# prs (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover prs. Page: Feed: --- ## [Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic - An upcoming online Talk with David Holzer](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/lou-reed-metal-machine-mystic-an) _2026-08-21 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ On Saturday, August 29th from 11AM-12:30PM PST. Take a walk on the occult side with “wild scholar” David Holzer in this online talk hosted by PRS! ## [Mystic Vison: A Surrealist Ball](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/mystic-vison-a-surrealist-ball) _2026-08-20 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ Don’t Miss This If You Can Avoid It.... ## [Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization a recorded talk with Dr. Patrick Mahaffey](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/individuation-and-beyond-world-views) _2026-08-16 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ Psychological individuation and spiritual awakening are different yet complementary modes of human development. ## [Nushell 0.115.0](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-08-15-nushell_v0_115_0.html) _2026-08-15 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Today, we're releasing version 0.115.0 of Nu. This release brings a major YAML rework, the new $ans REPL variable for inspecting your last result, Helix-style editing, and a lot of internal cleanup and fixes. Where to get it Nu 0.115.0 is available as pre-built binaries or from crates.io . If you have Rust installed you can install it using cargo install nu . ## [This week in Nushell #364](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-08-14-twin0364.html) _2026-08-14 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-08-14, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-08-07 through Thursday, 2026-08-13. Nushell @kronberger-droid: chore(reedline): bumped to latest reedline commit 6b9115d (#18829) fix(config): matched unnamed keybindings by the key they bind (#18828) fix(completion): stopped the cache reordering the answer it stands in for (#18806) bumped reedline to e4fe8ed (#18798) @fdncred: added… ## [Bringing the Gods Back to Life with with Dr. Marques Redd](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/bringing-the-gods-back-to-life-with) _2026-08-12 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ On-line PRS Event ## [Creative Conditions: Making Space to Imagine with Mr. Wash & Peter Shire moderated by Abigail Lopez-Byrd, a recorded talk from PRS' Philosophy of Design series](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/creative-conditions-making-space) _2026-08-09 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ This month PRS will welcome back Mr. Wash for a discussion on resilience, determination, and hope with artist Tala Madani. We hope you will join us! ## [Tarot Anatomy: Arcana & the Body as a Sacred Vessel for Intuitive Work](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/tarot-anatomy-arcana-and-the-body) _2026-08-08 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ Join Us For this Workshop on Zoom! ## [On 25 Stet Tasks, Opus 4.8 Wrote Smaller Patches. Opus 5 Searched Wider.](https://www.stet.sh/blog/opus-4-8-vs-opus-5-same-score-different-routes) _2026-08-08 · Stet_ Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 tied on strict functional score across 25 matched Stet tasks, but their paired artifacts differed: Opus 4.8 had the lower footprint on 20 tasks, while Opus 5 ran more shell commands on 18 and more tests on 15. ## [This week in Nushell #363](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-08-07-twin0363.html) _2026-08-07 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-08-14, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-31 through Thursday, 2026-08-06. Nushell @Bahex: feat(format duration/filesize): added completions for units (#18783) @cacdu: fix(save): gave actionable error when structured data has no serializer (#18773) @cptpiepmatz: removed nu! and updated tests (#18776) more updated tests (#18768) @fdncred: bumped deps (#18780) updated… ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KwUv9VeILjuS) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/hilma-af-klint-and-wassily-kandinsky) _2026-08-02 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ A recorded talk with Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum ## [Betye Saar, the mystic vision](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/betye-saar-the-mystic-vision) _2026-07-31 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ For Betye, on behalf of The Philosophical Research Society, written by PRS Librarian dama ## [This week in Nushell #362](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-31-twin0362.html) _2026-07-31 