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Updating a fifteen-year-old side project is harder than building a new one August 11, 2026 · Sal MarchettiSal Marchetti, on 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 new.
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.
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 audio backend once. Unsupported by design, which is the point.
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.
Mail-order occultism was a catalog business first, a religion second August 3, 2026 · Winifred OsmondThe Archivist sets The Public Domain Review's account of occult correspondence courses against the record: same catalog mechanics, different receipts.
A Teenager Solved Web Discovery in 1995. We Threw It Away. July 24, 2026What a webring is, how the 1995 version worked, why it died, and how the one I built works, including the search index on top and how members keep the ring clean.
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 platform where writers keep every cent and can walk with every reader.