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Your MCP Servers Are Silently Draining Your Context Window: The Hidden Cost of Tool-Heavy AI Agents

Schema bloat silently burns tokens

Your MCP Servers Are Silently Draining Your Context Window: The Hidden Cost of Tool-Heavy AI Agents

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Meet type-tune! 🦀 Give Your TypeScript Types a Better Home! 😸

Addresses type clutter from AI-generated code

Meet type-tune! 🦀 Give Your TypeScript Types a Better Home! 😸

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A VS Code extension to turn ANY free chatbot website into an AI agent (kind of)

Born from the end of free AI promos

A VS Code extension to turn ANY free chatbot website into an AI agent (kind of)

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Can you merge at agent speed?

Can you merge at agent speed?

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DisplayLink Linux driver patents: the OIN codec exception

DisplayLink Linux driver patents: the OIN codec exception

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The job scanner that marked postings "done" without reading them

The job scanner that marked postings "done" without reading them

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Two small models ship in my Markdown editor. Three more didn't.

Two small models ship in my Markdown editor. Three more didn't.

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Fixing one bug in my security tool would have hidden every alert in my test project

Fixing one bug in my security tool would have hidden every alert in my test project

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PostgreSQL 14, 2021 to 2026

PostgreSQL 14, 2021 to 2026

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What Presidio misses for Canadian PII, and what I did about it

What Presidio misses for Canadian PII, and what I did about it

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I built a study timer app for Android entirely from my phone (and the first build failed with 30 errors)

I built a study timer app for Android entirely from my phone (and the first build failed with 30 errors)

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I Open-Sourced a Tool That Proves What Your AI Agent Actually Did

I Open-Sourced a Tool That Proves What Your AI Agent Actually Did

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velo: your music, in the terminal

velo: your music, in the terminal

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🏆 GitHub Has Secret Trophies. Here's How to See How Close You Are to the Next One

🏆 GitHub Has Secret Trophies. Here's How to See How Close You Are to the Next One

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hinglish isn't free: measuring what three models pay to answer in romanized hindi

hinglish isn't free: measuring what three models pay to answer in romanized hindi

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