Things worth keeping. One line each on why they stayed. https://timhowland.com/links/ 2026-09-05T00:00:00Z Tim Howlandcontact@wdogsystems.com https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-09-05-archify 2026-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nice approach to building complex software architecture diagrams

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-09-04-claude's-ai-native-sdlc-playbook 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing terribly earthshaking, but some good technique bits here

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-08-13-cloudflare-webmcp 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Duct-tape MCP onto any website

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-07-29-mcp-spec-updated 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z

Updated MCP spec announced / proposed- primary change seems to be a stateless core

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-07-13-nobie 2026-07-13T00:00:00Z

Command-line interface to a powerful Excel engine, suddenly very useful for all sorts of enterprisey nonsense

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-06-23-sqlfluff 2026-06-23T00:00:00Z

linter for sql and ddl (including snowflake), ends the scourge of views defined as select * from TABLE

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-06-16-bayer's-reliable-llm-approach 2026-06-16T00:00:00Z

AI engine to help R&D get data out of vast oceans of PDFs

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-04-04-ministack 2026-04-04T00:00:00Z

Emulates the full AWS stack for local cloud development, great for dockering

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-03-14-docx-in-javascript 2026-03-14T00:00:00Z

Generate word docs in javascript

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-03-14-pptx-genjs 2026-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because the one thing the world needs is ways to make more powerpoint decks

https://timhowland.com/links/#2026-03-10-scrapling 2026-03-10T00:00:00Z

Adaptive web scraping, useful for archiving and mirrors

https://timhowland.com/links/#2025-10-02-playball 2025-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Watch" MLB games in your terminal

https://timhowland.com/links/#2025-09-30-cloudscape-design-system 2025-09-30T00:00:00Z

AWS's inhouse design system for cloud work, open sourced and reusable

https://timhowland.com/links/#2025-09-26-mailpit 2025-09-26T00:00:00Z

Open Source local mail server for testing SMTP software- mailinator, but all local

https://timhowland.com/links/#2025-06-13-awesome-mcp-servers-list 2025-06-13T00:00:00Z

roundup of various public mcp servers for developing new services against