9 min read
No Way to Say No
The small web spent a year with no way to tell my MCP server no. The criticism of gopher-mcp was mostly right, and this is what shipped because of it.
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13 articles tagged with "ai"
17 min read
Making My Portfolio Agent-Readable: From Files to an Interface Agents Can Act On
I stopped publishing files for agents to discover and built an interface they can act on: markdown mirrors, an A2A agent card, and verifiable skills.
aiagentsweb-standardsmcpprotocols
14 min read
AI Slop Is a Search Problem Now
We keep blaming AI-generated content for poisoning the web. But the slop is downstream of a market shift: search stopped sending users to publishers, publishers stopped being able to fund human writing, and AI filled the gap. The diagnosis matters.
aisearchweb-standardsopen-web
6 min read
Building Ask: A RAG-Powered Chatbot for My Portfolio
How I built Ask, the RAG chatbot on every page of this site: Cloudflare Workers AI, Vectorize, and the prompt-injection hardening it took to ship.
aisearchtypescriptastro
5 min read
Building ClarissaBot: Vehicle Safety Intelligence with Azure AI Foundry
I built an AI agent that answers 'should I worry about my 2020 Model 3?' with live NHTSA recall data: Azure AI Foundry, .NET, and RFT in practice.
aiagentsdotnet
5 min read
Building Clarissa: Learning How AI Agents Actually Work
I built a terminal AI agent from scratch to see how they really work: the ReAct loop, safe tool execution, and what context management actually takes.
aiagentstypescriptmcp
6 min read
Building a Gopher MCP Server: Bringing 1991's Internet to Modern AI
Why I wired a 1991 protocol into modern AI: gopher-mcp gives assistants the small internet's text-first content with almost no protocol overhead.
mcpaiprotocolsretro-computing
13 min read
The /llms.txt Standard: An Elegant Solution Nobody's Using
The /llms.txt standard is an elegant proposal for AI-friendly web content. It has one fundamental problem: no major AI platform actually uses it.
aiweb-standardsllms-txtseomachine-learning
5 min read
AT Protocol MCP Server: Bridging AI and Bluesky's Decentralized Social Network
My MCP server for the AT Protocol: zero-config public reads of Bluesky data, authenticated writes when you need them.
mcpaitypescriptdecentralizationatproto
8 min read
Wassette: Microsoft's WebAssembly Runtime for Secure AI Tool Execution
Most MCP servers run with full system access. I dig into Wassette, Microsoft's WebAssembly runtime that sandboxes AI tools behind capability grants.
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4 min read
ActivityPub MCP Server: Bridging AI and the Fediverse
How I taught Claude to explore the Fediverse: an MCP server that discovers actors, fetches timelines, and queries Mastodon-compatible instances.
mcpaitypescriptdecentralizationprotocols
7 min read
OpenZIM MCP Server: Offline Knowledge for AI Assistants
I built openzim-mcp so AI assistants can search Wikipedia with zero connectivity. ZIM archives pack an entire encyclopedia into one indexed file.
mcpaisearch
7 min read
Building Model Context Protocol Servers: A Deep Dive
What I learned building production MCP servers in Python: the architecture, caching, and security patterns shared by gopher-mcp and openzim-mcp.
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