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Cover image generated by Nano Banana Pro Motivation Reading trending threads on Hacker News is one of my favorite ways to discover interesting stories and read (mostly) thought-provoking discussions. Since reading all the top stories would be very time-consuming, I use web apps such as Gemini, Google AI Studio, and Claude to have an LLM agent automatically fetch web pages and summarize their content for me. I then quickly browse the summaries and decide which threads I want to read in full. This approach has been quite effective for me. ...

Gemini CLI Usage Analyzer Project Banner Introduction Last week, I developed a lightweight command-line tool for analyzing Gemini CLI token usage and open-sourced it on GitHub. You can find the project at ceshine/gemini-cli-usage-analyzer. This post outlines why I built the tool, the technical challenges encountered during development, and the solutions implemented to resolve them. Note: Currently, the tool focuses on single-project analysis. Unlike Claude Code, which centralizes logs (e.g., in ~/.claude on Linux) to analyze overall cross-project usage by default, Gemini CLI lacks a built-in mechanism for unified log management across different projects. Support for aggregating statistics across multiple projects is on the development roadmap. ...

taken from the PDF Preamble and a bit of personal story I recently ended a multi-year consulting engagement. I might publish a reflection on this experience sometime in the future, but for now, let’s just say it was quite mentally draining. I didn’t have any energy left to write public blog posts during my tenure there, as evidenced by the lack of new posts here over the past two years. ...