- the level of discourse was sometimes frustratingly thin, on economics / zoning / copyright / etc - i will avoid generalizing from this event, because dsa != people who show up != leftists != voters != socialist-aligned politicians
brief notes: - most panelists and the audience were focused on abolishing ai and datacenters - the tax policy (which i love) got a lot of probing questions, which were expertly answered - rorty's theory that post-1960s socialism is an anti-government libertarian movement continues to be correct
Netlify Source brings version control protections to every project without requiring a separate repo or a GitHub account. Dana Lawson explains the thinking behind it and what the platform picks up next.
www.netlify.com/blog/netlify... 
Our engineering and design team has been testing 26+ side-by-side comparisons across frontier and open models. All runs are public and open source. Benchmark for this demo here:
github.com/CommandCode... Tested FlappyBench on Qwen 3.8 27B, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, and Gemini 3.7 Flash
All scored 9/10, it comes down to cost, quality, and iterations
🔹 DSV4 ($0.0036): Low cost, solid, but movement need work
🔹 Qwen ($0.0068): One-shot, playable, with UI finish
🔹 Gemini ($0.0083): Needed 2–3 iterations the worst gtm slop for slop product that makes slop (so far)
Text-only models now have vision in Command Code.
• A vision model reads the attached image
• Your main model gets the context in the same thread
• /config lets you choose the vision model
Stop describing screenshots. Just attach them. Sometimes one project changes everything. Elisabeth shares how her first Netlify deployment introduced her to a new way of building, and why it's become part of her workflow for everything from side projects to job applications.
coincidentally actionnetwork.org/events/how-s... is tonight and about this and i'm going! phoebe bridgers-bo burnham :: joanna newsom-andy samberg
phoebe bridgers includes one song that ends loud on each album, i wish she'd make a whole album of loud-ending songs
The questions are lightweight, and you can ignore them. Answer the ones you care about and skip the rest. Skip all of them, and the agent makes the call itself and keeps building.
www.netlify.com/blog/new-cla... Netlify Agent Runners can now stop and ask you a few things before they build. Ask for a tracker dashboard, and the agent still has to work out whether it needs a database behind it and whether people sign in to see their own data, and now it can just ask you.
Next Tuesday, August 25 at 12pm ET: a live build from prompt to production. Colin Wren (Stripe) will provision a backend from the CLI by prompting, and Seán Mc Ternan (Netlify) will ship it. You'll leave with the repo. Register: luma.com/qjhck1ql 
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lmk if you need to chat about this, we have a pretty good license for experimental / sideproject stuff like this
abottom.org
i've been reaching for "abottom" more and more, so i formalized my effort to spread the word (literally) some of the placemark code got re-adopted into geojson.io, making it a very full-circle open source story: dev.to/mapbox/rebui... 
Netlify Agent Runners turn a prompt into a deployed application. As of today, they can also ask you a few clarifying questions first whenever the model decides more context would sharpen the result.
www.netlify.com/blog/new-cla... 