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Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP

– 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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How Flare's GitHub integration works under the hood original

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Last week, my colleague Ruben and I launched a major new feature at Flare: there's a new integration with GitHub that makes it possible to:

  • create a GitHub issue directly on a Flare error
  • associate a GitHub issue with a Flare error by mentioning a Flare URL in the GitHub issue
  • automatically resolve an error on Flare when you close the GitHub issue
  • automatically close a GitHub issue when you resolve an error in Flare

In this stream, Ruben and I will show you how you can use this integration and how it works under the hood.

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Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker

Frank de Jonge, creator and maintainer of Flysystem, recently started using Docker to test the FTP driver. On his blog he explains the why and how.

For Flysystem, an open source PHP package to deal with filesystems, I needed a way to test FTP (barf) interactions. FTP servers are notoriously bad at abiding by the spec. ... For Flysystem's FTP(d) adapter an integration test, using an actual FTP server, brought back the level of confidence it needed.

https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/regaining-trust-in-your-tests-with-docker/

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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

In a fantastic post on his blog, Kent C. Dodds makes the case for focusing on writing integration tests, and stop going for 100% code coverage. Amen to that!

You may also find yourself testing implementation details just so you can make sure you get that one line of code that’s hard to reproduce in a test environment. You really want to avoid testing implementation details because it doesn’t give you very much confidence that your application is working and it slows you down when refactoring. You should very rarely have to change tests when you refactor code.

https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c

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How to use WordPress as a backend for a Laravel Application

Recently Eric L. Barnes put a new coat of paint on Laravel News. Behind the scenes there were some changes as well. In a new post he explains how he integrated the Wordpress backend with a Laravel app.

Last week I relaunched Laravel News, and the new site is running on Laravel with WordPress as the backend. I’ve been using WordPress for the past two years, and I’ve grown to enjoy the features that it provides. The publishing experience, the media manager, the mobile app, and Jetpack for tracking stats.

I wasn’t ready to give these features up, and I didn’t have the time to build my own system, so I decided to keep WordPress and just use an API plugin to pull all the content I needed out, then store it in my Laravel application. In this tutorial, I wanted to outline how I set it all up.

https://laravel-news.com/2016/08/wordpress-api-with-laravel/

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Easily integrate MailChimp in Laravel 5 original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Today we released a new major version of our laravel-newsletter package. This package makes it easy to integrate MailChimp in your Laravel app. Under the hood V3 of the MailChimp API is used. If you're used the older version of our package be sure to upgrade by the end of this year: MailChimp will…

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