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I asked 65 vision models to rank Miko's likely breeds from the same evidence given to humans, then compared their guesses with her DNA results.

A writeup of a small agentic system I built to triage my Gmail inbox, using Claude subagents to organize and assess messages.

Why I embedded an MCP server in a native Rust prose editor so an AI agent can drive, inspect, rebuild, and verify the running app.

Every layer from App to API to MCP loses fidelity. An exploration of what gets lost and why it matters for enterprise APIs.

Human DX optimizes for discoverability. Agent DX optimizes for predictability. What I learned building a CLI for agents first.

Connect Apps Script to PostgreSQL via JDBC, including connection strings, JSONB and UUID workarounds, transactions, and PostGIS.

How I built a fiction-specific AST and named-entity pipeline with LLM labeling, GLiNER fine-tuning, and ONNX inference in Rust.

An open-source VS Code extension that hashes each workspace Git remote and colors the status bar to distinguish open repositories.

How to configure AI agents to push commits to GitHub using a separate bot identity without modifying local git configuration.

A workflow for extracting architectural patterns and implementation challenges from AI agent walkthroughs to inform later engineering work.

Git LFS causes fatal errors in AI agents like Jules due to proxy conflicts and hook limitations. Learn why I abandoned LFS and migrated back to standard Git.

Learn how to communicate with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers using Apps Script and UrlFetchApp. Incorporate the MCP client into Vertex AI tool calling.

Use Apps Script's Vertex AI advanced service to call Gemini for text, images, structured output, search grounding, and multi-turn chat.

How Apps Script currentonly scopes limit access to an active file, and why Advanced Services, direct API calls, and openById need full scopes.

Securely resolve Google Chat User IDs to emails without Domain-Wide Delegation. Use Service Account Impersonation and custom Admin roles.

Unofficial Apps Script CacheService findings: key and value limits, FIFO batch eviction, edge cases, and practical cache patterns.

The unofficial guide to Google Apps Script UrlFetchApp. Master authentication, fetchAll for parallelism, web scraping, and debugging "Address Unavailable".

Avoid hardcoded Apps Script secrets by using PropertiesService for configuration and Google Cloud Secret Manager for sensitive values.

Use Model Armor in an MCP tool handler to block prompt injection and redact sensitive Gmail content before it reaches an AI agent.

Announcing the new MCP server for Google Workspace Developer Tools, providing AI agents with access to official documentation and API snippets.

Announcing the new React component for the Google Drive Picker, wrapping usage of the web component for easier integration.

Announcing the new Google Workspace Developer Tools extension for VS Code, working with Antigravity and providing OAuth2 scope linting and MCP support.

A DefinitelyTyped update that replaced community Google Drive Picker types with autogenerated types from the official reference source.

Recently I had to clarify some confusion around the title and name of a Google Form. Here is a quick explanation of the difference between the two.

Programmatically convert, open, and edit Microsoft Word .docx files in Google Apps Script using the Drive API and DocumentApp.

Save the date for the 2024 Google Workspace Developer Summits in Boston on September 12 and Berlin on September 17.

Use the Sheets API to allow external URL access for IMPORT and IMAGE functions without requiring each spreadsheet user to grant consent.

You can use WebAssembly with Google Apps Script! This post will cover how to do that and provide a comprehensive guide on how to get started.

A SvelteKit store pattern that converts URL-safe base64 UUID slugs back to UUIDs in route parameters, with implementation examples.

Compare google.script.run vs doGet/doPost endpoints for Apps Script web apps. Choose the best method for simple apps or complex frameworks like React/Vue.

Compare DriveApp, the Drive Advanced Service, and UrlFetchApp for retrieving Drive file blobs in Apps Script while minimizing OAuth scopes.

How I set up a Debian development environment with Docker and VS Code Remote, including a remote-container workflow from a fresh machine.

Benchmarks comparing CacheService, PropertiesService, and Firestore in Apps Script, including speed measurements and when each storage option fits.

Ping results to Google Cloud regions and short code snippet demonstrating how to measure latency from Google Apps Script.

A GitHub Actions pattern that saves a built workspace so preview, test, and matrix jobs can run in parallel without rebuilding.

