5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 8, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro is here
The one-upmanship between the leading labs continues, with Google releasing their latest frontier model. Early reports suggest it's a big improvement in abstract reasoning and complex tasks, and it's already integrated into the latest version of AntiGravity (which is actually getting better with every patch). I still haven't gone back to Gemini CLI yet since Google seems to have put that down in the list of priorities. I'm also keen to try 3.1 out in the criminally underrated NotebookLM!
Related: NotebookLM
A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards
I love my ZSA Voyager, and after moving to a split ergo mechanical keyboard I will never go back to a standard keyboard as my daily driver. This guide goes back to the foundational questions to help you make the leap, covering the ergonomics, the practical advantages, the downsides and the different types of split keyboards that are available on the market today. Every single time I read a guide or overview like this I get the urge to get another split, they are just so much fun to use, and they're also great if you like tinkering, as you can buy the kits to build them yourself. A very fun read!
Related: monkeytype
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
This is an incredibly useful guide and rundown of the SOTA tools and models as it stands in February, 2026 by Ethan Mollick, breaking down not only the available models but also the areas where they shine, when to use them and models to avoid. I really recommend giving this one a read to be up-to-date with the bleeding edge of publicly available coding tools! Note: this was posted just prior to the release of Gemini 3.1 - things move quickly in AI land!
Related: The Harness Problem
How to Build OpenClaw in 400 Lines of Code
OpenClaw was all the rage a week or two ago, opening a lot of eyes to our agentic future and bumping Apple's Mac Mini sales as terminally online nerds rushed to deploy their own personal claw and give it access to all of their private details! The hype was so intense that first Anthropic sent the developer Peter Steinberger a cease-and-desist (when the project was called Clawd), and only a few days later OpenAI hired him to bring his agent scaffolding expertise in-house. This post peels back the mystique and shows us how to build an OpenClaw like agent ourselves.
Related: Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger?
Stop Writing CSS
Ok, ok. Let's do something that isn't AI-related! This is an updated collection of modern CSS snippets with explanations and examples, worthwhile revisiting to update your expectations on what raw CSS can do these days.
Related: CSS in 2026