Friday, October 03, 2025

AI: MCP, A2A, ACP Protocols

AI Agent Protocols Explained: MCP, A2A, ACP and More - YouTube

Message from AnswerRocket

FeatureMCPA2AACP
Primary PurposeConnects AI to tools and data sourcesConnects AI agents to other AI agentsEnables local agent coordination
Initiated ByAnthropicGoogle and partnersIBM/BeeAI
Best ForTool discovery and data accessMulti-agent collaboration across platformsEdge computing and local environments
Design FocusSimplifying context accessAgent interoperabilityLow-latency, offline operation
SecurityBasic; evolved from hobbyist projectEnterprise-grade by designLocal sovereignty, no cloud dependency
Communication StyleTool invocationTwo-way agent communicationEvent-driven messaging
Network RequirementsInternet/cloud-basedInternet/cloud-basedCan operate offline
Ideal EnvironmentEnterprise cloud applicationsCross-platform agent ecosystemsEdge devices, robotics, IoT



An Unbiased Comparison of MCP, ACP, and A2A Protocols | by Sandi Besen | Medium

MCP, ACP, A2A, Oh my! — WorkOS Guides

MCP vs A2A vs ACP: AI Protocols Explained | Bluebash


GitHub - Tsadoq/a2a-mcp-tutorial: A tutorial on how to use Model Context Protocol by Anthropic and Agent2Agent Protocol by Google

GitHub - GongRzhe/A2A-MCP-Server: A mcp server that bridges the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, enabling MCP-compatible AI assistants (like Claude) to seamlessly interact with A2A agents.




Thursday, October 02, 2025

ICF vs SIPs vs Framing vs Factory house construction

Most of products are improving technology, while housing, is USA at least, is not changing much.
Hopefully that may change soon..
 
good, informative video of "traditional" methods
ICF vs SIPs vs Framing - Pros and Cons - YouTube



"Factory-build" houses. Like Tesla cars.
Would help if they hired some real good designer / architect. 
Most people don't like to live in a small "container" box.











Tuesday, September 30, 2025

AI model: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 \ Anthropic

🧑‍🚀 Korea’s AI Push, ChatGPT Shopping & Claude 4.5 Coding

"...improved code-editing accuracy, stronger long-context performance, and enhanced agentic capabilities, Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 strikes a better balance between creativity and control than earlier models while reducing issues like deception and hallucination. It’s now powering updates to Claude Code and is available through Amazon Bedrock and GitHub Copilot."




Architecture: Passive House

Exploring Passive House Design - 90% Energy Savings! - YouTube by Undecided with Matt Ferrell






In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does not involve the use of mechanical and electrical devices.









Monday, September 29, 2025

AI: MCP vs API

interesting (too) "high-level description... and nice illustration

How Model Context Protocol can support your startup - Microsoft for Startups Blog

API = the “language” developers must learn and maintain
MCP = the “smart translator” that helps AI understand and adapt automatically



vs. practical developers info


SpessaSynth: JavaScript MIDI

 GitHub - spessasus/SpessaSynth: MIDI SoundFont/DLS player and editor written in JavaScript.

SpessaSynth is a SoundFont2-based real-time synthesizer written in vanilla JavaScript.







Sunday, September 28, 2025

ideas: deck porcelan tiles

The Last Deck You'll Ever Buy - YouTube

24"x24", 4/3" think, fire-proof, water-proof, super-quick installation, on aluminum rails
simple, durable










Saturday, September 27, 2025

Apple Intelligence MCP?

 Apple to deploy MCP support for powerful AI experiences – Computerworld

It is a universally acknowledged truth that Apple has fallen behind in artificial intelligence, even though millions of its products can already run most cloud-based models as well as its own on-device AI, presently in the form of Apple Intelligence.

While delayed, the code is coming. 9to5Mac claims the first developer beta of iOS 26.1 includes code to “suggest” Apple is working toward implementing support for the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic in its operating systems.


pg_duckdb 1.0: DuckDB-Powered Postgres

Announcing Pg_duckdb Version 1.0 - MotherDuck 

 An official Postgres extension (built in collaboration with Hydra and MotherDuck) that embeds DuckDB’s columnar-vectorized analytics engine and features into Postgres. GitHub repo.


