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• emulate v0.11.2 is out Updates across six emulators: GitHub, Google, Resend, AWS S3, Slack, Microsoft GitHub → Raw Contents and README responses → Seed org members and admins → Checks handle branch and tag names with slashes → Org installation writes authenticate as the App bot Google → Calendar v3 discovery endpoint → RS256-signed ID tokens and JWKS for OIDC verification Resend → Idempotency keys for individual and batch sends, so retries don't create duplicate emails or webhooks AWS S3 → Preserve binary payloads on upload, copy, and download Slack → Truncate messages at 40,000 characters, w…

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• What’s the problem w using LLMs to write stuff you want other people to read -emails, articles, posts- and why are people (like me!) so incredibly hostile that they will block you/mute you/block your domain, to never read anything from you again? Bryan spells it out. Read it:
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• i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.) even better than being a repository of all receipts, it helps me maintain a spreadsheet that i can download and send to accountants, draft emails for correspondence with service providers, and proactively flag issues that i wouldn’t have realized otherwise.
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