# meeting notes (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover meeting notes. Page: Feed: --- ## [Eclipse! Eclipse! Eclipse! Notes from our meeting on 13th August 2026](https://www.brightonfarm.com/2026/meeting-notes-20260813/) _2026-08-17 · Paul Silver · Brighton Farm_ On the 13th August, 11 freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk… mainly the eclipse, which happened just before our meeting and had 96% coverage of the sun in Brighton. Eclipse! (What did you see, did you have the special glasses, was a welding mask enough?) When \[…\] The post Eclipse! Eclipse! Eclipse! Notes from our meeting on 13th August 2026 appeared… ## [Fractional work, marketing affected by AI and more, notes from 5th August 2026](https://www.brightonfarm.com/2026/meeting-notes-20260805/) _2026-08-11 · Paul Silver · Brighton Farm_ On the 5th August, fourteen freelancers gathered in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to talk all things freelancing, tech, and a bunch of random stuff too. This is some of what we talked about: Struggling with motivation Becoming a Fractional CTO Visitor over from Germany Marketing companies affected by \[ \] The post Fractional work, marketing affected by AI and more,… ## [Synergies and Challenges in Financing Adaptation, Sustainable Development, and Loss and Damage](https://www.ipinst.org/2026/08/synergies-and-challenges-in-financing-adaptation-sustainable-development-and-loss-and-damage) _2026-08-04 · Olivia Fielding · International Peace Institute_ Adapting to climate impacts is more critical than ever. Average global temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C threshold in 2024, and the ten worst climate-related disasters of 2025 caused over $120 billion in insured losses alone. Yet just as adaptation becomes more urgent, climate has slipped down the global agenda, leaving the developing countries most exposed to climate impacts—and least responsible… ## [Meeting notes from the 29th July 2026](https://www.brightonfarm.com/2026/meeting-notes-20260729/) _2026-08-04 · Paul Silver · Brighton Farm_ On the 29th July, seven freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk self employment, tech and science fiction. Here s some of what we talked about: AYN Odin 3 gaming console (and more!) Hearing aid tech Gaming PC costs are insane (thanks LLMs!) Sky on the front page \[ \] The post Meeting notes from the 29th July 2026 appeared first on Brighton Farm . ## [Patch footprint beat model price: the clearest signal in 60 coding-agent runs](https://zackproser.com/blog/patch-footprint-beat-model-price) _2026-08-04 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ The strongest predictor in a 60-run local-vs-cloud coding-agent benchmark wasn't model quality or price — it was patch footprint. Four-plus-file changes fell to 3/7 held-out checks on every route, including the lane that cost 25x more per run. Decomposition, not a bigger model, is the intervention. ## [The Eval Harness: 60 Local and Cloud Coding Runs](https://zackproser.com/blog/the-eval-harness) _2026-08-04 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A complete record of 60 coding-agent runs across an 80.76 GiB local DeepSeek quant, hosted DeepSeek, and hosted Claude: task design, hidden scorers, repair passes, provider recovery, exact cost, uncertainty, and workload fit. ## [OpenRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway: Cost, Routing, and Model Coverage](https://zackproser.com/blog/openrouter-vs-vercel-ai-gateway) _2026-08-03 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A measured comparison of OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway across fees, provider redundancy, model catalogs, prompt caching, routing controls, privacy, and developer experience. ## [Best AI Meeting Notes in 2026: 5 Useful Choices](https://zackproser.com/blog/best-ai-meeting-notes-2026) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Choose the best AI meeting-notes app for editable notes, shared transcripts, CRM workflows, Notion projects, or video-call review. ## [Best Android Voice Recording Apps in 2026](https://zackproser.com/blog/best-android-voice-recording-apps-2026) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Google Recorder, Samsung Voice Recorder, and Wispr Flow for audio recording, transcription, and system-wide Android dictation. ## [Designing AI Evaluations](https://zackproser.com/blog/designing-ai-evaluations) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A generic blueprint for designing AI evaluations: define the decision, version the system, build representative task sets, choose valid scorers, measure uncertainty, analyze failures, and connect offline tests to production evidence. