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Writers are fleeing Substack to rival platforms (Ghost, Beehiiv, Passport) citing the 10% cut, rising costs, limited integrations, and a closed ecosystem. High-profile exits include The Ankler moving to Passport and The Rose Garden Report switching to Ghost; creators report paying far less on competitors (e.g., Highkin saves thousands yearly). Substack’s Apple 30% take on iOS payments and difficulty exporting followers weaken portability. Substack argues creators own relationships and can export subscribers, while rivals offer more control and customization; the trend may redefine Substack as a stepping stone rather than a home.
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guitar-tuner-accel is an accelerometer-based guitar tuner. It measures X, Y, Z axes and |a|, detects pitch from the strongest axis (alias-corrected to E2–E4 strings), and shows raw axis traces. It requires motion permission (tap to start) and works best on Android with a high-rate IMU by placing the phone on the guitar and plucking a string.
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Daniel Stenberg reports that Anthropic's Mythos scanned curl and found five so-called confirmed vulnerabilities, but after review only one was deemed a low-severity vulnerability to be fixed around curl 8.21.0; the other four were false positives or non-vulnerabilities. Previous AI analyses (AISLE, Zeropath, Codex) already yielded 200+ bugfixes; Mythos found no memory-safety issues, and wasn’t dramatically superior to prior tools. The post argues AI-powered code analyzers are valuable and necessary, but hype around Mythos was marketing; they supplement, not replace, human reviews.
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Iran is seeking to take full control of all seven undersea cables through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran proposes a governance model with permits, tolls, and foreign operators under Iranian law, with management and maintenance handled exclusively by Iranian firms. The move would turn Hormuz into a digital power lever, since the cables carry a large share of global traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. The IRGC has warned it could target cable infrastructure. If enacted, foreign operators would need Iranian permits, pay fees, and comply with Iranian rules.
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Seeing Birdsong is an evolving framework that transforms avian vocalizations into geometric form, bridging art and acoustic science to reveal complex vocal structures. Originating from early audio-driven oscillator work and publicly presented at the Ultrasonic Vocalization Conference at Nencki Institute, it now maps audio into high-dimensional vectors embedded in dynamic 3D manifolds using a network of spectral descriptors, enabling rich 2D/3D visualizations. Applications span art (live performances, installations, storytelling), science (comparative analysis, pattern discovery), and education (teaching pitch and timbre). Open for collaboration; contact: [email protected].
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Gode Cookery is a long-running online hub (launched 1997) for medieval and Renaissance cookery. It catalogs extensive, authentically sourced recipes (A Boke of Gode Cookery, Cockentrice, Coqz Heaumez, etc.), plus articles, feast ideas, images, and history resources. The site features a bookshop, awards, discussions (now on Facebook), and bibliographies; recipes are adapted for modern kitchens with documentation. It also showcases media presence (Food Network) and a YouTube channel. The team includes James Matterer, Monica Gaudio, and staff; the site aims to educate and entertain with period cuisine.
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Three implementations of a functional language: a 7-line, 3-minute lambda-calculus interpreter in Scheme; a cleaner Racket version; and a ~100-line interpreter with top-level forms (define, let, letrec, set!, begin). It uses an environment-based eval/apply architecture to handle variables, closures, and function application. The core shows Tiny cores can scale to larger languages and explores Church encodings and the Y combinator, including Omega’s non-termination. The article links to resources like SICP and Lisp in Small Pieces.
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Strong form of Conway's law: a system's structure mirrors an organization; culture also ships. Early team personality shapes startup culture. Cross-hatching, e.g., splitting software eng into Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and Software Engineers (SWEs), and separate people leads vs project leads, can align or strain the organization. At Palantir, decentralized ownership worked when supported by scaffolding; at Spiral, they seek to internalize tensions between open-source Vortex and proprietary Spiral, and to align pods of 3-4 with localized consensus. AI accelerates shipping but shifts bottlenecks to design, consensus, and taste; teams must ensure context percolates and ownership at the edges.
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adamsreview is a multi-lens code-review plugin for Claude Code that runs a six-command pipeline (adamsreview:review, codex-review, add, walkthrough, fix, promote) to perform deep reviews, auto-fix loops, interactive walkthroughs, and external-finding injections. It uses up to seven parallel sub-agents, a dedup gate, and an optional Opus cross-cutting pass; auto-fix proposals can be batch-accepted. Stores per-review state under ~/.adams-reviews. Install via Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add adamsreview; ensemble mode adds Codex CLI. Recommended on Claude Code Max plan. Current release: v0.4.0.
