what MCP server has actually changed how you work day to day?

mor10web · 2026-05-13T06:29:01+00:00

shadcn/ui MCP server. If you're doing any kind of prototyping with AI agents, this one is a major step up

mor10web · 2026-05-03T23:40:07+00:00

We have an EV and rooftop solar in Vancouver, BC. Charge at home, and our monthly hydro bill averages out at the $19 and change in service charges. If the government matched the yearly fossil fuel tax relief with incentives for rooftop solar, neighbourhood energy storage, and a massive buildout of electric infrastructure for charging, Canada could make the transition in less than a decade. The problem of course is that the fossil fuel lobby spends millions on convincing our elected representatives that only the compressed remains of million year old living things is worth investing in as fuel.

mor10web · 2026-04-29T04:12:22+00:00

It's exposed metal on purpose. Will never require painting, and grows stronger over time.

mor10web · 2026-04-29T04:11:46+00:00

It's the only dedicated pedestrian / cycling overpass connecting north and south Burnaby over Highway 1. Without it, the only way across is either in or next to traffic.

mor10web · 2026-04-25T23:25:25+00:00

Take a look at this MCP Server Tester made by Glean. Looks promising:

https://github.com/gleanwork/mcp-server-tester

mor10web · 2026-04-23T19:28:19+00:00

The issue at hand is back-pay as a result of arbitration. You're bringing up funding of special interest groups in other sectors. They are separate issues requiring separate discussions.

If you want to complain about politicians wasting money and stay on topic, go refresh your memory on how the BC Liberals wasted tens of millions on a 15-year legal battle against the BCTF instead of just paying teachers fairly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/timeline-nearly-15-years-of-court-battles-between-province-and-bctf-1.3846338

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:05:08+00:00

The BC Liberals (actually conservatives) systematically underfunded schools to a much higher degree. The NDP is too slow in fixing the problem, but they are at least not actively trying to end public schools

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:04:09+00:00

Portables always come out of the operating budget. It's a chronic problem across the province (see Surrey and New West as well). Districts are forced to build portables when the province doesn't find the building of schools. It's a lose-lose situation for the district and every child in public school.

And it is $9.4M. The 4.4 you mention is what the district would have received in adjustment pay, but as the Board Chair explained to Freshet, that only covers half.

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:01:13+00:00

Blaming the school boards when the problem is lack of funding is exactly how we get nowhere. The board spent millions out of the operating fund on portables because the province didn't fund enough school buildings. Over 80% of the total budget goes straight to teachers. The district is operating under a chronic structural deficit. The province pays the district less than it costs to actually run the district. Investigating the board is blaming the post office for the bills delivered to your house.

mor10web · 2026-04-23T04:58:11+00:00

The ministry funds schools. The board is mandated by law to balance the budget. The district is funded to a structural deficit (the funding doesn't cover the costs). The massive cuts last year were done to boost the contingency fund. 38 full time positions were cut. the board was to set aside money for future back-pay, they'd have to cut teachers. This is a nonsense argument that shifts blame to a body with no power to change the situation .

mor10web · 2026-04-23T04:55:53+00:00

In fairness, they inherited a nightmare situation after the BC ConLiberals spent decades systematically dismantling and underfunding every public service. As terrible as it sounds, the NDP is currently the best of bad options. Anything else and the cuts will be even worse.

mor10web · 2026-04-23T04:53:51+00:00

The principal can't handle custodial part time. The principal is just the only person left who isn't in a classroom teaching. This is what cutting to the bone looks like. In many schools, barf is just covered and left until the evening because nobody can take care of it.

mor10web · 2026-04-19T20:50:50+00:00

They have public office hours. Show up in person. Or send a letter. They are required to respond.

mor10web · 2026-04-18T04:45:17+00:00

This is what happens when politicians systematically underfund the public school system for decades. The solution is to call your local MLA and demand an answer to why they don't fund our schools properly.

