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We have spent the last few months building a tool for journalists that _enhances_ their work, not replaces it.

Time to pull back the curtain a bit.

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The Claude Chrome extension is NOT installed in this browser and Claude keeps accessing it without my permission AND after I deny permission.

[Gerick Digital Strategy (GDS) @GerickNews]

What the heck @ClaudeDevs @claudeai @trq212? I'm using the Claude extension in a DIFFERENT Chrome account window, and without my permission, Claude had started "debugging" my browser in this one.

I have canceled more than 20 times and it keeps coming back.

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Slack alerts are live in JournoHelper™!

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After a successful (but still not perfect) email-alert launch, we're now working on adding simultaneous Slack alerts to JournoHelper™.

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Do what you do, Claude. My life is in your hands.

[Gerick Digital Strategy (GDS) @GerickNews]

We have email notifications.
Did the app send me alerts for all docs since the beginning of the database? Yes.
Does the link incorrectly go directly to the document and not to the app, as designed? Yes.
Am I still excited? Yes.

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I'm contemplating keeping one domain while in beta. Not too concerned about deliverability at this scale, which seems to be the only reason to consider adding a separate domain for alerts.

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Ran into a wall just now that's forcing another paid upgrade. (Not a complaint—just reality.)

So far I'm using Resend for user-related emails. Now I want people to notifications when new documents are added to a jurisdiction they track.

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One thing that hasn't changed in Opus 4.8: Encouraging you to take off for the rest of the day.

(Not to mention that it doesn't seem to have a solid grasp of when days actually begin and end.)

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Now we're cooking with gas! Finally got join-notification auto emails set up.

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I mean, not a great start.

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Just gave Opus 4.8 its first task on building JournoHelper™. Let's see if it meets the hype.

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Gemini is feeling very honest this afternoon.

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Easily avoidable, and something I'm glad happened in beta when users are paying a discounted price.

Auto-reload, of course, is now turned on.

[Gerick Digital Strategy (GDS) @GerickNews]

Users thought JournoHelper™ was broken (and technically is was), but really I had just made a mistake.

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Auto-reload wasn't "on" for my API spend. So when the models ran out of budget, the apps functions stopped working.

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@Railway, the JournoHelper™ backend server, has been down for >40 minutes

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The comments are then folded nicely into the main dialogue box and all you have to do is click "Revise." Great feature.

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First time I saw this and I love it—Plan mode in Claude Code now allows you to comment in-line. So much better than dropping a ton of notes into the existing dialogue box.

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How shady is it that @Google won’t let you upload photos to Lens unless you give it FULL access to your library?