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Tom MacWright discusses how Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head reshaped his view of technology—preferring embodied, readable perspectives over academic treatises. He finishes a book, writes a quick review, and moves on; he’s a completist reviewer who migrated reviews to his own site in 2017. Typography matters to him; Bringhurst and Butterick guide micro-typography and punctuation. He recommends Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy and Piketty’s Capital, arguing more people should read them for politics. Once skeptical of sci‑fi, he now values it for social ideas (Chiang, Butler). A library like Head Hi in Brooklyn fits his ethos: minimal, creative, quiet.
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Open Culture highlights an 80-second clip from James Burke’s 1978 Connections in which a rocket launch is triggered by Burke explaining how certain gases ignite and how a thermos flask stores them safely. A pre-timed shot makes the launched rocket appear behind him as he points, concluding a 50-minute tour of inventions from credit cards to the Saturn V. Burke’s calm delivery and the apparent sleight of hand helped the moment be dubbed 'the greatest shot in television,' viewed on YouTube by millions. Closing line: 'Destination: the moon, or Moscow.'
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The piece traces dBase’s rise and fall (1979–2026), blaming Ashton-Tate’s licencing-and-litigation tactics and vendor predation for killing the ecosystem, as well as stagnation and competition from FoxPro/UNIX, Btrieve, and others. It covers the 1995–2012 Windows era, Borland/Corel mergers, and the loss of core source code, with BDE lingering into later years and developers abandoning or hiding their add-ons. Now, AI can read legacy PRG/16‑bit code and translate it to modern languages (Rust, Go, Dart), offering a route for migrating survivors beyond a decayed dBase world.
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Adam Dunkels experiments with Claude acting as a userspace IP stack to answer ICMP echo requests. He creates a ping-respond.md workflow: read a raw IPv4 packet from a TUN device, verify ICMP echo request, build an echo reply by swapping IPs, updating TTL, and computing IP and ICMP checksums entirely by hand, then write the reply back. The article includes an example trace and notes that, on Haiku 4.5, the ping succeeds but with ~45 seconds RTT, highlighting feasibility and latency of a purely reasoning-based IP stack.
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Brendan O'Connor explains how Microsoft rebuilt its Enterprise Agreement channel by moving from a margin-based model to an advisory-fee architecture (ESA). To prevent continued channel failure amid price wars, he modeled after the State Farm agent structure, creating a three-tier system across 75,000+ accounts in 24 countries: 1,150 global strategic accounts at 4%, 14,000 channel-assisted corporate at 9%, and 60,000 channel-led medium accounts at 15%. All deals carried an ESA. In 18 months, 2,577 EAs enrolled; unearned revenue jumped from $1.92B to $7.74B, with a $5.82B 12-month surge. By 2026, large EAs moved to direct sales; scrutiny followed.
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James Shore argues AI coding agents must reduce maintenance costs in proportion to the productivity they add. Maintenance grows forever after each coding month, so doubling output without lowering maintenance worsens long-term productivity. Real gains require maintenance costs to fall inversely with output (double output, half maintenance; triple output, one-third). If AI raises output but maintenance rises, benefits fade and lock-in occurs: stop using the agent and gains vanish while maintenance costs persist. Prioritize AI that lowers maintenance costs alongside increased code output.
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Shrivu Shankar argues that AI productivity often yields only 10–20% gains, but 2x or higher is real if you overhaul both personal practice and organizational design. Personal pitfalls include skipping shift-left planning, weak upfront review, brittle AI handling of edge cases, over-slicing tasks, and failing to build durable skills and closed loops. Organizational pitfalls include valuing usage over outcomes, tool sprawl, fragmented context, unclear ROI, and misaligned handoffs. The fix is loop ownership and clear top-down vs bottom-up roles. True AI leverage requires simultaneous personal and organizational reform.
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Mae Losasso argues that James Schuyler—the “poet of the everyday”—is especially resonant today. Drawing on Nathan Kernan’s biography A Day Like Any Other, she shows how Schuyler’s diary-like, observational poems fuse daily life with metaphysical reflection, turning ordinary tasks into moments of clarity amid the mind’s wanderings and life’s precarity. Biography illuminates but can threaten to reduce poetry to life-writing; yet Schuyler’s technique—short lines and long digressions, parens, and circularity—transforms experience into lyric insight. With renewed interest and a suggested Schuyler renaissance, his work offers solace amid contemporary uncertainty.
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RPCS3, the open‑source PlayStation 3 emulator, asked on X for users to stop submitting AI-generated code pull requests and warned it may ban violators. They argue there are plenty of resources to learn debugging and coding, not to rely on AI that produces ineffective “slop.” Active since 2011, RPCS3 has made about 70% of PS3 games playable thanks to community contributions. The issue mirrors similar AI‑PR concerns at Godot Engine.
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