Akos

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 🦋 I'm Ákos, a web developer. I write about topics that matter to engineers. Most of my work is on React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node. But I’m interested in everything web-related! I'm here to help and connect with other developers. Let’s connect! 🤝

Here's my year in Cursor. I've been using it full-time for the past 2 months with the Pro license. I still used it mostly for side projects during Q1 and Q2, so Gemini 2.5 Pro still dominates. My tab usage has been in decline since Agents. How did your year look? cursor.com/2025

Gm ☀️ It’s a public holiday here, so what better way to spend it than exploring some cool new stuff? Taking notes, there's so much good stuff. ✍️ Do you know what this is?

Good day, Celebrating it in the garden with these beautiful flowers. I even felt like running, so I went for a 5k but stopped short so I have something to run towards later this week 🙂 Don’t forget to rest, my friend. You’ve worked for it.

My MCP book is out 🚨 Build MCP servers with TypeScript - a book taking you from "Hello World" MCP to a host-orchestrated workflow in your spare time. Feedback means a lot to me, so it’s free for those willing to leave a review. 🙂 Reply and I'll DM you the link!

kicking off work with a matcha tea 🍵 I’m drinking it for the first time, let’s see what I missed

Chapter 3 reviewed and shipped 🚢 Two more chapters left, and some closing words, and my MCP book is on the shelves.

Gumroad offers a quick setup for products to check interest. However, with the "pay what you want" model, here's what a creator receives after €1. Are there any alternatives where people can sign up and leave tips?

GM ☀️ Final pass and edits on the book. More people subscribed (and paid!) through my free Gumroad page, which I set up just to track interest. This is definitely not helping with my impostor syndrome, thanks 😄 Diagrams are cool, adding more where appropriate. Let's go!

Kicking off the morning in shades, the baby went to bed too late and I feel like I’m having jet lag. 🤒 I managed to get in a training session but felt very heavy. During morning coffee, I finished the last chapter of the MCP book and sent out the first preview. Let’s go 💪

This is not even a dollar, right? On the other hand, it’s not even a paid product but a pay-what-you-want. And sometimes, this is all you need as a small indie educator to give motivation to finish your next book. Thank you!🙏

Discipline involves not only following through on your commitments but also refraining from actions you know are harmful. I heard something along these lines in a podcast during training, and I think it’ll stick with me for this week. Did you do your Monday workout?

GM devs ☀️ The MCP book is coming together! I have some more work to do on the last and final chapter where I’m using both prompts and resources. It’s pretty cool. And I’m launching this week! Subscribe here to not miss it: akoskm.gumroad.com/l/mcp What are your plans?

I should send more emails Thank you 🥹

One thing that now takes only seconds: Comparing different salaries, full-time, contractor, number of days off, and other benefits. What seemingly looks like a lot better offer, if you deduct the vacations and days off, turns out I would work 20% more for $15/day.

One of my favorite use cases so far

Did you know you can make links clickable in the output of your MCP Server tool call? Simply format the returned text content as markdown:

Geminip-2.5-pro is officially my favorite model: 1. I read the requirements 2. We write code 3. I tell it to change something because it doesn't work as requested 4. It pulls up a requirement I overlooked that my change would break When did Google become so good at AI? 🤯

*completes a hackathon project on a Wednesday that would have taken a month to implement without AI* nobody: a random dev: idk, I feel AI is not there yet...

Sometimes, I see tech 𝕏 and I just want to brush up on my linear algebra, statistics, and probability from college, make ML models, and build a spaceship in my garage

Forget UX and DX. Have you heard about about AX?

let's start this week with 10x productivity agree?

GM devs! Training first thing in the morning keeps me calm when Claude tells me, "Oh, you're right," five times in a row. 😂 Are you done with your morning workout?

