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Looking forward to make sense of MCP, and why It's ground-breaking - I've got you covered 👇 ilm.aalam.in/article/mcp #LLM #MCP #Productivity #Integration #Claude #Automation
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Hospitality was never about the setting — it was always about whether you saw the person in front of you. That's Kolkata for you. Some places just operate differently. No manual, no policy. Just instinct. And this isn't rare here — Kolkata has always understood luxury differently
Near Girish Chandra Dey & Sons sweet shop in Kolkata’s Lake Market, there’s a cart. No signboard. No branding. The wife assembles plates. The husband makes rotis. That’s it. No written menu. You figure it out from the smell. Chicken curry. Veg kofta. Duck egg kosha. Basanti pulao. Chicken liver curry. And prices that feel like a mistake. I’d gone to pick up duck egg kosha for my Maa. She has a thing about haansher dim. I was waiting, watching. Plate. Ladle. Roti. Steam. Phonepe. The usual. Then a man walked in from the direction of Lake Mall. Office clothes, slightly worn. Small plastic bag in hand. “I work there,” he said, nodding toward the mall. Then: “Aaj shudhu ruti enechhi. Torkaari lagbe… taka kaal debo?” (Brought rotis today. Need some vegetables… can I pay tomorrow?) No pause. The wife reached for a plate. Mixed vegetables. Then egg curry — not asked for, just added. “Aage khao, taakar kotha pore hobe.” Eat first. Money can wait. The husband took the plastic bag, warmed the rotis on his tawa, handed them back. No word. Just done. The man sat on the ledge nearby and ate. Will a restaurant with mood lighting and a curated playlist do this? Somewhere, size got in the way. Compassion became a process.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Here, if you’re hungry, you eat. That’s the whole system. And somehow that’s the most premium experience in the city.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ In any city.
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phoenix.new is publicly available! I can't wait to see what folks build and where this goes! - remote AI runtime for full-stack app building, github workflows, etc - Full in browser IDE and xterm, with root - Preview URLs for any port fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-…
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🤖 Just dropped 👇 the ultimate RAG guide for frontend devs getting into AI! Build a smart movie assistant that actually understands "What are some mind-bending sci-fi films?" ✨ Covers: Vector embeddings Semantic Search Vercel AI SDK + Supabase #AI #RAG #Frontend #NextJS
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LAUNCH WEEK RECAP -- Here's everything we launched this week:
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Today I’m excited to announce the start of a project I’ve dreamed about for years: ui/pub — a registry of the highest-quality @shadcn components, blocks, and templates. Designed beautifully. Carefully coded. Built to ship fast. #buildinpublic
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This was much needed. This will save someone from maintaining a "github.com/x/awesome-mcp-reg…" :-)
lots of people were making mcp registries so we made an mcp registry registry
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React has agreed to renaming `className` to `class`. On by default in the next Next.js release.
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Utility-first CSS baked right into your browser, thus making it a language it simply gets, just like CSS 👌
Big news — we've partnered with Apple to integrate Tailwind CSS into Safari directly, making it the first browser that can render Tailwind sites with 0kb of CSS over the wire. Do your part and ship your sites with no CSS file to force other browsers to do the same 🤘🏻
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We just hit 50,000 GitHub stars 🤩 Thanks everyone!
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Just published: "MCP: The Universal Connector for AI and Your Tools" 🚀 ilm.aalam.in/article/mcp Discover how Model Context Protocol lets AI assistants directly control your apps and access your data—no custom code required. #AI #MCP #AIAgents #DevTools
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Yes, that's what sets it apart. It's one of the greatest one at that.
shadcn is a component distribution system.
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Thought Astro 5.3 could only be 1.92% better than 5.2? How about 400% faster rendering?
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With DeepSeek R1, if Jan 2025 wasn't already on the path of going down in the history as a month of a groundbreaking reasoner model and huge open-souce advancement, We have, Bytedance Doubau 1.5 Pro Moonshot Kimi k1.5 DeepSeek Janus Pro, and 👇
1/n: 🚀 Announcing YuE (乐) – the most powerful open-source full-song music generation model! 🎵 Tackle the lyrics-to-song task (like Suno.ai) with support for diverse genres, stunning vocals, & multiple languages. Bonus? It’s Hugging Face & LLAMA-compatible for easy fine-tuning. 🛠️ Code: github.com/multimodal-art-pr… Demo: map-yue.github.io/
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Do more of what you love about the schema defining, validation and parsing libraries and less of what you don't like when you switch them.
BIG DAY. Introducing Standard Schema 1.0! It's a specification for a "common interface" to be implemented by all TypeScript schema libraries, written collaboratively by the the creators of Zod (👋), Valibot, and ArkType to promote interoperability. standardschema.dev/
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Astro 5.0 is here. Content layer, server islands, simplified prerendering, type-safe env, @vite_js v6. All stable.
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Who do you think is the most insane programmer of our current era? I think it’s Evan Wallace (cofounder of Figma): - Basically rebuilt the browser rendering stack to run in the browser for Figma - Built CRDTs to run Figma’s multiplayer tech for millions of users - Built a JS bundler 10-100x faster than the status quo (esbuild) - First person to do crazy graphics stuff on the web (WebGL water)
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Introducing Merf ✨ - the smart code aggregator! Merf takes your codebase and: 📚 Merges it into markdown 🎯 Respects .gitignore patterns 🎨 Adds syntax highlighting in milliseconds 🚀 Install. Say g'bye to copy-paste chaos! npm i -g merf #DevTools #ProductivityHacks #Claude
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