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Weekly Thing 343 / Commune, Chaos, Renaissance: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/343/

Good morning! âï¸

Iâm not supposed to be at home right now. We should have already landed in Amsterdam to begin a two-week trip including Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona with the highlight seeing Mazie on her semester abroad!

However, the "storm of the winter" was predicted and that has massively impacted flights all over the country. For reasons that are beyond me our flight was cancelled more...

Weekly Thing 343 / Commune, Chaos, Renaissance

GNU and AI reimplementations, Agent Commune, Codex Security, GPT‑5.4 autonomous agents, 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering, brain fry, production database loss, and the view from RSS.

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Weekly Thing Mar 8

Weekly Thing 342 / Claude, Otto, Elixir: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/342/

Weekly Thing 342 / Claude, Otto, Elixir

Three weeks of intense agent-building: a clan website, an escape room tracker, a globe visualization, an agent-first CLI tool, and a fully agentic Discord bot — all built alongside AI.

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Weekly Thing Feb 15

Weekly Thing 341 / Minions, MAX, ReMemory: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/341/

Weekly Thing 341 / Minions, MAX, ReMemory

MAX, AI adoption journeys, space to think with Claude, secret sharing, Omni Roadmap 2026, menu bar calendars, coding agents, programming reflections, OpenClaw, and AI fatigue.

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Weekly Thing Feb 8

Weekly Thing 340 / Moltbook, Frontier, Poster: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/340/

Weekly Thing 340 / Moltbook, Frontier, Poster

moltbook, automatic programming, Pi and Clawdbot, AI user gaps, Notepad hijack, BlogBook, Claude Opus 4.6, OpenAI Frontier, GPT‑5.3‑Codex, and AI’s impact on B2B SaaS

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Weekly Thing Feb 1

Weekly Thing 339 / OpenClaw, Isometric, Prism: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/339/

Weekly Thing 339 / OpenClaw, Isometric, Prism

Isometric NYC, being useful, the lost art of XML, Claude Code best practices, lessons from 10 years in engineering, LED lighting studies, OpenClaw AI, and management as an AI superpower.

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Weekly Thing Jan 24

Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/338/

Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

Hello there! 👏 I’m finishing up this email as it is -17 °F and waiting for the sun to rise. Yesterday it was -22 °F at this time so it is warming. This is...

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Weekly Thing Jan 24

Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left
https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/338/

Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

Hello there! 👏 I’m finishing up this email as it is -17 °F and waiting for the sun to rise. Yesterday it was -22 °F at this time so it is warming. This is...

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Weekly Thing Jan 19

Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline
https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/337/

How Markdown took over the world, exploring Open Infrastructure Map, and a New Year’s sunrise photo project. Thoughts on Oh My Zsh, AI hype, and the Vision Pro. Plus ICE’s surveillance spree, MCP skepticism, and tools like Cowork, sitemaptorss, and Photos Backup Anywhere.

Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline

Hello there! 👋 Here I am with the first Weekly Thing of 2026! Yes it is a bit later in the day than planned, but better late than never, right? I had a great...

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Weekly Thing Dec 13

Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission
https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/336/

After 30 years, Crucial exits consumer RAM. Anthropic shares how AI is reshaping work. Exploring the indieweb and calm tech. Perl’s cultural decline. The enduring value of RSS. A decade of Let’s Encrypt. Childhood creativity in “67.” Reflecting on why we need to die.

Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission

Good morning! ☕️ I hope your weekend is getting off to a great start. We've had what feels like an unusually cold start to our winter. There is already...

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Weekly Thing Dec 6

Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/335/

Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul

Good morning! ☕️ I hope you're having a great start to your weekend. The r/WeeklyThing subreddit is seeing some folks stopping by and checking it out. Over...

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