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July 2026 Bakery

Content that caught my attention all in one go!

June 2026 Bakery

js-notes is my personal knowledge management system. It captures articles, podcasts, and videos, extracts their full text, and enriches them with AI-generated summaries and tags. This is the best half of what I added to my notes system in June 2026. Gergely Orosz reports from the future, inside

PodRead Feeds

There are a few blogs that I get via email and immediately paste the url into PodRead to convert the blogger's latest into audio I can listen to while doing chores, in the car, or on a run. Now PodRead can subscribe to blogs on your behalf and

I made some friends

I have been blessed with more than my fair share of lifelong friendships. When I married my wife, I wrote vows about how I would try to emulate my closest friends as a husband. That was twelve years ago. Some of them I've known since I was eight.

Three vignettes

A series of three vignettes that capture some of the feelings I have at work around imposter syndrome.

May 2026 Bakery

js-notes is my personal knowledge management system. It captures articles, podcasts, and videos, extracts their full text, and enriches them with AI-generated summaries and tags. This is everything that I added to my notes system in May 2026. Sean Goedecke lays out the two ways to use

Why Logen Ninefingers is the greatest character in literature

This post contains spoilers for the Book The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie Twenty years ago, Joe Abercrombie released The Blade Itself and introduced the world to the greatest character in literature: Logen Ninefingers. If you had asked me when I first read this book why I was so taken

Welcome to the singularity: Buying a narration with link-cli

Stripe's CLI gives agents single-use shared payment tokens. PodRead now accepts them.

April 2026 Bakery

Content that caught my attention all in one go!

No more PodRead subscription

Why $9/month unlimited didn't work, and what credits look like now

I wrote down my three stories

It's worth putting some thought and even practice into our stories because making a good first impression matters.

Pay per narration

PodRead offers the first text to speech API that supports the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

March 2026 Bakery

Content that caught my attention all in one go!

New: Use PodRead from Claude and ChatGPT

You can now create podcast episodes from inside your AI conversations.

Connecting Fizzy to Claude

I wanted to share a very normal step by step walk through of how to configure Fizzy with all of Claude.