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HEXAGONAL GRIDS

This article goes over the geometry of hexagonal grids, including "pointy" and "flat" orientations, and various coordinate systems used in online maps and games. It highlights offset, cube, axial, and doubled systems, recommending axial/cube for their algorithmic elegance and simplicity. The article provides formulas and algorithms for common operations such as finding neighbors, calculating distances, drawing lines, determining movement ranges, rotation, reflection, and generating rings or spirals.

THERE IS AN AI CODE REVIEW BUBBLE

The AI code review market is experiencing rapid growth, so companies like Greptile are starting to differentiate their products beyond standard performance metrics. Greptile distinguishes itself by its long-term vision for AI code review, built on the pillars of independence, autonomy, and feedback loops. This approach emphasizes separate agents for code generation and validation, pushing for full automation of review, testing, and QA with minimal human intervention.

SOMETIMES YOUR JOB IS TO STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY

“Wolves” are rare, highly productive engineers who autonomously tackle critical problems, driven solely by the work's importance rather than recognition. Attempts to formalize "Wolf" roles fail, as these individuals thrive only in a safe, healthy, and distraction-free engineering culture. For managers, the most effective approach is often to recognize genuine "Wolf" contributions and then "stay the hell out of the way."

MCP APPS AND INTERACTIVE UIS IN MCP CLIENTS

MCP has evolved into a widely adopted industry standard, but traditionally, its capabilities were confined to text-based interactions. A new official extension, MCP Apps, now extends MCP to support interactive user interfaces by layering HTML on top of the existing protocol. These apps run securely in a sandboxed iframe, have a bidirectional data flow, and are already available for use in clients like Claude and Visual Studio Code.

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