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AI Regulation Moved Four Times This Week. Do These Checks Before January
Most weeks, AI regulation moves in one place at a time. This week it moved in four, and three of the four land on ordinary businesses, not just AI labs. A state chatbot law with teeth. A federal inquiry into how algorithms set prices and pay. A proposed ban on investing in foreign AI. And…
10 Self-Hosted Open-Source Repos That Replace Paid Apps
Every subscription on your statement is a small monthly argument that renting is easier than owning. Sometimes it is. But a whole category of tools — passwords, file transfer, search, translation, archiving, monitoring — now has self-hosted, open-source replacements that are genuinely good, actively maintained, and free. These ten came from a single roundup of…
6 AI Agent Repos That Trade, Email, Publish, and Perform — Receipts and Warnings Included
Most “AI agent” talk is chatbots with better marketing. These six repos are something else: software that does things — runs a trading process, works an inbox, produces a YouTube channel, performs as a virtual character. That power is exactly why this roundup comes with warnings attached. An agent that can act can also act…
4 GitHub Repos You Can Turn Into Services (Without Reselling the Code)
Here’s an angle most people walk right past: the money in open source usually isn’t in the code. The code is free. The money is in what the code does for a business that doesn’t have the time, the skills, or the interest to run it themselves. That was the whole point of the carousel…
Colorado Is Writing the Rules for Automated Decisions. Combs Intelligence Group Filed a Comment.
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, Combs Intelligence Group LLC filed a public comment with the Colorado Attorney General on the proposed rules at 4 CCR 904-6 — the rules that implement Colorado’s Automated Decision-Making Technology Act (SB26-189). The filing went in two days before the comment deadline, under our name, on the public record. This…
GM Sold Your Driving Data for Eight Years. The $220 Million Settlement Sets the Rules Now.
On Thursday, October 29, General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from the attorneys general of 35 states and Washington, DC. The claims cover one of the longest-running consumer data sales in the auto industry: for eight years, GM collected detailed driving data through its OnStar Smart Driver feature and sold it…
AI Income
rederive: The Tiny Skill That Refuses to Explain, So You Actually Learn a Codebase With AI
Full honesty up front, because this repo demands it. rederive was created on October 19, 2026. When I found it, it had 24 stars; it was already at 71 stars a day later, as of October 2026 — which still makes it a tiny, days-old, single-author project that is essentially untested by the crowd. I’m…
LibreChat: Every AI Model in One Self-Hosted AI Chat Window
Every AI model. One window. Yours. If you pay for multiple AI models, you know the tab chaos: one tab for this model, another tab for that one, a third for the open-source experiment — three logins, three histories, three subscriptions to the window before you’ve paid for a single token of actual work. LibreChat…
claude-ads: Run a Full Ads Audit With Claude Across 12 Platforms
Claude audits your ads now. claude-ads, by AgriciDaniel, is a Claude-first paid-media skill for Claude Code. It audits 12 ad platforms — Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and eight more — and rolls everything it finds into one weighted Ads Health Score. It had 10,310 stars as of October 2026, it’s MIT licensed, and it’s free.…
Impeccable: A Design Language for AI Harnesses, From the Creator of jQuery UI
Your AI doesn’t need more templates. It needs a design LANGUAGE. That’s the pitch behind Impeccable, and it’s built by somebody whose name carries weight in web tooling: Paul Bakaus, the creator of jQuery UI, with years on Google’s web tooling after that. Impeccable is one skill that makes your AI harness itself better at…
awesome-design-md: 84 DESIGN.md Design System Files Your AI Can Actually Read
Here’s the cheapest design upgrade your agent will ever get, and it fits in a single text file. awesome-design-md, by VoltAgent, collects DESIGN.md files — design systems analyzed from popular brands and written down in plain text so your AI can read them. At 122,869 stars as of October 2026, it was the biggest repo…
taste-skill: The Skill That Gives Your Coding Agent Design Taste
You know the look. Same gradients. Same cards. Same three-column layout with the little icon on top. Every AI-built site on the internet is starting to look like it came off the same assembly line — because it did. That’s not a model problem. The model is fine. It’s a taste problem: your agent has…
AI Governance
AI Regulation Moved Four Times This Week. Do These Checks Before January
Most weeks, AI regulation moves in one place at a time. This week it moved in four, and three of the four land on ordinary businesses, not just AI labs. A state chatbot law with teeth. A federal inquiry into how algorithms set prices and pay. A proposed ban on investing in foreign AI. And…
Colorado Is Writing the Rules for Automated Decisions. Combs Intelligence Group Filed a Comment.
