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2026-07-11 • 12 min read

pREST AI Tooling — MCP Adapter, Cursor Plugin, and OpenClaw Skills

pREST AI tooling ships prest-mcp stdio adapter, Cursor plugin rules/skills, and OpenClaw ClawHub skills — read-only PostgreSQL access for agents via the /_mcp endpoint.

Go Open Source PostgreSQL pREST MCP Cursor OpenClaw Model Context Protocol AI
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2026-07-10 • 14 min read

How to Use pREST's MCP Server — Query PostgreSQL from Cursor, Claude, or curl

pREST v2.1.0 MCP server exposes read-only PostgreSQL queries over HTTP — connect from Cursor, Claude Desktop, or curl with permission-aware ACL and no separate MCP process.

Go Open Source PostgreSQL pREST MCP Tutorial Cursor Claude Model Context Protocol REST API
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2026-07-09 • 10 min read

pREST v2.0.0 and v2.1.0 — PostgreSQL REST API with Multi-Database and MCP

pREST v2 is a Go PostgreSQL REST API with multi-database registry in v2.0.0 GA and a read-only MCP server in v2.1.0 — permission-aware Postgres queries for agents and API clients.

Go Open Source PostgreSQL pREST MCP REST API Multi-tenant Model Context Protocol
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2026-07-01 • 8 min read

pREST v2.0.0-rc6 — Hexagonal Architecture and the Adapter Refactor

pREST v2.0.0-rc6 splits the monolithic Adapter into port interfaces, wires HTTP controllers through dependency injection, and keeps a backward-compatible composite Adapter for Go teams running Postgres REST APIs.

Go Open Source Hexagonal Architecture PostgreSQL pREST
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2026-06-30 • 6 min read

DeliveryCompass — Engineering Intelligence for GitHub PR Delivery

I built DeliveryCompass for engineering managers tired of rebuilding spreadsheets before staff meetings — read-only GitHub PR metrics for throughput, lead time, and review health.

Engineering Management GitHub Developer Productivity Delivery Metrics Staff Meetings
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2026-02-08 • 4 min read

First-Ever Golang Calgary Meetup: Full Room, Great Talks, Strong Start

We hosted the first Golang Calgary meetup with a full room of 30+ attendees, an excellent talk by Adebayo on concurrency and parallelism, and my session on the Go scheduler.

Golang Community Concurrency Scheduler
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