Readit NewsThere's basically a couple of different ways to implement an MCP server - for this demo it's a local binary that communicates over stdio, so no OAuth process is taking place. It's only meant to run on your local machine.
To make the demo simpler to explore and understand, the binary loads it's configuration (SnapTrade API client id, secret, and username and secret) from a .env file that you populate with your credentials which allows it to fetch the right data.
As the article notes, a lot of it was destroyed in an earthquake in the 1960s, so the government seized upon the opportunity to rebuild several major landmarks (like the main post office) in the then-fashionable raw concrete brutalist style.
That said, most of the post-60s residential blocs are not identifiably "brutalist" -- it's not Belgrade -- they're just bland and basically built as functionalist housing in the unloved "Khrushchyovka" style.
But that's not the interesting part. What's interesting is that since ~2010 the government has embarked on a "nation building" (and explicitly anti-Albanian) project with gaudy neoclassical buildings that are often likened to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Kitsch. See, e.g., the fake galleon and its background: https://ibb.co/LTGwYZs
Much ink has been spilled on this matter.
> https://rs.boell.org/en/2021/01/29/neoliberal-manipulation-s...
Thing is, though, it looks good and Skopje is a very fun town to spend time in. The old market is great, the people are nice, and the much-criticized neoclassical buildings give the city a vibe that's both extraordinary (there are very few places like it) and coherent (the entire city is done up in just a small handful of architectural styles.)
> With the end of the "Skopje 2014" project, not only the Macedonian nationalist hungry spirit was fed. Its counterpart, Albanian nationalism, got its part of the city to ill-treat, so the neighbouring Skanderbeg Square was turned into a nationalist showcase for another actor of the Macedonian ethnocratic elite.
But overall agree that it's over-the-top kitsch.
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I absolutely love the idea of using one of these models without having to upload my source code to a tech giant.
Edited to add: Though somewhat slow, swap seems to have been a good enough replacement for not having the loads of RAM required. Ollama says "32 GB to run the 13B models", but I'm running the llama2:13b model on a 16 GB MBP.
Wrote basically the exact same thing 1 day later in Swift with AppKit and NO SwiftUI and it sits at 0% CPU usage with less code complexity. Maybe in a few years I will give SwiftUI another try.
Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook.
And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine.
I am absolutely excited for all of this. It really is as big as the iPhone.