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I'm reminded of the famous story of (I think) the central beam in a building at Oxford. The story goes something like:The central beam was beginning to fail and the Oxford administration knew they needed to replace it. When they went around for quotes, no one could replace the be

The prod-readiness concerns are fair, but mcp-use fills a real gap in the MCP stack: orchestration across many servers with far less boilerplate than the official SDK. Even if the agent is as another commenter fairly pointed out, just a LangChain wrapper, the six-line setup and s

I have about two weeks of using Claude Code and to be honest, as a vibe coding skeptic, I was amazed. It has a learning curve. You need to learn how to give it proper context, how to chunk up the work, etc. And you need to know how to program, obviously. Asking it to do something

I have nothing but good things to say about ubiquiti. I run their cameras door bell and network switches at my house and have had nearly 100% uptime for years. Their ui constantly improves and it’s very well integrated into home assistant.Lotta haters out there but this is just a

Procedural (VFX, effects, non-desctuctive editing)You had my attention, now you have my interest… or however that quote goes.Edit: Please please please add the playsinline attribute to your video elements. I’m on my phone, and every time I scroll a video explodes and takes ov

IPv4 is never going away barring massive adoption of p2p protocols to drive the switch. Sadly NAT and SNI solve most of the problems well enough for things to limp along indefinitely. The only orgs with the power to fix this from the top down are incentivized to maintain the cent

I think this page describes "what" but not "why" of Carbon.Carbon exists so that it's possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.The most important attribute of Carbon is not the specifics of the syntax but the fact that it'

Another trick is to open Activity Monitor, switch to the Energy tab, and sort by the "Preventing sleep" column. Some apps prevent macOS from sleeping.In my case, I've discovered that Devonthink (document/notes management app) is responsible. I've been meaning to file a bug report

Keep in mind that default Gmail allows webhooks for any changes (email received but also changing labels, etc), for free using Gmail pubsub. I use it a lot because it's the only way of getting programmatic notifications from credit card purchases (turn on purchase alerts to all c

Side note: The organization that maintains Lean is a "Focused Research Organization", which is a new model for running a science/discovery based nonprofit. This might be useful knowledge for founder types who are interested in research. For more information, see: https://www.conv