The Edge Cases

If you follow me on Bluesky, you know some of this already, but I’ve pushed some social updates to the blog thanks to Sequoia and Standard.site, I’ve incorporated The Edge Cases with the AT Protocol, allowing my blog posts to be more easily shared and int…

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On October 16, Anthropic released Skills, which are a collection of prompts, scripts, and resources in a single directory that Claude can load and use when it needs to.

This might be the most common MCP antipattern I see, and it’s not helped by a bevy of startups and products offering to automate this process for you.

My newsletter, The Signal Path has a new excerpt from my upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP that discusses the lightbulb moment that led to the development of the Model Context Protocol at Anthropic.

Note There’s now a home for the book: AI Agents with MCP — cover, contents, and where to buy it.

I’m jumping back into the newsletter ring with The Signal Path.

Vibe coding is here, and it’s here to stay.

Good evening from Greece!

I’m a huge fan of the ATProtocol, the protocol that powers Bluesky, and not just for the protocol itself.

Inspired by Carlos Vargas, who was in turn inspired by Simon Willison, I’ve decided to start doing link posts here.

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Recently, a good friend of mine discovered the joys of amateur radio and, knowing that I’m a licensed ham, started asking questions.

AWS documentation can be rough.

A few days ago, my Yiayia (grandmother) was moved to hospice care after suffering from the effects of dementia since losing her husband, my Pappou, in early 2017.

Community has always been the lifeblood of humanity from prehistoric times to today, but our sense of community faces new challenges.

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Note This is Part 2 of a 3-part series.

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The longest halfweek in my recent memory is finally done, and I have lots of thoughts.

The dust has settled.

Recently at Homes.com, one of my coworkers was charged with speeding up a batch process that we were required to run at a scheduled interval.

Recently, I had a bug at work that would be solved by simply stripping certain characters from the keys of a hash.

Today, I wanted to talk about hash traversal in Perl with the aim of flattening a complex multi-level hash into a simpler single-level hash.

Note This was first written in response to this excellent discussion on devto.