Keeping Nightly Batches Alive After the Gemini CLI Stops Responding: A google-genai SDK Fallback
On June 18 the Gemini CLI stops answering requests. Here is a small fallback harness that probes whether the CLI can still respond and quietly reroutes unattended batch jobs to the google-genai SDK, built from my own automation.
Moving My Automation Off the Gemini CLI Before the June 18 Shutdown
On June 18, the Gemini CLI stops responding for hosted plans. Here is how I moved unattended scripts that called gemini from the shell over to the google-genai SDK, with structured output, retries, and cost measurement built in.
Watching the 'Voice' of Generated Text: Catching a Silent Default-Model Swap Through Style Drift
When the default model changes over your head, the output can stay factually correct while its voice quietly shifts. This walks through fingerprinting the style of generated text and detecting drift statistically, with a dependency-free implementation you can drop into your pipeline.
Before You Let a Managed Agent Ship: Designing Your Own Acceptance Gate
Let the public-preview Managed Agents generate files and broken artifacts will flow straight into production. Here is how to build a verification gate that artifacts must pass before you accept them, with runnable Python and a rejection-feedback loop.
The Morning Gemini Generated Fine but the Publish Crashed — A 'Generation Outbox' So Expensive Output Is Never Lost
Generation succeeds, then the process dies right before publishing. The expensive output is gone, and you pay for the same generation again. Here is a 'generation outbox' that persists the output first and turns publishing into an idempotent follow-up, plus what it did for me during the June outage.
Reading a Night of Logs in Three Minutes — Building My Own Daily Brief for Ops With the Gemini API
Inspired by Gemini's Daily Brief, I built a pipeline that turns overnight operations logs into one morning email: collect, summarize with response_schema, render, deliver — with measured token counts and a fallback that kept working through the June outage.
A Month of Refreshing App Store Promotional Text Weekly with Gemini
Notes from one month of rewriting App Store promotional text (the 170-character line above the description) weekly with the Gemini API. How I reused a slot that ships without review, what I handed to AI, what I always touched by hand, and whether it moved anything.
A Daily Slack Digest of Six Apps' Store Reviews, Built with Gemini Flash
How I built a Cloud Run + Gemini Flash ETL that translates, classifies, and prioritizes 30–80 daily store reviews across six apps and posts them to Slack — cutting my review triage from 60 minutes to 12, for about $4 a month.
Building a B2B Business Automation SaaS with Gemini 2.5 Pro Function Calling — Revenue Blueprint
A complete guide to building and selling B2B business automation SaaS using Gemini 2.5 Pro Function Calling. Covers API architecture, multi-tenant design, pricing strategy, and the sales process that closed first contracts within 3 weeks of demo.
Gemini CLI with MCP Servers: A from File I/O to Database Queries
Learn how to connect MCP servers to Gemini CLI for hands-on file operations and database integration. Covers GEMINI.md configuration, filesystem, SQLite, and GitHub MCP with working examples.
Automate Contact Form Handling with Gemini API — Classification, Priority Scoring & Slack Alerts
Build a Python system that automatically classifies incoming contact form submissions using Gemini API, scores their priority, and sends structured Slack notifications — ready to deploy today.
Build a $500/Month Side Income with Google Workspace × Gemini Automation — 3 Ready-to-Sell Templates
Turn Google Workspace automation into a recurring side income by selling Gemini-powered services to small businesses. Includes 3 deployable templates and a pricing blueprint.