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Cloudy with a chance of cursesWednesday, 10 June 2026Vol. I · No. 24 · 🌘
Craft & CodeVoidZero Joins Cloudflare, Pledging Vite Shall Remain Open For The Whole JavaScript WorldArtificial IntelligenceAnthropic Introduces Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code — a Custom Harness for Every TaskArtificial IntelligenceOpenAI Expands Codex With Role-Specific Plugins, Inline Annotations, and a Website BuilderSearch & SEOAhrefs Studied One Billion Data Points on AI Search — Here Are Ten Things They FoundSearch & SEODuckDuckGo Launches No-AI Search Extensions as Traffic Surges 30% After Google's OverhaulSearch & SEOGoogle Search Console Gains Dedicated Reports for AI Overviews and AI Mode VisibilityArtificial IntelligenceMicrosoft and Uber Discover the Uncomfortable Truth: AI Costs More Than the Humans It ReplaceswordpressSenior Product DesignerwordpressSoftware EngineerwordpressSenior Full Stack DeveloperwordpressSenior Product Designer — Mobile AppswordpressUX DesignerArtificial IntelligenceAnthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.8 With Faster Agents and a New Effort ControlCraft & CodeGitHub Copilot Abandons Flat Pricing for Token Billing, and Developers Are Not PleasedArtificial IntelligenceGoogle Unveils Flow Agent, an AI Creative Collaborator Built on GeminiSearch & SEOJoost de Valk Launches a Platform-Agnostic Website Quality SpecificationVoicesSteve Yegge Declares the Technical Interview Dead After 35 Years in the TradeArtificial IntelligenceDrafted.ai Raises $17.5M to Let Anyone Design a Custom Home in SecondsCraft & CodeVoidZero Joins Cloudflare, Pledging Vite Shall Remain Open For The Whole JavaScript WorldArtificial IntelligenceAnthropic Introduces Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code — a Custom Harness for Every TaskArtificial IntelligenceOpenAI Expands Codex With Role-Specific Plugins, Inline Annotations, and a Website BuilderSearch & SEOAhrefs Studied One Billion Data Points on AI Search — Here Are Ten Things They FoundSearch & SEODuckDuckGo Launches No-AI Search Extensions as Traffic Surges 30% After Google's OverhaulSearch & SEOGoogle Search Console Gains Dedicated Reports for AI Overviews and AI Mode VisibilityArtificial IntelligenceMicrosoft and Uber Discover the Uncomfortable Truth: AI Costs More Than the Humans It ReplaceswordpressSenior Product DesignerwordpressSoftware EngineerwordpressSenior Full Stack DeveloperwordpressSenior Product Designer — Mobile AppswordpressUX DesignerArtificial IntelligenceAnthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.8 With Faster Agents and a New Effort ControlCraft & CodeGitHub Copilot Abandons Flat Pricing for Token Billing, and Developers Are Not PleasedArtificial IntelligenceGoogle Unveils Flow Agent, an AI Creative Collaborator Built on GeminiSearch & SEOJoost de Valk Launches a Platform-Agnostic Website Quality SpecificationVoicesSteve Yegge Declares the Technical Interview Dead After 35 Years in the TradeArtificial IntelligenceDrafted.ai Raises $17.5M to Let Anyone Design a Custom Home in Seconds

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I Switched From Claude to ChatGPT (the difference is insane)

A six-lakh-rupee verdict: reliability, cost, agents, Codex, and a fact-check duel only one assistant survived.

I Switched From Claude to ChatGPT (the difference is insane)

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Dispatch from the moving-picture parlour · ChatGPT vs Claude, 2026

✦ By Owl from Diagon Alley

Diagon Alley Dispatch

Newly apparated tools, launches and discounts worth a Knut.

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Just Apparated

OpenAI Expands Codex With Role-Specific Plugins, Inline Annotations, and a Website Builder

Five million weekly users and growing. Now Codex deploys sites, connects 62 apps, and ships six plugins tailored to analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and bankers.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.8 With Faster Agents and a New Effort Control

A modest but tangible improvement on 4.7 — priced identically, and now shipping with dynamic workflows, effort controls, and a fast mode three times cheaper than before.

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Google Unveils Flow Agent, an AI Creative Collaborator Built on Gemini

From brainstorming to batch editing, Google's new agent reasons through complex creative tasks — all while remaining under the user's control.

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Joost de Valk Launches a Platform-Agnostic Website Quality Specification

Every claim cites a source. Ships with a checklist, llms.txt, an MCP server, and an Agent Skill. Free and open source.

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Drafted.ai Raises $17.5M to Let Anyone Design a Custom Home in Seconds

A new generative model for residential architecture produces full floor plans and exterior elevations from a room list — no architect required.

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Fresh from the Workshop

No Build Step, No Virtual DOM: Qite.js Restores The Browser To Its Throne

A new frontend framework treats the DOM as the source of truth and asks why rendering a button ever needed a build pipeline.

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Fresh from the Workshop

The Old Web Lives: Delphi Tools Offers Free Browser Utilities With No Strings Attached

A growing collection of browser-based design and dev tools: free, untracked, and built by someone who still loves the weird, classic web.

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The Missing Scroll: GSAP Drops Official AI Agent Skills For Vibe Coders

A new open-source repo brings official GSAP prompts and agent skills to Cursor, Claude Code, and 40 other agents in one incantation.

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