Last year, I switched to a full-time gig because I wanted to see what happens at scale. I was always shipping SaaS/apps to mid-sized clients. Here, it's massive data pipelines, petabytes of data, and enterprise clients who rely on your software to keep ticking. This is cool.

there goes my weekend

Imagine ignoring basic algorithmic complexity and relying on LLMs to speed up your code LLM coders, do you check the performance of the generated code?

Random guy: pitches some crypto scheme with 30% returns Me: Congrats, glad it's working out for you, but I'm not interested Them: block 🚫

typescript is microsoft saying thank you

Last night I got an extra hour and made a video for folks who still haven't made an MCP and think it's too big of a gap, and they're behind... This was me a couple of weeks ago. MCPs will spread like wildfire because they are simple to build and run. youtu.be/YJ3iPXqiN7g...

The simplest way to build a full-stack React application is: react-router This gets you set up with Vite Vitest TypeScript Eslint Prettier

Guess what? I just became a principal software developer! I started out as a senior software developer here because I wanted to dive into the big software world. It's got its ups and downs compared to freelancing, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.

Genuine question about the platform: So, as far as I know, it doesn't have ads Over the past few days, I have been looking at many comparisons of Sony's MX5 and AirPods Max. Today, I see this in my feed. It doesn't say this is an ad, and I don't follow the person. How?

When doing continuous integration, I see this workflow when people update their local copies: - git stash - git checkout main - git pull - git checkout <your branch> - git merge main You can just do this:

Not your typical indie hacker day, but today I: - Moved from Supabase Edge function to a simple API to make the app easier to self-host. - Documented the encryption/decryption process and added a Security Overview document. I wouldn't put my kid's data anywhere without this.

Revert the files to their version @ branch. Useful if you realize Cursor accidentally ran over unrelated files and you already checked them into version control. 😅

finally, 6 days off

i turn 37 🎈 no better day to unleash my latest creation (no life advice this time)

In 2014, I made the biggest bet of my life. I switched from Java to JavaScript. Left 5 years of knowledge behind. It paid off handsomely, but today, after 11 years, I'm doing it again. From tomorrow, it's all Go.

I implemented custom end-to-end encryption for all data I'm sending to @supabase.com in my next project. Server-side encryption would also be fine (encrypted/decrypted on the database level), but I couldn't figure out how to do this with Supabase easily. Anyone?

True No-code Weekend Family Lots of gardening Good food Some shooting This is what winning looks like to me

Super long day 😫 Lots of driving, dentist appointment, work from a coffee shop, work from home, it was all over the place. But I'm glad I used my last two brain cells to put together a landing page for my next app.

I'm struggling to get myself to build a landing page, so inspired by @heyandras.dev's recent post, I made a watchOS app this morning 😄 The problem: - my little daughter is interested in my Apple Watch's screen The solution: - an app that turns the display into a blank screen 🤷‍♂️

Here's a demo of the full dictation feature: "My kid had a mild cough, but hot tea helped within 10 minutes." Did it using @supabase.com edge functions and OpenAI Whisper. This was the last step, feature-wise. Next task: landing page. I appreciate your support 🙌

I've spent the weekend adding this button to my next project. 😅 It looks simple on the surface, but it lets parents record symptoms and solutions using dictation. Super handy since new parents usually have their hands full! Hopefully, I'll have a landing page this week 🚢

Getting in the reps with the new app. As part of the UI improvements, I replaced the numeric rating input with ⭐ Since, as a parent, your hands are usually full, especially when the kiddo is sick, dictation is coming as the final feature before launch. Your data is always encrypted.

This network is cool

Big UX enhancement landed in my next project. Initially, the symptom+solution recording started as one big form, but I broke it down into a two-step wizard.

All my side projects since 2021 in Notion. How do you track your side project?

Doing this "12 startups in 12 months" thing, but what are the rules? Is a monetization strategy required from the start? Indie hacker experts, help me out on this one.

After a tiring week of migraines, I'm working on the recurring task feature in One Task X ♻️ All offline, works from your browser without a login. Have a productive week y'all