David Eastman

5 days ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

While I enjoy developing and writing on my MacBook, I have a couple of Windows boxes at home. One is a pretty old system running Windows 10, but is fine for developing code on.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

In this post we’ll walk through setting up a simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. MCP is, for now, the defacto way to communicate between LLM models and developer tools. You can read our deeper developer primer to MCP for more details, but this post doesn’t assume that knowledge. I am going to assume you have installed Claude Code, although I’m just using it as an LLM that sits in the terminal — making it easy to play with. You can still follow along regardless. Why MCP?

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

I hope a few more people looked at the Vatican’s Antiqua et Nova after the Pope’s passing, as it has a fairly mature ethical examination of generative AI. Weighing in at over 13,000 words, I wouldn’t expect it to be heavily read, but there are fairly sensible positions separating abuse from potential. However, for this post I’m looking at the U.K. Government Digital Service’s generative AI playbook, as this is active advice for real departments and public bodies.

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

If “Dev Ops had a baby” wrote Elad Ben-Israel, CEO of Wing Cloud, it would be a combination of infrastructure and runtime code in one language. Wing was a “programming language for the cloud.” I used the past tense here, because Wing shutdown a week ago. As it was an open source project, the ideas will hopefully live on, just not as a business concern. I talked a bit about developer experience last week and how it is viewed through the corporate Panopticon.

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

Developing and releasing internal projects within an organization is something most developers do when they join the corporate world. Usually, the aim of an internal project is to introduce a new service or workflow. I’ve worked on frontends to help colleagues consume internal cloud services, which, of course, was the Trojan horse for (what was then) the private cloud.