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10000%!

@nitishfy Congratulations, @nitishfy !

Happy to share that my term as a CNCF Ambassador has been renewed for next year! credly.com/badges/3c5a793…

@kvlly @dbradstock @sarah_edo @the_thagomizer .@the_thagomizer was my manager for a couple years and then became a director! She's also published some great content on engineering management and leadership, and I appreciate her clear communication style with her team.

@kvlly @dbradstock! I've always been impressed by the clear, authentic way he communicates with his team. I'm a relatively new manager (started in late 2024) & consider him a role model. I haven't actually met @sarah_edo but I love her book & content on eng mgmnt. And @the_thagomizer!

Who's the best engineering manager (or director+) you know?

@devrelTokyo @kweinmeister Your content getting posted by DevRel Tokyo?! You're too cool, Karl! 🤩

What does FDE at scale look like? DevRel Engineering. | by Karl Weinmeister | Jul, 2026 | Medium @kweinmeister/what-does-fde-at-scale-look-like-devrel-engineering-d0999298b1ee" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@kweinmeister/… #DevRel #DevReljp

ICYMI: We published the Gemma 4 Technical Report! You've been running the models for months. Read how we achieved memory and inference across the family. How a 5:1 local-to-global attention ratio combined with pp-RoPE reduced the KV cache footprint. Or how speculative decoding and Multi-Token Prediction drafters work. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02770

@QuinnyPig This got sent to me recently and I believe it should qualify as exciting new work in this space- ha-llelujah.dev

It’s been a while since we’ve a good old fashioned cult. Who’s doing exciting work in the space?

Because my face is appearing more often with The Algorithm changing, hi! Here's some updates/intros if we haven't spoken in a minute: - I'm on the Developer Experience team at GitHub! If you ever have feature requests/ideas for the platform, for Copilot, or anything else, I'm all ears. - I have two kiddos now! They're currently 1 and 3 years old, and I am incredibly tired, but it's also the best thing ever. - My weekly newsletter (at cassidoo.co/newsletter) is still going strong at 9+ years of weekly issues! - I recently started posting newsletter recaps (and other videos) on YouTube at @cassidoo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@cassidoo. If you have content requests, let me know! I'm experimenting and enjoying it! - I am currently eating a burrito.

@kvlly I've missed a whole season of the ladybug podcast on *engineering management*?! *Immediately subscribes and downloads in podcast app*

I guess since I haven't really been here in a while and the algorithm is showing my face again, here's a catch-up on the last 5 years of my life: - I'm no longer working in the Shopify/ecom space (and haven't for a little over 4 years). I've been at Zapier for a little over a year now as a Sr. EM. Prior to that I was at a video AI startup for 3 years as Director of Engineering and Product Lead. - My work is focused more broadly on engineering leadership now. Whether that's writing for The Modern Leader, any talks I give, or the latest season of Ladybug Podcast, I'll be talking about something related to engineering leadership. - In case you missed it, @EmmaBostian and I released a new season of Ladybug Podcast last year on engineering management. We also just passed 1 million listens! (wild) - Last year I was diagnosed with two chronic diseases, and this year I've had 3 surgeries to help reset the clock on the disease's progression. I have one more surgery in two weeks, which will hopefully be my last (for at least 10 years). - Because of the above point, I hit pause on public speaking for a while (my last appearance being RenderATL last year). TBD on if I'll make it this year or when my next speaking opportunity will be. - Other than that, I'm mostly the same boring internet account

@sarah_edo Congratulations!! I'd love to try it! Alas I guess my use of Android means I'll need to wait 😅 Still really awesome though! Maybe I'll pick back up Atomic Habits in the meantime...

🎉 After two years of building it off and on, my little side project app is done: Habik: Life Manager! The premise is that you can do hard things. You break them down, and take them one day at a time. Habik takes the guesswork (and the self-negotiation) out of what to do today.

June was a busy month for the @antigravity CLI with 10 releases. We appreciate all of your feedback and support. Here's to July! 🚀

There's an active community effort to bring Skills and MCP closer together. I've been following the discussions, and put together a summary of what they are exploring and a few open questions. aaif.io/blog/skills-ov…

In which @addyosmani does a standup job explaining the "new SDLC", how the phases changed, and the rapid progression from autocomplete to autonomous agents. addyosmani.com/blog/new-sdlc-…

After 5 years in Google Cloud I've decided to join @GoogleDeepMind Excited to work with @OfficialLoganK and team on making the Gemini API and AI Studio the absolute best to build with✨ We are just getting started... buckle up!

We shipped a useful "multi-tenant agentic AI system" reference architecture (docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/m…), but you wouldn't know that unless you constantly monitored our docs. Nobody does that unless they're a psycho, like me. But with our Developer Knowledge MCP, you just get it.

Documentation is a gift you give to your future self and the community. 🎁 We sponsor Alex Colomar to maintain the Linux Kernel man-pages, keeping this critical infrastructure accurate. Read how he got started. goo.gle/alex-colomar

Is 100X engineering a myth or the new reality? In our latest episode of the Agent Factory, I sat down with @rodydavis to break down exactly how Google Antigravity 2.0 is rewriting the software development life cycle. Catch the link to the recap blog in the comments.

Deploy your AI agent to Kubernetes? Solid choice. I like that @boredabdel does a legit end-to-end example of containerizing, deploying, and configuring an ADK agent on @googlecloud GKE Autopilot. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/de…