Links #2025-14 - MCP, browser engines, and broliarchs

Articles or videos I found last week that I actually read and watched until the end.

• Notes on MCP - taoofmac.com

  This resonates with my, admittedly, brief experience with MCP. I always thought that HATEOAS was designed to address the kinds of problems that MCP aims to solve. Not that HATEOAS ever gained real adoption. But still, in this age of autonomous agents, shouldn't we just use that instead?

• A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset - www.righto.com

  The project is cool on its own, but the writeup is even more interesting. As someone who was once mesmerized by the video of Doug Engelbart, clicking and typing in another age, explaining the basics of word processing and shopping lists, I found some interesting tidbits about the demo that I hadn't known before.

• Servo vs Ladybird - thelibre.news

  A comparison between Servo and Ladybird, our best hopes for a new sorely needed browser engine besides Firefox and Chrome.

• Atom vs. RSS - nullprogram.com

  All I gathered from the discussions about syndication formats was that Atom is supposedly "better" than RSS. After reading this post that remains the TL;DR answer. But now I know why.

• Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust - blog.startifact.com

  I can't really explain why this gives me a warm feeling. Perhaps the idea that solid technology is not going to waste, even though it went out of fashion.

• A very theoretical scenario, DNS edition - jpmens.net

  A fun thought experiment about what would be necessary to set up alternative DNS roots in case of emergency. From a technical perspective this doesn't look too complicated. Actually getting people to use it seems impossible to pull off though.

• I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor.com

  Good that someone wrote this down. Now kids, go out and follow Zuckerberg's mantra: move fast and break things.