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PinnedYour Daily Standup Should Be a Slack Message

It’s 9am. You’ve just made your coffee. You’re ready to be productive. Then your calendar reminds you that you have standup in five minutes. You sigh, open the video call, and wait for everyone to trickle in over the next seven minutes while Dave figures out why his microphone isn’t working again. Finally, the ritual begins. Sarah goes first. “Yesterday I worked on the API stuff, today I’m continuing with the API stuff, no blockers.” Fantastic. Groundbreaking information. Absolutely could not have been a single line of text.

Cyber Leek Is Rockstar

Rockstar are about to drop the long-awaited Netflix extended look at GTA 6. For the nine days leading into it, a group calling itself Cyber Leek has been leaking unreleased gameplay on a daily schedule. I think Cyber Leek is Rockstar, and I think they’ll admit it eventually. Writing that down now, before the trailer airs. Start with the name. Cyber Leek, seriously? Stupidest childish name for a hacker collective I’ve ever heard. Lapsus$ at least sounded like it might ruin your week. Cyber Leek sounds like a gag off Weazel News.

Announcing RangeMenu

RangeMenu adds a proper right-click context menu to Froala Editor, with any Froala command by name, contextual table and image actions, and nested submenus.

None of My Billing Bugs Crashed Anything

A day auditing the billing side of a property forecasting app. Every bug I found reported a wrong number confidently instead of throwing an error.

Announcing RangeSearch

RangeSearch is a WooCommerce search plugin with its own index, a fast suggestion endpoint, and typo correction against your own catalogue.

Announcing Preset Bridge

Preset Bridge is an unofficial API and store integration layer for Cortex Cloud, so Quad Cortex preset sellers stop fulfilling every order by hand.

Kyle Sandilands Live Day One Was Rough as Guts

Bruno’s microphone was clipping so hard by about 6:15am that every time he raised his voice it sounded like a blown speaker in a Commodore. It wasn’t a bit hot either, it was properly distorting, the crunchy overdriven mush you get when someone slams a gain knob to the right and walks away from the desk. Nobody fixed it for ages. An hour and 44 minutes in, Kyle was still on air explaining that he’d had to drag Bruno’s mic right down because he’s so loud, and that there was a lot of tweaking going on as he spoke. That’s most of the show gone with someone under the desk still trying to make it work.

Opus 5 Does Fable 5's Job for Half the Price

Fable 5 came back on the 1st of July with a meter attached. Max plans get it at 50% of weekly limits from the 20th. Pro moved to usage credits with a one-off hundred dollars to soften the landing. The best model any of us had used was available again, and you had to decide whether a task was worth spending it on. Opus 5 landed on Friday at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output. Fable 5 is $10 and $50.