Mastodawn

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

Building a Javascript "Hello,World" MCP server in 2026

Practical steps and pitfalls toward building a basic MCP in 2026

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Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Sep 20, 2023

🗓️ 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

Algolia DevBit - Front-end edition

Get tickets to Algolia DevBit - Front-end edition, taking place 27/09/2023 to 27/09/2023. Hopin is your source for engaging events and experiences.

Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Sep 6, 2023

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

Live Coding - What to watch next: Video recommendations with Algolia

The Live Coding Session is a technical event for developers where a problem is solved in real-time.

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Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Jul 25, 2023

rstevens 🐳💨✅Jul 5, 2023

it all went wrong when we stopped using tables and frames to make websites

Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Jun 12, 2023

@raed @algolia I’m so excited for this! We’ve got some amazing talks lined up. Just gotta figure out what I’m going to wear…

Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Dec 20, 2022

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

Setting up your MacBook for mobile Flutter development

This month I'm trying to level up on my mobile development skills by learning Flutter with and end...

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Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Dec 17, 2022

@geoffeg This is important.

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Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Dec 17, 2022

@dashiznik Oh! Anything I recommended would be at least two years out-of-date. @mrinaudo would be the one to give you current advice. But at the core, I’d say use IaC tools like CloudFormation and validation tools like Cfn-Lint.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/git-pre-commit-validation-of-aws-cloudformation-templates-with-cfn-lint/

Git pre-commit validation of AWS CloudFormation templates with cfn-lint | Amazon Web Services

We’re living in a golden age of AWS CloudFormation tooling. Tools like cfn_nag and taskcat make it easier to treat your infrastructure as code by performing testing and validation before you deploy a single resource into your accounts. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use linters to validate your CloudFormation templates. A […]

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Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Dec 16, 2022

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

Please?!

Chuck Meyer (Algolia 🥑)Dec 16, 2022

Molly White Dec 16, 2022

maybe twitter's URL censoring is so easily circumvented because all the software engineers still there are desperately trying to keep their lines of code metrics as high as possible