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Level UI • 20 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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David Essien • Sep 19 • in Articles • 8 min read
What Math Actually Buys You: Optimizing a Rock-Paper-Scissors Game in C
I was looking through my old projects and found a couple of Rock-Paper-Scissors games I wrote in C a few years back. Why more than one? Because programming is fun, but also because I was experimenting. We're going to look at both versions and talk ab...
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  • math
  • gamedev
  • systems-thinking
  • low-level
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AIAppsAPI • Aug 24 • in Articles • 3 min read
Systems Thinking Beats Component Thinking, A Lesson From Human Anatomy
Most of us here debug systems for a living, and the best mental model I have found for cascading failure did not come out of a distributed systems paper. It came out of an anatomy guide, so bear with me for a minute. The human body is usually taught...
  • systems-thinking
  • debugging
  • architecture
  • biology
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Alex • Jun 25 • in Articles • 2 min read
Tidal Locking and the Orbital Mechanics of Vendor Lock-in
Mercury is tidally locked to the Sun — but not synchronously. It settled into a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance: captured, but still spinning. That distinction turns out to be the only realistic vendor strategy most engineering organizations have. Mercury ...
  • vendor-lock-in
  • software-architecture
  • engineering-strategy
  • systems-thinking
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Alex • May 11 • in Articles • 8 min read
Markets as Ecosystems: Ecological Succession
Pioneers build soil for their own replacements. The same succession pattern that reshapes forests reshapes every market. In the 1890s, a University of Chicago botanist named Henry Chandler Cowles took a walk along the Indiana Dunes on the southern s...
  • systems-thinking
  • market-analysis
  • ecology
  • strategy
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ifycodes99 • Dec 7, 2025 • in Articles • 3 min read
Abstraction: The Unsung Superpower for IT Professionals.
If you’ve ever tried to debug a modern system with multiple layers of dependencies, APIs, and databases, you know the feeling of being completely overwhelmed. Now imagine trying to do it without any tools to simplify the chaos. Enter abstraction, the...
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  • abstraction
  • systems-thinking
  • software-engineering
  • problem-solving
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