Posts tagged MCP
# AI-first engineering, technical leadership, and building things that ship
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 posts tagged "MCP"