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\nI first learned about Manna last year when Ben Thompson interviewed the CEO. Now 18 months later, it’s crazy to see Tulsa in a list like this. Cue the Sesame Street song. ”One of these things is not like the others…\"
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\nHow to start smoking RSS feeds: b10g.xyz
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","summary":"Anthropic added a new support page today with details about how they would comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. As a result, models released in the EU will support machine-readable marking at launch, including text generated via APIs and through providers like AWS, Microsoft and Google.","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/08/10/claude-to-add-imperceptible-watermarks/","date_published":"2026-08-11T00:42:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-11 00:42","date_timestamp":1786408965,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mstdn.social/@codybrom/117074099617816512","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3msrf2qv7ih2i","https://www.threads.com/@codybrom/post/Db4U_dXG2Cr"]}},{"id":"95539155","content_html":"@manton I’m famously bad at time estimates, so if your “in a minute” is only 6 or 7 wall clock minutes, that’s world record pace in my book.
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","summary":"I’ve learned too late in my writing journey that wrangling your workflow will drain your capacity for writing and creating if you let it. I’m moving to Micro.blog because it has constraints I can’t control.","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/08/09/why-i-moved-to-microblog/","date_published":"2026-08-09T15:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-09 15:00","date_timestamp":1786287600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mstdn.social/@codybrom/117066150998111951","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3msnu44pbvr2o"]}},{"id":"95430206","content_html":"I’ve mostly finished redesigning b10g.xyz after moving to Micro.blog. Their platform doesn’t have built-in analytics and I won’t be adding any of my own. The only measurement I care about is how many days a week I’m posting. My goal is for it to not dip below two.
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\nA lot of old software was made for weirdos, by weirdos. I miss that, and I wanna do my part to fix it. I didn’t understand it when it wasn’t weird. #Apple50
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\n#Apple50
@codybrom.com However, if you moved your cursor too close, Bruce’s eyes would get really big and he’d scurry off screen in a panic. To the uninitiated, you weren’t sure what you just saw or how you’d explain it without sounding crazy. It was like seeing the Macintosh-equivalent of Bigfoot.
\n#Apple50
@codybrom.com Periodically, thought bubbles with “pearls of wisdom” would appear from its head, such as: “I’m glad it’s getting weird again. I didn’t understand it when it wasn’t weird.”
\nAnother revealed his name:
\n“You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak”
\n#Apple50
@codybrom.com If you left older versions of Final Cut Pro running for 12 hours or more, you might come back to a small brown creature grazing a patch of grass on your timeline. There were other ways to intentionally trigger him, but this was the most fun one.
\n#Apple50
@cult-papa.com Groovy, baby! Yeah!
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