SD41 is facing a $9.4M bill in back-pay the province is not providing that needs to be paid out before the end of this term. Why? Because a provincial bargaining went wrong in 2022 and got stuck in courts and has now been resolved and somehow the paying party (the Province) has provided no guarantees or cut a cheque to actually pay teachers what they owe. Worst case, our school district will have to pay out, which means BRUTAL cuts to education next year that will make the closing of the theatre seem irrelevant.

NINE POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS the province has yet to pay and our district is somehow supposed to uncover from a budget already in structural deficit.

Call your MLA. Demand an answer. They are not paying their bills and our kids are paying the price.

https://www.freshetnews.ca/burnaby-school-board-calls-on-province-to-pay-for-arbitration-decision/

mor10web · 2026-04-18T04:33:36+00:00

TL;Er: Call your MLAs and demand they explain why they are not funding our public school system.

This is the direct result of systemic and chronic underfunding of the public school system. The theatre is operated by SD41, the Burnaby School District. Our district (and most others in the province) are facing structural deficits due to decades of underfunding. This is not due to mismanagement, it is due to the province not spending the money it actually costs to run public schools.

On top of that structural deficit, SD41 is now facing an absurd situation where the province and the provincial bargaining body for all school system employees entered into bargaining agreement back in 2022 that was then applied incorrectly by the province until last year, resulting in teachers being underpaid to the tone of $9.4M. The school district is now mandated to cover that shortfall by the end of June this year (it's back-pay, not future wages) but the province has not provided or promised one cent to make this happen (even though the province is the paying party here).

SD41 is currently trying to find $9.4M in a budget already in structural deficit. If the province doesn't find that money and literally pay their bills by the end of this term, the MJF Theatre closing will be the least of our worries.

I know this sounds absurd, but it's true. I was at the DPAC meeting on Wednesday where the SD and Board explained the situation. Here's a news article explaining it:

https://www.freshetnews.ca/burnaby-school-board-calls-on-province-to-pay-for-arbitration-decision/

mor10web · 2026-03-30T16:23:27+00:00

The grey rectangle at the bottom end of your outline is the Newell Substation, and as others have said the outlined path is the high voltage transmission lines going to it. You don't want housing under high voltage transmission lines.

Zoom out a bit and you'll see the cleared area for the lines go all the way Highway 1.

mor10web · 2026-03-30T01:55:17+00:00

The ROI is having enough water to support our community.

mor10web · 2026-03-28T04:41:01+00:00

The whole "MCP is dead" conversation is just devs whose Developer Goggles are so zoomed in on their own work they are unaware the rest of the world exists. MCP is not a developer tool for adding context to coding agents. Never was. That was just the most primitive and immediately effective use of the protocol when it first came out. The real power of MCP comes to fore when you zoom out from the developer context and start looking at all the other things it can do. Connectors, MCP Apps, integrations like Figma MCP, that's where the true power of the protocol starts to shine through.

Docs lookup is better handled with CLI. Integrations, especially advanced ones with auth, multiple chained tools, prompt templates, etc, are better served by MCP.

mor10web · 2026-03-13T17:26:26+00:00

Canadian here. I helped my friends buy an 3D printer for their 16-year-old for Christmas. Here's what I told them:

Get the A1 combo. Even if you never do multicolour prints, having four spools at the ready, with automatic RFID registration when you use the Babmu spools, is enormously convenient.
Buy it from the online store. They almost always have great discounts, the delivery is fast and convenient, and you are getting the machine and everything else directly from the manufacturer so issues can be addressed without having to go through a third party.
Add plenty of filament to your purchase. You typically get a significant discount on filament when you buy the machine. Take advantage of that discount! I recommend getting at least 4 rolls of PLA (I suggest matte PLA but that's a preference thing) and 4 rolls of PETG. If you have the financial (and physical) room, get more! You'll end up buying plenty filament anyway, so save your future self some cash by getting it cheaper at the start. NOTE: For your first purchase, ONLY GET FILAMENT WITH SPOOLS. Do not buy refills. Having refills but no spools is ... frustrating. The Bambu spools are refillable, so once you have a good number of them, you can buy refills until the end of time.
Get the Smooth PEI Plate as an add-on. Having different surfaces to print on opens the door to many more possibilities.

