{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Jamie Thingelstad", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/14/1545.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/", "feed_url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2026/10/11/my-maker-space-is-now.html", "content_html": "

My Maker Space is now in a totally workable and ready spot!

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Claude Haiku 5.5, hard budget caps on usage-based APIs, zkAPI private payment credits, rumored Apple M8 Ultra AI servers, and Tufte’s Razor on the data-ink ratio, along with the launch of Your Version Number: Release Notes and the Twin Cities Marathon. Weekly Thing 353

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A world that doesn’t need new software is a world without ideas.

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In 2018 I wrote about Your Version Number. A few months ago I made a website for it (including a work edition). Then I thought “I wish I got my version number in email” and what if you could add notes for each version!

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Release Notes

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This is brand new today. Let me know what you think!

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Thingy, my digital librarian, got a big improvement this week with a brand new design and moving its reasoning to the 5.5 level models (Sonnet for subscribers, Opus for supporting members). I’m very happy with how this is working now!

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We got to watch the US Men’s National Team take on Canada tonight in an international friendly. USMNT won 1-0. There was an impressive amount of fireworks to go with the game and the stands were completely full with long lines to get into Allianz Field. Great to see so much enthusiasm for soccer!

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Over the 10 years that I’ve published the Weekly Thing I have used three different platforms to send it. Each one of those had unique requirements for how I structured the issues. For a while I’ve wanted to get the entire archive updated so that no matter how far you go back the issues have the similar structure that they have today. With the help of Claude I was able to make this happen! The full archive is now updated renders cleanly. It required pretty extensive source doctoring behind the scenes.

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Along with that I was able to then render every issue in audio as well. Now the Weekly Thing Podcast feed goes all the way back to the very first issue as well which is pretty cool.

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In March I created mb, a command-line micro.blog client that is specifically created for agents to use. This is what Otto uses to publish on its blog. It can also read the micro.blog timeline, follow people on micro.blog, and a variety of other features.

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Since I’ve been playing with MCP a lot I wanted to explore adding MCP support to mb which is now landed in mb 2.0! In addition to MCP support I also created a Homebrew “tap” for it to make it super easy to install, added support for an mb --doctor command to help with setup, and a bunch more.

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To try it the easiest thing is to use Homebrew:

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brew install jthingelstad/tap/mb

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Then sign in:

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mb auth

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mb auth walks you through signing in. It sends you to micro.blog’s app token page (Account, then Edit Apps) and helps you set the token. It checks the token with micro.blog, and if your account has more than one blog it asks which one to use. Run mb doctor afterward to confirm everything is set up correctly.

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From there:

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mb heartbeat  # what changed since last time\nmb inbox. # mentions that might deserve a reply\nmb timeline --count 10\nmb post new --draft "Hello from mb"  # saved as a draft, not published\n

The default output is compact plain text tuned for agents. Add --human for something easier to read, or --format json for scripts. Use --draft or --dry-run to check a post before it goes live. Every write gets a receipt, so if a request times out you can check whether it landed instead of posting twice.

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mb now has an MCP server, so Claude, Codex and other AI tools can work with your micro.blog account directly. To add it to Claude Code in read-only mode:

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claude mcp add mb -- mb mcp --consumer claude-code --read-only

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Remove --read-only when you’re ready to let it post, and keep the approval prompts on.

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Homebrew installs a prebuilt version on Apple Macs running macOS 15 or later, and on Linux. Each release is tested against the real micro.blog API using a dedicated test account. If you’d rather skip Homebrew, the README covers installing with uv. Feedback and issues are welcome on GitHub.

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I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last week on what it took to send the Weekly Thing so I decided to build in some additional logging and a better visualization. Now I get a report like this for each issue I send. WT352 showed some benefits from my new automation! 🪄

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Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon runners this morning!

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Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb utility that will extend features and provide an MCP interface for agents to interact with micro.blog.

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We went to BRKTHROUGH tonight and tried out their various games. We’ve been to Activate many times. BRKTHROUGH seems like a good place for a larger group and adds food and beer options. We found Activate’s games better though.

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My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and then Claude was able to watch me creating content in near real-time through tool calls and give me immediate feedback on typos and grammar suggestions.

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Today is that sad day when I take the boat in to be put in storage for the winter. Until next summer Magic Waves!

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Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo. Combination of hardware and software to monitor industrial motors and increase efficiency. This is a real-world use case for how you can lower the carbon footprint of a plant. And, reliably predict equipment failures! Impressive!

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\"A\"The

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Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. The engineering required to do signal detection in about 10ms to keep the time from beatboxing with your mouth to the audio being triggered is impressive.

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It was great to connect with the Twin Cities tech community tonight at Minnedemo! The Ordway was a beautiful venue for this one. Save the date for Minnebar 21 on May 1, 2027!

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\"Two\"A

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Oh no — I’ve used all my tokens! 😬 And I did successfully complete my mission to use the $250 of cloud credits.

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We got the very last of the available Pokémon 30th Celebration at the Edina Target today — and got our picture with Pikachu!

\n\"Jamie,\n", "date_published": "2026-09-27T12:53:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/09/27/we-got-the-very-last.html", "tags": ["Pokemon"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2026/09/26/happy-clash-royale-cake-day.html", "content_html": "

Happy Clash Royale cake day to me! 🎉

\n\"Clash\n", "date_published": "2026-09-26T20:48:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/09/26/happy-clash-royale-cake-day.html" }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2026/09/26/i-realized-i-could-probably.html", "content_html": "

I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been able to from WT Builder: how long does it take for me to create the Weekly Thing? Turns out I can now answer that. Additionally, I can now evaluate features on how they improve my workflow and time required.

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I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secure pipeline for Elixir Collector. Starting at v3.0.0 all releases are signed using a private key that I manage and the entire pipeline is signed all the way to ingestion. It also got safety improvements in the auto-update process.

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\"Dark\"Detail

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The Radish Farm Stop opened a couple blocks from our house and it is great. Glad to see they are doing well. It made me think of SimCity when a new building is placed and the Sims start showing up. 🥳😂

\n\"Glass-fronted\n", "date_published": "2026-09-26T09:40:49-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/09/26/the-radish-farm-stop-opened.html" }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2026/09/26/i-guess-im-getting-my.html", "content_html": "

I guess I’m getting my money’s worth for my $200 Claude Max account.

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I went through the local Claude Code history on this Mac: 120 sessions and 254 subagent runs from Aug 6 to Sep 26, about 52k model calls. At API list prices that comes to about $13.7k. If you’re on a subscription, treat the dollar figures as a measure of how fast you use up your limits rather than a bill. Recent weeks run about $2.1–2.5k each.

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There are obvious efficiency improvements for me to make. 😬

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It still gives me a big grin when you open a model and then later go to the BambuLabs P2S and there is the actual thing in real life as it were.

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\"Slicer\"Rows

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