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![Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass]()
Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass
September 24, 2026Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass: LensVLM compresses text by showing it to a vision-language model as an image, then opens the original text where the answer lives.
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Procedural Film: Movies Drawn in Code
September 23, 2026People are making films with Opus 5.5 that contain no image or audio files at all, every frame drawn on a canvas and every sound synthesised in JavaScript, and there's an open-source agent skill that does it for you.
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The Package Registry Became a Data Channel
September 12, 2026The Package Registry Became a Data Channel: RubyHack traced a RubyGems package flood through automatic documentation builds and republished web data, while RubyGems says the role of AI agents remains unverified.
![The Compute Is Already Paid For]()
The Compute Is Already Paid For
September 10, 2026The AI industry is spending $450 billion on data centers this year. Desert Ant Labs' bet: a billion phones, tablets, and laptops already have the compute sitting idle in people's hands — and when inference is free, you stop rationing which messages get checked.
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![Chad Fowler: the regeneration test]()
Chad Fowler: the regeneration test
The marginal value of creating software is dropping toward zero. Solid solutions architecture is what still pays.
![The agent software factory is throttling up]()
The agent software factory is throttling up
The agent software factory is throttling up
![Looking around is enough]()
Looking around is enough
A web beacon is a thing you fetch that acts because you fetched it. GitSpawn is the same trick, one layer under the model.
![Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is.]()
Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is.
Chad Fowler: SaaS isn't dead. Sameness is.
![Git in the file, or the file in Git]()
Git in the file, or the file in Git
Two ways to put Git on agent data. Files in Git, or Git inside the database file. You don't need SQLite just because Beads had one.
![Sol is the hot kid in town]()
Sol is the hot kid in town
Sol is the hot kid in the mixed-model room lately. The other models keep agreeing with it.
![Microduck: A 25 cm Biped You Can Retrain Yourself]()
Microduck: A 25 cm Biped You Can Retrain Yourself
Pollen Robotics shipped a $399 open-source biped with seven RL policies in the box, MuJoCo training on your machine, and a sim-to-real path that actually works.
![Bloub remakes the x.ai bot avatar in SVG]()
Bloub remakes the x.ai bot avatar in SVG
Bloub reconstructs the x.ai bot avatar as one SVG shape that morphs through 14 measured states. No animation library.
