WT353 — Release Notes for Every Day

Your Version Number Release Notes, Claude Haiku 5.5, zkAPI, hard budget caps, Tufte's Razor, M8 Ultra servers, Twin Cities Marathon. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:41 — Currently 1:20 — This week's photo 1:27 — Notable 1:31 — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic 2:26 — We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything 3:56 — Introducing zkAPI: private usage credits for any API 5:12 — On the Rumored M8 Ultra AI Servers 6:30 — Tufte's Razor · An interactive guide to the data-ink ratio 7:44 — mb 2.0 with MCP support 8:34 — Supporting Membership 9:10 — Journal 9:14 — Today is that sad day when I take the boat in to be put in storage… 9:22 — My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and then Claud… 9:35 — We went to BRKTHROUGH tonight and tried out their various games. 9:52 — Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb uti… 10:03 — Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon runners this… 10:09 — I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last week on wh… 10:30 — Weekly Thing Archive Improved 11:16 — We got to watch the US Men's National Team take on Canada tonight i… 11:38 — Thingy, my digital librarian, got a big improvement this week with… 11:57 — Briefly 12:00 — AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. 12:17 — If You Understand These 5 Platform Engineering Terms, You’re Ahead of 90% 12:38 — We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare 12:53 — “you said no mcp!” | earendil 13:13 — Pi 1.0 | Earendil 13:25 — Jev and DuckDB: Plain-English Conditions in SQL 13:45 — OpenAI silences familiar voices 13:57 — The future of independence is interdependence 14:14 — The Death and Life of the Average Memecoin 14:24 — How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain 14:47 — Birchfeed 15:00 — Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging · Refactoring English 15:10 — BIGWORDS.PAGE: Turn any screen into a sign 15:23 — Mandelnaut — Making Fractal Wallpapers 15:33 — Outro 15:42 — Haiku 15:50 — Echoes 15:54 — How did Your Version Number start, and how has it evolved? 16:08 — What has Jamie taken away from Tufte's seminars over the years? 16:20 — How has Jamie viewed Apple Silicon's AI potential since the M1? 16:37 — Why does Jamie think crypto suits payments for AI agents?