# tidy (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tidy. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tidy Takeaways: August 2026](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/tidy-takeaways-august-2026) _2026-08-19 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ Back-to-School, Excellent Reads, Tips for Tidying Up ## [#72 - The Back-to-School Routine I’d Start With](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/72-the-back-to-school-routine-id) _2026-08-15 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ Getting In and Out the Door! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211316757/3b2cd78dff936cd6fbeb9f87c4081696.mp3) ## [AI outside of work](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/ai-outside-of-work) _2026-08-14 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ I’m going on vacation for the next two weeks, so I thought it might be fun to share some of my non-work uses of AI. ## [#71 - What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking with Caro Chambers](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/71-what-to-cook-when-you-dont-feel) _2026-08-08 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ Make it Fast [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210228530/c189dd28379f1445b68de351d26dad22.mp3) ## [Part 4: Dreaming About What's Next](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/part-4-dreaming-about-whats-next) _2026-08-05 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ For our little cottage in the Poconos ## [🎉 Tidy Up Your Life is now in paperback!](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/tidy-up-your-life-is-now-in-paperback) _2026-08-04 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ Just in time for back-to-school season ## [Illustrating my slides with AI](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/illustrating-my-slides-with-ai) _2026-08-03 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ You might have noticed my slide illustrations in my last substack. This week I talk about how I made them: using AI, supported by an R package that turns yaml into images. You'll learn a bunch of my tricks, including how to get a consistent style across slides. ## [#70 - Back-to-School Isn't a Day, It's a Season | School Routines & Finding Your Family Rhythm](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/70-back-to-school-isnt-a-day-its) _2026-08-01 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ A Simple Mindset Shift for the Back-to-School Season [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209255399/147b7341fdf3708b865d51cf06e7d1c5.mp3) ## [Part 3: The Cottage Numbers Everyone Wants to Know](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/part-3-the-cottage-numbers-everyone) _2026-07-29 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ What We Paid, What It's Worth, and What It Earns ## [#69 - Small Habit, Big Results: Why Mobility Deserves a Place in Your Morning with Dean Pohlman](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/69-small-habit-big-results-why-mobility) _2026-07-25 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ A Tidy Take with Dean Pohlman from Man Flow Yoga [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208063298/5fd8b5d529fc7ffdde2715cce72d3b6e.mp3) ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6TQNglku1ZJN) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [y code when ai?](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/y-code-when-ai) _2026-07-24 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ A talk on AI and coding ## [Part 2: Why We Bought That Cottage](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/part-2-why-we-bought-that-cottage) _2026-07-22 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ And the other homes we looked at while house hunting ## [#68 - Buying a Second Home First: An Unconventional Real Estate Strategy with Katie Cline](https://tidydad.substack.com/p/68-second-home-first-an-unconventional) _2026-07-18 · Tidy Dad · The Tidy Times_ A Tidy Take with Podcast Host Katie Cline [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207571996/131c82fd5a7d28af73811612005ef94b.mp3) ## [Auto mode knows it's dangerous (and does it anyway)](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/auto-mode-knows-its-dangerous-and) _2026-07-10 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ Ask a coding agent to run a curl-pipe-sh install command and it will — even if it notices the danger. I assumed auto mode with a sandbox would protect you from this sort of danger but it didn't: Claude disabled the sandbox mid-run; Codex deliberately disabled it before even starting. ## [Help! My coding agent can run code](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/help-my-coding-agent-can-run-code) _2026-07-02 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ A coding agent is only actually useful if it can run whatever code the task demands, but a tool that runs arbitrary code is just as dangerous as it sounds! So how do you protect ourself with guardrails that stop an agent from making mistakes you can't easily undo? ## [A coding agent is six functions in a trenchcoat](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/a-coding-agent-is-six-functions-in) _2026-06-19 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ Coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex have taken the software engineering field by storm. What makes them tick? ## [Your LLM can’t math (and that’s ok)](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/your-llm-cant-math-and-thats-ok) _2026-06-12 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ Last week we precisely defined an agent: an LLM, in a harness, that calls tools repeatedly in a loop. This week we'll fix a few deliberate simplifications and explore the consequences of the harness in a bit more detail. ## [What is an agent?](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/what-is-an-agent) _2026-06-05 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more! ## [Returning to life!](https://tidydesign.substack.com/p/returning-to-life) _2026-05-18 · Hadley Wickham · Tidy design principles_ Welcome back to the tidy design principles substack.