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Dev tools · January 25, 2018

CSS Gridish

Greetings, This is a link to our learning guide to make your own MCP server in C/C++ (with no other dependencies). If you wanted to make one from scratch but needed some insight into dealing with MCP messages: the I/O flow, JSON parsing, and request dispatch, grab the teaching version tagged mcp/teaching/v1.0.0 in the repository. The JSON parsing in C would have been a hurdle, but then there's this amusing story: Eric: "Let's create a helloWorld MCP server in C." Gemini: "That will be somewhat difficult, there are easier ways." Eric: "Why is it difficult??" (the second…

CSS Gridish launched on January 25, 2018 with 133 votes, #270 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

What it does

CSS Gridish takes design specs of your product’s grid and builds out several resources for your team to use: - Sketch file with artboards and grid/layout settings for designers - CSS/SCSS code using CSS Grid with a CSS Flexbox fallback for developers - Google Chrome extension for anyone to check a webpage’s alignment

A zero-dependency native C framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on edge and enterprise systems.

For LLMs and Developers — This guide explains how to build a new MCP server tool by creating an “aspect” — a single .cpp file that plugs into the MCPServer framework. The MCPServer is a C++ implementation of the Model Context Protocol . Each aspect is a single .cpp file that defines the server’s personality: its name, tools, prompts, and handlers. Each aspect compiles into its own executable (e.g., MCPServer_helloWorld.exe , MCPServer_portScan.exe ). The framework ( MCPServer.cpp ) handles all JSON-RPC protocol mechanics — parsing requests, dispatching methods, validating output, stdin/stdout I/O. Your aspect only implements the what , never the how of the protocol. Baseline Tool (…from ibm.github.io

In the maker’s words, at launch

Greetings, This is a link to our learning guide to make your own MCP server in C/C++ (with no other dependencies). If you wanted to make one from scratch but needed some insight into dealing with MCP messages: the I/O flow, JSON parsing, and request dispatch, grab the teaching version tagged…

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