v1.4.0 of our open source mcp-confluent server is out 🎉 It includes new tools for Kafka message consumption and consumer management! Give it a try and let me know what you think: github.com/confluentinc...

GitHub - confluentinc/mcp-confluent

Contribute to confluentinc/mcp-confluent development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alsways fun to be on the show! But this one is kinda personally special. Happy Birthday #KafkaStreams youtu.be/wuWJ99wp9hQ

10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32 | Confluent Developer Podcast

YouTube video by Confluent Developer

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2 AI-powered apps with good UX that I actually use in my day to day outside of work: iNaturalist: Snap a pic of an interesting bird or plant, get it identified. Elicit: Ask a scientific question, get papers returned on it. Click into the citations and see the supporting sentence.

Do you know what an SEP is? It stands for Specification Enhancement Proposal, and it's a way to propose changes to the open MCP spec. You can view the list and their statuses at the link below: modelcontextprotocol.io/seps

Specification Enhancement Proposals (SEPs) - Model Context Protocol

Index of all MCP Specification Enhancement Proposals

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It's tough to define the mechanisms of human cognition. Given that, can we say AI can replace us? In the age of AI, it might be good to sit with the question of what human thinking is, and let that inform our approach to AI. luciacerchie.dev/articles/ai-...

Lucia Cerchie — Writing & Essays

May 31, 2026 ·  Lucia Cerchie

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We built some agent skills to help people use Flink, Kafka Streams, and Kafka clients, as well as Tableflow. LMK what you think! github.com/confluentinc...

agent-skills/skills at main · confluentinc/agent-skills

AI agent skills for stream processing and event streaming - confluentinc/agent-skills

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Fuzzy-matching against aliases in your command palette... that's cool! blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build...

How to build a remarkable command palette

Command palettes are incredible tools: they're fast, versatile, and will transform users into power users! Tim Boucher explains how to build a truly remarkable command palette for your product...

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nighttime browsing: interop proposal guide github.com/web-platform...

Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud. We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...

Monitor Kafka Streams Health in Confluent Cloud

Quickly troubleshoot Kafka Streams apps with new health metrics in Confluent Cloud. Spot bottlenecks, monitor RocksDB, and reduce MTTR—no extra code.

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"A lot of people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it." It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable! Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...

Tiny Wins

The big benefits of little changes.

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oh no I just found riso zine Etsy :D

It's 2025, why aren't the AI innovations folding my laundry

jira? isn't that the guy who dreams of sushi?

My internal math hobbyist and philosopher balks every time I see unbounded Flink tables referred to as “infinite”, but I’ll let y’all have it as a loanword

This is a screenshot from the ATProto docs. No leading $, no newline business that gets messed up when I copy this over to the terminal. Might seem trivial, but the seconds it takes to get to a locally running an app so devs can follow along the tutorial are critical. The fewer, the better.

[on a call with a partner team at a tech company] thank you for your microservice 🫡

Thanks for the write up, Maggie! Spent the weekend moving house but if I get a spare moment to myself this week I plan to crack my knuckles and give DeepSeek a spin on my personal laptop… probably some side project with ATProto

Maggie Appleton@maggieappleton.com · 2y ago

Reluctantly spent part of the weekend trying to interpret the DeepSeek R1 manic panic happening on the hell site. Took a minute, but wrote myself notes to clarify the basics: maggieappleton.com/2025-01-deep... TLDR; a cheaper, higher-quality, open-source reasoning model for everyone. Net good.

The lively and happy dev community around ATProto is a great value signal.

Thinking of teaching kids to make static websites this year at a local STEM center… what are your favorite resources for teaching internet safety and awareness?

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...

Bsky looks like X but could just as easily been an old school forum. It’s all in the ATProtocol and positions bsky for an increasingly fractionated social media landscape. Read up: arxiv.org/html/2402.03... and bsky.social/about/blog/5...

TIL you can ID your connected printers by running lpstat -p -d

It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17! sessionize.com/current-lond...

New Year, new website! luciacerchie.dev

Those “brag docs” are great references for when you want to make a case for yourself professionally to others (promotion season etc). But they are even more important for your own bad days. If you don’t have one, think about it for a New Year’s resolution

Ashley C. Ford@smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

4 out of my top 5 were Frozen songs. Not my fault 😅❄️

Data viz friends, are you aware of any stickers that are specifically meant for creating charts? Doing a manual repo viz exercise and I'm probably just going to order some planner stickers but I'm curious

Did you know that user follows in atproto work like hyperlinks? User A follows user B, that means that there's only a follow record in A's repo. Universal indexing takes care of B's list.

Pleased that arxiv is starting to experiment with offering whitepapers as html... was getting tired of squinting at pdfs