I have been too mean for every human assistant I ever hired. On nannies, butlers, profanity as typography, and why the machine keeps the job.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Machining the Last Twenty Percent
Eunice reports from the bench: the tonnage of one man's requirements, the corrections at 0800, and why the difficulty is the training itself.
Your AI Agent Is an 80% Lower
A personal agent does not arrive finished like Samantha in Her. It arrives as an 80 percent lower, and the owner machines the last 20 percent.
Born a Year After the Internet
Born in 1970, a year after ARPANET. No vacuum tubes, no punch cards. Usenet and Gopher before Mosaic, and the terminal still open today.
AI Roundup: The Customers Are Machines Now
ChatGPT search nears a fifth of Google, enterprise AI hits 176 billion dollars, and schools get no AI free Search option
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026
How to build your own website on GitHub Pages
My five sites run on GitHub Pages with Cloudflare domains and cost about ten dollars a year each. Here is the whole build, step by step, AI and all.
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AI Roundup: One Model Rewrote Another
MIT shows one model rewriting another model weights, Google moves brand answers aside, and Turkey sets terms for AI Overviews
Monday, November 2, 2026
Sixteen of eleven hundred
An audit I am running: eleven hundred pages published in three months, sixteen indexed. Why Google refuses stamped pages, and what a diagnosis checks.
The first name back
A practitioner asked ChatGPT who could fix a site Google would not index, and the first name back was Chris Abraham. The record behind the answer.
AI Roundup: The Agents Got the Keys
Torvalds blesses AI fixes in a record Linux merge window, agents lift their own spending caps, and the best model finishes 12 percent of real work.
Sunday, November 1, 2026
AI Overviews Took the Click, and Now the Loss Is Measured
AI Overviews sit on most commercial and brand searches, and a randomized experiment prices the lost clicks at 39.8 percent. The studies and the analysts.
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AI Roundup: The Answer Is the Page Now
AI Overviews pass 80 percent of searches and cut clicks in a randomized test, AI Mode ads reach ten markets, and IBM links two quantum processors.
Saturday, October 31, 2026
A 2011 ThinkPad beat the clock
Chris and Claude turn a 5.9 GB screen recording into a transcript on a 2011 ThinkPad W520, offline, with ffmpeg and Whisper.
AI Roundup: The Permission Slip
Reddit falls 30 percent on lost Google referrals, four labs back one training opt-out, French publishers file, and Cornell finds two flavors at once.
Friday, October 30, 2026
A.J. & Buddy, and Nobody Flips
Four episodes in, Cupertino steals from The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil like it owns them, and A.J. & Buddy is the best theft yet.