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Plumber. That's a Bánh Mì Phượng sandwich up there. Because. 🐘 fosstodon.org/@ches

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May 21
Life comes at you fast.
Quotation from an article from The New Stack: “Anthropic's open plugin architecture made this possible. Claude Code's MCP-based plugin system is designed to support third-party integrations, including those from competitors. The platform-versus-app dynamic that usually creates tension between companies is being replaced by a composability dynamic where both sides benefit. Anthropic gets a richer plugin ecosystem. OpenAl gets distribution inside a competitor's installed base. This is not altruism. It is pragmatism. Both companies recognized that developers will use multiple tools regardless.”

ALT Quotation from an article from The New Stack: “Anthropic's open plugin architecture made this possible. Claude Code's MCP-based plugin system is designed to support third-party integrations, including those from competitors. The platform-versus-app dynamic that usually creates tension between companies is being replaced by a composability dynamic where both sides benefit. Anthropic gets a richer plugin ecosystem. OpenAl gets distribution inside a competitor's installed base. This is not altruism. It is pragmatism. Both companies recognized that developers will use multiple tools regardless.”

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“…it’s abundantly clear that the engineering excellence that created GitHub’s success is no longer driving it.” Six-months-ago Andrew Kelley’s most concisely damning sentence keeps echoing in my mind. github.blog/news-insights/co…

An update on GitHub availability

Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

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2 Dec 2025
If you’re still telling users of your consumer product to `npx @your/product-mcp`, you are behind.
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2 Dec 2025
Smart play by Docker with MCP Toolkit to provide the—albeit developer-centric—type of 2024 distribution that these things should have had in the first place.
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2 Dec 2025
Dear @readwise, consider at least hosting yours on Smithery or something officially, given that it should logically be remote anyway. Though I would welcome an MCP Bundle distribution in the meantime, thanks 💕
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21 Sep 2025
Save SlideOver
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21 Mar 2025
I miss this scene, and good lord I cannot get over those ticket prices.
Ticketmaster stubs from 2007-08 music performances in the Cambridge/Somerville and Worcester, MA areas. Ranging $12-30 for Interpol, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, The Walkmen, At the Gates, in mostly small venues.

ALT Ticketmaster stubs from 2007-08 music performances in the Cambridge/Somerville and Worcester, MA areas. Ranging $12-30 for Interpol, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, The Walkmen, At the Gates, in mostly small venues.
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10 Mar 2025
“One of the things I like to say is that the early part of design is more art than science, and the later part of design is more science than art.” – a @maro254 nugget of #gamedesign wisdom share.snipd.com/snip/696c2e7…

Art and Science of Game Design (1min)

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10 Mar 2025
Quoting from an anecdote on how @ErikLauer contributed analytical mindset and tools to the @wizards_magic team (all behind the link).
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15 Feb 2025
Sometimes I imagine an internal Radar at @Apple with a million votes titled “Users complain that Esc exits full screen”, where some greybeard interaction designer stands steadfastly on top of this hill, willing to die on it, yelling that it is *The Path of Righteousness*.
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2 Dec 2024
Algorithms exhibiting self-love for an image generation the gf and I riffed on as a joke. I mean sure I guess that *would* have been among the most interesting things that happened this year 😂
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12 Nov 2024
Sad to see @FoursquareGuide app finally getting canned, though surprised the split survived this long. I hope they’ll make @SwarmApp a capable exploration tool, I’m smacking my head as we speak that Google Maps nor Apple Maps can filter restaurant results by “Open Right Now”…
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12 Nov 2024
Graffiti on a driveway entrance door: “The last car that parked here is still missing”

ALT Graffiti on a driveway entrance door: “The last car that parked here is still missing”

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10 Nov 2024
Barely used eBay for 20 years and it’s dumbfounding that the norm for things that are auctioned is still a hard time cutoff, which someone always snipes in the final minute. (Even using tools to do it). It’s crappy for bidders, and for sellers who could receive a truer value.
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24 Oct 2024
Halloween Koala March cute af
Small packet of Koala March sweet snacks with the mascot in classic Halloween costume tropes

ALT Small packet of Koala March sweet snacks with the mascot in classic Halloween costume tropes
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16 Oct 2024
Wait wait wait there are new Every Frame a Painting essays
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16 Oct 2024
Thought the YT algo was giving me a throwback in the feed, did a double-take on the “8 days ago”
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9 Sep 2024
Take a shot for every “impact on our lives”
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1 Aug 2024
Ever have those times where you think a web "app" might just be serving static pages to check a box that an online offering exists? None of the dates are selectable, pop-up for month where none of those are selectable either 😅
Screenshot of Thai Immigration Division's web appointment system, where it is impossible to make any appointment

ALT Screenshot of Thai Immigration Division's web appointment system, where it is impossible to make any appointment

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1 Aug 2024
Spoiler: the answer on the phone will be, "go to the office that is a one-hour commute away, get there early to get a queue number and hope that you will get called today. If not, come back tomorrow."
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