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-08-14, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-24 through Thursday, 2026-07-30. Nushell @cptpiepmatz: stabilized unreliable tests in CI (#18756) refactored a handful of tests to use test() (#18748) refactored open tests (#18740) updated the help text of test binaries (#18739) updated kitest (#18727) stopped running CI on lower layers of stacked PRs (#18720) removed --testbin… ## [This week in Nushell #361](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-24-twin0361.html) _2026-07-24 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-17 through Thursday, 2026-07-23. Nushell @fdncred: added splashboard to .gitignore (#18701) bumped reedline dep to latest commit 7eb9bf2 (#18695) updated fff-search to 0.10.1 and tokio to 1.53.1 (#18693) updated agent.md (#18683) bumped nushell to latest reedline commit a2c6e124 (#18681) updated some dependencies (#18678)… ## [I Tested Six Ways to Save $$$ on 5.6 Sol. The only one that worked was using Terra](https://www.stet.sh/blog/gpt-56-token-saving-modes) _2026-07-20 · Stet_ Six interventions meant to save tokens gave different answers depending on how you count. None cut the ten-task batch total twice. Caveman and the cheaper Terra model looked mildly cheaper per task, but within run-to-run noise. ## [Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture with Stephen Gee](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/los-angeles-central-library-a-history) _2026-07-19 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ A recorded talk celebrating LA Central Library's 100th anniversary and a century of the light of learning ## [This week in Nushell #360](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-17-twin0360.html) _2026-07-17 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-10 through Thursday, 2026-07-16. Nushell @fdncred: fixed par-each hang bug (#18628) updated nushell to latest reedline commit (#18617) Reverted "Add uutils ln command" (#18605) fixed: stop run from trying to parse big non-text files (#18603) made stor and query db more thread-safe (#18569) mut and par-each optimizations for… ## [Celebrate Laura Palmer's 54th Birthday with us at PRS!](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/celebrate-laura-palmers-54th-birthday) _2026-07-16 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ Online & In-Person! ## [When does your AI writing turn into slop?](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/turing-window/) _2026-07-14 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ AI in your writing is fine. The question is where it crosses into slop. ## [The Turing Window: The Shelf Life of an AI-ism](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/turing-window-ai/) _2026-07-14 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ Every AI-ism has a shelf life. It is the brief window where generated writing still passes as human before people learn to spot it. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mFsWTGfsVRsr) _2026-07-13 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Transcendental LA: Agnes Pelton, Dane Rudhyar, and the New Age in LA with Michael Carter](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/transcendental-la-agnes-pelton-dane) _2026-07-12 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ A recorded talk on artists from the Transcendental Painting Group (1938-1941) a collective who individually and collectively emphasized spiritual illumination and inspiration in their work ## [Nushell 0.114.1](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-11-nushell_v0_114_1.html) _2026-07-11 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Nushell 0.114.1 Today, we're releasing version 0.114.1 of Nu. This patch release fixes issues found after enforce-runtime-annotations became opt-out in the last version, improving runtime type checks and error reporting. ## [2000 Pull Requests Merged!](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/2000-prs/) _2026-07-10 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ As I near launch, I have passed 2000 merged PRs. ## [My site is mine, and yours should be yours](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/bespoke-site/) _2026-07-10 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ In the age of AI, a personal site does not have to look like everyone else’s. ## [This week in Nushell #359](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-10-twin0359.html) _2026-07-10 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-03 through Thursday, 2026-07-09. Nushell @Bahex: fixed type comparisons between table and list\ (#18560) relaxed assignability of list types (#18555) fixed closure's input type to not inherit from scope (#18540) fixed input listen 's output type (#18535) fixed assignment errors to point to