About the author
xbill
@xbill
Master of MCP and herding cats
New York
Jul 15
My Demo Script Found a Production Bug on Its First Run: A Tiny Post-Mortem
How a narrated demo for an MCP image server caught an API-contract drift that 10 passing unit tests never could — root cause, fix, and lessons about mocked tests.
Jul 15
Build One AI Tool Server, Call It From Three Different Agents (MCP Explained)
A beginner-friendly tour of the Model Context Protocol: one Python server that generates images with Gemini, called by Claude Code, a Google ADK agent, and a Rust CLI.
Jul 15
Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called...
Jul 15
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The...
Jul 15
TPU Deployments with Gemma 31B, v6e-8, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...
Jul 15
26B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE g2-standard, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...
Jul 14
4B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...
Jul 13
Porting Gemma-4 (2B / 4B / 12B) to AWS Inferentia2
A field report on running Google's Gemma-4 on AWS Inferentia2: mixed attention heads, the vLLM / optimum-neuron / NxD dead-ends, and the neuronx-cc compiler limits.
Jul 13
Porting Gemma-4 (2B / 4B / 12B) to AWS Inferentia2
A field report on running Google's Gemma-4 on AWS Inferentia2: mixed attention heads, the vLLM / optimum-neuron / NxD dead-ends, and the neuronx-cc compiler limits.
Jul 13
2B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 to a Google Compute Engine hosted...
Jul 12
TPU Deployments with Gemma 31B, v6e-4, and Antigravity CLI
This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to a Google Cloud TPU...
Jul 11
Leetcode for the win!
GRIND404: I turned my "Passion" for LeetCode into a playable arcade game DEV Weekend...