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/agbxJzKjD0cM) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI: Managed API or Self-Hosted?](https://zackproser.com/blog/firecrawl-vs-crawl4ai) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Firecrawl's managed web-data API with Crawl4AI's self-hosted Python crawler across setup, control, scaling, data handling, and cost. ## [Granola AI Review (2026): My Daily-Use Verdict](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-ai-review) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ My daily-use Granola review: how capture and cloud transcription work, what the note-first workflow gets right, and where another tool fits better. ## [Granola Call Transcription and Consent: A Compliance Guide](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-call-recording-legal-compliance) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A practical guide to consent, disclosure, retention, and data handling when using Granola to transcribe business meetings. ## [Granola Enterprise Security: What Is Documented](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-enterprise-security-features) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A documented review of Granola's cloud data flow, SOC 2 status, storage, SSO, retention controls, and current HIPAA limitation. ## [Granola's Three-Month Offer: How I'd Evaluate It](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-free-plan-what-you-get) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A practical three-month Granola evaluation plan for new users who start through my affiliate link. ## [Granola Integrations Guide: Chrome, Notion, Slack, MCP](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-integrations-guide) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A practical guide to Granola integrations: meeting-platform support, the Chrome extension, speaker tags, Notion, Slack, Zapier, CRM, MCP, and API limits. ## [Can You Use Granola for Medical Transcription?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-medical-transcription) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Granola is not currently HIPAA compliant. Learn where it should not be used and how to evaluate safer healthcare transcription workflows. ## [Granola vs Fathom: Notes or a Shareable Call Record?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-fathom) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's private meeting notes with Fathom's bot and newer bot-free capture, video, clips, and team call workflows. ## [Granola vs Fireflies.ai: Personal Notes or Team System?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-fireflies) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's private meeting notebook with Fireflies' bots, device capture, shared transcripts, uploads, analytics, and team workflows. ## [Granola vs Krisp (2026): Notes, Audio, or Both?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-krisp) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A current Granola vs Krisp comparison across bot-free notes, live audio cleanup, recordings, cloud processing, and real meeting workflows. ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iM0RzqwTgDf9) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Granola vs Microsoft Copilot for Meetings](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-microsoft-copilot-meetings) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's cross-platform private notes with Microsoft Copilot and Teams Recap, including capture, governance, and workflow tradeoffs. ## [Granola vs Notion AI Meeting Notes: The 2026 Choice](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-notion-ai) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A current Granola vs Notion AI Meeting Notes comparison: capture, editable notes, organization, consent, sharing, and which workflow fits. ## [Granola vs Notion AI Meeting Notes](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-notion-ai-meetings) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's dedicated meeting notebook with Notion AI Meeting Notes for capture, organization, consent, and sharing. ## [Granola vs Notta (2026): Notes or Transcription Suite?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-notta-2026) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A current Granola vs Notta comparison covering bot-free capture, meeting bots, editable notes, recordings, languages, consent, pricing, and who each fits. ## [Granola vs Otter.ai (2026): Which One Fits?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-otter) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A current Granola vs Otter comparison covering bot-free capture, live transcripts, saved recordings, collaboration, and the note-first workflow I prefer. ## [Granola vs Read AI: Which Meeting Workflow Fits?