Mark McLaughlin

Design at Gemini CLI, previously Google Cloyd, Microsoft and Skype. AFC Wimbledon fan since day one.

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

Well, @github got surprisingly deep on me this morning.

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

https://t.co/KzYyVaVM0Y

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

Are you in Vegas for Google Cloud Next '26? 🎲

Here are some of the talks, booths and sessions related to Gemini CLI today!

Swing by the Terminal Velocity and CLI Mission Control areas on the expo floor.🚀

📆 Day 1: April 22nd

• How we build and use Gemini CLI at Google Cloud
• How Inspired Entertainment went from weeks to one click with Gemini CLI
• 10x productivity with Gemini CLI

Will post session catalog below for times and details 👇

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

Subagents have arrived in Gemini CLI! 🤖🚀

Create your own custom subagents in @geminicli! Subagents are specialized, expert agents that the main agent can delegate work to.

📦- Subagents have their own set of tools, MCP servers, system instructions, and context window.
🏷️- Use @agent to explicitly delegate to a subagent
🧹- Keeps the main context window clean
⚡️- Speed up work by running agents in parallel

Read more in the launch blog below 👇

[Patrick Loeber @patloeber]

Give our google-gemini GitHub org a follow, it has some helpful repos, e.g.:

/gemini-skills: library of skills for the Gemini API
/gemini-cli: source code of @geminicli
/cookbook: gemini guides
/gemma-cookbook: gemma guides
/genai-processors: python lib for efficient pipelines

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

Compact Header/Logo in Gemini CLI 🎨

Do folks prefer this alternate compact header vs. the previous larger "GEMINI" ASCII art?

I could see a world where we keep both. Show the GEMINI header on first startup in a new project then the compact header on all subsequent launches...

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@david_dossett Let's get quiet electric leaf blowers ahead of this in the queue...

[Manuel Muñoz Solera @mamuso]

Vercel Firewall users: I'd love to hear from you!
DM me for a quick chat.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

👑 shoutout to the real heroes of this devtools war: the @code team, who have architected the foundation that every other company prefers to build on and extend

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

WIMBLEDON BEAT HATED RIVALS MK DONS 3-0 TO TOP LEAGUE TWO. ⬆️

Phoenix club founded by the fans when a sulking owner moved their team 60 miles up the road to Milton Keynes emphatically defeat the very reason they exist. Imagine the satisfaction. 😅

Have a day, @sportswithjohn 💙

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@keskkyla So, you're in Finland today then?

[John Green @sportswithjohn]

A while back, I got an idea: What if I became a livestreamer and used all the funds raised to support @AFCWimbledon's playing budget? I would get to live my dream of working with Stan and livestreaming to an audience! Plus Wimbledon would benefit. In the first month, we raised...

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@jackiechuichui @figma Two things TBH; first class support for tables in general, as opposed to having the weird and wonderful auto-layout mix of rows and columns we do today. Second would be ability to populate it from a CSV/JSON/YAML/Variables. We kinda hack this with a GSheets plugin now.

[Stuart Heritage @stuheritage]

Gonna be a great few days for people who enjoy collecting the worst fucking takes the internet has ever seen

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@NHammondDesign Opening up https://t.co/nwRI6yGeus with your morning coffee.

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@mamuso @github So happy to have caught up with you in person at #Config2024 this week, including getting a kick out of watching you test drive Figma Slides just in time for this! All the very best.

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

New #bringmethehorizon track list looking a lot like my AIM contact list in 1999 or so.

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@david_dossett font-family: Segoe UI, no fallback or remote font loading. Still, everyone looking at the site is running Edge on Windows 11 inside CorpNet, right?

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@malthe Wait, is this in your official capacity as Tatler's second best dressed London office worker of 2008? (I've gloriously misremembered the details here.)

[Steve Ruiz @steveruizok]

If you’re thinking you want to hire a design engineer, consider instead:

- hiring an engineer with very good taste who you empower to make a thousand quality of life improvements in your app
- hiring a very good designer who can code to help make codey designs

[Mark McLaughlin @clocky]

@david_dossett So, if you're ever out for kid #3, you'll come back as partner?