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Avg Comments
5.2
Avg Likes
64.5
Engagement Rate
0.10%· ~70 likes + comments/post
(comments + likes) / subscribers
Quality Score
Engagement vs AI
0.10% engagement rate
Score Breakdown
Engagement Score
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| Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingsPlus Gemini 3.7 Flash, Muse Glimmer, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Aug 17, 2026 | Public |
| Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging FacePlus One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, and a big new LLM releaseAug 8, 2026 | Public |
| Stateless MCP has recaptured my interestPlus Opus 5, Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and Anthropic got caught accidentally hacking other companies too!Aug 1, 2026 | Public |
| OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedAnd a fireside chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code teamJul 24, 2026 | Public |
| Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarkPlus reverse-engineering Grok Build, Doom in SQLite, and how Codex generates petsJul 17, 2026 | Public |
| The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, SolPlus sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrationsJul 10, 2026 | Public |
| Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videosqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)Jul 5, 2026 | Public |
| Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Codesqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactionsJun 26, 2026 | Public |
| Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside DatasetteGLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMJun 19, 2026 | Public |
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Engagement Rate
0.10%
median: 0.00%
Posts per Week
1.1
median: 1.0
Publishing Consistency
79/100
median: 67/100
Subscribers
68K
median: 2K
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Publishing Frequency
Weekly
Last published Aug 23, 2026
Usually publishes Fri
1.1 posts/week avg
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