Tag: line of succession

Public Identifiers, UUIDs and a Tiny SEO Fix

Posted on by Dave Cross
The titles (and URLs) of Prince William over time

Public Identifiers, UUIDs and a Tiny SEO Fix A recent question from my friend and colleague Mohammad got me thinking about the way we identify data in web applications. While working on the DBIC component of a REST API, he came across the term enumeration attack. In this type of attack, an attacker systematically guesses […]

Teaching AI About the British Monarchy with MCP

Posted on by Dave Cross
The Line of Succession MCP

One of the more interesting additions I’ve made recently to the Line of Succession website is support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you’ve spent any time around AI tooling recently, you’ve probably seen people talking about MCP. It’s often described as “USB for AI”, which is perhaps a little overblown, but the basic […]