BlogPostgres Weekly Issue 615: September 11, 2025


MotherDuck: Ducking Simple Data Warehouse based on DuckDB

free e-book: DuckDB in Action


Friday, September 26, 2025

AI vs Architecture Tools?

Google AI is "back!"

More likely than "replace" is that AI will be used by most Architecture/Design tools,
a "hybrid" approach, like in PhotoShop. But what can AI do directly is quite amazing. 

 GOOGLE Nano Banana Update ARCHITECTS Shouldn't MISS | Step-By-Step Walkthrough - YouTube





Why Rhino is KING for Innovative Architecture! - YouTube

+ grasshopper (extension)

+ schechup (too simple?)
+ blender (rising)
+ maya (limited addoption)


Thursday, September 25, 2025

AI HW: China NVIDIA ban?

 AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips. This move received only modest attention in the media, but has implications far beyond what’s widely appreciated. Specifically, it signals that China has progressed sufficiently in semiconductors to break away from dependence on advanced chips designed in the U.S., the vast majority of which are manufactured in Taiwan. It also highlights the U.S. vulnerability to possible disruptions in Taiwan at a moment when China is becoming less vulnerable.




AI SW: Modular startup: $250M => $1.6B

Start-up Modular raises $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s software dominance

A team of Silicon Valley veterans who previously worked at Apple and Google has raised $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s dominance of the software tools used to programme artificial intelligence chips. Palo Alto-based Modular, which is building an alternative to Nvidia’s Cuda software that has been vital to keeping customers locked to the chipmaker’s AI products, announced it has received the new investment at a $1.6bn valuation

Modular: Modular Raises $250M to scale AI's Unified Compute Layer

Modular: Modular’s bet to break out of the Matrix (Democratizing AI Compute, Part 10)


Modular: Modular 25.6: Unifying the latest GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple

NVIDIA B200: Incredible Performance on NVIDIA’s Best

MAX delivers industry leading performance on NVIDIA Blackwell 200s, NVIDIA’s current flagship datacenter GPU. Following our partnership with Inworld, where we delivered 2.5x throughput wins and 3.3x latency wins (time to first audio) for their state-of-the-art text-to-speech model,



Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi in Las Vegas

 Amazon’s Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas | The Seattle Times

"Zoox can afford to give free rides largely because of Amazon’s deep pockets. The e-commerce powerhouse, currently worth $2.5 trillion, bought Zoox for $1.2 billion five years ago as part of its efforts to establish a foothold in other fields of technology."



AI Course: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol

Course: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Fundamentals | Udemy Business

"The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol is revolutionizing how intelligent systems work together and this course gives you a front-row seat to the future of AI.

Whether you're a developer, researcher, or AI enthusiast, this course walks you through the foundations of the A2A protocol and how it enables multiple large language model (LLM) agents to communicate, collaborate, and complete tasks more efficiently. Designed with clarity and practicality in mind, you'll explore real-world examples of how Google uses A2A in technologies like Bard, Gemini, and PaLM."




Tuesday, September 23, 2025

construction: Superwood


AI: Superwood is a revolutionary, wood-based biomaterial developed by InventWood that is stronger than steel, more durable, and significantly more sustainable than traditional materials. It's created by chemically removing lignin from wood, then compressing the structure under heat and pressure, which creates a dense, robust material with a superior strength-to-weight ratio. Superwood retains the natural beauty of wood grain while also being resistant to fire, rot, and pests, and it locks away carbon, offering a cleaner, greener alternative for construction and other applications


The strength of steel. The soul of wood.







