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Shannon Smith
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Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Shipping the Simplenote MCP
Read more: Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Shipping the Simplenote MCPWhen Automattic recently launched a month‑long hackathon, engineers Mark Biek and Evan Tobiesen knew exactly what they wanted to work on: the Simplenote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Neither Mark nor Evan works in data science, so measurement might have been the easy thing to skip. Instead, they shipped a product with built‑in measurement from…
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How to Organize a Data Book Club at Work
Read more: How to Organize a Data Book Club at WorkWhy a Book Club? Automattic has a creed that informs everything we do. And the very first part of the creed is “I will never stop learning”. The first and most important line of the creed means that you’re never finished. There is always more to learn. Your list of unread books is always going to…
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Stocking Stuffers for the Data Team
Read more: Stocking Stuffers for the Data TeamSanta is making a list and checking it twice – and if anyone knows the value of double-checking the results while analyzing a large data set – it’s our company’s data team. So we asked them to share their expertise and let us know what they hoped to see under their trees this year. Great Pens…
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How to Save Time with Alfred, Stream Deck, and Apple Shortcuts
Read more: How to Save Time with Alfred, Stream Deck, and Apple ShortcutsMost people automate parts of their job because they find it boring. I did it because I have four kids. I used Alfred, Stream Deck, and Apple Shortcuts to automate my workflow and make the start of my day easier.
Data for Breakfast 