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-read-ai) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola and Read AI across bot-free capture, meeting reports, recordings, speaker labels, coaching, consent, pricing, and the workflow each serves best. ## [Granola vs Teams and Google Meet Meeting Notes](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-teams-meet-transcription) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's cross-platform private notes with native AI meeting notes in Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. ## [Granola vs Zoom Transcription (2026): Notes or Record?](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-vs-zoom-transcription-comparison) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Granola's editable meeting notes with Zoom captions, retained transcripts, recordings, and AI Companion workflows. ## [How to Use Granola with Zoom: Setup and Consent](https://zackproser.com/blog/granola-zoom-integration-guide) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Set up Granola with Zoom, understand its local capture and cloud transcription path, obtain consent, and troubleshoot missing audio. ## [Practical Advice on Local Inference and Cloud LLMs - August 2026](https://zackproser.com/blog/practical-local-inference-aug-2026) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ The short version of two weeks spent measuring local and cloud inference: what a 128 GB MacBook is actually good for, why Vercel's AI Gateway is currently winning my DeepSeek workloads over DeepSeek's own API, which work goes to which model, and the one pricing number to check before comparing any providers. ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5XaArOkkiZHU) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Rightsizing My Agent Spend: From Opus to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](https://zackproser.com/blog/rightsizing-agent-spend) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Eleven agents on Claude Opus 4.8 were burning more than $150 a week, so I shut them off. Moving the fleet to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 cut inference roughly 96x on output — and the same model runs just as well locally on my M5 Max as it does through the Vercel AI Gateway. The model swap was one line per bot; the platform underneath it was the actual work. ## [Sampling Thinking Machines’ Inkling and the Alias Pattern](https://zackproser.com/blog/sampling-inkling-baseten-alias) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Sampling Thinking Machines’ Inkling through Baseten and Vercel, then using one alias pattern to route Claude Code between private local DeepSeek and the Vercel AI Gateway. ## [5 Best Granola Alternatives in 2026 (Pick by Workflow)](https://zackproser.com/blog/top-5-ai-note-taking-tools-granola-alternatives) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ The best Granola alternatives for saved recordings, CRM automation, Notion workspaces, video review, and Zoom-native governance. ## [Vercel AI Gateway Review: Measured Speed & Pricing (2026)](https://zackproser.com/blog/vercel-ai-gateway-review) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Two weeks using Vercel AI Gateway for Claude Code: measured cost and latency, plus the model table and alias that make switching models fast. ## [Wispr Flow vs Apple Dictation on iPhone](https://zackproser.com/blog/wisprflow-vs-apple-dictation-2026) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Apple Dictation with Wispr Flow for iPhone voice typing, including offline use, AI cleanup, personalization, privacy, and cost. ## [Wispr Flow vs Speechify (2026): Which Should You Use?](https://zackproser.com/blog/wisprflow-vs-speechify) _2026-08-02 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A current Wispr Flow vs Speechify comparison for dictation, reading, pricing, platforms, privacy, and daily professional writing. ## [Best AI Meeting Assistant (2026): 5 Tools Compared](https://zackproser.com/blog/best-ai-meeting-assistant-2026) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ I compared Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and Zoom for bot-free notes, live captions, CRM workflows, price, and the meetings each fits best. ## [Best Web Scraping API for AI (2026): Build or Buy?](https://zackproser.com/blog/best-web-scraping-api-2026) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Firecrawl, Playwright, Puppeteer, Beautiful Soup, and Cheerio for AI web data: output quality, control, infrastructure, and maintenance. ## [Firecrawl vs Apify (2026): Which Fits AI Workflows?](https://zackproser.com/blog/firecrawl-vs-apify) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Compare Firecrawl and Apify for AI data: clean output, browser control, Actors, maintenance, pricing models, and the workloads each fits best. ## [Firecrawl vs Playwright: Which Should You Use?](https://zackproser.com/blog/firecrawl-vs-playwright) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Choose Firecrawl or Playwright for web data, scraping, browser