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Weeknotes 2025-05-26

, Jochen
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Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf

At the recent beyond tellerrand conference, I got to chat with Daniel Pietzsch and Christian Schäfer about the IndieWeb camp. We ended up talking about how I'd been wanting to get more involved with the IndieWeb community and had even been thinking about starting a local Homebrew Website Club. Turns out they'd been having the same thoughts! They'd already organized a first meetup, which happened last week (there's even a nice group selfie 😊).

It was great fun discussing all things IndieWeb and sharing what we've been working on with our personal sites. We dove into topics like IndieAuth, how to handle photo integration, and the eternal debate between static site generators (which most sensible people there prefer) versus my maximalist approach of running a full web stack on my own server. Call me old-fashioned, but "serverless Postgres" just sounds wrong to me. Either way, this gives me the perfect excuse to dust off django-indieweb and get it up to date again—really looking forward to it.

PyDDF Spring Sprint

I spent the weekend at this year's PyDDF spring sprint. My plan was to experiment with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and get back into working on django-resume. I figured I'd replace my old few-shot approach for generating new plugins with a shiny new MCP version.

I managed to get an MCP server up and running, but things didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped. The model kept going down these long, winding rabbit holes that led nowhere. I even gave Claude Desktop access to the website through a Playwright MCP server, thinking it could verify whether the plugins were working correctly. Instead, it started trying to enter data through the Django admin (which I never suggested) and attempted all sorts of bizarre workarounds. More often than not, it would hit the token limit and all that effort would be for nothing. Though I have to admit, it was pretty impressive watching it try so hard to reach its goals.

I'm starting to question whether MCP servers are really the right approach for coding assistance in my specific django-resume "create a new plugin" use case. They seem much trickier to get right compared to few-shot learning for this particular scenario. Plus, I'm mostly using Claude Code these days anyway, which works great—I can just ask it to write a plugin without needing any special tooling. The one remaining use case I can think of would be using django-resume as an MCP client that could dynamically display generated forms on the site. But that would be significantly more work. Not sure if I'll pursue it, though it might be a good learning experience to build a sampling client.

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