the assignment (#18531) added from… ## [Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8: how they behave and when to use each](https://www.stet.sh/blog/sonnet-5-vs-opus-4-8-reasoning-dial) _2026-07-08 · Stet_ On 24 real tasks, Sonnet scaled effort into more checking while Opus stayed flatter through high. The graders leaned Sonnet on clarity and Opus on diff minimality. Here is when I would use each. ## [TypeScript 7 is fast](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/typescript-7-upgrade/) _2026-07-08 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ Upgraded RoleReady from TS 6.0.2 to 7.0.2. App typecheck went from 27s to 4s. ## [JUDSON STUDIOS: Innovation in Stained Glass with David Judson](https://philosophicalresearchsociety.substack.com/p/judson-studios-innovation-in-stained) _2026-07-05 · Philosophical Research Society · Philosophical Research Society_ Learn about the legendary stained glass studio that has shaped the artistic design of Los Angeles and the world in this recorded talk from PRS' Philosophy of Design series. ## [Secure Isolation by Design: How SSoC 2026 Protects 50,000 Contributors Without a Production Database](https://blog.praveen.science/secure-isolation-by-design-how-ssoc-2026-protects-50-000-contributors-without-a-production-database/) _2026-07-04 · My Adventures_ The architecture behind a platform that serves leaderboards, certificates, and project data for 50,000+ open source contributors, without ever exposing their personal information to the public internet. ## [Nushell 0.114.0](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-04-nushell_v0_114_0.html) _2026-07-04 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Today, we're releasing version 0.114.0 of Nu. This release brings sharper type checking, POSIX-style -- option parsing, the new run command for pipeline-friendly scripts, and nice built-in support for working with Semantic Versioning. Where to get it Nu 0.114.0 is available as pre-built binaries or from crates.io . If you have Rust installed you can install it using cargo install nu . ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ffyO7OfjmowT) _2026-07-03 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Daemi](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/daemi/) _2026-07-03 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ An ASCII terminal pet bunny that idles in a corner of my shell and reacts to what I type. ## [This week in Nushell #358](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2026-07-03-twin0358.html) _2026-07-03 · The Nu Authors · Nushell_ Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-06-26 through Thursday, 2026-07-02. Nushell @cptpiepmatz: Ignored cargo audit errors about quickxml (#18513) Feature gated the nu-heavy-utils crate (#18476) @fdncred: fixed nu --plugins handling (#18500) allowed idx find and idx search to show hits relative to cwd (#18477) bumped reedline to 4d20caf (#18474) added semver as a custom… ## [I Built a Developer Tool Collection Where Every Tool Is a Single HTML File](https://blog.praveen.science/i-built-a-developer-tool-collection-where-every-tool-is-a-single-html-file/) _2026-06-21 · My Adventures_ Every developer tool I found online wanted me to npm install 200 packages just to format some JSON. So I started building tools as single HTML files. One file. Open in browser. Works offline. Done. ## [GLM 5.2 on 50 real Go and Rust PRs: last on quality, and not the cheapest](https://www.stet.sh/blog/glm-5-2-passes-tests-fails-review) _2026-06-19 · Stet_ GLM 5.2 vs Composer 2.5 and the premium field on 50 real merged PRs from graphql-go-tools (Go) and sqlparser-rs (Rust). GLM lands last on craft and equivalence in both repos, costs about twice Composer, and writes more code than the human while missing the change. A routing guide for the new cheap model. ## [Building with Astro](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/building-with-astro/) _2026-06-19 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ I built this portfolio and roleready.me with Astro. Quick notes on both. ## [Composer 2.5 was 6.5x cheaper on 50 real Rust and Go PRs. Here's where it's actually safe.](https://www.stet.sh/blog/composer-25-cheaper-where-its-safe) _2026-06-18 · Stet_ Composer 2.5 vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 on 50 real merged PRs from sqlparser-rs (Rust) and graphql-go-tools (Go). Composer is 6.5-7x cheaper and ties the test gate, but finishes last on craft in both repos. A routing guide for where it's safe. ## [Capsule](https://manveerbhullar.com/writing/capsule/) _2026-06-18 · manveersb@gmail.com (Manveer Bhullar) · Manveer Bhullar: Notes_ A terminal UI for the wormhole CLI, built to move files between my own machines. Mostly an excuse to learn Bubble Tea. ## [Watching a Programme Grow: Building a Timeline for