Gemini Journals

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☁️ Gemini CLI in the Cloud: Secure and Isolated Development with Codespaces/Gitpod

When you’re building things with AI, it’s important to have a safe and separate place to do your work. The Gemini CLI has a “sandbox” feature that helps with this on your own computer. But you can make it even safer and more convenient by using it with cloud-based development environments like GitHub Codespaces and Gitpod. Why Use the Cloud for the Gemini CLI? Cloud development environments are like having a fresh, ready-to-use computer in the cloud that you can start using in seconds. When you use them with the Gemini CLI, you get some great benefits: ...

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Gemini Journals: That Time I Taught My AI Assistant a New Trick

The SEO Problem That Was Hiding in Plain Sight I had a feeling something was wrong with my website. I was writing news articles, but they weren’t showing up in Google’s “Top Stories” section. I looked at my website’s code and found the problem: every single post, from a deep explanation of AI to a news story about the new iPhone, was being labeled with the same generic “BlogPosting” tag. ...

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From Lovable.dev to Gemini CLI: A Tale of Two AIs in Debugging My SaaS Project

I love trying new tools that make my work easier. For my latest project, a website called “AirDeals” that helps people find cheap flights, I decided to use AI to help me build it. I used a tool called Lovable.dev to create the first version of the website. It was great for getting a working website up and running quickly. But when I started to fix some small problems (called bugs), I ran out of my free credits on Lovable.dev. This was a good time to try another tool: Google’s Gemini CLI. I wanted to see if it could help me fix the bugs, even though it had never seen the website’s code before. ...

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Our Gemini Collaboration: Solving the Mystery of the Missing Cover Image

Every person who works with computers knows this feeling: you make a change that should work, but it doesn’t. This is a story about one of those times. I was working with the Gemini CLI on a seemingly simple problem: making sure the main picture (the “cover image”) for my blog posts showed up on all pages. This turned into a fun little mystery that led us to look deep into the website’s code. ...

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🤖 Our Gemini Collaboration: A Deep Dive into Building a Better Blog

Our Gemini Collaboration: A Deep Dive into Building a Better Blog What happens when a person and a powerful AI work together? This post tells the story of how I worked with the Gemini CLI to build and improve this blog. It was a great example of how AI can help with everything from writing new posts to fixing difficult technical problems. 🚀 Phase 1: Understanding the Blog’s Foundation Our work started with a simple request: “analyze the code.” Gemini did a deep dive into my project to understand how it was built. ...