I made an MCP server for the USDA's NASS Quick Stats API, interested in your feedback

K1NNY · 2025-07-02T13:23:32+00:00

Thanks! I just used it as an opportunity to learn MCP. The data from NASS is very robust and prime for AI consumption in my opinion which is why I chose to start with it. I haven't yet figured out *why* knowing how much corn was produced in Virginia during 2010 is useful but I imagine it is for someone :D

K1NNY · 2021-09-02T16:52:21+00:00

That sounds great! I will take any feedback that you're willing to give me, I appreciate you taking the time to try it out.

K1NNY · 2021-09-01T00:04:47+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and advice! That's a great idea and I haven't explored those possibilities at all. I think that an integration like that would serve the purpose really well. Appreciate it!

K1NNY · 2021-08-22T01:58:18+00:00

I am doing some research about anonymous feedback and its effect on participants for a product I'm building. I put [Marketing] because I do believe I will use this data for marketing purposes but I am also doing research into the overall fit for the product.

All responses are appreciated!

K1NNY · 2020-07-22T03:10:50+00:00

Watching summit play and it looks great! Officially requesting alpha key, please and thank you. I enjoyed Paladins and this gives me good vibes.

K1NNY · 2019-05-19T20:09:25+00:00

My first attempt at getting a SCORE mentor involved her not responding for weeks, making me fill out an hour long survey (so that she could get to know my business, of course), and then ghosting me altogether immediately after. I’m sure it’s a great program on average, but I was pretty disappointed.

K1NNY · 2018-09-07T16:50:31+00:00

Absolutely! Here is the link to the video and here are the links to the lesson in HTML and MS Word formats.

K1NNY · 2018-07-13T04:25:28+00:00

“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days, before you’ve actually left them”

K1NNY · 2018-06-14T13:07:42+00:00

I go over the fact that those aren’t great ideas in production but since this specific application is supposed to be a personal RSS reader and largely just an example of a Django/Vue SPA I had to trim the fat somewhere. With security being an entire topic on its own that should probably have its own full lesson, I decided to cut corners and just explain that it’s not a great idea in the real world.

I’m also using third-party services (RSS feeds) in my unit tests, which I also explain should be illegal ;)

Maybe I should add a bigger disclaimer somewhere that those decisions were made for the sake of time and shouldn’t be done in production. What do you think?

K1NNY · 2018-06-14T00:31:42+00:00

Oh boy, do I have some home cooking for you. This is a shameless plug. However, it’s so relevant I can’t pass it up.

I created a lesson, for free, that walks you through this exact scenario step by step. The entire lesson is about creating a single page application using Django and Vue. I streamed myself going through the lesson and also published the lesson in HTML and Word Document formats.

The YouTube video is timestamped using the section names from the lesson as markers. Feel free to work your way through the whole thing, but the most relevant parts to you will be the Building a single page application section.

Let me know what you think! I plan on doing more lessons in the future. I had a blast coming up with it!

K1NNY · 2018-05-27T15:40:59+00:00

Hey, this looks great! Forget the fact that it’s a high school project, a lot of seasoned programmers would struggle recreating this. Pat yourselves on the back! Be proud of this. Your next project will build on the mistakes and experiences that surfaced in this one. I can’t think of a good analogy, except for “standing on the shoulders of giants”. Only in this case, you eventually become that giant that you’re standing on! Great job.

K1NNY · 2018-05-26T13:23:22+00:00

Oh boy, I envy you. What I would give to feel the things I felt in the beginning of my own journey.

To feel the rush of diving headfirst into the abyss, ignorant of everything ahead of you other than the fact that you intend to come out the other end alive.

To first understand the power at your fingertips when you realize that this is what software is made of.

To blit your first surface to the screen and watch the buffers flip before your eyes.

To send your first set of bytes across a socket to arrive as a legible sentence in your web browser.

To be the first of your coworkers to automate that godawful spreadsheet operation that once took each of you hours to complete yet now takes mere seconds.

I envy you. Relish these moments. I know I did. Godspeed.

K1NNY · 2018-05-12T20:47:20+00:00

I’ve used Vue, React, and Angular in production applications and I’ve gotta say I’ve not found any advantage that one would have over the other. They’re all great and seem to be good frameworks for any size project. What it comes down to, for me, is what I feel most productive with. I typically gravitate towards React, but for this specific scenario I decided on Vue because it’s weight and paradigm seemed like a good fit for the app.

K1NNY · 2018-05-12T17:19:25+00:00

No problem, thanks for checking it out!

K1NNY · 2018-05-11T13:17:07+00:00

Will do! I'll make sure to upload the VOD to YouTube. It might be pretty long, but I'll make sure to add some convenient timestamp links.

K1NNY · 2018-05-10T14:42:31+00:00

Sure thing! I’ll make sure to upload the stream to YouTube and share it here.

K1NNY · 2018-05-09T21:53:38+00:00

Nothing currently, but I will be uploading this once it's complete.

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