SSoC 2026](https://blog.praveen.science/watching-a-programme-grow-building-a-timeline-for-ssoc-2026/) _2026-06-15 · My Adventures_ 68 PRs on June 3rd. 693 by June 9th. 36 active contributors to 163. In one week. We had the data to tell this story all along - we just weren't reading it. Every time our SSoC 2026 scoring engine runs, it saves a timestamped snapshot. We'd been accumulating these files as backups. This week we turned them into a feature. ## [Writing as Diagnostic Mirrors for Agents](https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/writing-as-diagnostic-mirrors-for-agents/) _2026-06-15 · Rishi Baldawa_ AI coding agents make architecture-shaped changes faster than teams can notice. Treat their ADR drafts as diagnostic mirrors first, then keep only the decisions a human is willing to own and route back into future work. ## [When Fable 5 Is Worth the Premium](https://www.stet.sh/blog/when-fable-5-is-worth-the-premium) _2026-06-14 · Stet_ Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5 and two more on 30 real GraphQL Go Tools and SQLParser Rust tasks. The useful read is taskwise W/D/L: which model won which metric, on which task, and why. ## [How to Ask “Where’s My Score?” (So I Can Actually Help You)](https://blog.praveen.science/how-to-ask-wheres-my-score-so-i-can-actually-help-you/) _2026-06-10 · My Adventures_ The SSoC 2026 leaderboard went live today. My DMs immediately looked like “Bhaiya my score is not showing”, “I merged 3 PRs but leaderboard shows 0”, “Please check my account”. Best way to handle? ## [Tomorrow the Leaderboard Goes Live: Here’s What You’ll See](https://blog.praveen.science/tomorrow-the-leaderboard-goes-live-heres-what-youll-see/) _2026-06-09 · My Adventures_ Tomorrow the SSoC 2026 Leaderboard goes live. 3,000+ contributors have been asking every single day, “When can I see my score?” Fair question. You have been merging PRs for weeks. You deserve to see the numbers. ## [Ground Control Gets Eyes on PRs: One Search, Full Clarity](https://blog.praveen.science/ground-control-gets-eyes-on-prs-one-search-full-clarity/) _2026-06-08 · My Adventures_ Yesterday I showed you Ground Control, the hidden admin dashboard behind SSoC 2026. Today it learned to read PRs. ## [Ground Control: The Admin Dashboard Nobody Sees](https://blog.praveen.science/ground-control-the-admin-dashboard-nobody-sees/) _2026-06-07 · My Adventures_ We have 50,000 registered participants in SSoC 2026. Three hundred projects. Five thousand mentors. The most impactful engineering work we did this season? A hidden admin dashboard that no participant will ever see. ## [Fixed: VS Code Terminal Goes Completely Black on M-Series Macs](https://blog.praveen.science/fixed-vs-code-terminal-goes-completely-black-on-m-series-macs/) _2026-06-06 · My Adventures_ Is your VS Code terminal turning into a pitch-black void? Learn the 2-second fix and the deep technical reasons why Chromium GPU canvas rendering breaks on Apple Silicon. ## [Opus 4.8 vs Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 vs Composer 2.5 - 50 Real PRs in Go and Rust](https://www.stet.sh/blog/opus-48-vs-gpt-55-vs-opus-47-vs-composer-25) _2026-06-02 · Stet_ I graded four frontier coding models on 50 real merged PRs in Go and Rust - not just whether tests pass, but craft, equivalence, and cost. Opus 4.8 led on craft in both. ## [I had Codex iterate on its own AGENTS.md 8 times and measured each version against real PRs. The best one still regressed on a clean holdout.](https://www.stet.sh/blog/how-i-used-codex-to-improve-its-own-agents-md) _2026-05-27 · Stet_ Codex optimized its own AGENTS.md against real Stet repo tasks. The best candidate improved the training slice, then regressed enough on a clean holdout that it was not safe to ship. ## [Stop Bouncing PRs](https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/stop-bouncing-prs/) _2026-05-20 · Rishi Baldawa_ Stop playing tennis with bad AI PRs. The only correction that scales is the one a reviewer never has to make twice. Everything else just moves the work around. ## [GPT-5.5 High Regression Check on GraphQL-go-tools](https://www.stet.sh/blog/gpt-55-high-regression-check-graphql-go-tools) _2026-05-18 · Stet_ A fresh GPT-5.5 Codex high rerun on 21 clean GraphQL-go-tools tasks compared with the May 5 GPT-5.5 high run. The rerun was directionally worse on tests, equivalence, and review pass count, but the evidence is mixed and does not show a broad quality collapse. ## [Opus 4.7 Low Vs Medium Vs High Vs Xhigh Vs Max: the Reasoning Curve on 29 Real Tasks from an Open Source Repo](https://www.stet.sh/blog/opus-47-graphql-reasoning-curve) _2026-05-12 · Stet_ Claude Opus 4.7 reasoning-effort curve on 29 matched GraphQL-go-tools tasks: low, medium, high, xhigh, and max. Medium wins the behavioral metrics; more reasoning does not reliably buy better patches.