I spent a weekend connecting every MCP server that sounded useful. By Sunday night I had 11 running, a claude_desktop_config.json that scrolled off the screen, and an agent that was technically capable of doing almost anything. In practice, it was doing almost nothing useful. What I learned had very little to do with which servers are "good." The MCP ecosystem has exploded. There are directories w
Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
MCP vs Skills: a practical decision guide for builders I need my agent to do X. Skill or MCP? If you build agents on Claude or anything MCP-compatible, this is the question that actually matters. The two patterns get pitched as alternatives. They are not. They solve different problems. Most production agents need both. Here is the decision rule, the framing for each, and the anti-patterns I keep
Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Deterministic cleanup means knowing exactly when resources are freed — the difference between memory chaos and predictable system behavior in production environments. So our video transcoding service was… how d
Our goal has always been to be the go-to blockchain node platform across any chain and environment. Today, that includes the nodes you run on your own hardware. Running your own Ethereum infrastructure should be the basic right of every individual and household. Nodes should be easy. The catch? Self-hosting has always meant complexity. Manual setup, client updates, nodes falling out of sync, moni
161 verified AI package hallucinations across 8.5M indexed — open dataset TL;DR: DepScope is a free MCP server + REST API that AI coding agents call before installing packages. We index 8.5M+ packages across 19 ecosystems and track 45K+ vulnerabilities in real time. We also publish a verified open corpus of LLM-hallucinated package names — every entry cross-validated daily, CC-BY-NC-SA. Cite us
What if managing your bookmarks felt like talking to a colleague? Not clicking through menus, not filling out forms, not dragging items between folders. Just saying what you want done. That's what prompt-based bookmark management looks like. LinkaGoGo connects to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — giving your AI direct access to your bookmark
The Challenge of Scalable Secrets Management in GitHub Actions For development teams scaling beyond a handful of repositories, managing environment-specific variables and secrets in GitHub Actions can quickly become a significant bottleneck. The manual duplication of configurations across multiple repos, especially when dealing with distinct environments like development, staging, and production