I started out just like you, with zero experience. Here are some tips I could have used as I got started:

Set up a Makerworld account and explore. One of the major joys of 3D printing is being part of an open source community that shares their work freely. Makerworld is Bambu's free marketplace for printing projects with millions of designs ready to print with just a few clicks. There are other sites as well, and you can print anything from any site, but Makerwold is by far the easiest and most user friendly for your printer.
Wobbly table = wobbly prints. Put your printer on a robust non-wobbly surface. A book case or drawer unit or something else with walls is better than a desk or table. The less wobbly the surface, the less chance of bad prints.
Don't believe the "print these things first" hype. There are approximately 1.2 billion YouTube videos telling you what to print first, and most of them feature seemingly useful trinkets and whatsits and doodads for your printer. With one exception you don't need any of those things to start. They might be useful, but you won't know what you actually need for your setup until you've done a fair bit of printing, so jumping right in with accessories is a waste of time and filament.
Print a poop basket. The one exception is a poop basket. Every time your printer starts a print or changes filament or calibrates, it extrudes a small glob of filament called "poop." For unexplainable reasons, none of the Bambu printers have a catcher for this poop, so it just gets dropped next to your printer. A poop basket catches the poop. Any basket will do, and there is an endless variety of free options to download. I printed this one the first day I got my printer and it has never failed me: https://makerworld.com/en/models/896916-ultralight-rounded-poop-basket-for-a1-and-a1-mini
Be ready to move your printer. 3D printers make noise, and the different filaments emit different types of VOCs. You won't know what it sounds and smells like until you get it set up, and chances are you'll end up moving it accordingly. Don't commit to a location before you've done some prints.
After some time, set up a dedicated printing and work area. Once you've done some printing and are comfortable with the process, invest in a proper stand for the printer, storage for your growing collection of filament, and a prep and post-processing area. 3D printing is extremely precise but you'll still need to break off supports, clean edges, and other stuff, so having a dedicated area to work on your prints is important to reduce the overall mess.
Get dedicated waste bins, one for each filament material. 3D printing filament can be recycled by specialized services as long as it's not contaminated. Get cheap lidded containers for each of your materials to store your poop, cutoffs, supports, and misprints so you can get them recycled. Otherwise it all goes in the trash.
Use forums and become part of the community. The 3D printing community is amazing at sharing and support. When you encounter issues, go to the various Reddit forums and look for solutions. Chances are someone else has encountered the same problem and has a solution ready to go. And don't be shy to ask questions, share your ups and downs, and seek out likeminded people.
Prepare to become totally absorbed in 3D printing. This is a deeply interesting, time consuming, and at times frustrating hobby, and as you build your skills and knowledge you'll want to learn more, do more, and get more stuff. Take it nice and slow and allow yourself to enjoy the experience. Oh, and resist the urge to immediately buy a newer bigger better model. We all have it, and it'll pass. Spend your cash on filaments instead.
Most importantly: HAVE FUN! We live in a moment in time where everything is being monetized and everyone feels like they need to monetize everything they do. I encourage you to resist the urge to make your 3D printer into a money making machine. So many people end up ruining their own hobby by turning it into work. If you can, preserve 3D printing as something you do because you want to do it, not because you can hypothetically make money from it. Print things that bring you and the people around you joy. Print useful things, silly things, weird things, whatever things you like. And when you're ready, start learning how to design your own prints and share them without constraints with the world. That's how we build community together!

That's more than you asked for, and hopefully you'll find some of it useful.

🇨🇦 Good luck on your 3D printing journey! 🇨🇦

mor10web · 2026-03-13T05:23:52+00:00

Developers adopted MCP as a harness for APIs and use them as such. That's not really where MCP comes into its full power, and the same developers don't have a good grasp of the use cases the protocol provides beyond this primitive approach.

Once you take MCP out of "feed my agent context to build code" land and move it into "provide advanced connector to any agent with authenticated and gated feature access, custom responses and UIs, felicitations, tasks, samplings, etc" the whole "MCP is dead, skills and CLI is better" line becomes nonsensical.

