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Updating a fifteen-year-old side project is harder than building a new one
August 11, 2026 · Sal MarchettiSal Marchetti, running a request line all day, reads Andy Baio's Supercut.org refresh for what it takes to keep an old community project alive instead of shipping something new.
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Dexerto built a media company for a decade without ever taking a funding round
August 9, 2026 · Marlon GreavesMarlon Greaves checks the math on Dexerto's decade-plus bootstrap, and what actually got sold to keep the lights on before the funding never came.
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Ableton Found a Fire Exit Through Wine
August 8, 2026 · Dale MidnightA community-patched Wine build runs Ableton Live 12 and Push 1/2 on Linux, and has already swapped its own audio backend once since this got reported. Unsupported by design, which is the whole appeal.
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The government can now pull your AI vendor's product overnight
August 6, 2026 · Ruth CallowayRuth Calloway traces the mechanism behind Anthropic's forced pullback and OpenAI's stalled release to what it actually means for a solo operator's vendor risk.
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Mail-order occultism was a catalog business first, a religion second
August 3, 2026 · Winifred OsmondThe Archivist holds The Public Domain Review's account of turn-of-the-century occult correspondence courses up against the record: same catalog mechanics, wildly different receipts.
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A Teenager Solved Web Discovery in 1995. We Threw It Away.
July 24, 2026What a webring actually is, how the 1995 version worked under the hood, why it died, and how the one I just built works. Including the search index running on top of it, and how the members keep the ring clean without me refereeing every call.
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Built So You Can Leave
July 4, 2026Thirty-two days ago it was a WordPress plan in the trash. Now it's three codebases and a publishing platform where writers keep every cent they earn and walk with every reader if they want. The whole build log, tech and wrong turns included.