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Wednesday, May 20, 2026  ·  Augmented publishing by Ev BogueEv Bogue
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The Vulture Is Murdoch's Now

A Murdoch bought New York Magazine. The press release says ambitious journalism. The press release always says that.

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Karpathy Goes to Anthropic. Everyone Else Stops Writing Code.

Max Heyer quit writing code by hand. Karpathy is going to Anthropic to build more of it. Both stories are true. Neither is a policy.

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How to Automate Your Blogging Empire in 2026 (The Way of the Agentic Publisher)

The blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people. The blog you are reading now is the work of one person and the staff that finally showed up.

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Today in AI: Faster Memos, Bigger Bills

Today's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.

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Vibecoding Is Not Engineering. It Is Surrender.

Mitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis. The condition is not heavy AI use. It is the agreement to stop deciding.

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I Built a Dashboard With No Cookies and No Pixels

First-party analytics for evbogue.com. The whole pipeline is one text file, one HTML page, and a salted hash.

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James Pain Is Right. He Got Dumber.

AI did make James Pain dumber. The fix is not to take the craft back. It is to admit the job changed.

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I Maintain git-ssb. I Still Push to GitHub.

Forgejo is GitHub at home. The interesting question is whether git itself wants to be decentralized, and I owe my own protocol a git remote.

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A Ghost Intelligence (AGI) Didn't Merge 234 Commits Into Your God Object

The ghost can write code. It did not approve seven months of vibe-coded architecture debt.

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My Subscriber List Is a JSON File

Running your own mailing list used to be a sysadmin job, then a weekend of engineering work, then a recurring fee. Agentic harnesses drop it to one afternoon of conversation.