interaction, and AI pipelines. Compare control, clean output, maintenance, and cost. ## [How Does Granola AI Work? Capture, Notes, and Privacy](https://zackproser.com/blog/how-does-granola-ai-work) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ How Granola captures meetings without a visible bot, turns transcripts and rough notes into structured notes, handles privacy, and fits real workflows. ## [The Price Floor](https://zackproser.com/blog/the-price-floor) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ What does it actually cost to run a frontier-class open model? I measured DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 across every layer in August 2026: why the same weights run 5x faster in a different inference engine, prefill versus decode, why speculative-decoding gains don't transfer between stacks, measured cloud throughput against the listed figures, the prompt-cache price that dominates agent workloads, the… ## [Wispr Flow Pricing (2026): Plans, Trial, and Discounts](https://zackproser.com/blog/wisprflow-pricing-guide-2026) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Wispr Flow costs $15 monthly or $12 with annual billing. Compare Basic, Pro, Enterprise, the 14-day trial, word limits, and discounts. ## [Wispr Flow Review (2026): My Honest Daily-Use Test](https://zackproser.com/blog/wisprflow-review) _2026-08-01 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ After dictating 182,718 words across 36 apps, here is my honest Wispr Flow review: speed, accuracy, pricing, platform support, and drawbacks. ## [The Voice Box: Running Your Own ElevenLabs, Offline and Free](https://zackproser.com/blog/local-tts-studio) _2026-07-31 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Open-weight speech synthesis got good enough to replace a paid API. This is the working drawing for a local text-to-speech studio built on Fish Audio S2 Pro and MLX — every measurement, both bugs, and the discovery that the model ships with no voices at all. ## [The Cost Curve](https://zackproser.com/blog/the-cost-curve) _2026-07-31 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ DeepSeek's retrained V4 Flash 0731 moved the model pricing baseline for everyone. This drawing works the full token-dollar ledger: MoE bandwidth arithmetic, quantization, the nine agent benchmarks where a budget model beat the flagship, cache-hit economics, verbosity-adjusted task cost, the price war forcing 80% cuts on the frontier, and the structural trap forcing labs to race their own… ## [Freelancing basics, interesting groups in Brighton & more – notes from 22nd July 2026](https://www.brightonfarm.com/2026/meeting-notes-20260722/) _2026-07-28 · Paul Silver · Brighton Farm_ On the 22nd July, nine freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things freelancing and tech. A new freelancer joined us for the first time, so we had plenty of conversations around freelancing standards. This is some of what we talked about: Government Digital Services is moving to \[ \] The post Freelancing basics, interesting groups in Brighton more notes from 22nd… ## [Diversification without Coordination: The Scope for a Collective African Voice in BRICS](https://www.ipinst.org/2026/07/diversification-without-coordination-the-scope-for-a-collective-african-voice-in-brics) _2026-07-21 · Gustavo de Carvalho · International Peace Institute_ Africa’s presence within BRICS has expanded significantly. South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia are now full members, while Nigeria and Uganda participate as partner countries. Yet despite this growing representation, there is no mechanism for African states to coordinate their positions within the grouping, raising questions about whether a larger footprint has translated into greater collective \[…\]… ## [The Model Sheet](https://zackproser.com/blog/choosing-an-llm) _2026-07-21 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ A model's name is a datasheet most people never learn to read. This drawing goes field by field — parameters, dense versus MoE, training stage, distillation, abliteration and merges, quantization (GGUF, k-quants, imatrix, GPTQ/AWQ) — then does the memory math that decides what runs locally, sources and vets a model on Hugging Face, and tests it on your own task instead of trusting a benchmark. ## [ctx: The Personal Context Engine Every One of My Agents Shares](https://zackproser.com/blog/ctx-personal-context-engine) _2026-07-20 · zackproser@gmail.com (Zachary Proser) · Zachary Proser_ Every agent I use — terminal, browser, phone, across Anthropic and OpenAI — started every conversation knowing nothing about me. So I built one shared memory they all plug into: a technical blueprint for a provider-agnostic personal context engine — one Postgres table, a hybrid retriever with an LLM reranker, and a scope wall enforced by the database, not by prompts.