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Jamie Thingelstad

A weekly collection of interesting links, ideas, and observations from across the internet, curated by Jamie Thingelstad.

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  • #352
    Saturday · 18 min

    WT352 — Interviewing Otto for the Job

    OpenAI dots, Cloudflare cf CLI, Daring Fireball on Muse, Claude Max usage, Elixir Collector signed releases, MicroLLM lab, Gemini 4. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:49 — Currently 1:36 — This week's photo 1:48 — Notable 1:52 — Introducing dots | OpenAI 4:01 — Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait 5:27 — Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API 5:53 — The cryptographic world computer 6:24 — MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser 6:58 — Don’t confuse space and time. 8:00 — Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months : r/modnews 8:52 — Trump's Use of Truth Social's Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans' 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation 9:25 — You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner - Derek Thompson 10:36 — Supporting Membership 11:16 — Journal 11:21 — We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. 11:30 — It still gives me a big grin when you open a model and then later g… 11:42 — I guess I’m getting my money's worth for my $200 Claude Max account. 12:16 — The Radish Farm Stop opened a couple blocks from our house and it i… 12:29 — I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secu… 12:49 — I realized I could probably get a data point I've never been able t… 13:06 — Happy Clash Royale cake day to me! 13:11 — We got the very last of the available Pokémon 30th Celebration at t… 13:22 — Oh no — I've used all my tokens! 13:32 — It was great to connect with the Twin Cities tech community tonight… 13:45 — Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. 14:00 — Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo. 14:22 — Briefly 14:25 — An Ode to Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog 14:42 — Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat | The Verge 14:54 — Beauty — A Markdown editor for people who notice things. 15:05 — Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet 15:27 — GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities | Anthropic 15:48 — Introducing Gemini 4 15:54 — Plan mode is dead | Ayman Nadeem 16:05 — The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? | Reasonable 16:13 — The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris 16:31 — Museum of numbers 16:40 — The DNS Museum 16:50 — Outro 17:02 — Haiku 17:11 — Echoes 17:14 — What has Jamie said about RSS and closed platforms over the years? 17:30 — Why does Jamie think command-line tools suit AI agents? 17:45 — What lessons on site performance did Jamie take from MarketWatch?

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  • #351
    September 26 · 14 min

    WT351 — Attention Is The Scarce Part

    Ethan Mollick's overhang, Attention, M5 Ultra local models, AGENTS.md, Boris Cherny's thinking loop, MnTech on AI policy. Read this issue on the web → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:51 — Currently 1:35 — This week's photo 1:46 — Notable 1:49 — The Incumbents Are Coming | Andreessen Horowitz 2:50 — The Overhang - Ethan Mollick 4:19 — M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents - MacStories 6:03 — I am often wrong | Boris Cherny's Blog 6:42 — AI is too important to fear, too powerful to use carelessly 7:09 — Attention is all you have 8:13 — Journal 8:17 — I just published Weekly Thing 350 which is notably the very first i… 8:37 — Some screenshots of my WT Builder custom app to create issues of th… 8:48 — The reward for sending the first issue of your newsletter after a 3… 8:59 — Weekly Thing Podcast Improvements 9:57 — This most recent issue of Arena all about Software looks really good. 10:07 — Briefly 10:10 — Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec 10:23 — Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern 10:36 — What a task costs on Opus 5.5 | Claude by Anthropic 10:53 — Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development 11:05 — What is LinkedIn 11:15 — Announcing the Presenters of Minnedemo42 – Minnestar 11:26 — What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck 11:39 — Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser – pagetable.com 11:53 — Supporting Membership 12:28 — Outro 12:49 — Haiku 12:59 — Echoes 13:03 — How has the Weekly Thing publishing workflow changed since 2017? 13:28 — What has Jamie taken from Ethan Mollick's writing on AI? 13:45 — What local AI hardware and apps has Jamie actually tried?

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  • #350
    September 19 · 26 min

    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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  • #349
    May 23 · 13 min

    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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  • #348
    May 17 · 18 min

    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
    May 10 · 29 min

    #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
    May 3 · 14 min

    #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
    April 26 · 22 min

    #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
    April 19 · 16 min

    #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
    March 15 · 12 min

    #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
    March 8 · 30 min

    #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
    February 15 · 14 min

    #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
    February 8 · 19 min

    #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
    February 1 · 21 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:25 — Yearly Thing twenty twenty five 2:53 — Notable 14:22 — Journal 16:42 — Briefly

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  • #338
    January 24 · 18 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:16 — Yearly Thing twenty twenty five 4:06 — Straw Poll 4:21 — Notable 12:59 — Journal 15:14 — Briefly

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  • #337
    January 18 · 22 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:11 — Notable 13:49 — Journal 18:28 — Briefly

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  • #336
    Dec 13, 2025 · 16 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:09 — Currently 1:25 — Notable 9:39 — Journal 13:38 — Briefly

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  • #335
    Dec 6, 2025 · 14 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 0:42 — Notable 10:59 — Journal 12:38 — Briefly

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  • #334
    Nov 29, 2025 · 18 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:31 — Notable 8:24 — Journal 16:35 — Briefly

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  • #333
    Nov 23, 2025 · 33 min

    #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 → In this episode 0:00 — Welcome 1:56 — Currently 2:15 — Notable 15:27 — Journal 30:32 — Briefly

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