R "Nearest" Nabors
@nearestnabors.com
I used to make comics. Now I fuck around and find out in AI.
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My partner is dragging me out of my Code Hole for a magical Valentine's surprise trip.
No Claude Code.
No Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
It is going to be very difficult
No Claude Code.
No Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
It is going to be very difficult
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 AM
My partner is dragging me out of my Code Hole for a magical Valentine's surprise trip.
No Claude Code.
No Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
It is going to be very difficult
No Claude Code.
No Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
It is going to be very difficult
Folks are hyped about WebMCP this week! Don't know what it is or what it means for the web? Don't worry, I interviewed its creator to explain how WebMCP started as a skunkworks Auth project at Amazon then became a web standard at the W3C:
youtu.be/6Po39iD6Pfs?...
youtu.be/6Po39iD6Pfs?...
WebMCP: Agents on the Web and in the Browser
Alex Nahas, creator of WebMCP, was a backend engineer at Amazon building agents with MCP trying to solve agent authorization.
His solution? Run MCP inside the browser.
That side project became…
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Folks are hyped about WebMCP this week! Don't know what it is or what it means for the web? Don't worry, I interviewed its creator to explain how WebMCP started as a skunkworks Auth project at Amazon then became a web standard at the W3C:
youtu.be/6Po39iD6Pfs?...
youtu.be/6Po39iD6Pfs?...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of WebMCP for a limited series on the people building the future of agents. It all started when Alex Nahas was trying to solve authorization for internal MCP servers at Amazon! Incredible! www.arcade.dev/blog/web-mcp...
WebMCP: Making Every Website a Tool for AI Agents
How a browser hack for agent auth at Amazon became WebMCP, a proposed web standard. An Arcade MCP MVP interview.
www.arcade.dev
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of WebMCP for a limited series on the people building the future of agents. It all started when Alex Nahas was trying to solve authorization for internal MCP servers at Amazon! Incredible! www.arcade.dev/blog/web-mcp...
Hacking on AI/"co-working" at the Barbican today!
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Hacking on AI/"co-working" at the Barbican today!
Reposted by R "Nearest" Nabors
LLMs tripled new book releases since 2022. Average quality fell: most new entries are slop
BUT books 100-1,000 per category are actually better than before, & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books, it is net positive for readers. www.nber.org/papers/w34777
BUT books 100-1,000 per category are actually better than before, & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books, it is net positive for readers. www.nber.org/papers/w34777
February 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
LLMs tripled new book releases since 2022. Average quality fell: most new entries are slop
BUT books 100-1,000 per category are actually better than before, & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books, it is net positive for readers. www.nber.org/papers/w34777
BUT books 100-1,000 per category are actually better than before, & pre-LLM authors got more productive. And since people only read the good books, it is net positive for readers. www.nber.org/papers/w34777
You know your client's competition has no shame when they let an LLM hallucinate their diss-track content.
Prize for most egregious hallucination: "Machine-Callable Plugin"
(Did the PSEO contractor cheap out on the model?)
Don't be this guy, folks. Use Arcade.dev for MCP Auth ♥️
Prize for most egregious hallucination: "Machine-Callable Plugin"
(Did the PSEO contractor cheap out on the model?)
Don't be this guy, folks. Use Arcade.dev for MCP Auth ♥️
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
You know your client's competition has no shame when they let an LLM hallucinate their diss-track content.
Prize for most egregious hallucination: "Machine-Callable Plugin"
(Did the PSEO contractor cheap out on the model?)
Don't be this guy, folks. Use Arcade.dev for MCP Auth ♥️
Prize for most egregious hallucination: "Machine-Callable Plugin"
(Did the PSEO contractor cheap out on the model?)
Don't be this guy, folks. Use Arcade.dev for MCP Auth ♥️
Reposted by R "Nearest" Nabors
Excited to listen to @nearestnabors.com share their pearls of wisdom on using LLMs next week at @xtclondon.bsky.social ! Join us for pizza, drinks and fun convos - sign up now! www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
XTC @ City Pride, Farringdon (In-Person Round Table), Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join us for discussions about what’s happening in the world of XP, UX and software engineering in general.
**What to expect:**
Lively discussion amongst a diverse group o
www.meetup.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Excited to listen to @nearestnabors.com share their pearls of wisdom on using LLMs next week at @xtclondon.bsky.social ! Join us for pizza, drinks and fun convos - sign up now! www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
I would like to join a verbal self defense group.
Recently someone on a train shouted (off the handle, giving orders not requests) at my group to stop talking because we were being "too loud" (ie having a 4-way conversation, like normal people). I was so stunned, I said nothing, passive
Recently someone on a train shouted (off the handle, giving orders not requests) at my group to stop talking because we were being "too loud" (ie having a 4-way conversation, like normal people). I was so stunned, I said nothing, passive
February 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I would like to join a verbal self defense group.
Recently someone on a train shouted (off the handle, giving orders not requests) at my group to stop talking because we were being "too loud" (ie having a 4-way conversation, like normal people). I was so stunned, I said nothing, passive
Recently someone on a train shouted (off the handle, giving orders not requests) at my group to stop talking because we were being "too loud" (ie having a 4-way conversation, like normal people). I was so stunned, I said nothing, passive
I was around people and on the road for the better part of Wednesday-Saturday. Totally, zoned out playing Avatar Frontiers of Pandora for six hours today until I felt able to move again
February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I was around people and on the road for the better part of Wednesday-Saturday. Totally, zoned out playing Avatar Frontiers of Pandora for six hours today until I felt able to move again
Epic Bletchley trip with @oliverdunk.com Christopher Burns, and Stuart Sy
February 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Epic Bletchley trip with @oliverdunk.com Christopher Burns, and Stuart Sy
I feel like this is going to reduce a lot of friction working with parallel agents gabri.me/blog/git-wt
Introducing git-wt: Worktrees Simplified
In my previous post, I explained why the bare repo pattern makes git worktrees actually pleasant to use. But setting it up manually requires 10+ commands. And t...
gabri.me
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I feel like this is going to reduce a lot of friction working with parallel agents gabri.me/blog/git-wt
Co-working mission success! Kudos for friends at Huggingface and OpenAI in this trip to Paris! Thank you for the WiFi!
