# hope enjoy (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hope enjoy. Page: Feed: --- ## [Victorian Scandal: The Beresford Love Letter](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/victorian-scandal-the-beresford-love) _2026-08-16 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Imagine....A mistress of Edward VII getting mad at her other lover because he and his wife were having a baby... ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 054](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-054) _2026-08-13 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ New sounds, open spaces, and room for wandering thoughts. This week, I’m introducing new albums by Nev Wendell, fydhws, J.WLSN + Liam Keenan, Tomosla, and more. Hope you’ll enjoy. ## [Royal Scandal- Edward VIII's Mistress Turned Murderer](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/royal-scandal-edward-viiis-mistress) _2026-08-09 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ And the coverup that the Royal Household pulled off...most of the way... ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 053](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-053) _2026-08-06 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ With summer now well underway in the Northern Hemisphere, the pace of new releases has slowed down a bit, giving me some time to catch up on albums I've been meaning to spend more time with. ## [Queen Alexandra in Ireland-A Small Gesture That Had Lasting Impacts](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/queen-alexandra-in-ireland-a-small) _2026-08-02 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ AND... A look at the next few months of MBH content! ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 052](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-052) _2026-07-30 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ A collection of sonic moments, real or imagined. Here is this week’s selection, featuring albums by Lamasz + Grandbruit, Marconi Union, Raphah, Hershel, and John Reidar Holmes. Hope you’ll enjoy. ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 051](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-051) _2026-07-23 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ Another offering of inspiring and challenging sounds, with albums by Jake Muir, Jogging House, Ocoeur, Simon Cacheux, and more. Hope you’ll enjoy. ## [The Princess Royal: An Introduction to the Seven Women Who Have Held This Special Title.](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/the-princess-royal-an-introduction) _2026-07-19 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Hello All! ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 050](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-050) _2026-07-16 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ Sorry for the late newsletter. I was away enjoying the summer. Let’s continue our journey through the ambient music universe with beautiful new releases from McGregor, Zakè + Marine Eyes, and others. ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 049](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-049) _2026-07-09 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ Time keeps moving forward, and so does the flow of music. This week, I recommend albums by Eustress, Presidiomodelo, Spacecraft, CIRC, and Marc-Antoine Barbier. Hope you'll enjoy. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wYVRtRq9M0Te) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 048](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-048) _2026-07-02 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ This week features a particularly diverse lineup, starting with a 1986 classic by Yutaka Hirose. Also on the list are albums by Abul Mogard + Rafael Anton Irisarri, OHYUNG, Akira Film Script, and more ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 047](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-047) _2026-06-25 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ A new week, a new delivery of music worth hearing. Here are some recent releases that stood out: albums by Ángeles Rojas, Philippe Deschamps, Fax + Braulio Lam, Daniël Jolan, and Wanderwelle. ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 046](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-046) _2026-06-18 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ Another offering of inspiring and challenging sounds, with albums by Tomotsugu Nakamura + David Cordero, Ayami Suzuki, a collab by Pepo Galán + Joachim Spieth + Markus Guentner, and more. ## [weekly ambient dispatch ✢ 045](https://secretambientclub.substack.com/p/weekly-ambient-dispatch-045) _2026-06-11 · Secret Ambient Club · Secret Ambient Club_ Dear friends, let’s continue our exploration together with a selection of particularly remarkable sonic journeys, featuring new albums by KMRU + Artefakt, Arovane + Taylor Deupree, BDYWRKS and more. ## [5 Incredibly Sweet Glimpses into the Early Years of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/5-incredibly-sweet-glimpses-into) _2026-06-10 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Today would have been Prince Philip’s 105th birthday and I thought that it might be fun to remember him in a slightly different way than we normally do. ## [Agentic reflective practice](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-06-10-agentic-reflective-practice) _2026-06-10 · Pere Villega_ Guest post by David Morgan-Brown on agentic reflective practice. ## [Sort of In-Laws: 6 Anecdotes from Deborah Mitford's Unique Relationship with JFK](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/sort-of-in-laws-6-anecdotes-from) _2026-06-03 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ I recently rewatched some of the early episodes of The Crown on Netflix—in particular, the episode when the Kennedys visit England. ## [Kick and Billy: The Tragic Love Story of JFK's Favorite Sister and the Man Who Should Have Inherited Chatsworth](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/kick-and-billy-the-tragic-love-story) _2026-06-03 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Why was the relationship between Kick and Billy forbidden? Did Kick’s parents disown her? Did Kick find love after being widowed at age 24? How did she meet her tragic end? ## [Alexandra of Denmark Pt. 5- Queen](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/alexandra-of-denmark-pt-5-queen) _2026-05-22 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Welcome and thank you for reading Mostly British History! ## [Alexandra Rose Day](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/alexandra-rose-day) _2026-05-22 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ What started as a celebration of Queen Alexandra raised a fortune for charity in record time...and it still continues 100 years later! ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HBhgQkOCmci9) _2026-05-22 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [The Sadness After Good Days](https://ricos.site/newsletters/the-sadness-after-good-days) _2026-05-09 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ Last week passed so fast, I can barely believe that it was real. But I keep the memories of dancing to Rage Against the Machine, the soft embraces of the people I met, the bittersweet goodbyes, and the warmth still lingering in my chest. Sardinia was a wild mix. ## [Alexandra of Denmark Pt. 4: Trials, Tragedy and Trudging Forward](https://mostlybritishhistory.substack.com/p/alexandra-of-denmark-pt-4-trials) _2026-04-27 · McKenzie Franklin · Mostly British History_ Alexandra's final years as Princess of Wales. ## [Building Faster than I can Live](https://ricos.site/newsletters/building-faster-than-i-can-live) _2026-04-23 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ I paid 200€ for Claude Code, and in one week, I built something that should have taken me two years. The result is playtiao. com: a digital two-player board game, with matchmaking, AI opponents, rankings, tournaments, tutorials. Tested. Documented. Production-ready. ~192. ## [Teaching Your Agent Standard Operating Procedures](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-19-teaching-your-agent-standard-operating-procedures) _2026-04-19 · Pere Villega_ Skills are Standard Operating Procedures the agent loads only when needed — progressive disclosure applied to AI context. Without a forced-eval hook they activate 55% of the time; with one, 100%. That gap is the difference between skills working and skills being decoration. Plus why hooks are the enforcement layer that makes any of it reliable. ## [The Great Agent Tooling Debate](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-18-the-great-agent-tooling-debate) _2026-04-18 · Pere Villega_ Load 84 MCP tools and 15,540 tokens are gone before you ask a question; after thirty minutes you've burned 40% of your context on tool definitions you didn't use. Holmes and Yilmaz make the case for CLI-first, and I've mostly come round: CLIs are debuggable, composable, and 92-98% cheaper in tokens. MCP still earns its keep for a few tools, but the default should flip. ## [Surviving the Context Window in Practice](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-15-surviving-the-context-window-in-practice) _2026-04-15 · Pere Villega_ The context window is a budget, not a feature. Auto-compaction hides the bill until the agent starts hallucinating. Practical tactics for staying under budget: scope per session, offload to disk, dispatch subagents for research, and clear aggressively between phases. The goal isn't a bigger window; it's needing less of it. ## [The Only Workflow That Works](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-13-the-only-workflow-that-works) _2026-04-13 · Pere Villega_ AI agents amplify whatever engineering process they're given. Bad specs produce confident garbage at machine speed. Three practitioner workflows for separating planning from execution: the normal coding flow, Boris Tane's annotated plan cycle, and Jamon Holmgren's Night Shift spec discipline. The pattern is simple; the discipline is resisting the urge to skip straight to implementation. ## [An Opinionated Starting Point for Claude Code Users](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-12-an-opinionated-starting-point-for-claude-code-users) _2026-04-12 · Pere Villega_ A curated configuration for Claude Code that bundles plugins, skills, CLI tools, and sandbox guards into a single install script. What it does, how to use it, and why you should fork it immediately. ## [Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-08-context-engineering-the-skill-that-replaced-prompt-engineering) _2026-04-08 · Pere Villega_ Your prompt is 0.1% of what the model sees; the other 99.9% is context engineering. A four-layer framework for thinking about prompts, practical guidance on what belongs in context and what doesn't, the invisible context problem from a million-line codebase, and why agent-controlled retrieval beats RAG for cross-file reasoning. ## [Running AI Coding Agents on Hetzner](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-02-running-ai-coding-agents-on-hetzner) _2026-04-02 · Pere Villega_ A complete guide to provisioning and hardening a Hetzner VPS for AI coding agents — covering cloud-init security, Tailscale mesh networking, Cloudflare Tunnel, Claude Code resource planning (including the subagent memory pitfalls), and automation scripts to go from zero to a working environment in minutes. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VWV5UO0z6mCX) _2026-04-01 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [What's New in Claude Code Skills 2.0](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-04-01-claude-code-skills-2-what-changed-what-works-what-to-watch-out-for) _2026-04-01 · Pere Villega_ Skills 2.0 unifies custom commands and skills, adds subagents, evals, and a growing ecosystem. Here's what actually changed, what works in practice, and the security and quality pitfalls to watch for. ## [Everything You Missed in Claude Code While You Weren't Looking](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-29-everything-you-missed-in-claude-code-while-you-werent-looking) _2026-03-29 · Pere Villega_ Claude Code has shipped more features in four months than most tools ship in a year. Here's a practitioner's map of everything that changed since Opus 4.5 — rules, skills 2.0, hooks, MCP evolution, remote control, Cowork, plugins, and the dozen slash commands you probably haven't tried yet. ## [Building Agent Memory That Survives Between Sessions](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-24-building-agent-memory-that-survives-between-sessions) _2026-03-24 · Pere Villega_ Every Claude Code session starts from scratch. Teresa Torres's three-layer context system and Patrick Zandl's claudecode-kb offer two practical approaches to the same insight -- memory is a design problem, not a tooling problem. The key habit is stop and capture, turning every repeated explanation into a reusable context file. ## [The One File That Makes or Breaks Your AI Workflow](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-23-the-one-file-that-makes-or-breaks-your-ai-workflow) _2026-03-23 · Pere Villega_ CLAUDE.md is the single file that determines whether your AI coding agent shines or flounders. Research shows auto-generated context files hurt performance — what works is a minimal, human-curated briefing containing only what the agent cannot discover on its own. ## [Your First Day With Claude Code](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-18-your-first-day-with-claude-code) _2026-03-18 · Pere Villega_ The setup checklist I wish I'd had on day one with Claude Code — isolation and sandboxing, terminal configuration, LSP integration, token monitoring, and what not to install. ## [AI Is an Exoskeleton, Not a Coworker](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-17-ai-is-an-exoskeleton-not-a-coworker) _2026-03-17 · Pere Villega_ A rigorous study found AI-assisted developers are 19% slower yet believe they're 24% faster. The gap reveals that AI is best understood as an exoskeleton — amplifying human judgment rather than replacing it — and that the real risk isn't bad code but cognitive debt from velocity without understanding. ## [Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-16-code-is-cheap-now) _2026-03-16 · Pere Villega_ AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification. ## [A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Development](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-15-fulcrums-of-ai-developer-evolution) _2026-03-15 · Pere Villega_ The journey from AI-sceptic to agent-native isn't a smooth ramp — it's a series of uncomfortable jumps. This post maps the stages of AI-assisted development and identifies three critical fulcrums where developers get stuck. ## [On Reciprocity and Pho](https://ricos.site/newsletters/on-reciprocity-and-pho) _2026-03-13 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ In this postcard: Lunar New Year in Hanoi, hitchhiking to Cat Ba Island, rusty towers in Bac Son valley, the Ban Gioc waterfalls, and a small reflection on kindness and reciprocity. I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn. At some point during the Tet dinner. ## [LLMs Are Already Useful](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-06-llms-are-already-useful) _2026-03-06 · Pere Villega_ How I used Claude Code to build a GitHub backup tool I'd been putting off for years, and why LLMs are most valuable for the small internal tools you never get around to writing. ## [I Built Yet Another Sandbox for AI Coding Agents — Here's Why](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-03-03-ai-sandbox-coding-agents) _2026-03-03 · Pere Villega_ Why existing sandbox solutions for AI coding agents didn't work for my workflow, and how I built sandbox-claude: fully isolated Incus containers with btrfs snapshots, deploy key automation, egress filtering, and parallel agent support on macOS and Linux. ## [Stop Calling LLMs "Junior Developers." They're Monkey Paws.](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-02-24-llms-are-monkey-paws) _2026-02-24 · Pere Villega_ Why the 'junior developer' metaphor for LLMs creates dangerous expectations, and how the Monkey Paw framing from folklore leads to better decisions about autonomy, specification, and organisational governance. ## [The Meme, the Agent, and the Leverage Gap](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-02-18-meme-agent-leverage-gap) _2026-02-18 · Pere Villega_ Why the real value of AI tools isn't single-step task solving but tackling entire classes of problems at scale, from managing information overload to continuous monitoring, and how to find the leverage worth closing. ## [Unlearning Minimalism and Leaving Pai](https://ricos.site/newsletters/unlearning-minimalism-and-leaving-pai) _2026-02-14 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ Hey there my dear friends, it is really hard to write these newsletters regularly. I want to write about things that pass through my mind, like the stream of consciousness that is always there, producing interesting and often novel thoughts and ideas, connecting knowledge. ## [Are LLMs killing Open Source](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-02-13-are-llm-killing-oss) _2026-02-13 · Pere Villega_ How LLM-generated slop PRs and shrinking small libraries are reshaping open source, eroding hiring signals, and making deep domain expertise the most defensible way for developers to stand out. ## [Give Claude in Chrome Your CLI Superpowers](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-02-10-give-claude-chrome-cli-superpowers) _2026-02-10 · Pere Villega_ A TIL on using the --chrome flag with Claude Code CLI to enhance Claude in Chrome with custom skills, commands, and a tailored system prompt for more powerful browser automation. ## [Turn Your Life into Art](https://ricos.site/booknotes/lessons-in-psychomagic) _2026-02-07 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ Turn Your Life into Art - Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground is a beautiful book about how to design powerful experiences that are capable to change the life trajectories of other people by engaging parts of their subconscious. ## [The year of the Orchestrator](https://perevillega.com/posts/2026-02-02-year-orchestrators-talk) _2026-02-02 · Pere Villega_ Last week, thanks to David Morgan-Brown and Patchwork Health, I had the opportunity to do something I've genuinely missed: presenting in front of a live audience. The subject? Orchestrators, the la... ## [Notes on Art and Magic](https://ricos.site/newsletters/notes-on-art-and-magic) _2026-02-01 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ Hey there my dear friends, I am still gathering material for my Collection of Beauty, and it is growing rapidly. . . maybe a bit too rapidly. Every other day, I hunt for beautiful art, finding things from Wikimedia Commons, learning about artists I had never known before. ## [Assembling a Collection of Beauty](https://ricos.site/newsletters/assembling-a-collection-of-beauty) _2026-01-25 · ricos.site | RSS Feed_ Hey there my dear friends, many of you wrote me warm words after getting the last edition of this Newsletter, and I am happy to receive every single one of them. It makes me fill up with a warm and fuzzy feeling of gratitude, friendship, and connectedness.