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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

v1.4.0 of our open source mcp-confluent server is out 🎉 It includes new tools for Kafka message consumption and consumer management! Give it a try and let me know what you think: github.com/confluentinc...

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GitHub - confluentinc/mcp-confluent

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Alsways fun to be on the show! But this one is kinda personally special. Happy Birthday #KafkaStreams youtu.be/wuWJ99wp9hQ

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10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32 | Confluent Developer Podcast

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

2 AI-powered apps with good UX that I actually use in my day to day outside of work: iNaturalist: Snap a pic of an interesting bird or plant, get it identified. Elicit: Ask a scientific question, get papers returned on it. Click into the citations and see the supporting sentence.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Do you know what an SEP is? It stands for Specification Enhancement Proposal, and it's a way to propose changes to the open MCP spec. You can view the list and their statuses at the link below: modelcontextprotocol.io/seps

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Specification Enhancement Proposals (SEPs) - Model Context Protocol

Index of all MCP Specification Enhancement Proposals

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's tough to define the mechanisms of human cognition. Given that, can we say AI can replace us? In the age of AI, it might be good to sit with the question of what human thinking is, and let that inform our approach to AI. luciacerchie.dev/articles/ai-...

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Lucia Cerchie — Writing & Essays

May 31, 2026 · Lucia Cerchie

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We built some agent skills to help people use Flink, Kafka Streams, and Kafka clients, as well as Tableflow. LMK what you think! github.com/confluentinc...

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agent-skills/skills at main · confluentinc/agent-skills

AI agent skills for stream processing and event streaming - confluentinc/agent-skills

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

nighttime browsing: interop proposal guide github.com/web-platform...

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Sometimes I grab my phone when a Netflix show gets too scary but I coulda been vibe coding this whole time

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud. We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...

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Monitor Kafka Streams Health in Confluent Cloud

Quickly troubleshoot Kafka Streams apps with new health metrics in Confluent Cloud. Spot bottlenecks, monitor RocksDB, and reduce MTTR—no extra code.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"A lot of people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it." It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable! Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...

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Tiny Wins

The big benefits of little changes.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Zines don't have to be essays, but if you're looking for zines that have both excellent writing+illustration, start with Natalie Harney natalieharney.com/store

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Store 1 — Natalie Harney

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

oh no I just found riso zine Etsy :D

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 25/02/2025

It's 2025, why aren't the AI innovations folding my laundry

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 05/02/2025

jira? isn't that the guy who dreams of sushi?

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You should talk to @attitude.dev and @elijahmeeks.bsky.social about the realtime frontier of data viz…

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Exactly the conversation I was hoping to spark hehe 😈

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My internal math hobbyist and philosopher balks every time I see unbounded Flink tables referred to as “infinite”, but I’ll let y’all have it as a loanword

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Wow tell me more about the pictured setup

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I would still be wondering about call home software tbh… keeping the PII and API keys etc out of any prompt no matter the model or setup is always a good rule

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is a screenshot from the ATProto docs. No leading $, no newline business that gets messed up when I copy this over to the terminal. Might seem trivial, but the seconds it takes to get to a locally running an app so devs can follow along the tutorial are critical. The fewer, the better.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I can tell when it's been microwaved... 😒 There are still good ones out there. You have to be willing to cut some losses while you try new restaurants.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 16/01/2025

[on a call with a partner team at a tech company] thank you for your microservice 🫡

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thanks for the write up! I think I’ll follow this how to: For those asking, looks like you can start with smaller models. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted...

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Got DeepSeek R1 running locally - Full setup guide and my personal review (Free OpenAI o1 alternative that runs locally??)

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thanks for the write up, Maggie! Spent the weekend moving house but if I get a spare moment to myself this week I plan to crack my knuckles and give DeepSeek a spin on my personal laptop… probably some side project with ATProto

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The lively and happy dev community around ATProto is a great value signal.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thinking of teaching kids to make static websites this year at a local STEM center… what are your favorite resources for teaching internet safety and awareness?

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 21/01/2025

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...

Bite Size Command Line, by Julia Evans - Command line terms illustrated with colourful drawings of foods, such as a tart for “tar” and grapes for “grep”.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Read the arxiv paper twice I’m so excited for this

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Bsky looks like X but could just as easily been an old school forum. It’s all in the ATProtocol and positions bsky for an increasingly fractionated social media landscape. Read up: arxiv.org/html/2402.03... and bsky.social/about/blog/5...

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yes I don’t understand this at all! Especially since internal contributions at a dev’s current company are often hidden, plus you can just hack your green squares to look like whatever you want

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Wow this is such a cool cake! 🎂

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

TIL you can ID your connected printers by running lpstat -p -d

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

John, I’m sorry to hear this and I’m grateful your family is safe

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Yup. Sigh. Luckily many used “analog” washers still work great.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Our baby thought the roomba was the devil incarnate so we stopped using it. But the maintenance work was so high it was easier to just vacuum traditionally anyway. I refuse to buy a “smart” washer/dryer as well

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 06/01/2025

It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17! sessionize.com/current-lond...

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How much fun and inspiration! Maybe this year will be the year I go all in on the raspberry pi advent calendar

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Don't tell me Bare Metalsson is coming back!

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

New Year, new website! luciacerchie.dev

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I loved reading your take on things Maggie! From one mom in tech to another, cheers ❤️

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

It’s so interesting what developer advocacy opens you up to professionally. Last year there were some data reporting gigs open at the NYTimes, and reading through the requirements, I realized most DAs I know could check 90% of them

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Those “brag docs” are great references for when you want to make a case for yourself professionally to others (promotion season etc). But they are even more important for your own bad days. If you don’t have one, think about it for a New Year’s resolution

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