The MCP Servers I Actually Use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is changing quickly. While experimentation is interesting, I’ve found myself settling on a core set …
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The future of digital agencies
This is keeping me up at night. The model we built is dying. It’s time to build the next one.
Let’s start with a sketch of an agency project.
A …
Preparing Django documentation for LLMs
I’ve been using files-to-prompt recently to help query large codebases with LLMs, but I realised this would work just as well for documentation …
Setting up Matrix Synapse on Fedora
I wanted to install a Matrix service for my family. While matrix-synapse is packaged in Fedora, there’s scant documentation regarding what to do …
A Cline prompt for codebase analysis and feature extraction
From time-to-time, I’m asked to evaluate a large codebase. This is usually from a client who has a project in distress, or who needs to quickly …
My Claude Artifact Prompt
I’ve found myself writing a lot of Claude artifact prompts recently. I don’t remember if I started writing these little personal software …
Fingerprint Authentication on a Lenovo Z13 and Fedora 40
I’ve previously used fingerprint authentication on Thinkpads in the very distant past. There have been a lot of changes to the software stack …
New in Python 3.13: SQLite support in dbm
Python 3.13 was released today, and it would be easy to overlook this:
“dbm.sqlite3: An SQLite backend for dbm. (Contributed by Raymond …
Django Carbon Measurement Notes
At work recently, I’ve been working on some code to measure the bandwidth required to display webpages, and from there calculate the approximate …
Using ruff for everything in VSCode
Ruff’s VSCode extension is nice, and can handle the jobs previously done by black and isort. To turn on everything, and to run this on every …