23 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – January 22, 2026 (#705)

Today's links look at deciding between MCP, skills and agents, how Google SREs use Gemini CLI to solve real-world outages, and best practices for agentic CLIs.

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January 24 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – January 23, 2026 (#706)

Today's links look at why we need to bring back Ops pride, how to apply best practices when building your MCP servers, and how Google uses AI for internal code migrations.

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January 27 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – January 26, 2026 (#707)

Today's links look at migrating a legacy Spring Boot app using the Gemini CLI, which open source projects are transforming AI, and why you should call it "supervised generation" instead of vibe

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January 28 2026 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Daily Reading List – January 27, 2026 (#708)

Today's links look at new dev tools baked into the Google AI subscriptions, why AI is making databases matter again, and how to run executable Markdown files with Gemini.