Saturday, September 20, 2025

Microsoft AI "Giga-Factory"

 Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog

The new Fairwater AI datacenter in Wisconsin stands as a remarkable feat of engineering, covering 315 acres and housing three massive buildings with a combined 1.2 million square feet under roofs. Constructing this facility required 46.6 miles of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel, 120 miles of medium-voltage underground cable and 72.6 miles of mechanical piping.



visual agorithms: Big-O

 Big O



Friday, September 19, 2025

NVIDIA + Intel? ($5B => +22%)

 Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal | Tom's Hardware


Intel surges 22% as Nvidia to invest $5 billion in chipmaker


IT'S OVER! I Can't Stay Quiet on AMD vs Nvidia Stock (NVDA) Any Longer - YouTube


AWS: Frugal Architect, APIs are forever

good podcast:

A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - Software Engineering Daily

"Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influence the design of AWS. He holds a PhD in computer science and has authored numerous academic papers on the reliability and performance of large-scale systems.

He is known for his pragmatic, customer-focused approach to technology and for championing ideas such as “you build it, you run it,” “APIs are forever,” and more recently, Frugal Architecting, which emphasizes cost-effective and sustainable software design."

The Frugal Architect
    "frugal" is not "cheap", it is looking for best value for money spent


PHASE: DESIGN
I. Make Cost a Non-functional Requirement
II. Systems that Last Align Cost to Business
III.Architecting is a Series of Trade-offs

PHASE: MEASURE
IV. Unobserved Systems Lead to Unknown Costs
Cost Aware Architectures Implement Cost Controls

PHASE: OBSERVE
VI. Cost Optimization is Incremental
VII. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions

Werner Vogels' 6 Rules for Good API Design - The New Stack
  • APIs are Forever:  Once an API is created, it should never be deleted, or changed
  • Never Break Backward Compatibility: Backward capability is a must.
  • Work Backwards from Customer Use Cases: come up with a minimal and simplest form of API that you can actually offer,
  • Create APIs That are Self Describing and Have a Clear, Specific Purpose
  • Create APIs with Explicit and Well-Documented Failure Modes
  • Avoid Leaking Implementation Details at All Costs

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Oracle "AI Data-base" $455B ?

"big numbers, big money" game...

 📊 Oracle's $455 Billion AI Gambit: How the Database Giant Quietly Reinvented Itself for the Cloud Wars @forwardfuture.ai

Oracle's 1QFY26 Earnings: Strategic Vindication - Nikhs



...Seven years later, Oracle just reported $455 billion in contracted future revenue—more than the annual revenue of every technology company except Amazon.



"Carbon" lang: C++ replacement from Google?

C++ is like a sports car: fast, and very challenging.
And based on installed codebase, short of some AI miracle, it is here to stay.
But it needs to be modernized, and this is super hard, to preserve some compatibility.
Google-level, long term, task.

In the meantime, Mojo language and Rust are available as simpler and easier alternatives
whenever integration does not need to be tight.

Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth - Software Engineering Daily

Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a more readable syntax, improved generics, and automatic memory management while still allowing low-level control.


Wednesday, September 17, 2025

AI app: Gemini "Nano Banana"

 Gemini tops the App Store thanks to new AI image model, Nano Banana | TechCrunch

(Google's) "Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users who say they can now more easily perform complex edits and create realistic images. The app has climbed to the top of global app stores’ charts and has seen a 45% month-over-month increase in downloads in the month of September so far, according to new data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures.

Though the month is only half over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August."





AI classes @Udemy (Agents, Workflows, MCP, A2A)


Course: MCP Crash Course: Complete Model Context Protocol in a Day | Udemy Business
Eden Marco
7 h





Tuesday, September 16, 2025

AI tool: OpenAI GPT-5 Codex

 Introducing upgrades to Codex | OpenAI

npm i -g @openai/codex

"Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone."





Ai tool: AzureDevOps MCP server

 microsoft/azure-devops-mcp: The MCP server for Azure DevOps, bringing the power of Azure DevOps directly to your agents. @GitHub




Monday, September 15, 2025

Amazon Aurora Serverless

A decade of database innovation: The Amazon Aurora story - Amazon Science

From reimagining storage to serverless computing, Aurora continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in database technology.



