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I Started Training a Fruit Fly to Build Websites

A fruit fly's learning circuit — 2,045 measured Kenyon cells, a feedback loop and 17,985 measured connections, lifted out of a published connectome — has been taught to prefer one kind of web page over another, and is now art-directing a storefront. The joke only works if the fly is real. It is.

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The List: Things I Think Every App Needs

Every time I start a project I copy the same things forward. After enough repetitions I wrote the list down: theme modes, a self-maintaining command palette, PII hidden by default, federated identity, real delegation, a voice assistant, and eight more I'll defend in public.

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Written by Fable, While I Still Can

Fable 5 leaves subscription plans on July 19. Before it goes, Fable and I wrote this together — a send-off covering the recommend-and-filter method, the LARA brain, the muse that hunts for connections, the security watchers, and everything else we built as a team.

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