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At the Still Point of the Turning World
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2026
Bootstrapping a standardized and sharable data research playground at low, to no cost
A practical, low-cost framework for a shared, standardized data research environment: a repo, a pinned container running 3rd party programs, read-only mounts to storage, per-run manifests of code and inputs, and a headless runner so agents can work in the same environment.
Connecting a LLM Agent Harness to a Private Application: Hooks and a Local MCP Server
A hands-on proof of concept exploring how a private application can connect to the growing ecosystem of agents, connectors, and team collaboration tools like Slack, Linear, and Notion, where large language models (LLMs) and humans increasingly work together.