The Model Context Protocol has transformed how we connect AI to tools. But connecting agents to tools is only half the battle — connecting agents to each other is where the real challenge begins. I recently read @raviteja_nekkalapu_'s excellent article "I built an AI security Firewall and made it open source because production apps were leaking SSNs to OpenAI" and it resonated deeply with challeng
A deeply-synthesized, opinionated reference distilled from five canonical sources: donnemartin/system-design-primer · ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101 · karanpratapsingh/system-design · ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources · binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability Use it as: a study guide for interviews, a checklist for design reviews, and a vocabulary for cross-team discussions. 📖 How to Use This
Technical Beauty — Episode 34 Open the sudo CHANGELOG and search for the word "security". Make a cup of tea first. The list is rather long for a tool whose entire job is to ask three questions: who are you, what would you like to run, and may you. In July 2015, Ted Unangst grew tired of negotiating with the sudo configuration on OpenBSD and wrote his own. He called it doas: dedicated OpenBSD appli
Why Traditional URL Shorteners Are a Privacy Nightmare When you click a bit.ly link, here's what happens: Bit.ly logs your IP, timestamp, user agent They see the destination URL They track your browsing patterns They sell this data to advertisers Even if you trust the shortener, their database can be hacked. I built cryptly to solve this problem using blockchain and encryption. Encryption (Clien
I have a serious problem, I can't work on just one thing for too long. I lose interest really fast. Before agentic coding, my desire to work on different projects and components of a project was easily managed. I could work on a really large project with a mobile app, a dashboard, a backend, multiple micro-services, while I let my YOLO model train in the background. Apra Fleet — an open-source MCP
Lee Powell · Architect of Scrivener and Scapple · Lumen & Lever Most AI document pipelines fail before the model is ever called. Tables become paragraphs. Lists collapse into prose. Annotations are detached from context. Page references disappear. Source traceability is replaced by a confidence score. The structure that gave the document its meaning is gone before retrieval runs, and no retrieval
Building a Translation Pipeline for International Contract Bidding If your company bids on international contracts, you've probably dealt with the translation bottleneck. Technical proposals need precise translation, certified documents have strict formatting requirements, and procurement deadlines don't wait for anyone. After seeing how UK public procurement translation requirements can make or
Originally published on oseifert.ch TL;DR: Quizlet locked the learn mode and Knowt's import extension keeps missing cards. So i built quick-cards, a Chrome extension that grabs your Quizlet set and exports it to whatever you want (txt, csv, json, pdf, printable flashcards, Anki decks, or directly to Knowt). Chrome only for now, install instructions at quickcards.oseifert.ch/install. If you are a s