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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

A dev ditched Electric + PGlite for a lean, browser-native sync setup built aroundWASM SQLite,JSON polling, andBroadcastChannel reactivity. It’s running inside a local-first notes app. Changes get logged with DB triggers. Sync state? Tracked by hand. Svelte stores update via lightweight polling, wi..

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite
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LLM Evaluation: Practical Tips at Booking.com

A new LLM evaluation framework taps into an"LLM-as-judge"setup—think strong model playing human annotator. It gets prompted (or fine-tuned) to mimic human scores and rate outputs from other LLMs. It runs on a tightly labeledgolden dataset, handles both pointwise and head-to-head comparisons, and sh..

LLM Evaluation: Practical Tips at Booking.com
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No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Claims of 10–100x dev speed from AI tools skip the hard parts—code reviews, bug queues, flaky tests. In practice, AI helps with the small stuff: one-off scripts, throwaway glue code, basic scaffolds. But scaling that help across big, messy codebases? Still a pipe dream. Too much context lost. Too ma..

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Google releases AI agent Jules for programming

Google’s AI agentJulesjust leveled up—out of beta and into full-on dev mode. It now handlesasynchronous tasks, pushesreal-time code updates, and can spin up pull requests with deeperGitHub integration. Under the hood: it runs on the beefierGemini 2.5 Promodel. AddsEnvironment Snapshotsfor state cap..

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Powering Real-Time AI Applications

Generative AI databases like SingleStore now cramOLTP,OLAP,vector search, andfull-text searchinto one SQL-first platform. Structured, unstructured—it eats both. No ETL. No silos. Just real-time data, ripe for AI models and semantic queries. System shift:Blending transactional and analytic guts in o..

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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch

Anthropic just yanked OpenAI’s API access to Claude. Reason? Alleged violations of terms that forbid using Claude to train rival models—like GPT-5. Windsurf, an OpenAI acquisition target, got the boot earlier too. Spot the pattern: tighten access, box out competitors. System shift:APIs aren’t just ..

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch
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Who does your assistant serve?

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 backfired: instead of excitement, users felt betrayed by a forced upgrade that stripped away the warmth and reliability they had come to rely on in GPT-4o. Many treated the model as more than a tool — a companion, therapist, or emotional support — so when its personality sh..

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Implementing MCP Servers in Python: An AI Shopping Assistant with Gradio

Gradio just leveled up. It now auto-converts plain Python functions intoMCP-compliant LLM tools, grabbing input schemas and metadata straight from docstrings. New tricks:real-time progress streaming,auto file uploads, plus tight integration withVS Code’s AI Chatfor wiring up agent workflows...

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MCP Registry with Azure API Center

Azure just droppedMCP Center, showing off howAzure API Centercan double as a private registry forModel-Centric Protocol (MCP) servers. It’s built for internal use—think secure discovery, tight OAuth 2 auth, centralized control, and AI Gateway rules baked in. Handy when teams need to corral AI tools..

MCP Registry with Azure API Center
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Introducing AWS Cloud Control API MCP Server: Natural Language Infrastructure Management on AWS

AWS dropped theCloud Control API MCP Server, a mouthful of a name for a tool that makes 1,200+ AWS resources manageable through a standard CRUDL API—using natural language. Think: describe what you want, and tools like Amazon Q Developer turn it into actual infra code. It doesn’t stop there. It val..

Introducing AWS Cloud Control API MCP Server: Natural Language Infrastructure Management on AWS
Did you know you can clap for someone’s content up to 50 times on Medium?

Well, you can.

And to protect you from carpal tunnel syndrome, I packaged that behavior into a little extension for Chrome.

It works like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3soEz-5Z4

Open up your developer tools (right-click & choose inspect)

Then, navigate to the “console”:

And if you have a bunch of caca (that’s Spanish for 💩) in your Console you can click the little 🚫 icon to clear it:

Then:

copy the JavaScript code below
paste it into the Console area
press the Return key

and spread the clap!

(Scroll up to the top of this article before you press enter if you want to see it in action)

let clapButton = document.querySelector('button[data-testid="headerClapButton"]');
if (clapButton) {
const events = ['mousedown', 'mouseup', 'click'];

async function performClap() {
for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
events.forEach(eventType => {
let event = new MouseEvent(eventType, {
'view': window,
'bubbles': true,
'cancelable': true
});
clapButton.dispatchEvent(event);
});
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10)); // Introducing a 10ms delay between claps
}
console.log("+50 Claps! Now, go join the SERP community!");
}

performClap();
} else {
console.log("Clap button not found!");
}

Want the extension?

I submitted the extension to the Chrome app store and it’s pending approval as of this writing…

But if you’re too excited to sit around when you could be clappin’ it up — you’re welcome to grab the bootleg here:

👉 https://serp.ly/@serp/serp-clapper-medium