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Issue 296: MCP in the CRM

Are you ready to get your acronyms on? On the podcast, we've got two talks that tackle three terse terms. First up, double your acronymic pleasure as Ryan chats with Karen Ng of Hubspot about implementing an MCP server for a CRM. Next up, look Ma, no head! Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger to discuss where a headless CMS fits into a componentized and service-oriented world. If you want to learn more about those acronyms, check out those pods. XX

If you want to learn some other stuff, we've got you there. Heck, all you collegiate types can learn a lot from our site resources, including new coding challenges (but only if you want some extra credit). For funzies, learn what happens to material sciences once energy constraints aren't an issue. If computer history is more your thing, learn about the order of punctuation within ASCII (another acronym). XX

On top of all that, we have a meadow of juicy links for grazing. Need a way to prank your IT department? Is AI making the world look WEIRD? Could open-source be used for good? One click gets you the answers below.

From the blog

Off with your CMS’s head! Composability and security in headless CMS

Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger, VP of Engineering at Storyblok, to talk about how headless content management systems (CMS) fit into an increasingly componentized software landscape.

Challenge yourself this back-to-school season!

One of the best ways to strengthen your coding skills is through practice. This week, you’ll find five new coding challenges designed to help you code creatively, think outside the box, and apply your coding knowledge in new ways.

What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company

Ryan chats with Karen Ng, EVP of Product at HubSpot, to chat about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how they implemented it for their server for their CRM product.

How Salesforce engineering uses Slack for DevOps to AIOps

Hear directly from the Salesforce engineering and developer teams on how they’re using Slack and AI-powered agents to speed up code deployment and get time back by automating routine requests.

Interesting questions

New larger artificial satellite created from natural gravity and existing space debris

To understand the gravity of the situation, check the Roche limit.

Why is ASCII punctuation in that order?

The real question is why is punctuation in this order on the keyboards of TeleType machines?

Get function parameter for functions fitting "between" two other functions

"In theory, it doesn't matter how far the values are apart, you can fit arbitrary amounts of nastiness into small spaces."

How does energy abundance affect materials science?

A few new favorite things: Melting and smelting and extracting more metals, recycling plastic and fission tea kettles...

Links from around the web

WEIRD in, WEIRD out

AI may have human-like reasoning, but which humans are we talking about here?

Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel

Need a type system that forces software to deal with any data that should not be trusted?

Are your links not malicious looking enough?

Turn your legit URLs into incredibly sketchy links as a treat for your IT department.

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