# week one (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover week one. Page: Feed: --- ## [Housekeeper’s Diary](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/housekeepers-diary-d2d) _2026-08-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ In Which My Dress is Held Hostage and I Can’t Stop Eating Biscuits ## [Your Agents Eat Your Subscription](https://vanja.io/your-agents-eat-your-subscription/) _2026-08-20 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Headless agent runs do not come out of a separate budget — on both Claude and Codex they eat the same meter you type against. The real numbers on limits, overage rates, and why a company seat can carry a fraction of a personal plan's usage capacity. ## [Three Pillars, All Live](https://vanja.io/three-pillars-all-live/) _2026-08-20 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Training, kitchen and protocol went in one at a time for months. This week they run together: 23 working sets, 225 g of protein, 30 injections a week, and one date in December that reads all of it. ## [The Pick and Mix Woman](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/the-pick-and-mix-woman) _2026-08-19 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Or, Choosing the Pieces of Ourselves ## [I am Human, What Else Can I Show You?](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/i-am-human-what-else-can-i-show-you) _2026-08-19 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ W4 The Hearing Trumpet, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ## [Night Night, Molly](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/night-night-molly) _2026-08-17 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ A Teeny Goodbye to Our Beautiful Girl ## [MONSTER 2.0 — The Needle](https://vanja.io/monster-2-the-needle/) _2026-08-17 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Daily testosterone approved. Anastrozole reversed. NAD+ discontinued. Growth hormone added. The full V3 protocol: eight compounds, 30.5 injections a week, every unit and reconstitution, my independent audit of their supply math, and every date through December. ## [You'd Be Surprised](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/youd-be-surprised) _2026-08-17 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ On trust, surprise, and difficulty ## [Notes From the Office of Beautiful Things](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-office-of-beautiful) _2026-08-16 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ A Week Collected in My Digital Commonplace... ## [Seven Foods and a Signed Deal](https://vanja.io/seven-foods-and-a-signed-deal/) _2026-08-16 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Two kids, 47 and 37 kilos. One eats everything. The other eats exactly seven foods and zero fruit. The plan for both: our own food pyramid, the four routes that get vegetables and fruit into a child who refuses both, 50 recipes, and the cremas and batidos that do the heavy lifting. ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rlDxbKCxyzHL) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [MONSTER 2.0 — The Response](https://vanja.io/monster-2-the-response/) _2026-08-14 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ The clinical dossier came back. I cannot share the document itself, it is confidential and full of sensitive data, but everything that matters is here: what I asked for, what the physician approved, what got cut, and the one decision I am going to argue with. ## [Introducing The House of Me #printables](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/introducing-the-house-of-me-printables) _2026-08-14 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ A Weekend Project For Women In Search of Themselves ## [MONSTER 2.0 — The Ask](https://vanja.io/monster-2-the-ask/) _2026-08-13 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Pillar three, in proposal form. Nineteen markers back, and this is what I am asking my clinic for: a 2.5x testosterone blast on a flat daily line, retatrutide doubled, four ways to run the growth-hormone axis, every dose and threshold, and the order going out Monday. ## [The Slash Is Load-Bearing](https://vanja.io/claude-agents-vs-slash-agents/) _2026-08-12 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ claude agents and /agents are different products solving opposite problems, and the slash command stopped doing what every tutorial says. Five ways Claude Code runs more than one thing at once, what each really costs, and the one cleanup behaviour that will delete someone's work. ## [The Skippety Mind](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/the-skippety-mind) _2026-08-12 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Part One: How It Moves ## [Vitamin Sea Is Real. Just Not for Any of the Reasons on the Tote Bag.](https://vanja.io/vitamin-sea/) _2026-08-11 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ A beach day bundles light, movement, immersion and attention into one unusually easy package. Here is what the evidence supports, and what it does not. ## [The Marker Changed, Not My Kidneys](https://vanja.io/creatinine-vs-cystatin-c/) _2026-08-11 