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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
In this newsletter:
- Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Plus 14 links and 5 quotations and 4 releases and 1 TIL
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
Plus 7 links and 3 quotations and 3 notes and 2 tools
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
In this newsletter:
- Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Plus 9 links and 6 quotations and 2 notes and 1 release and 1 TIL and 1 tool
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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
Plus 4 links and 2 quotations and 6 releases and 1 tool
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Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
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Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
Plus 10 links and 6 quotations and 4 notes and 3 releases and 1...
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Creator of @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. Fellow at @JSKstanford. Collector of @nichemuseums. Usually hanging out with @natbat and @cleopaws. He/Him
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