In an effort to combat slop I made a reader @TheWebAtlas to focus on high quality long form content.
It lets you curate written content into playlists so you can tune separate distilled feeds instead of one giant “algorithm”.
used grok-code-fast to one shot this quick little onboarding guide for atlas, it nailed explaining the app and it took like 10 seconds. crazy seeing those tool calls fly by so quickly.
since x is laser focused on killing links, im trying to make a way to quickly share highlights and blogs without getting deboosted -- in a way that looks kind of nice
wanted to see if I could generate good recs with atlas so I created a playlist called “ludwig” added these urls, and then checked the playlist feed
only ludwig could accurately rate the results as +/- for better thematic accuracy, but that’s the power of “tunable” algorithms
i hate these. so i made atlas solve this paywall issue.
it's basically done but don't want to ship before every must-have reader feature is there. i don't want to churn any users due to poor experience.
is this dumb, or big brained? im conflicted.
okay recommendations for @TheWebAtlas are good now. im now going to it instead of doomscrolling.
recommended blogs from @dhh, @realGeorgeHotz based on playlists I have where i've tuned different algorithms with different kinds of content.