I wanted to better understand how MCPs work, so I started with a basic "hello,world" example and I'm building up from there.

https://dev.to/chuckm/building-a-javascript-helloworld-mcp-server-in-2026-2lbc

🗓️ A week from today, I'm hosting @algolia's Fall DevBit. This one is frontend-focused, with tips on building search UIs and recommendations for mobile 📱 and web applications.

Oh, and it's FREE! 😏

You can register now, and I'll see you next week!
https://hopin.com/events/algolia-devbit-2/registration

I’m doing a livecoding session today at noon ET with Tim Benniks that should be fun and kind of loose.

We will be using metadata and click events to improve video discoverability. We’ll see how it goes!
https://bit.ly/3OMLUjV

Decided to learn Flutter. Here are some quick tips I wrote on setting up a MacBook for mobile Flutter development in case you find yourself in the same place.
#DEVCommunity

https://dev.to/algolia/setting-up-your-macbook-for-mobile-flutter-development-3pj4

Also, whoever is actively working on the TweetDeck equivalent for Mastodon, will you please please PLEASE call it Masticate?

Please?!

Hi friends! I seem to have reached a tipping point on Mastodon where it's worth an #introduction

I know many of you from my time as a Developer Advocate / Infrastructure Automation nerd at AWS.

For the last year, I've been with @algolia learning about the front end and helping folks add search and discovery to their websites.

I do standup and improv and use to be in bands (bass). I love seeing you all here, but it's a pale replacement for seeing you in person. Maybe someday.

Very happy with this guide to using Algolia + Open AI’s Whisper library to index YouTube channels. We spent a long time building it.

https://www.algolia.com/blog/engineering/generate-a-transcription-index-for-youtube-using-whisper/