Trying to solve this here: https://jlnk.us

Here's the instructions my agents have:

> Shareable Deliverables → jlnk.us (default) The jlnk MCP server is configured machine-wide for all team agents. It publishes disposable public links: create_link(content, ttl) returns an unguessable URL anyone can open without logging in; it self-destructs after its TTL (4h/24h/72h, default 4h, max 5 MB). Also list_my_links() and delete_link(id).

> When handing a human (Founder, CEO reviewer) something to look at — QC screenshots, prototypes, reports, before/after comparisons — default to a jlnk.us link instead of a repo file path or local path. Use 72h for Founder review, shorter when the review window is same-day.

> Content must be ONE self-contained HTML file: inline CSS/JS, embed screenshots as base64 data URIs ().

> Downscale images to stay under the 5 MB cap.

> Links are public to anyone holding the URL. NEVER publish secrets, API keys, credentials, or private client data.

> Links expire — they are a viewing convenience, not the system of record. Durable artifacts still go to the repo and issue attachments as usual.

Sort of like a pastebin for directory structures then, hmm.

I built a tool _just the other day_ for this exact purpose. Now my agents proactively make disposable links for me: https://jlnk.us

> So their outlook is not rosy. Instead, I think we’ll see new newsrooms emerge that reinvent what journalism is, are unafraid to build real, lasting, two-way relationships with the people they’re trying to serve, and eat everybody else’s lunch.

I think this is right. I'd like to see more public media funding, but at least right now there is an explosion of independent media business models being explored recruiting some very good journalists and smart people.

I'd like to hear about anyone else's updated media habits. In my last… 20ish years of "gathering information about my community and interests," I've gone from paper NYT subscriber to RSS feed reader to social aggregators to social media to podcasts to newsletters to doomscroller... I've tried it all.

But to stay sane I've settled on simply following the voices I trust and find interesting across different media, and the best ones are navigating their own publishing and distribution journey. I pay some of them real money. Some are being acquired by bigger media outlets, too. I have hope in journalism's survival.

I've stopped paying attention to the news. Almost none of what is reported affects my life in any way.

I do read HN, more than I should actually, and a couple of local bloggers who report on local happenings. Our local paper used to do that but it's now just a USA Today reprint under a local masthead.

> For the American market and the October 2001 release, the cover art of Is This It was changed to a psychedelic photograph of subatomic particle tracks in a bubble chamber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_It

Please test your websites in Safari. Almost all of your iOS users use it by default, and the desktop experience is pretty close to the mobile experience, so testing is easy.

That scroll effect is jank city for me (yeah yeah works fine in Chrome/Edge).

some kind of scroll hijack going on for sure, feels terrible on firefox+macos

I instantly close websites which use this weird scroll hijacking and slow animation nonsense.

Let me slide as fast and unrestricted as I want. I do not want to "transition" to the next paragraph.

This trend needs to stop.

The… hands of fate?

"Evals and vibes" can I put that on a t shirt?

I literally don't know how compilers work. I've written code for apps that are still in production 10 years later.

Are you working on compilers? If not it seems you did not understand what is being talked about here.

Do you lack fundamental understand of those apps you built that are still in use? Did you lack understanding of their workings when you built them?

You don’t need to understand compilers because the code it compiles, when valid according to the language specification, is supposed to work as written, and virtually always does. There is no language specification and no “as written” with LLMs.

No problem with that.

However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly.

This led to a new job and the understanding of many new useful programming concepts. Very rewarding.

But if you are curious, studying compilers, maybe even writing a new one, will give you tools to do other things.

While working with LLMs, much of my experience gives me new ideas to push the LLM to explore.

Have you written a compiler, though?

This looks like standalone Doppler (not a bad thing).

Wow: the Sinclair ZX81 launched in the UK in 1981 for around £49.95 as a kit (£50) and £69.95 assembled, making it incredibly cheap, and later in the US as the Timex Sinclair 1000 for $99.95 (kit) or $149.95 (assembled)

Cheap for a 1980s computer, now pennies. Wild.