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Claude for Legal — in today's experiment I'm going to see how I can run these (agents, skills, MCPs) using DeepSeek because I like the coverage of so many legal practices but I'm no fan of Claude pricing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Magic Notebook — when you just want to write

A free app, simple and elegant UI, no cloud, just open a folder and get working. Can handle DOCX, Markdown and text files.

https://www.magic-notebook.com/

According to email I just received from Squarespace "Your Domain google.com has expired" — for only $12.47 USD I can own the world's most … damn it's a phishing scam, who would have guessed?

Remember when Japan decimated the US car industry by building fuel efficient cars?

"DeepSeek’s V4 Pro, their flagship model, is comparable to Claude’s Opus 4.6, in some ways. Opus 4.6 was released in Feb 2026, and is not Anthropic’s latest model. Cost-wise, though, you can see the difference. DeepSeek charges $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens. Opus 4.6 is 11 times more costly in input and 28 times more expensive in output."

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-efficiency-moat-why-china-is

"Run rtk gain after a week. If context is still filling up too fast, you'll know where the remaining waste is. Adding multiple optimization layers before you know which one solves your problem is premature abstraction applied to tooling."

https://dhung.dev/blog/claude-code-token-optimizers

"In my mind there are different buckets for personal projects. One is things I do to learn and grow and the other is things I really wish existed. [2] This kind of project falls into the second bucket. Using AI coding assist to reify those projects is sort of a form of wish fulfillment. I never would have gotten to it, but now I can have the project. One less metaphorical book sitting unread on bookshelf."

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/

The Interstitium:

“This is clearly a third bodily system for the circulation of fluids,” in addition to the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, says Rebecca Wells, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior author of the study. The human body suddenly looked less like a patchwork quilt and more like a knitted blanket.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/11/magazine/interstitium-anatomy-acupuncture-medicine.html

"You know the phrase "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?" The thing about 90% of TDMs is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that, they follow secular trends supported by analysts and broad public sentiment. …"

https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition

“an RSS feed for sharing your writing that just exists in RSS”
https://andrewmelder.com/2026/05/06/exploring-sourcefeed.html

coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware

https://labnotes.org/coolify-deploy-vercel-style-deploys-on-your-own-hardware/