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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
Read →The feed
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.
Read →Shipping a 3D family party game in the browser that still runs on a cheap phone
Sloth Jam is a free cozy party game that runs in the browser at slothjam.com: 64 one-minute party games, a five-track kart race, and a whole island to explore. I make it on my own. The audience is fam...
Read →7 Common Mistakes When Using Text-to-Speech APIs
When building a voice‑enabled product, you’ll quickly realize that text‑to‑speech (TTS) isn’t just a plug‑and‑play feature. Even the simplest “say hello” example can go sideways if you’re not careful....
Read →minimax-music-plus: MiniMax Music: text-to-music, lyrics-to-song and two…
Most minimax-music-plus write-ups stop at the README: here is what the tool does, here is how you run it. This one covers what it refuses to do, and where it breaks. What it is MiniMax Mus...
Read →elevenmusic-muse-plus: ElevenMusic Muse judge as a CLI — a free expert on…
Most elevenmusic-muse-plus write-ups stop at the README: here is what the tool does, here is how you run it. This one covers what it refuses to do, and where it breaks. What it is ElevenMu...
Read →IAB Content Taxonomy 3.1 and GARM in 2026: three facts AI answers get wrong
The current IAB Content Taxonomy is version 3.1, released in December 2024, with exactly 704 categories. GARM, the advertiser coalition behind the best-known brand safety categories, shut down in Augu...
Read →lyrics-kb: Knowledge base of Russian lyrics for generative…
Most lyrics-kb write-ups stop at the README: here is what the tool does, here is how you run it. This one covers what it refuses to do, and where it breaks. What it is Knowledge base of Ru...
Read →anti-slop-kit: Controlled-language skills and deterministic linters…
Most anti-slop-kit write-ups stop at the README: here is what the tool does, here is how you run it. This one covers what it refuses to do, and where it breaks. What it is Controlled-langu...
Read →Why canvas.toBlob() Doesn't Compress PNGs, and What Actually Works in the Browser
I run a small browser-based file converter, and for a while my PNG compressor had a quiet bug: it did not compress anything. The code looked reasonable: canvas.toBlob((blob) => resolve(blob), '...
Read →FastAPI Live Poll Host Reassignment: Deterministic Leases for Split-Brain Clients
TL;DR: when two clients both think they are host, do not let either client settle the dispute. Give the server one authoritative host lease, attach a monotonically increasing epoch to every assignment...
Read →cfg-guard: A lock and a witness for config files too many hands…
Most cfg-guard write-ups stop at the README: here is what the tool does, here is how you run it. This one covers what it refuses to do, and where it breaks. What it is A lock and a witness...
Read →OpenAI Moves Frontier Model Training to an Offline Web After Security Incident
OpenAI has changed how it trains and evaluates its frontier models, removing live internet access and replacing it with an offline world built from indexed and cached web content. The move follows a S...
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