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Notify Me About This Session, Not All Sessions
Cmd+Ctrl explains per-session phone notifications for AI coding agents: pick the one or two sessions that may ping your phone, and keep the rest quiet when you are running many agent sessions.
2 min · 521 words
Superlite: hand an agent a spec, come back to tested work
Context First introduces Superlite, a lighter alternative to Superpowers-style agent workflows: hand an agent a clear spec and return to tested work rather than babysitting every step.
10 min · 2,244 words
Boris the Brave connects interview advice to think aloud, puzzle-solving in The Witness, and LLM chain-of-thought, arguing that verbalising your reasoning (self-explanation) measurably helps people solve problems, backed by a meta-study.
2 min · 458 words
Personal software factories are a waste of time
Peter Piekarczyk argues that software engineers should stop building personal AI 'software factories' for side projects and instead spend their time experimenting with AI on real problems, the way non-developers are already doing in surprising ways.
3 min · 698 words
Using timers to perform weekly tasks
Marcin Borkowski shows how he runs a weekly Org-mode review with Emacs timers, including sleep-aware scheduling with system-sleep so the review still fires after the machine wakes.
7 min · 1,588 words
I let an AI run my startup for a week
A solo founder writes up a week of running parts of his business with a team of always-on AI agent bots (support over Gmail, an engineer bot, a security bot): how they worked together to fix a customer bug, working from his phone on a hike, experiments he tried, the downsides, and his conclusions.
3 min · 756 words
Stop Telling AI What It Can't Do
Cal Evans argues people only hand AI tasks they already know how to do — and that describing the problem and letting the conversation explore solutions unlocks more than pre-limiting what AI “can’t” do.
2 min · 426 words
How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models
Felix Rieseberg, who works on Claude at Anthropic, offers a practical tutorial for being more ambitious with AI models, grouping ambition into speed, altitude, depth and range, with worked examples around a quarterly business review and sample prompts, and closes with research on self-efficacy and why believing hard things are possible helps people achieve them.
9 min · 2,160 words
Inside Slipstream’s Recall Pattern
Glide’s engineering team explains Slipstream’s recall pattern for handing six types of rote engineering maintenance work to AI agents: how issues are detected, recalled into agent workflows, verified, and measured, with the numbers they are seeing in production.
9 min · 2,016 words
SlashDocs: the platform behind 28k+ documents at Razorpay, now open source
Razorpay open-sources SlashDocs, the self-hosted MIT-licensed hub where AI agents publish interactive HTML docs and humans review them with anchored comments, versions, CLI, and MCP—powering 28k+ internal documents.
9 min · 2,045 words
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
Olivia explains that Firefox's default network.http.response.timeout of 300 seconds seems to break resuming large downloads, and that setting it to 0 (or a very large value) in about:config made big downloads resumable and more stable in her testing, with wget -c as a fallback.
1 min · 292 words
You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative
After a jam session at Secret Studios with a musician friend, Bryant reflects on why he never finished a song as a teenager, arguing that trying to be original at every step keeps you from finishing anything and that borrowing proven structures frees you to create.
3 min · 732 words
A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
Why agent-run jobs that exit 0 can still have done nothing—and how to assert on real work products and alert on silent zero-effect “success.”
10 min · 2,257 words
I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again.
Jack Baty describes another bout of Emacs fatigue, moving his notes into Bear, and why the feeling that everything lived inside one app sent him back to Emacs, this time with Denote managing Markdown files instead of Org mode.
1 min · 336 words
On using AI as a writing assistant
Nina I. Shamsi, who calls herself a bad writer because her explanations wander, describes how she uses AI as a writing assistant: breaking writing into stages such as brief, outline, drafting and review, the components through which AI helps organise each stage, and the versioned artifacts produced, while admitting the process is still unfinished.
8 min · 1,809 words
From the books you read to your vision board: creating your own core memories
Mark Veidemanis explains a KOReader plugin and web panel he built to sync ebook highlights, annotations, bookmarks and reading statistics, so he can replace doomscrolling with re-reading quotes from books he loved, with the plugin source published on GitHub.
1 min · 244 words
Younss argues that AI can raise individual task throughput without raising organizational throughput—like a hamster spinning faster without traveling—because queues, handoffs, and decision bottlenecks still dominate.
10 min · 2,310 words
Most of you don’t need "unlearning" you need like 1-2 years of financial runwayYour primary bottlenecks may be external, not internal.
Chris Lakin argues that many people seeking emotional "unlearning" are really constrained by external bottlenecks like money and stability, and that resolving those first often makes the supposed internal blocks disappear.
1 min · 202 words
Shipping with AI: Scoold has a new admin dashboard
Alexander Bogdanovski walks through an AI-assisted development process for shipping a new admin dashboard in Scoold, the open-source Q&A platform: prompts, iteration, verification, and a detailed breakdown of what the AI wrote versus what he changed.
7 min · 1,527 words
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipelineA story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
Shan Hannadige describes automating the tedious parts of scanning 35mm film from a Canon AE-1P, building a pipeline and a site to present the results, and what it means to delegate one creative workflow to focus on another.
5 min · 1,257 words