kylestratis

Around January of 2025, I was implementing an MCP client for an internal agent-building framework and had one hell of a time because so many resources focused on building servers, but not clients. Everyone was figuring out best practices, use cases that made sense, and how to actually distribute clients and servers.

So I started writing, then kept writing (then wrote even more after several major spec and SDK changed), and it turned into AI Agents with MCP, which is now available as an ebook and should be available in dead tree form any day now.

They actually do a lot for discovery. Bandcamp weekly, notifications when labels you've bought from release something from another artist, playlists, and they have genre-focused blogs as well.

People just like saying something doesn't exist when they just didn't bother to look at their emails.

This has never gone away though, you just chose to stop doing it. I go to local shows pretty frequently, have made tons of friends (in bands and not) in the process, found new bands - some that produce an EP and breakup, others who chug along locally for years, others who tour nationally regularly but stay playing intimate shows here at home.

I've discovered so much wonderful music and even better people this way, it flummoxes me when people act like you can't go to a show or a record store or even use Soulseek and find new music.

What makes you guess that? Have you looked at the page at all? A video? Tried it? It works like any other multiplexer.