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Co-working mission success! Kudos for friends at Huggingface and OpenAI in this trip to Paris! Thank you for the WiFi!
Co-working mission: success! Thank you to friends at Huggingface and OpenAI!
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Co-working mission: success! Thank you to friends at Huggingface and OpenAI!
Bonjour! Time to find some Parisian coworking
February 6, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Bonjour! Time to find some Parisian coworking
As I said tonight to someone who marveled at how far I've come without a degree, family, inheritance, "Just imagine what I could do if I were lucky"
it's very hard to articulate the accumulative effect of trying to work in spaces that constantly remind you that the well being of women will always be sacrificed for the perceived value and potential of men
February 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
As I said tonight to someone who marveled at how far I've come without a degree, family, inheritance, "Just imagine what I could do if I were lucky"
Good NIGHT #MCPConnectDay! Thank you to the organizers at Alpic for putting on such a wonderful event! I got to meet old friends and new heroes 🙏🙇🥹
Can't wait to see what everyone is building next year!
Can't wait to see what everyone is building next year!
February 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Good NIGHT #MCPConnectDay! Thank you to the organizers at Alpic for putting on such a wonderful event! I got to meet old friends and new heroes 🙏🙇🥹
Can't wait to see what everyone is building next year!
Can't wait to see what everyone is building next year!
How to think of MCP tools Vs Agent skills:
Tools are means to accomplish tasks. Skills are the knowledge of how to accomplish tasks.
Tool: wings
Skills: how to flap, soar, dive
Tools are means to accomplish tasks. Skills are the knowledge of how to accomplish tasks.
Tool: wings
Skills: how to flap, soar, dive
February 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
How to think of MCP tools Vs Agent skills:
Tools are means to accomplish tasks. Skills are the knowledge of how to accomplish tasks.
Tool: wings
Skills: how to flap, soar, dive
Tools are means to accomplish tasks. Skills are the knowledge of how to accomplish tasks.
Tool: wings
Skills: how to flap, soar, dive
Coming from web standards, I can see the agent platforms fighting it out with platform-specific features (the OpenAI object gives you access to sessions and models!), but I know eventually it's all going to get smoothed into one standard (like MCP Apps). The cycle of innovation starts! #mcpconnect
February 5, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Coming from web standards, I can see the agent platforms fighting it out with platform-specific features (the OpenAI object gives you access to sessions and models!), but I know eventually it's all going to get smoothed into one standard (like MCP Apps). The cycle of innovation starts! #mcpconnect
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Tues Feb 17 @nearestnabors.com presents "Self-improving docs". Learn how to take Rachel's really, really ridiculously good skills with docs to enable you to write really really ridiculously good docs right in GitHub!
Sign up and join us in person at the City Pride!
www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
Sign up and join us in person at the City Pride!
www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
XTC @ City Pride, Farringdon (In-Person Round Table), Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join us for discussions about what’s happening in the world of XP, UX and software engineering in general.
**What to expect:**
Lively discussion amongst a diverse group o
www.meetup.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Tues Feb 17 @nearestnabors.com presents "Self-improving docs". Learn how to take Rachel's really, really ridiculously good skills with docs to enable you to write really really ridiculously good docs right in GitHub!
Sign up and join us in person at the City Pride!
www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
Sign up and join us in person at the City Pride!
www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
On the Eurostar to MCP Connect in Paris with the Consent.io crew!
February 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
On the Eurostar to MCP Connect in Paris with the Consent.io crew!
Will you be coming to MCP Connect in Paris on Wednesday? I will be presenting about an MCP App I've been tooling together to move my social interactions off platforms and into my agent. Want a peek? github.com/nearestnabor...
GitHub - nearestnabors/assa: Anti-Social Social Agent - MCP server for Twitter/X integration with rich UI components
Anti-Social Social Agent - MCP server for Twitter/X integration with rich UI components - nearestnabors/assa
github.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Will you be coming to MCP Connect in Paris on Wednesday? I will be presenting about an MCP App I've been tooling together to move my social interactions off platforms and into my agent. Want a peek? github.com/nearestnabor...
Psst. Would anyone like a sneak peek at my MCP Connect talk about building a an anti-social social agent with MCP Apps + Auth? DM me, I want your feedback!
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Psst. Would anyone like a sneak peek at my MCP Connect talk about building a an anti-social social agent with MCP Apps + Auth? DM me, I want your feedback!
I regret downloading the latest Keynote. It's covered in shiny new features, which when you click on them, ask you to sign up for a subscription service.
I'm getting visual clutter and more friction for some Product Team to hit their new conversion KPIs. Dissappointing.
I'm getting visual clutter and more friction for some Product Team to hit their new conversion KPIs. Dissappointing.
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I regret downloading the latest Keynote. It's covered in shiny new features, which when you click on them, ask you to sign up for a subscription service.
I'm getting visual clutter and more friction for some Product Team to hit their new conversion KPIs. Dissappointing.
I'm getting visual clutter and more friction for some Product Team to hit their new conversion KPIs. Dissappointing.
