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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 4d

How much time do you have? I feel like the risk zone is anywhere between 3-6 hours.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 4d

This is a good time to remind everyone of the AI Darwin Awards. 😆

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 21d

In a groundbreaking new feature, Tesla FSD introduces "Full Self-Parking" directly on the train tracks.

Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/tesla-fsd-train-crossings.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000

Tesla Full Self-Driving - “Trains vs. Brains” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Tesla's visionary approach to self-driving technology included the revolutionary concept that railway crossings—with their primitive flashing lights, descending

aidarwinawards.org

Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 4d

Sometimes the frontend data isn’t enough.

Sometimes (okay, always) you also want to know what happened in the backend.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 9d

Devs: I’ll just make a small change.

QA tickets: 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 11d

Start simple, release gradually, and let user feedback guide you. Less is more when it comes to MCP.

❓ Curious what others are seeing: what’s the most *useful* MCP tool you’ve come across so far?

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 11d

For us, that meant focusing on two high-value use cases:

1️⃣ Fixing bugs (where we can pipe full-stack session data directly into an AI tool)

2️⃣ Building features (where annotations/sketches from a session replay add the needed context to AI prompts).

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t just map your API 1:1 into MCP tools. That creates context bloat, and LLMs aren’t great at wiring together dozens of endpoints. Instead, scope tools tightly around developer intent.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 11d

MCP servers are everywhere right now. But most are collecting dust.

The key lesson we’ve learned at Multiplayer: scope matters. 🧵

Bill Doerrfeld @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social · 11d

What's it like launching an #MCP server into the wild? My latest DirectorPlus edition via @leaddev.com brings in Thomas Johnson, co-founder and CTO of Multiplayer, to discuss helpful lessons learned releasing their MCP server.
leaddev.com/ai/lessons-l...

Lessons learned launching an MCP server

Steps you can follow if you're thinking about launching your own MCP server.

leaddev.com

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Bill Doerrfeld @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social · 11d

What's it like launching an #MCP server into the wild? My latest DirectorPlus edition via @leaddev.com brings in Thomas Johnson, co-founder and CTO of Multiplayer, to discuss helpful lessons learned releasing their MCP server.
leaddev.com/ai/lessons-l...

Lessons learned launching an MCP server

Steps you can follow if you're thinking about launching your own MCP server.

leaddev.com

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 12d

I repeat. DON’T UPVOTE. I don’t care about that.

I just want to hear your feedback:

👉 Would you use this mainly for debugging, testing, or feature development?

👉 Have you tried session replays before? What worked, what didn’t?

Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 12d

Multiplayer is live on Product Hunt 🚀 Here’s how you can support us:

1️⃣ DON’T UPVOTE (yes, you’ve read it right)

2️⃣ COMMENT with your feedback

Upvotes? Nah. Feedback? Yes.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 12d

I repeat. DON’T UPVOTE. I don’t care about that.

I just want to hear your feedback:

👉 Would you use this mainly for debugging, testing, or feature development?

👉 Have you tried session replays before? What worked, what didn’t?

Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 12d

Multiplayer is live on Product Hunt 🚀 Here’s how you can support us:

1️⃣ DON’T UPVOTE (yes, you’ve read it right)

2️⃣ COMMENT with your feedback

Upvotes? Nah. Feedback? Yes.

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Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 12d

Multiplayer is live on Product Hunt 🚀 Here’s how you can support us:

1️⃣ DON’T UPVOTE (yes, you’ve read it right)

2️⃣ COMMENT with your feedback

Upvotes? Nah. Feedback? Yes.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 13d

But I also know that “I promise it's better” isn’t always enough when you’re busy and already juggling priorities.

So I’d love to hear: what’s made *you* drop a tool that was working and try a new one? And what made the switch worth it?

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 13d

Is it word of mouth, seeing a demo, hitting a pain point one too many times, or just plain curiosity?

From my side: I genuinely believe we’re building something that saves time, reduces context switching, and brings all your data into one place.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 13d

I build developer tools for a living, and I’ve been wondering about this a lot: once you have a workflow that “works well enough,” what’s the trigger to get you to switch to something different and/or (possibly) better?

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 13d

Is it ever really possible to get a dev to switch tools once it "works well enough"?

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 16d

github.com/modelcontext...

GitHub - modelcontextprotocol/servers: Model Context Protocol Servers

Model Context Protocol Servers. Contribute to modelcontextprotocol/servers development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 16d

If you haven't yet, I highly recommend checking this collection of reference implementations for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). 👇

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · 17d

Most “session replay” tools show you what happened in the browser.

Multiplayer shows you what happened across your entire stack.

Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 17d

Full stack session recordings: record. code. fix. repeat.

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Multiplayer @multiplayer.app · 17d

Full stack session recordings: record. code. fix. repeat.

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 21d

In a groundbreaking new feature, Tesla FSD introduces "Full Self-Parking" directly on the train tracks.

Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/tesla-fsd-train-crossings.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000

Tesla Full Self-Driving - “Trains vs. Brains” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Tesla's visionary approach to self-driving technology included the revolutionary concept that railway crossings—with their primitive flashing lights, descending

aidarwinawards.org

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 11

‼️ I’ll be giving this talk again virtually on Friday, September 12 at 10:00am PDT. If you’ve ever struggled with API docs that don’t keep up with your system, I’d love for you to join.

apiworldcloudxdataweek2025.sched.com/event/24i0V/...

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: [Virtual] PRO Session (API): Stop Sendin...

View more about this event at API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

apiworldcloudxdataweek2025.sched.com

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 11

What actually works?

✔️ Sandboxes you can try instantly
✔️ Executable notebooks
✔️ Embedded tests
✔️ Self-validating examples that evolve with your code

When docs are interactive and accurate by design, developers integrate faster, support load drops, and teams move forward with fewer blockers.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 11

I had the chance to speak at API World 2025 last week on a topic I’ve seen frustrate teams for years: API documentation.

Because let’s face it: most developers don’t want to read static docs. Outdated Postman collections and PDF references slow everyone down.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 5

Because the real question is not “what’s broken” but “why did it break, and how do we prevent it from happening again?”

Full article: beyondruntime.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

You don’t need more dashboards

You need an observability framework that helps teams fix problems faster and build systems with confidence

beyondruntime.substack.com

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 5

What teams really need is ✨ end-to-end visibility, tied to real user and system behavior. ✨

The ability to interrogate a flow as it happened, with all the context in one place: frontend actions, backend traces, logs, payloads, headers.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 5

Think of when a specific user action triggered a downstream failure, when a service degraded only under a rare traffic pattern, when an integration silently drifted.

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Sep 5

Dashboards are great at showing symptoms: CPU is spiking, latency is up, error rates crossed a threshold.

But when you need to understand why dashboards alone don’t cut it. 🧵

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Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Aug 29

✈️ I’ll be in Santa Clara, CA, from Thursday Sept 4th and Friday Sept 5th to speak at the API World conference.

If you’re curious about how full stack replays can cut your team’s MTTR and development time, I’d love to grab a coffee and swap notes.

DM me if you’ll be around.

Tom Johnson @tomjohnson3.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is why I’m so passionate about full-stack session recordings. Instead of shifting through tons of telemetry data and multiple tools, you get a single replay that shows you exactly what the user did, what the frontend rendered, what the backend returned, and how your system behaved. End to end.

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