Stephen Fluin

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> how do I install another mcp server in the gemini cli? ✦ I'm not familiar with an "mcp server." Could you please provide more context or clarify what you mean by that? For example, where did you hear about it, or what is it supposed to do? That will help me understand and assist you better.

The latest Gemini CLI doesn't know what an MCP server is. Wat?

My absolute favorite vibecoding prompt of all time:

`prevent firebase initialization race conditions by attempting initialization at most once`

It worked... It actually worked...

Kids got a cool new hotwheels track for their birthday youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5_-...

I have 4 flights in the next 7 days. Uh oh.

If the government shutdown continues for let's say, 2 more years. What does the government look like at that point?

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The State of SSR in Angular ## The State of Server Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular

If you weren't able to catch my talk on #Angular #SSR today, here it is in blog post form:

fluin.io/blog/state-o...

Pirates are invading @ng-conf.bsky.social !

I gave an #angular talk on SSR and hosting today at @ng-conf.bsky.social and the audience was HOT.

I had no idea that the npm package registry has legacy case sensitive packages. EEEP!

www.npmjs.com/package/JSON...
!=
www.npmjs.com/package/json...

Website is super flaky about it too, sometimes giving you one, sometimes the other.

When the #ai math isn't mathing.

Cross-Repo Conformance with Nx Polygraph - ANGULARarchitects While tech giants like Google and Facebook rely on monorepos, the reality for many companies is different: Business software is often developed in multiple project- or product-related repos. The relat...

Want to use micro-frontends while mixing Angular versions?

Manfred (THE top expert in micro-frontends) breaks down a new solution from Nx.
www.angulararchitects.io/en/blog/cros...

I'm gong to the MN Renaissance Festival to see Penn and Teller tomorrow! I'm super excited, but I'm also expecting Fyre Festival levels of chaos and disorganization. They aren't ready for this.

Wish me luck!

The burden on maintainers is definitely increasing.

"This Is Why Nobody Submits PRs to Open Source Anymore"
archive.fo/6ISqh or medium.com/@ThreadSafeD...

I see:
1. Too much AI spam
2. Support needs only increase -> leading to burnout
3. Passion vs Corp OSS

Has anyone else gotten really really good at memorizing 6 digit numbers for about 15 seconds over the past decade?

I had to close every app on my computer to get this to run (128GB of RAM and a 5090), but interacting with such an advanced model locally was worth it. Such interesting and deep thinking about the intent and purpose behind each of my prompts. #ai #qwen3

I had a magic moment with #AI this week. I was debugging my Linux desktop computer which was failing to boot. I had googled and chatbotted unsuccessfully for about an hour at this point.

I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯

vscode-copilot-chat/src/extension/prompts/node/agent/agentInstructions.tsx at 3e73cedab4a72702ba0dd6043d83a701d267ba7f · microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Copilot Chat extension for VS Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Check out the prompts in GitHub Copilot for VS Code for chat:

github.com/microsoft/vs...

"You are a highly sophisticated automated coding agent with expert-level knowledge across many different programming languages and frameworks."

We should all start the day with this kind of self-talk. :)

Angular The web development framework for building modern apps.

I totally misunderstood this page the first time I saw it, thinking it some generic "build with ai" nonsense.

It's actually the Angular team's personally tested recommendations and prompts to give you better more modern Angular code generation from LLMs. Wow!

angular.dev/ai/develop-w...

Google Pixel phone preferred care via Assurion and Assurant are SO TERRIBLE IT MAKES ME WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT.

They've asked me for numbers that don't exist, told me that my claim was approved, and that it's under review., and that they need more details. It's NONSENSE.

If you ask Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash for 1,000 random numbers, 70% of them will end in 3. Weird. #ai

YouTube video by Stephen Fluin What I/O is like for attendees - Random AI Fun

Playing around with Flow. Blame Alain Chautard for the prompts. youtu.be/SWjHucA4Dks

Here are my notes from today's Google I/O Announcements. I'm most excited by Flow, Lyria, AI Mode in Chrome (a friend gave me a cool demo), and the the new !Google Glass!

There was optimism this year and I can see using these tools, unlike last year

fluin.io/blog/most-ex...

#io25 #ai #google

Whenever I read AI news that mentions an "MCP" I can't detach this in my my from the Master Control Program, the villain in the original #Tron.

It's reassuring to know it's just you, me, and 944 of your closest friends.

I've been almost a daily reader of The Verge since it launched in 2011, but I tried reading it this morning and hit 3 paywalled articles in the first minute. I guess I'm done.

Where to next?

Totally agree about it being weird to require httpClient.

YouTube video by Tech Talks With Santosh Coding with Santosh

I tried the httpResource API from @angular.dev on stream last night. This is still experimental in 19.2, but like the API, moving from DI and providing a function API for data fetching is a great step.
I wish we didn't need to provideHttpClient, which is needed because it uses HttpClient internally

I think it's time for a pop punk music revival.