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n8n ni8mare sandbox (LinkedIn Cross-Post)

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n8n AI Workflow Soap Workaround

Integrating legacy-style APIs like Bing Ads (which rely heavily on SOAP) into modern low-code tools like n8n can be frustrating. You often hit a wall: n8n handles OAuth2 gracefully for REST, but wh...

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Intercepting HTTP Traffic with Mitmproxy

When a backend service fails to talk to an API, we usually reach for the logs. But logs are not enough at times. They might tell you “Request Failed,” but they rarely show you the exact byte-for-by...

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A Dockerized Sandbox for OAuth 1.0a Debugging

If you have ever had to integrate with a legacy API (like Jira Server, Tumblr, NetSuite, or Flickr) or a strict financial service, you’ve likely encountered OAuth 1.0a. While the industry has larg...

Repost of Incident Report: April 2017 JBoss Seam Crypto Mining Compromise

Summary In April 2017, a production JBoss Seam node began experiencing intermittent hangs, slow response times, and severe CPU saturation. The customer initially suspected that the application cou...

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From FastAPI Ticket Automation to a Full MCP-Based Support Assistant

When I worked in support roles, I spent a lot of time taking on tickets, diagnosing issues, updating notes, and communicating with users. Back then, I started building a small internal tool using F...

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Applied Optimal Transport and TimescaleDB/PostgreSQL/PySpark

In a perfect city, every time a passenger steps out of a taxi, a new passenger would be standing right there, waiting to get in. There would be zero “deadhead” miles—miles driven by an empty car to...

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Building a Stateful Tournament Manager with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

I’ve just open-sourced a new project (https://github.com/galois17/mcp-py-tournament): an MCP Server for managing recreational tennis or pickleball tournaments. This server exposes a Model Context ...

Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Demo with Gemini CLI

This article was originally published on Medium by me Overview This article walks through a working example of deploying a Model Context Protocol (MCP) using FastMCP and connecting it to Gemini...

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AI for Seamless App Interaction

Most AI chatbots are very useful, but dropping one into a focused app can feel strange. The answers often end up too technical, off-topic, or just don’t match the app’s flow. For my statistics edu...