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Notes from building.
Articles on MCP, transcription, self-hosting, and the tradeoffs we made along the way.
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Building an MCP server in 260 lines of Go
How we shipped a working Model Context Protocol server with no SDK, no dependencies, and a single Go file.
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Give Claude direct access to subtitle videos with one MCP install
Tell Claude to subtitle a video and watch it actually do it — the MCP install walkthrough.
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AssemblyAI vs Subtitles King: cost, latency, and lines of code
When AssemblyAI is the right call. When Subtitles King is. The honest tradeoffs.
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Self-hosting a video subtitle pipeline (Whisper + ffmpeg + Go)
Run the whole stack on your own hardware. From git clone to running MCP in 15 minutes.
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Whisper, but easier: a single-binary subtitle pipeline
Whisper is great. Wiring it up to a real product is annoying. Here is how we made it disappear.
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