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drewda commented on Kiwi.com flight search MCP server mcp-install-instructions.... · Posted by u/Eldodi

lxe · a day ago

This reminds me of a time when 'API' has become a hot term. Every company would ship an API. I think Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, and I think even Google at some point had nice public APIs. This was the era of RSS and semantic web as well... until most realized there's no easy way to serve ads or control UX, making APIs great for customers but bad for business (unless the API is your product of course)

Given this, I'm not sure what business purpose there is to ship an MCP API like this, aside from goodwill and exposure.

drewda · a day ago

Can't wait for mashups of MCP services :)

drewda commented on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second blog.hyperknot.com/p/open... · Posted by u/hyperknot

Ericson2314 · 19 days ago

Oh wow, TIL there is finally a simple way to actually view OpenStreetMap! Gosh, that's overdue. Glad it's done though!

drewda · 18 days ago

The OSM Foundation has been serving raster tiles for years and years (that's what's visible by default on the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.org): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Carto

After on and off experimentation by various contributors, OSMF just released vector tiles as well: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/vector/

drewda commented on Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system github.com/traccar/tracca... · Posted by u/saikatsg

RonanSoleste · a month ago

Id have to register my own account with my personal data and connect my private phone to send my location to a server i know nothing about. Lets not.

drewda · a month ago

It's a great open-source option, but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.

drewda commented on Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview observablehq.com/notebook... · Posted by u/mbostock

svieira · a month ago

Out of curiosity, why `<notebook>` as an element and not a standard web-component `<observable-notebook>` or something like that if the goal is to go all-in on "normal" web development?

drewda · a month ago

I was wondering the same.

FWIW, the HTML custom elements spec does require a hyphen: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

drewda commented on Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software github.com/tidwall/pogoca... · Posted by u/tidwall

drewda · a month ago

Always great to see his open-source creations, like:

- a Redis like cache purpose built for real-time spatial locations: https://tile38.com/

- go package for reading JSON: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

drewda commented on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'? ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-c... · Posted by u/healsdata

zachncst · 3 months ago

Isn’t this what they always tell startups to do? Fake it and get product market fit. I recall the stories of task rabbit where the founder was delivering all the meals.

drewda · 3 months ago

"Do things that don't scale" to quote Sir PG.

drewda commented on We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch blog.glitch.com/post/chan... · Posted by u/js4ever

DannyPage · 3 months ago

I really enjoyed using Glitch as it allowed me to quickly publish and iterate on various experiments or try out new libraries like Datasette or HTMX.

I am curious what Glitch will look like after July. If they aren’t hosting apps, will they still be hosting code and letting it deploy elsewhere? It says it’s not a full shutdown, but it doesn’t appear to say what will be left to do on Glitch after that date.

drewda · 3 months ago

Glitch was acquired by Fastly a few years ago, so perhaps the user-facing brand will continue on for a while on top of some Fastly hosted services...

drewda commented on LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-l... · Posted by u/jngiam1

obiefernandez · 3 months ago

My team at Shopify just open sourced Roast [1] recently. It lets us embed non-deterministic LLM jobs within orchestrated workflows. Essential when trying to automate work on codebases with millions of lines of code.

[1] https://github.com/shopify/roast

drewda · 3 months ago

Nice to see Ruby continuing to exist and deliver... even in the age of "AI"

drewda commented on Mako: Fast, production-grade web bundler makojs.dev/... · Posted by u/kenfai

drewda · 6 months ago

FWIW, previously discussed under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853845

drewda commented on Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities kevin.burke.dev/kevin/nor... · Posted by u/kevinburke

drewda · 7 months ago

Interesting analysis.

Sounds like an argument for ABAG to expand its energy related services into a full utility (at least on the electricity side): https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/energy-infrastructure

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