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# AI-first engineering, technical leadership, and building things that ship

Read9 Aug 2026· 4 min read

One Kettle, Three Clients: Home Assistant, Open Source, and a Beta

The dead AppKettle is now a Home Assistant device, a public repo with a Docker image, and a phone app in closed beta. The interesting part was teaching three clients to share one TCP connection.

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Read4 Aug 2026· 3 min read

An MCP Server for Every Hill in Britain and Ireland

My third MCP server ships its entire dataset inside the npm package. 21,576 hills, no API key, no network calls at runtime.

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Read6 May 2026· 3 min read

Reverse-Engineering a Dead Smart Kettle into an MCP Server

My AppKettle smart kettle stopped being smart when the company shut down. So I reverse-engineered their Android app, decoded the protocol, and wrote an MCP server for it.

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Read29 Apr 2026· 3 min read

A parkrun MCP Server That Needs Zero Configuration

I built an MCP server for finding parkrun events from Claude. No API keys, no OAuth, no setup. Just install and ask.

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Read22 Apr 2026· 4 min read

I Built an MCP Server So Claude Can Read My Strava Data

How I built and published an MCP server that connects Claude Code to the Strava API. The setup, the tools, and what I learned shipping it to npm.

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Read5 Apr 2026· 5 min read

How I Use MCP Servers to Connect Claude to Everything

A practical guide to building MCP servers that connect Claude Code to your internal tools, databases, and APIs. Why this matters for engineering teams using AI seriously.

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