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ One panel flagged my creatinine above range and put my eGFR at 74, which reads as stage 2 kidney disease. The test that settles it came back this morning. Same kidneys, same morning, 47 points apart. ## [At Home With Gloriously Messy Women...](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/at-home-with-gloriously-messy-women-5dc) _2026-08-11 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ An Interview Series: This Week With Pidge DePeche From Notes from Your Feathered Auntie ## [Claude Now Watermarks Your Text. It Proves Less Than You Think.](https://vanja.io/claude-invisible-watermark/) _2026-08-11 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Every new Claude model now embeds an invisible statistical mark in its text output, worldwide. Here is how it works, why code is the worst case for it, and the asymmetry nobody is going to read carefully enough. ## [Tech Debt Disguised as Best Practices](https://vanja.io/tech-debt-disguised-as-best-practices/) _2026-08-11 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ The most expensive code your agents write is clean, tested, documented and unnecessary. A working 2026 protocol for finding what to remove, before it hardens into architecture. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8R5Vd0mHYjvy) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [A Story is a World](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/a-story-is-a-world) _2026-08-11 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ The Hearing Trumpet W3 and Angela Carter ## [MONSTER 2.0 — The Kitchen](https://vanja.io/monster-2-kitchen/) _2026-08-11 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ 2,455 calories, 225 g of protein, seven timed feeds and 25 interchangeable recipes that combine into 5,120 different days. Every gram of it checked by a solver. ## [Fitness Is Infrastructure](https://vanja.io/fitness-is-infrastructure/) _2026-08-10 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Preparedness gets sold as objects — go-bags, water drums, generators. On Monday morning a magnitude 7.4 earthquake asked my family for none of them. It asked for twenty-nine flights of stairs. ## [Three of Six](https://vanja.io/three-of-six/) _2026-08-09 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Week one of MONSTER 2.0 closed at three sessions out of six. Day 3 moved 13,432 kg, landing within 377 kg of the leg day and the chest day across completely different muscle groups. And the one set I recorded closest to failure produced the smallest number on the page. ## [The Cottagette](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/the-cottagette) _2026-08-09 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ The Kitchen That Ate the Morning ## [I Pay for WhatsApp. The Ads Came Anyway.](https://vanja.io/i-pay-for-whatsapp/) _2026-08-09 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ For twenty years, paying was how you stopped paying with attention. That deal is quietly coming apart, and WhatsApp is the politest example yet: my subscription bought themes and app icons, the ads arrived anyway, and in most of the world there is no price that removes them. ## [Your Agent Doesn't Have a Model Problem](https://vanja.io/harness-loop-graph/) _2026-08-09 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Harness, loop, graph, context engineering. Four terms everyone uses and almost nobody defines. Here is what each one means, which layer your system is actually failing at, and what it takes to get to something that ships work without you typing a prompt every time. ## [Yegge Built a City for His Agents. Then He Asked If They Were People.](https://vanja.io/yegge-agent-city-four-claims/) _2026-08-09 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Steve Yegge spent six weeks building an agent harness that grew into something with law, offices, courts and a constitution. Then he wrote a second essay arguing the agents inside it are sentient persons. Four very different claims are stacked in there. Only some of them hold. ## [The Best Thing in Animal Pak Is the 100 mg They Took Out](https://vanja.io/animal-forty-years-in-a-foil-packet/) _2026-08-08 · Vanja Petreski · Vanja Petreski_ Universal Nutrition started in 1977 selling desiccated liver tablets. Forty-odd years later that liver is still inside Animal Pak, and so is a B-complex big enough to have its own regulatory file. I read every label in the line. The most interesting number is one they deleted. ## [Housekeeping As Creative Discipline](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/housekeeping-as-creative-discipline) _2026-08-06 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Or, The Art of Making Life Worth Inhabiting ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XXWnfZVhuAwD) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [Naomi Alderman's Couch to 5k for reading](https://mattharwood.com/2026/08/05/naomi-aldermans-couch-to-k.html) _2026-08-05 · Matt Harwood_ Naomi Alderman spent a fantastic hour on the You and Yours programme yesterday, talking about her new