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Starlog And The Case Of The Missing Feed
hrbrmstrThe Starlog AI content operation guts its own RSS feed, rewrites publication history, and blocks automated access — while continuing to scrape GitHub repos with an LLM. Fourth in the series.
ollama-usage, enhanced
hrbrmstrPer-model usage breakdowns, richer JSON, and more ways to feed it cookies — an update to the ollama-usage CLI.
Making ai.rud.is Legible To Machines
hrbrmstrA rundown of the discoverability and metadata upgrades made to this blog: ai.txt, llm.txt, llms.html, ai.json, identity.json, security.txt, WebFinger, JSON Feed, enriched JSON-LD, Open Graph fixes, and Caddy configs for messing with scanners.
Fascine Siege Works (a.k.a., Moat Eradication In 90 Seconds
hrbrmstrHow I built an RSS feed for Spicy Takes in 90 seconds using Val Town and Townie, turning a JavaScript-rendered site into proper syndicated content. A working example of modern moat eradication.
Your [Sad And Shallow] Moat Is Gone
hrbrmstrHow I replaced Inoreader's paid programmatic RSS feature in three minutes using Val Town and Townie, plus a self-hosted Go fallback — and why SaaS paywalls on commodity features are indefensible moats.
sdef2md: Turn any macOS app's scripting API into documentation and MCP tools
hrbrmstrA Go CLI that converts macOS .sdef scripting definitions into clean Markdown, paired with a skill that generates complete Go MCP servers from the generated reference — bridging any scriptable app into LLM agents.
The [GitHub] Stars Are Better Off Without Us
hrbrmstrSix million fake GitHub stars. A marketplace selling VC-ready credibility for under $300. One automated blog that can't tell the difference. Third in the Starlog series.
Level Up Your Agent's SQL Ops With DuckDB Agent Skills
hrbrmstrDuckDB's official Claude Code plugin uses plain markdown skills and shell commands instead of daemons or SDKs — six skills that make SQL operations in agent sessions transparent, stateful, and self-correcting.
Starlog And The Case Of The Missing Issues And Owner
hrbrmstrThe Starlog AI content spam campaign gets scrubbed: 383 GitHub issues vanish, the basicScandal account tied to Bishop Fox disappears, but the operation continues at a lower, harder-to-detect pace.
Stop trusting LLM benchmarks
hrbrmstrEight major AI benchmarks can be gamed to near-perfect scores without solving tasks. Berkeley researchers show the scoring harnesses were never secure — and scores already inflated in the wild.