A comparison of the WinterCG minimum common web APIs and Apps Script's V8 runtime, including UrlFetchApp and sleep workarounds.

A Google Next 2024 lightning talk on extending Apps Script with Rust, Python, and WebAssembly, with a build demonstration.

Understand async/await and Promises in Google Apps Script. Learn why most APIs remain synchronous and how WebAssembly is the exception.

Configure Wrangler environments for Cloudflare Workers, then use GitHub Actions to deploy and promote changes through dev, staging, and production.

Understand why Google Calendar reports "usage limits exceeded" for external attendees and notifications, plus practical alternatives.

Google Drive broke the ability to embed images with the /uc path. Here's how to embed images from Google Drive in your website.

Use the Firestore REST API from Google Apps Script when CacheService, PropertiesService, or Sheets cannot meet your storage requirements.

Avoid downloading service-account keys: use impersonation in Apps Script to mint access tokens for Google Cloud APIs.

A multi-stage Rust Dockerfile that caches dependencies with a dummy main.rs before copying source into a slim Debian runtime image.

A short Apps Script example that calls the Gemini Pro REST API to generate text, then reads the response candidate text.

A generic Apps Script memoization helper that hashes a function and arguments, stores results in CacheService, and explains its limits.

How to use the Vertex AI API in Apps Script to make predictions on your data or use it in any of your other Google Workspace processes.

How I used an n8n webhook workflow, Google Chat slash command, and Cloud Translation API to build a simple translation chat app.

Both Add-on types have their own strengths and weaknesses. Combining them could be a powerful way to build Add-ons for Google Workspace but with some caveats.

Notes from a Rust terminal UI prototype for PlexAmp, covering Tokio tasks, channels, select!, and questions left to explore.

Build passwordless email login with Cloudflare Pages, Functions, KV, and SendGrid: create and validate tokens, then set a session cookie.

Use an OAuth2 offline flow to obtain Google user credentials as application default credentials when service accounts or API keys cannot work.

A simple endpoint for checking whether a Google OAuth access token is valid, useful when troubleshooting authentication and API requests.

A reflection on the gap between manual work and automation, where a task remains too small to automate but too tedious to keep doing.

Capture Firestore writes as per-user activity by routing Audit Logs through a Pub/Sub sink to a Cloud Function that writes Firestore.

A GitHub CLI snippet for finding and deleting old personal forks, plus the delete_repo scope needed to refresh authentication.

A TypeScript pattern that uses generics and conditional types to make Yup schemas strongly typed, with examples that satisfy the compiler.

A GitHub Actions caching strategy for Playwright browser binaries that reduces repeated downloads and speeds up browser-based CI runs.

Pass a GitHub secret as a docker/build-push-action build argument, then expose it in each needed Dockerfile stage.

Authenticate and push to Google Container Registry (gcr.io) from GitHub Actions using the docker/build-push-action and Google Cloud Auth.

A Svelte and Firebase app that receives Strava webhook events through Stokehook, built to explore the Strava API.

Use the GitHub CLI to list watched repositories in an organization, filter them, and delete each subscription without manual clicks.

Archive Dependabot and Semantic Release emails automatically using Google Apps Script cron jobs to declutter your inbox.

A GitHub Actions workflow that approves and auto-merges Dependabot pull requests while relying on branch protection and required checks.

A shell command using the GitHub CLI search and comment features to ask Dependabot to rebase pull requests across an organization.

DevRel is a lot things: marketing, engineering, product management, support; my experience as a Developer Relations Engineer at Google.

Automating related posts in Eleventy with term frequency-inverse document frequency and eleventy-plugin-related.

A GitHub Actions workflow pattern for synchronizing branches across a repository without relying on a third-party GitHub Action.

A short look at turning an Eleventy site into a progressive web app while chasing better Lighthouse scores and improving offline behavior.

A React wrapper for loading the Google Maps JavaScript API, keeping map setup and script loading in a reusable component.

An Apps Script that archives Gmail threads older than 30 days, respects Gmail's 100-thread batch limit, and runs hourly on a trigger.

How to add a Web Map Service layer to Google Maps by converting tiles to Web Mercator bounds and building GetMap request URLs.

Log microservice usage and bytes sent directly to Google BigQuery using OpenResty and Lua for accurate billing and analytics.