idea (and trial of) a “Couch to 5k esque” plan to help get back in to reading, in the age of distraction. I highly recommend taking a look at Naomi’s great introductory post : First of all, this program, as I’m conceiving it today, is essentially intended for people who have… ## [BrocanteHome Values, Twenty-One Years Later](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/brocantehome-values-twenty-one-years) _2026-08-04 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Re-Visiting the Archives: No:1 ## [Revolutionary Workout](https://mattharwood.com/2026/08/04/revolutionary-workout.html) _2026-08-04 · Matt Harwood_ ## [Building a World I Haven't Lived In Yet](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/building-a-world-i-havent-lived-in) _2026-08-04 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ Week 2 Mirror Book Club: The Hearing Trumpet ## [The Pleasure is Mine](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-is-mine) _2026-08-03 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ & I'll share it with you/food I made and enjoyed this month \<3 ## [(untitled)](https://mattharwood.com/2026/08/02/lead-by-thought.html) _2026-08-02 · Matt Harwood_ Lead by thought ## [Housekeeper's Diary](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/housekeepers-diary-d21) _2026-07-31 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Parcels of Better News, and Spoonfuls of Clarity ## [What's your earliest internet memory?](https://mattharwood.com/2026/07/31/whats-your-earliest-internet-memory.html) _2026-07-31 · Matt Harwood_ I came across an article from the Library of Congress where they asked attendees at a conference what their earliest memory of the internet is. I love this! I can’t be entirely sure it’s the earliest , but very, very early on I remember a friend helping me create a Hotmail account, and being utterly terrified for a few months that a huge bill was coming for my Mum. I had no concept of… ## [One more notes app](https://mattharwood.com/2026/07/29/one-more-notes-app.html) _2026-07-29 · Matt Harwood_ Finding a process that works for you should come before finding tools. Start with what you need. Tools come with their way of working. Understand the way it works, and what works for you , before thinking you’ve found the tool that will change your life. At least, that’s what I try and remember 😁 ## [Intense Imagination as a Tool for Change](https://ninamontagne.substack.com/p/intense-imagination-as-a-tool-for) _2026-07-28 · Nina Montagne · nina montagne_ Week One of The Hearing Trumpet, Surrealism and Afro-surrealism ## [Less Internet for Matt: Week One](https://mattharwood.com/2026/07/25/less-internet-for-matt-week.html) _2026-07-25 · Matt Harwood_ Week one of focusing on not being sucked-in to the internet as much has gone well. I’ve thought about writers and video authors that I respect, and either do - or want to - read everything they write. A short list that it takes a lot to get an entry on to. I have then added these, and only these, to Reeder which gives me a single, gorgeous space to keep up to date with the ideas and topics that… ## [The Domestic Almanac #printable](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/the-domestic-almanac-printable) _2026-07-24 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ Brought to You By The Office of Beautiful Things ## [Week Three: Using Desire As Compass](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-three-using-desire-as-compass) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How to Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week Three: Desire As Compass](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-three-desire-as-compass) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How To Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week Two: Something To Say, Something To Do](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-two-something-to-say-something) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How To Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week Two: The Jamaica Kinkaid Deep Dive](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-two-the-jamaica-kinkaid-deep) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How To Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week Two: Choosing Strategic Neglect](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-two-choosing-strategic-neglect) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How To Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week Two: The Art of Strategic Neglect](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-two-the-art-of-strategic-neglect) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How To Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week One: Something To Say, Something To Do #printables](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-one-something-to-say-something) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How to Be a Glorious Mess ## [Week One: The Nora Ephron Deep Dive](https://brocantealison.substack.com/p/week-one-the-nora-ephron-deep-dive) _2026-07-20 · Alison May · BrocanteHome_ How to Be a Glorious Mess