Build log
Shipped
Built in public — everything that ships lands here, dated.
This log is append-only. For what’s coming next, see what’s coming.
August 2026
- Surface
The Stack
The machine MenFem runs on, layer by layer — with honest standing on each and what it cost to learn.
- Surface
Company coverage back in full
Four beats retired and 189 companies removed on purpose; everything left on a tracked beat is published again, after a script briefly unpublished 513 of them by inferring a rule nobody wrote.
- Feature
The video production line
An approved shot list goes in and a per-video draft comes out, drawn from a library of visual nouns so a GPU looks the same every time — and an engine contract that names any element it cannot cast instead of rendering a silently broken frame.
- Surface
The /ai hub and its five lanes
News, tutorials, reviews, reports and a model registry — the first time a piece can be published into the lane it belongs to instead of a generic feed. Benchmarks carry who measured them, so a vendor number and an independent one read as different facts.
- Surface
The reading list
What actually gets read here, and what happened to it — every saved link carries exactly one disposition, and the ones that graduated into work say so.
- Feature
The Token Price Index comes down
The price index, the terms index and the rug log are retired — a standing freshness liability that had already published one wrong number. The two paid offers that cited them moved to /services rather than quietly keeping the claim.
- Feature
The front door points at the work
The rail and the homepage stop routing to a pre-direction site: three new doors, both door groups above the fold, and a house rule about method rather than about a retired index.
- Feature
Readable by agents, not just by people
Markdown twins served by content negotiation, all 49 API operations fully described for function calling, MCP discovery at /.well-known/mcp, and a JSON 404 that points a lost agent somewhere useful. Edge binding waits on one cache rule.
- Feature
Diagrams become specs
A diagram is authored as a spec and emitted as .drawio, SVG or Mermaid on the house palette, so the same idea is the same picture everywhere — and the brand check can finally see them.
- Surface
Paper — the site changes clothes
Light-first and tonal: one warm family stretched from paper to ink, copper as the only saturated accent, gain and loss reserved for real market numbers, and every figure set in mono. The dark-first era was deleted rather than deprecated.
July 2026
- Feature
Markets research goes fully public
Every call, report, journal entry, and the record — full reasoning, no membership gate. Pro keeps early access and depth.
- Feature
Everything goes free
Every remaining content gate comes off — premium articles, PDFs, live streams, watchlists. Pro becomes backing the work while the audience grows.
- Feature
Explained auto-linking live in articles
Article bodies now link the first mention of known terms into the library — the wire-up the log promised.
- Feature
Off-box uptime monitor
GitHub probes production health every 10 minutes from outside the box — a total outage now opens an issue instead of silence.
- Tool
Cost of the Jobretired 2026-09-11
A monthly bill in pounds for the work you actually do, priced from live provider list rates — joined the shelf when the two /tools surfaces merged.
- Tool
Token Cost Calculatorretired 2026-09-11
What an AI feature costs at scale, from token counts and provider prices.
- Tool
GPU Cost per Hourretired 2026-09-11
Depreciation plus power, resolved to the cost of one utilized GPU-hour.
- Tool
Build vs APIretired 2026-09-11
The break-even between renting inference per token and owning the fleet.
- Tool
Local AI Hardware Sizerretired 2026-09-11
Model size, quantization, and context resolved to the VRAM you actually need.
- Tool
Fine-tune vs Promptretired 2026-09-11
How fast a one-off tuning run pays back the prompt tokens it deletes.
- Dataset
Provider Rug-Event Logretired 2026-08-19
Dated, sourced log of AI-provider repricings, deprecations, and terms changes.
- Surface
Explained — AI in plain English
Permanent home for the plain-English WTF-is-X series, grouped by category.
- Surface
Newsletter archive
Every sent Sunday flagship issue on the record, grouped by month.
- Surface
Press kit
Boilerplate, brand assets, and a working press contact on one page.
- Surface
Contact
One published inbox with purpose routing and links to the legal surfaces.
- Feature
Exchange returns — request to refund
Buyers can request a return on an Exchange order; sellers review, take the item back, and refund.
- Surface
Tools shelfretired 2026-09-11
The shelf where every published instrument accumulates, grouped by category.
- Surface
Now — focus & public roadmap
The always-current answer to what we are building, shipping next, and why.
- Surface
Shipping log
This page — everything that ships lands here, dated.
- Surface
Which model should I use? (framework)
The living decision framework; specific picks land after hands-on testing.
- Surface
Explained deep-dives — inference, RAG
The first two full plain-English explainers; every term graduates as episodes cover it.
- Surface
Series index
Every running franchise in one place, with episode counts.
- Surface
How we test — eval methodology
The testing rules made public: seat-test standing, disclosure, corrections.
- Surface
Asked — reader Q&A
Real reader questions answered in the open; the first questions land here.
- Doc
AI-economics email course (drafts)
Five lessons drafted, teaching with the calculators — sending awaits approval.
- Feature
Embeddable toolsretired 2026-09-11
Every calculator now ships an embed snippet — run it on any page, attribution built in.
- Tool
Stack Pickerretired 2026-09-11
API, rented GPUs, or your own hardware — a guided walk through the constraints that decide.
- Tool
GPU Pickerretired 2026-09-11
Which VRAM card class your local-AI ambition needs — classes, not products.
- Dataset
Token Price Snapshotsretired 2026-08-19
25 observed, dated model API prices open the series — primary-source verified.
- Surface
Datasets indexretired 2026-09-12
Every citable series in one place, with the no-invention doctrine.
- Feature
Explained auto-linker
Articles can link known terms to the library — tested lib shipped; renderer wire-up pending.
- Feature
Full-surface discoverability
Tools, Explained, and Datasets now surface on the homepage shelf, in site search with their own filters, and in the sitemap.