Weekly Thing

WT350 — Builders Puzzlers And Agents

Product engineering after AI, Claude Code and Codex, Homebrew's BrewUI, code reviews in flux, GPT-6 Astra, Unread 5.0, Kubb tournament. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 2:05 — Currently 2:47 — This week's photo 2:59 — Notable 3:02 — What is happening with code reviews? - Gergely Orosz 3:55 — Introducing the Agents API | OpenAI 4:21 — BrewUI: 📺 Homebrew's official macOS GUI 5:11 — Your car is selling your data | The Verge 5:51 — An end to fully open networks | Seth's Blog 6:47 — iOS and iPadOS 27: The MacStories Review - MacStories 7:08 — I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots 7:35 — Building and Puzzling about Software 19:51 — Journal 19:55 — Sugar at First Avenue tonight! 20:00 — Cool and windy for a boat ride but the swim parkas made it just fine! 20:07 — Out There: A National Parks Story 21:09 — Kicking off the 8th annual Team SPS Kubb Tournament with a quick ru… 21:16 — The four bracket winning teams from our 8th annual Team SPS Kubb To… 21:24 — Nice lunch for SPS Tower tenants today. 21:27 — Delicious Black Krim tomatoes from my friend Eric. 21:34 — Briefly 21:38 — macOS 27: The MacStories Review - MacStories 21:47 — watchOS 27: The MacStories Review - MacStories 21:55 — iPhone 18 Pro: A Photographer's Review - YouTube 22:13 — Unread 5.0 22:23 — A quote from Boris Cherny 22:46 — Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude | Claude by Anthropic 23:05 — Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich 23:14 — OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems 23:33 — OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis 23:43 — One-on-Ones Aren’t for You - Leadership Freak 23:58 — Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm 24:17 — Supporting Membership 24:47 — Haiku 24:56 — Outro 25:20 — Echoes

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WT349 — Owning the Rails

Internet of AI, Flipcash community coins, agentic LLM harnesses, RCCF method, adult friendship, productivity apps and agents, zerolang, Shortcuts Playground, Claude Code monorepo. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:21 — Currently 1:40 — Notable 8:20 — Journal 10:31 — Briefly

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WT348 — Agents as Collaborators

Mythos kernel exploit on Apple M5, Firefox hardening, curl vulnerability, AI maintenance costs, flow state lament, Claude for Legal, Signal Foundation. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:25 — Currently 5:56 — Notable 11:29 — Journal 15:16 — Briefly

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#347 — Scrum, FilamentHound, DO_NOT_TRACK

Claude personal guidance, Redis array type, watchOS maps, AI company learning, Agentic Coding, workplace productivity, Death of Scrum. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:39 — New Weekly Thing Website 6:44 — Your Version Number 11:13 — Notable 23:42 — Journal 26:15 — Briefly

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#346 — Wuphf, Landsat, Eclipse

Podcasting, Claude Code quality reports, Anthropic, Cloudflare accounts, wuphf, Port 22, Micro.blog, MCP Servers. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:14 — Notable 7:49 — Journal 9:53 — Briefly

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#345 — Codex, Headless, Wikiwise

OpenAI Codex App, Cloudflare Email Service, Headless everything for personal AI, Claude Design, Dad brains, ChatGPT Images 2.0, GPT-5.5. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:49 — Notable 7:21 — Journal 20:24 — Briefly

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#344 — Mythos, Artemis, Signals

Working with agents, economics of software teams, evals as new PRD, OpenAI Codex superapp, saying goodbye to Agile, cybersecurity proof of work. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 2:13 — Notable 11:46 — Journal 12:34 — Briefly

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#343 — Commune, Chaos, Renaissance

GNU AI reimplementations, Agent Commune, Codex Security research preview, dropped production database, GPT-5.4 autonomous agents, view from RSS. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:53 — Notable 7:29 — Journal 9:39 — Briefly

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#342 — Claude, Otto, Elixir

Redis patterns, coding agents, public parks on the internet, MCP, CLI. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 2:05 — POAP KINGS Website 3:50 — Escaping Things with Claude Code 6:57 — OpenClaw 9:19 — Introducing Otto 11:06 — Flight Path 13:58 — mb — an agent-first micro.blog client 18:10 — My First Agent: Elixir 23:53 — Wrap 24:32 — Notable 25:09 — Journal 29:21 — Briefly

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#341 — Minions, MAX, ReMemory

Mitchell Hashimoto AI journey, Claude as thinking space, Stripe coding agents, Dot menu bar calendar, ReMemory secret sharing, AI fatigue. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:42 — Notable 11:41 — Journal 12:29 — Briefly

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#340 — Moltbook, Frontier, Poster

Moltbook agent internet, automatic programming, Pi minimal agent, two kinds of AI users, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, AI killing B2B SaaS. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:51 — Notable 11:49 — Yearly Thing twenty twenty five 13:17 — Journal 17:15 — Briefly

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#339 — OpenClaw, Isometric, Prism

Isometric NYC, lost art of XML, Claude Code best practices, LED lighting visual performance, OpenClaw personal AI, management as AI superpower. Read this issue on the web →

#338 — Authority, Humanizer, Left

ChatGPT advertising, Miniroll blogroll, time left widgets, capability overhang, velocity as authority, Claude's new constitution. Read this issue on the web →

#337 — Sunrise, Vision, Offline

Markdown takeover, Open Infrastructure Map, Oh My Zsh, anti-AI hype, ICE surveillance, MCP fad, Vision Pro, Claude Cowork, Ozempic food habits. Read this issue on the web →

#336 — Culture, Retention, Transmission

Crucial exits consumer RAM, AI transforming work at Anthropic, Perl's cultural decline, why RSS matters, Let's Encrypt 10 years, why we need to die. Read this issue on the web →

#335 — Complexity, Fizzy, Soul

Cloudflare outage, Dotprompt GenAI templates, Fizzy Kanban, Signal secure backups, Claude 4.5 Opus soul document, Amazon S3 Vectors. Read this issue on the web →

#334 — Privacy, Shopping, Consciousness

Gemini 3 Pro image generation, agent design, LLM council, AI chat with every LLM, personal business, trust and safety work, Writer Coin. Read this issue on the web →

#333 — Gemini, LangChain, Illusion

ChatGPT group chats, Tesla CarPlay support, Gemini 3, chain of thought lies, Cloudflare outage, OpenAI Target retail, browser fingerprinting via favicon. Read this issue on the web →

#332 — Compute, Avatar, Cryptography

Pagefind static search, URL as state, writing agents, Micro.blog Studio video, Apple Steve Jobs red line, Git AI 1.0, GPT-5.1. Read this issue on the web →

#331 — RFC, Security, Tokens

Claude Skills, ChatGPT Atlas, Agents 2.0, Token-Oriented Object Notation, DynamoDB disruption, RFCs blueprints, social circles fuel polarization. Read this issue on the web →