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Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP

Link – tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick

We’ve moved from command lines to GUIs, and now the next shift is here: AI that can actually use your app. This article introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a powerful way to let AI interact directly with your applications—and why it’s more than just another tech acronym.

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Compile time generics: yay or nay?

Link – thephp.foundation

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both.

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6 Weeks of Claude Code

Link – blog.puzzmo.com

Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate.

Read more [blog.puzzmo.com]