Ravi S. Iyer: Software Development

My previous post:  Notes on my first very simple agentic coding experiment with Google Jules which was successful  covers how I got and accepted the free offer for 18 months of Google AI Pro from Jio when I recently did my Jio 4G mobile recharge. The previous post focuses on Google Jules in Google AI Pro plan while this post covers other features of it. Google Antigravity used in Google AI Pro plan is covered in a separate post of mine . ================================ 09:24, 24 February 2026 one.google.com seems to be main portal for Google AI Pro. I created some Google Family setup with dG user as manager and rG user as member. Then I shared Google One with family. After that the 2 TB space is available for rG user too! ----------- Google notebooklm is not able to use my blogger blog as source - I tried both swdev blog and spiritual blog. https://raviswdev.blogspot.com/2026/02/notes-on-my-first-very-simple-agentic.html - even single post is not picked up. Blog import...

Summary With my recent Jio 4G mobile recharge, I got a free 18 month offer for Google AI Pro which I accepted. Google AI Pro includes Google Jules being used as a coding agent. As a trial, for a very simple Astro landing page site, I gave Google Jules this prompt: I have a dummy Indian rural school website data in this Astro app. I would like the data in Features and About sections to be changed to a hypothetical (sample) rural Indian school (primary & secondary level/K-12). It did the job well! While the programming task I asked Google Jules to do was very simple, it had to go through all the steps of:  Studying project code (multiple files) Modifying the correct components with suitable generated text for Features and About sections which earlier had dummy content Building the app Running it and verifying the output Creating a GitHub PR request After verifying the changes myself on my PC, I deployed the very simple site with changes at https://ravisiyer.github.io/ssw-astroghp...

Last updated on 24 Feb 2026 20:33, 21 February 2026 [Initially I wanted to see if I could quickly find some other Astro template that I could use to create a simple static landing page site for a primary & secondary education (K-12) rural Indian school. So I did some searching for it ....] Now looking at Astro Base - https://github.com/jonnysmillie/astro-base Some issues: Mobile menu takes up whole window width. Does not support dark mode. The developer has an interesting showcase of websites: https://jonnysmillie.dev/websites/ ------- Top 23 free Astro themes for building out-of-this-world static sites in 2023, https://cloudcannon.com/blog/top-23-free-astro-themes-for-building-out-of-this-world-static-sites-in-2023/ https://github.com/arthelokyo/astrowind , 5.5K stars, MIT License, https://astrowind.vercel.app/ - Initial thoughts were that it was very impressive. But when I dug into the source code for a simple case of using a Hero image I found the code to be too intricate...