I can't believe I've been around these parts for 17 years... Thank you for the inspiration to take a look at my join date. I feel the same as you about the discussions here, there is always a level of depth (and silliness) that I appreciate about the banter and interactions here.

Here's to 17 more! <3

I love this idea!! Any luck finding an STL or at least a 3d model I can convert and copy your idea?

A quick search returned this: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/gemstone-pack-68c4ec3dd23247...

Not _exactly_ the same cut, but might be good enough for you?

I can’t express how much I agree with your perspective. It’s a completely different/total shift in how we might deliver functionality and… composability to users.

Well said.

Not asked contentiously, why does a MCP revenue plan need to exist?

It feels like any kind of api-client work any organization or project would build to make users/customers happy and sticky.

Right, that is why I said it makes sense for existing products. I mentioned desktop apps, but it would apply to any existing project. Like JIRA, or HubSpot, Wordpress, or Figma, etc.

But there is hype around MCP as if independent devs could do something with it. And some will just for fun, some will for open source cred. But it is my experience that longevity is usually the result of stable revenue.

I guess what I predict happening here is a few people will build some useful MCPs, realize there is no way to monetize despite generating a lot of interest and the most useful/popular MCPs will be integrated directly into the offerings of the foundational AI companies. And in a few years we won't even remember the acronym unless you happen to work for some big corp that wants to integrate your existing service into LLMs.

The revenue plan for hosted services is that every user with an MCP client will count as a billable user.

I still use my RICON pint glass and wear my RICON jacket Basho gave everyone at RICON almost every week. My favorite conf swag ever

Wonderful write up about the server. Anyone know if the prices are still the same in 2024 for the same components?

I'm curious if anyone subscribes to journals they would recommend today?

Besides arxiv which is free, the last time I looked at papers properly was when I was a graduate student.

so, of course I had free access to virtually everything.

It’s not really cost effective to subscribe to an individual journal and the topics across an entire journal are not as focused as you might think.

there’s a lot of irrelevant stuff published compared to your specific research (the purpose of these papers is to publish very specific articles and you read them to help you with your own very specific research.)

Alls to say it’s an odd question because an individual wouldn’t really subscribe to a specific journal, like you would with a magazine or periodical.

Well, there's _TUGboat_, the journal of the TeX User's Group --- free with a membership (or membership is free w/ a subscription), but it's rather specialized, and a non-profit thing.

Oh neat!! Thanks for showing me this

I love posts like this. I wish more employees would share tales like this.