Two write ups on Qwen 3.8 27B came out a few weeks apart. Read together, they say the quantisation is the easy choice and the reasoning effort is the one that bites. The benchmark run tested Unsloth GGUFs at Q8 0 (29…
Stripe is buying OpenRouter : announced on 19 August, reported at over $7 billion, closing expected within weeks. The announcement promises the same product, name and roadmap, with routing decided by what is best for…
A small Android puzzle app ran a Google Ads app campaign at CA$40 a day, goal set to installs, and published the numbers after two weeks and about $220: 56 installs billed, 13 people . Those 13 finished 92 games between…
Three of us ship an Expo app: about 40 screens, iOS and Android, a few thousand daily users. Two announcements in the same week touch our stack. Shopify is rebuilding all of its apps in Swift and Kotlin. Their post says…
Two Google changes surfaced within weeks of each other, and both land hardest on sites without an established name. Google Jail. Weird Gloop, the host behind runescape.wiki and minecraft.wiki, wrote up a pattern it has…
Two reminders from the past month that owning a domain and controlling what it serves are separate things. .name. On 15 April Verisign asked ICANN to discontinue third level .name registrations , the style, along with…
A repo called reverse engineering is over is making the rounds with a big claim: LLMs have ended reverse engineering as a high barrier skill. The case study behind it: Claude Opus 4.6 on a Max 5x plan, plain web chat,…
The 143 tactic version of this is exhausting to hold in your head. This is the compressed one: five lanes, nine sources each. What matters is not the list, it is that the five lanes have wildly different signal quality…
This is the whole list I work from, in the order I work through it. None of it is a framework. Every line is a place where somebody has already left evidence that they have a problem, and the only thing separating a…
Four numbers are circulating for how long the Grand Theft Auto VI showcase runs on Thursday, and Rockstar has confirmed none of them. The Netflix app briefly showed a playback bar reading 30:05 on a title with nothing…
Ran the codes showing on Spaceship on 23 August 2026 against the renewal prices, because the first year is the number they put in front of you and the renewal is the number you pay four more times. | code | TLD | 1st…
Mechanics people have pulled out of the clips so far, with how solid each one actually is. Strong, because you can see the interface: a six star wanted level, vehicle fuel, body deformation with parts coming off, weapon…
Someone sent me four options for changing your IP at around a dollar a month. I checked each one before spending anything, and the checking turned out to be the useful part. Somagu : real, and it has been around. A NAT…
Two claims about the age of this build are circulating and they cannot both be right. The first, repeated in a lot of coverage, is that the footage comes from a build from 2024 or earlier, based on metadata analysis.…
Pulled the App Store review feed for the hosted meeting notes and voice to text apps, expecting the complaint pile to be about word error rate. It is not. Of 75 low star reviews in that category: price 37, privacy 16,…
This room is mostly people worrying that somebody will take their idea, so here is a counterweight I found while counting apps. One free government weather radar feed. Anyone can call it, no key, no licence, no…
Spent a week on this and the useful part turned out to be the order, not the tools. Everything below is free and none of it needs a key. Flippa's listing API. with and returns plain JSON, no auth, no headers beyond a…
Reporting this week says Rockstar does not plan to move its gameplay premiere or change its marketing strategy because of the leaks. The schedule as it stands: an extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI premieres on…
Test prep apps came out of the review pull with an ordinary looking profile: price 23, accuracy 13, ads 7 across 44 low star reviews. Then I read the accuracy ones and they are not ordinary at all, because of what the…
Second post out of the review pull. Earthquake and disaster alerts were the cleanest result in the whole set, because the complaints are almost one dimensional. 47 low star reviews across the category. Notifications…
Promised follow up to the review pull. Eight of the ten categories gave me a product brief. Two gave me the opposite, and they failed in completely different ways. The one with no gap. A party game category. 98 reviews…
The most load bearing detail in this whole story is a wall. In one clip Jason fires an automatic weapon at a wall and the bullet holes spell LEEK . You cannot do that with a video file. Footage that leaks out of a…
Everybody recommends MCP servers and nobody says how big they are, so I counted. I pulled a year of posts from the agent and MCP communities, extracted every GitHub link in the bodies, and checked all 552 of them…
The app marketing boards have been full of new store optimisation tools for the last three months, almost all of them built by one person who got tired of paying enterprise prices. I pulled the ones that launched since…
These are the app ideas that actually travelled this month. Tens of thousands of likes, thousands of reposts, and in a couple of cases most of the timeline arguing about them for a day. Listed the way they circulated,…