fauxmium - browse an infinite imaginary web

- What if every website you visited didn't actually exist until the moment you asked for it? What if the entire web was a unique, AI-generated experience, created just for you, on the fly? That's the core idea behind my latest project, Fauxmium. Fauxmium is a proof-of-concept that...

Meanwhile in DevOps #43: Ellis manages productivity

- Ellis has called a team meeting. Arlo, Murray, and Ellis are sitting in the boardroom drinking coffee. Arlo looks a little worried, and Murray looks like he’s thinking of being on holiday. “We need to boost productivity,” Ellis begins. “What do you need?” “Our machines are...

The 10 Steps for product AI generation with Gemini 2.5 Flash

- Learn how to use Gemini 2.5 Flash for product image generation....

Google Gemini CLI Cheatsheet

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Gemini Nano in Chrome 137: notes for AI Engineers

- at long last, Gemini Nano is almost here for all Chrome users (i was originally misinformed that it was in Chrome 138 - but i checked my own facts and since Chrome 137+ it is starting to be shipped unflagged in limited situations). I was reminded by this HN post. I expect it to...

An Agentic Case Study: Playing Pokémon with Gemini

- DeepMind Shows Us the Messy Reality of Agent Building The Gemini 2.5 technical report is finally out, and there are few surprises. The Google team explicitly focused on real-world coding performance and it’s clear that long context abilities were prioritized. Gemini performs...

Should I still use analytics?

- I set up Google Analytics on my site in 2010, and since then use it to track page views to my site. I only care about page views, which I find useful to figure out which pages get the most traffic. It’s interesting data, and sometimes rather useful. But Google collects much more...

Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility”

- Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....

Google Gemini LangChain Cheatsheet

- A comprehensive cheatsheet on using Google's Gemini within the LangChain, covering chat functionalities with multimodal inputs, tool usage, structured data generation, and text embedding techniques....

ReAct agent from scratch with Gemini 2.5 and LangGraph

- Build a ReAct agent from scratch with Gemini 2.5 and LangGraph....

Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud & Vercel costs

- Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years. I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about...

Google Gemma 3 Function Calling Example

- Learn how to use function calling with Google DeepMind Gemma 3 27B It...

Function Calling Guide: Google DeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash

- Learn how to use function calling with Google DeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash....

From PDFs to Insights: Structured Outputs from PDFs with Gemini 2.0

- Learn how to extract structured data from PDFs with Gemini 2.0 and Pydantic....

RSS to inbox: Setting up a mailing list for blog updates

- Instructions for how to set up a mailing list to receive notifications about new posts, using RSS, IFTTT, and Google Groups....

How to align open LLMs in 2025 with DPO and and synthetic data

- Learn how to align LLMs using Hugging Face TRL and RLHF through Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and on-policy synthetic data....

Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

- Hetzner raises prices This morning I received an email from Hetzner stating that they are raising prices in the US while significantly reducing bandwidth. The largest price percentage increase is 27.52% for CPX21 servers, and the smallest is 4.17% for CX3+ servers. Bandwidth...

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Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing

- Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover one section from this week’s from last...

On-the-fly feature flag in Next.js with Google Sheets

- Feature flags are a great way to manage feature toggles in your application. They allow you to enable or disable certain features. There are several common reasons why you might want to use feature flags: - You want to release a new feature to a subset of your users. - You want...

How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack

- Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. I......

How to Use Google Application .json Credentials in Environment Variables

- If you've ever tried to use one of Google's APIs you'll know at some point you're prompted to download the credentials as a .json file. This is super annoying b......

How To Use GitHub Actions and APIs to Surface Important Data

- In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to write a GitHub Action that queries a data-centric software system — in this example, Google Analytics — to generate an......