Richard MacManus
Nekuda is an agentic commerce startup with a refreshing difference: it is betting on websites continuing to flourish, rather than AI chatbots completely taking over the shopping experience. I spoke with founding CEO Ayal Karmi about why the emerging WebMCP open standard underpins its web-based...
Richard MacManus
Around July last year, I discovered an open source project called MCP-UI — which provided a way to add web-based user interface components to AI agents. The project was brand new, having only been released in May 2025. In early August, I interviewed its two creators, Ido Salomon and Liad Yosef;...
Richard MacManus
Since we're moving to a web where both people and agents are active participants, there's a question of identity that we need to answer. And I don't mean whether agents should be treated as first-class citizens of the web (although that is an interesting philosophical question). No, there are a...
Richard MacManus
Arcade promotes itself as an "MCP runtime" — basically, middleware that governs how agents execute actions across tools and services. Although the company actually prefers the term "actions runtime," it believes that MCP is becoming the default way for agents to use SaaS apps and, increasingly,...
Richard MacManus
We're still so early in the agentic web era, so I was surprised when I came across a mainstream web platform already putting AI agents into production.RunSignup is a web technology company that specializes in events management for runners. It describes itself as "the largest registration platform...
Aleksandar Todorovski
Alex Priou received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University, an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut. Priou is the author of three books on Plato: “Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in...
Allen Sallinger
Interviewing is an exercise of story telling, hopefully the stories you tell are true. Not everyone is born with the gift of story telling but it is something that can be practiced and improved. After going through interviews during Q1 of this year here are some interview questions that came up...
Stephen Cresswell
After publishing my recent article defending coding tests, I read a post by James Mahy, a genuinely kind, and exceptionally talented developer whom I ironically had the good fortune to interview some years ago. In it, he raises some interesting points, suggesting that GitHub contributions do not...
Stephen Cresswell
Hiring software engineers is one of the most challenging and critical responsibilities for any team. Having founded a consultancy and led hiring for other companies, I know first-hand how much is at stake. A wrong hire can delay work, frustrate teams, and cost both significant time and money. It...
Allen Sallinger
Keeping up with interview prep is hard over time. If we are being honest we know that the interviews that a majority of our industry provides are nothing like our day jobs. But in order to secure most of the high paying jobs in our industry you must go through a few rounds of programming interview...
DK
I just had the chance to experience 8 different technical interview processes. And they were not what I expected! I didn’t get asked a single data structures and algorithms question. No leetcode for me. This may largely be related to the types of organizations that I applied. Despite writing a...
Colleen Doran
From the Guardian UK Website: “Award-winning writer and illustrator duo Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran will introduce their new graphic novel, Chivalry. Chivalry is an adaptation of a short story by Neil Gaiman, in which an elderly widow, Mrs Whitaker, unknowingly buys the Holy Grail in a charity...
Adarsh Pandit
My friend Andrew Chen interviewed me in 2012 about my career transitions.What a healthcare PhD learned at McKinsey about “relationship capital” that helped him create a new career as a Ruby on Rails software developer“Part of job satisfaction is knowing that you’re doing a really good job.” -...
Destiny
The gonzo author (inset) meets the cover ofhis newly-published novel The Panama Laugh Zombies! Brains! Zombies! It's the first novel ever published by author Thomas S. Roche. The Panama Laugh opens with a punch — literally — before launching into an unrelenting onslaught of dangerous...