Sunday, September 14, 2025

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Postgres DocumentDB: Open Source, Microsoft, AWS

documentdb/documentdb: MongoDB-compatible database engine for cloud-native and open-source workloads. Built for scalability, performance, and developer productivity. @GitHub

DocumentDB is a MongoDB compatible open source document database built on PostgreSQL. It offers a native implementation of a document-oriented NoSQL database, enabling seamless CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on BSON(Binary JSON) data types within a PostgreSQL framework. Beyond basic operations, DocumentDB empowers users to execute complex workloads, including full-text searches, geospatial queries, and vector search, delivering robust functionality and flexibility for diverse data management needs.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads.


DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation - Microsoft Open Source Blog


AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology | AWS Open Source Blog



Thursday, September 11, 2025

GoLang: BemiDB, columnar store in S3

BemiHQ/BemiDB: Open-source Snowflake and Fivetran alternative bundled together

BemiDB is an open-source Snowflake and Fivetran alternative bundled together. It seamlessly connects to different data sources, syncs data in a compressed columnar format to S3, and allows you to run complex queries using its Postgres-compatible analytical query engine.

Query Engine: leverages a analytical query engine that is 2000x faster than regular Postgres.

AGPL-3.0 license

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

inventing future: Elon Musk @ all-in podcast

 Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding - YouTube @ All-In Podcast - YouTube

Tesla AI5: 40x faster from AI4 chips, 


"The best way to predict the future is to create / invent it" 

AI explain: The phrase "The best way to predict the future is to create it" is a call to action, suggesting that instead of passively trying to foresee future events, one should proactively work to shape their desired future through choices, actions, and a clear vision. While often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the quote is also attributed to Peter Drucker, with some sources indicating a connection to Alan Kay as well. The core idea is that by setting goals and taking consistent, intentional steps, individuals and organizations can influence outcomes and make their ideal future a reality.

Creating Your Future: The Psychology Behind the Quote | LinkedIn

Quote Origin: We Cannot Predict the Future, But We Can Invent It – Quote Investigator®


Alan Kay has stated that he originated the maxim of the form:
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
He began to use the saying in 1971.


In 1970 a book containing speculations about the near future included an essay by Garrett Hardin who used the phrase three times:5

As the engineer Dennis Gabor has aptly pointed out, we cannot predict the future but we can invent it. We are, in a word, responsible for what we say.
Answering these questions would require prediction, and (as Gabor pointed out) we cannot predict the future. We can only invent it.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it—and we had better start now.




GoLang: html-to-markdown

JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown: ⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown.
Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
 

MIT license



Monday, September 08, 2025

open book project: C++ for CS majors

 A C++ Book — A C++ Book

for Undergraduate Computer Science Majors

by Jeffrey Elkner (with liberal borrowings from the work of Allen B. Downey and Paul Bui)

illustrated by Natalia Cerna

Last Updated: 22 March 2025





Sunday, September 07, 2025

Friday, September 05, 2025

EV: new "AUDI" brand in China

VW: "if you can not win, then join them" (Chinese EV car makers, manufacturing this for VW)

 AUDI's E5 is the BEST AUDI EVER: 770 km Range for $32,800 - YouTube by The Electric Viking - YouTube

The Audi E5 is an electric car exclusively for the Chinese market, built by the new sister brand AUDI (spelled in capitals) in collaboration with SAIC Motor. It is a battery-electric, compact executive car that features advanced digital technology, including a unique dashboard with no traditional rings. The E5 Sportback offers a range of up to 770 km (478 miles) on the CLTC cycle, multiple powertrain options, and 800v architecture for fast charging, making it a game-changer for affordable, premium EVs in China.

Thursday, September 04, 2025

LG Smart prefab home?

Like a big smart refrigerator + tv... makes some sense... 
But I would expect much more innovation on construction side
This will need to be revolutionized by some startup, like Tesla did for EV cars.

I Went to Korea to Test LG's New PREFAB HOME - YouTube by Kerry Tarnow - YouTube

LG is officially building prefab homes and have are exploring expansion into the US market.


Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Local AI: VS Code + Ollama

usually this is quite slow... compared to cloud based AI... but it can work... 

 How To Integrate a Local LLM Into VS Code - The New Stack

Integrating VS Code with a local LLM like Ollama offers a powerful tool you can leverage for whatever coding or coding-adjacent need you have.

The extension in question is called Continue