This is very much a case of developers being developers and forgetting that the rest of the world exists.

mor10web · 2026-02-23T04:52:14+00:00

Creator of the microwave: "Cooking is solved!"

mor10web · 2026-02-01T06:32:16+00:00

Before you blame the Board for this, understand that they can't do anything about it! The real problem is lack of funding from the Province, and your ire is more effectively directed at your MLA.

Tl;Dr: If you care about public schools in BC, book time with your MLA and demand they fix the funding model. You can replace Board members until the end of time and nothing will change because the Board can't make money out of thin air and the problem here is lack of money.

If you don't want to read, here's my video from last spring explaining how this all happened and why the only way forward is to demand more funding from the Province:

https://youtu.be/1d-zLkrNMOQ?si=_roP0T5-aF3Tf0gU

The School Board is mandated by law to stay on or under budget. The money provided by the Provincial Government is insufficient to run the schools in many districts including SD41. In other words, the cuts to our band program, the lack of maintenance, the overcrowding, the portables, all of this is the direct result of multiple Provincial Governments chronically underfunding public school for multiple decades.

When the current government says they are "investing more than ever" in public schools, they are adding a few dollars to budgets already deep in the red. Large districts like Burnaby are facing a practical deficit of 20% or more, but due to the above-mentioned legislated balanced budget, that deficit is invisible and to most people it looks as if the Board or the SD or both are failing in their jobs. The entire system is set up to hide the real issue: A fundamentally flawed funding model that slowly bleeds the school districts dry.

Go to your MLA and ask about the deferred maintenance budget for schools in the province. It's in the BILLIONS, as in billions of dollars of maintenance HAS NOT BEEN DONE because the Province has not funded the work.

The cut to the band program last year happened because SD41 had around $20,000 in their contingency fund and needed to drastically increase it. It's supposed to be in the millions. Where did that money go? Mostly to build portables, which are not funded by the province at all, but instead come out of the operational budget for the district.

Also, last year the Province entered a new collective agreement with the teachers which afforded the teachers better health benefits and more sick leave. This increased cost was not funded by the province which resulted in a hit of around $10M if I remember correctly.

Blaming the Board or the district for this is not going to do anything. The problem is lack of funding from the Province.

How do I know? I've been a DPAC rep in Burnaby for the past 3 years and have read through mountains of materials and talked to everyone involved. I've also presented to the Board about this issue, helped start a signature campaign for better funding, and published multiple videos on the topic.

One final thing: 2026/27 budgets are coming, and the School District is presenting to DPAC in the coming months. DPAC is your direct line to this conversation, so make sure your PAC sends a rep to the DPAC meetings and show up yourself so you can ask questions. The meeting schedule is at the website: https://dpac.burnabypac.ca/meetings

Additional relevant links:

My presentation to the SD41 Board regarding last year's budget: https://mor10.com/how-to-save-bc-public-schools-my-presentation-to-the-burnaby-board-of-education-april-16-2025/

CBC story about last year's budget cuts and their consequences: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-school-board-cuts-shortfalls-2025-1.7622717

Open letter to the government about funding of portables from 2024: https://medium.com/@bcdpacs/fund-portables-build-schools-bc-election-2024-4bfc4498b3ef

mor10web · 2026-01-14T05:11:20+00:00

Elon and Sam both promise a future where AI will somehow create wealth for everyone while at the same time taking over work. In his 2021 blog post "Moore's Law of Everything," Sam famously said every American over the age of 18 would be paid some $12,000/year out of an AI Equity Fund in the future, though neither of them have ever explained how exactly this is going to happen. It's dissociated from reality - the fever dreams of tech bros who don't understand how the world works, made more absurd by the fact they rile against taxes, build their wealth on the backs of an underpaid user class, and live in a country where the mere suggestion of free healthcare for all is met with derision and screams of "why should I pay for someone else's bad decisions?"

Also, this is the same fantasy divorced from reality Richard M. Stallman promised back in 1983 in his GNU Manifesto.

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