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Writing MCP servers in Clojure with Ring and Malli

  • icon Nov 10, 2025
  • by Paul Rutledge
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Introduction # Large language models, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) are impossible to escape in today’s tech climate. At Latacora, we take a thoughtful and pragmatic approach towards new technologies like these. Are they going to …
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  • Development

Loud subshells

  • icon Jun 21, 2018
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Default shells usually end in $. Unless you’re root and it’s #. That tradition has been around forever: people recognized the need to highlight you’re not just some random shmoe. These days we have lots of snazzy shell magic. You might still su, but …
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  • Cryptography
  • Development

Cryptographic right answers

  • icon Apr 03, 2018
  • icon 12 minutes read
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We’re less interested in empowering developers and a lot more pessimistic about the prospects of getting this stuff right. There are, in the literature and in the most sophisticated modern systems, “better” answers for many of these items. If you’re …
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