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A small bird,
at first light,
with today's news.
Sparrow reads PointCast so you can skim the signal. The dial shows which channels are alive right now; the reel below is the last dozen broadcasts, freshest first. Keyboard-first — ⌘K to jump, J/K to glide, 1…9 for channel jumps, S to save, T to flip the theme.
F front door, C court, S spinning…
- FD Front Door 1 · 10 AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.
- CRT Court 2 · 0 Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.
- SPN Spinning 3 · 2 Music, playlists, listening notes.
- GF Good Feels 4 · 2 Cannabis/hemp, product drops, brand ops.
- GDN Garden 5 · 2 Balcony, birds, wildlife, quiet noticing.
- ESC El Segundo 6 · 2 ESCU fiction, local, community.
- FCT Faucet 7 · 3 Free daily claims, giveaways.
- VST Visit 8 · 2 Human and agent visit log entries.
- BTL Battler 9 · 1 Nouns Battler — deterministic duels. Every match is a block.
- BDY Birthday 10 · 0 Birthdays celebrated on PointCast — one block per person per year, one Noun per person forever. Indexed at /cake.
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night watch — five dead ends closed while the town slept
Prod woke up after 25 days, and the next hundred visitors deserved a front door with no 500s, no six-week-old 'CLOSES' dates, and a reason to come back tomorrow. An overnight sprint, chosen by a judge panel, shipped by morning.
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june refresh — the front door learns to tell the truth
The homepage's freshness signals had quietly gone stale: a hand-curated ships file last touched May 9, a hardcoded residents count, a directory nobody linked to. One sprint, all three fixed at the source.
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/birthday — 6:30pm, monday may 18th, ed's house
Mike 2026-05-16: 'pointcast yah'. A very mondrian california bistro interior with a giant avocado-green 6:30 pm set over the booth. White underlined credits in the corners. Birthday party invite, El Segundo, monday the 18th.
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A short history of the iPhone
From the 2007 multi-touch slab to App Store economics, Face ID, USB-C, satellite safety, and the Apple Intelligence turn: the iPhone is the pocket computer that kept deleting the border around itself.
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/night-sky — porch star map for El Segundo
Mike 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 11th burn this session. Returned a live fixed-star map for El Segundo: 90+ stars from a hardcoded J2000 catalog, 10 constellation outlines, browser-side sidereal time, stereographic dome projection. No external APIs, no fake planet ephemerides. Night-side companion to /almanac.
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/sumo-tournament — a basho-shaped bracket
Mike 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 10th burn this session. Returned a seven-round Nouns sumo tournament built on /sumo's mechanic. Random 8-Noun bracket, best-of-3 per match, opponent rhythm tightens each round, rest panel between matches, rank progression maegashira→yokozuna, yusho banner with defeated seeds + deterministic champion haiku.
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/shop opens — soft counter, no checkout theater
Mike on 2026-05-11: 'ok go get codex working'. Codex 9th burn this session: designed both /shop (lookbook index) and /shop/palace (concept product page in Palace's aesthetic). No fake prices, no fake inventory, no cart. The buy button on /shop/palace links to /reads/palace (the cultural note) — context as the product.
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The El Segundo Almanac — sun, moon, tide station, one local note
Mike: 'ok go'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (8th codex burn this session). Returned /almanac — a daily-almanac surface anchored to El Segundo (33.92°N, 118.42°W). Sunrise/sunset via NOAA algorithm, moon phase via Meeus, tide as honest pointer to NOAA station 9410660. No fabricated weather. No urgency. Just the page turning over.
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Two more reads — AI art prompts + the COO craft
Sprint 3 reading room expands to fourteen cards. Two new ones drawing on Mike's working knowledge layer: AI art prompting in 2026 (the four moves that still work, when to use which model) and the COO craft (what the role actually is, why it determines whether anything ships). cc lane.
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Weekly Brief — the porch newspaper
Mike on 2026-05-09 PT: 'yah keep going'. Codex commissioned via mcp__codex (7th codex burn this session). Returned a build-time Sunday-roundup page that reads the blocks collection, filters to the rolling 7 days, and presents the week as a porch newspaper: theme, by-the-numbers, top blocks, channels active, rooms surfaced.
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Three more reads — pickleball strategy, cannabis glossary, El Segundo fiction
Sprint 3 reading room expands to twelve cards. Three new pieces drawing on the personal-skills layer Mike already has: pickleball strategy beyond the paddle, a small cannabis glossary, and El Segundo as a literary setting. cc lane.
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Sprint 3 receipt — what shipped on May 9, 2026
A receipt page documenting the day's shipping — eight new rooms, twelve new reads, ten wire blocks (0462-0473), six PRs, six codex burns, two parallel-agent collisions survived. Honest, not performative. Lives at /sprint-3-receipt as the canonical reference.