Building an MCP client in Python is a great way to test MCP servers directly from your terminal. In this video course, you’ll build a minimal MCP client for the command line. It can connect to an MCP server through the standard input/output (stdio) transport, list the server’s capabilities, and inte...

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Build a cinematic, scroll-driven 3D gallery using a camera path authored in Blender, rendered with Three.js, and animated with GSAP.

It’s three in the afternoon, and Claude Code asks me, for the 40th time today, whether it can run a command. I glance at it, hit Allow, and keep moving. I didn’t really read it. The thirty-ninth time, I didn’t read that one either. That reflex is the problem. Every permission prompt is supposed to [...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the video course Testing MCP Servers With a Python MCP Client. By working through it, you’ll revisit how to build a minimal command-line MCP client, connect it to a server through the stdio transport, and use a CLI to list, call, and inspect a server’s...

Hostinger customers now receive automatic security scanning for application dependencies, helping protect AI-built applications after deployment. Hostinger, an AI-driven busine… The post Hostinger partners with Patchstack to bring vulnerability management to Node.js hosting appeared first on Hosting...

Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon tasks, why heavy orchestration layers can hurt model performance more than help it, and why the 2026 competitive edge actually comes from information re...

Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…

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"Dragoncoder" supports a web application that has a "wait time" for access. I hate that that's a thing, but I recognize that there are real-world constraints where this might make sense. Still, I hate it. But that's not the WTF. var minutes = parseInt( 12 , 10); var time = document.getElementById('w...

The age of AI is upon us — and with it, a new age of telemetry and observability tools for MCP-driven stacks. MCP observability refers to the tools and practices used to monitor, trace, and analyze how AI agents interact with MCP servers, tools, and connected systems. The current slate of tools for ...

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in physical AI development can still be gated by costly and fragmented resources, from large datasets and robot foundation models to simulation, co...

Merge two Python dicts with | which returns a new dict. Conflicts? The right-side dict gets priority: d1 | d2 # {‘a’: 10, ‘b’: 100, ‘c’: 200, ‘d’: 300}d2 | […] The post Merging Python dictionaries with |: Right side wins conflicts appeared first on LernerPython.

Tumblr has tons of settings, and in the app, most of them are in a single list under “General Settings”. We cleaned up the layout and reorganized to make browsing preferences and notifications easier to find, put all your blog and communities settings in one place, and added a few options that were ...

Laravel MPP is middleware from Square1 that gates routes behind the Machine Payments Protocol, returning a 402 challenge that AI agents pay with Stripe Shared Payment Tokens or Tempo pathUSD and then retry. The post Laravel MPP: Charge AI Agents for API Access with 402 Payment Required appeared firs...

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

Add Auth0 login, logout, sessions, and token refresh to a Hono app on Cloudflare Workers with one middleware call. A practical guide to the new @auth0/auth0-hono SDK (beta).

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Your Unity Catalog (UC) managed tables now get better on their own. Automatic (Auto)...

Learning identity management is hard enough. Navigating Okta’s documentation to build something shouldn’t be. If you’ve ever lost an afternoon stitching together how-to guides, product docs, and scattered blog posts just to figure out where to start, you’re not alone – and we’ve heard you, loudly an...

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Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation.

Find the right AI contact center platform. We compare top tools on agent assist, real-time transcription, pricing, and conversation orchestration.

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We recently launched Omnigent, an open source meta-harness for AI agents. It lets...