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, Combs Intelligence Group LLC filed a public comment with the Colorado Attorney General on the proposed rules at 4 CCR 904-6 — the rules that implement Colorado’s Automated Decision-Making Technology Act (SB26-189). The filing went in two days before the comment deadline, under our name, on the public record. This…
GM Sold Your Driving Data for Eight Years. The $220 Million Settlement Sets the Rules Now.
On Thursday, October 29, General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from the attorneys general of 35 states and Washington, DC. The claims cover one of the longest-running consumer data sales in the auto industry: for eight years, GM collected detailed driving data through its OnStar Smart Driver feature and sold it…
AI Governance for Small Business: The Policy, Register, and Approval System You Actually Need
Your team is already using AI. Someone is drafting emails with it, summarizing meetings with it, pasting customer questions into it, and testing tools you have never heard of. That is not a discipline problem. It is a visibility problem. An AI governance policy template does not exist to slow anyone down or bury a…
Tools & Repos
10 Self-Hosted Open-Source Repos That Replace Paid Apps
Every subscription on your statement is a small monthly argument that renting is easier than owning. Sometimes it is. But a whole category of tools — passwords, file transfer, search, translation, archiving, monitoring — now has self-hosted, open-source replacements that are genuinely good, actively maintained, and free. These ten came from a single roundup of…
6 AI Agent Repos That Trade, Email, Publish, and Perform — Receipts and Warnings Included
Most “AI agent” talk is chatbots with better marketing. These six repos are something else: software that does things — runs a trading process, works an inbox, produces a YouTube channel, performs as a virtual character. That power is exactly why this roundup comes with warnings attached. An agent that can act can also act…
4 GitHub Repos You Can Turn Into Services (Without Reselling the Code)
Here’s an angle most people walk right past: the money in open source usually isn’t in the code. The code is free. The money is in what the code does for a business that doesn’t have the time, the skills, or the interest to run it themselves. That was the whole point of the carousel…
Emil Kowalski’s Skills and Playwright: The Polish and the Proof
Repo Week covered three pieces of the AI design stack: a real brand’s design system as a file, a taste skill, and a design vocabulary. But the stack this all came from — a five-piece setup for fixing the “every AI website looks the same” problem — has two more pieces, and they’re the two…
rederive: The Tiny Skill That Refuses to Explain, So You Actually Learn a Codebase With AI
Full honesty up front, because this repo demands it. rederive was created on October 19, 2026. When I found it, it had 24 stars; it was already at 71 stars a day later, as of October 2026 — which still makes it a tiny, days-old, single-author project that is essentially untested by the crowd. I’m…
LibreChat: Every AI Model in One Self-Hosted AI Chat Window
Every AI model. One window. Yours. If you pay for multiple AI models, you know the tab chaos: one tab for this model, another tab for that one, a third for the open-source experiment — three logins, three histories, three subscriptions to the window before you’ve paid for a single token of actual work. LibreChat…
Tutorials
3 Business Automations to Set Up Before You Hire Anyone
When work piles up, the instinct is to hire. More hands, more hours, problem solved. Sometimes that’s right. But a lot of the time, the pile isn’t a people problem. It’s the same repetitive tasks eating the same hours every week — tasks a simple system could handle while you do the work that actually…
Content Hooks That Stop the Scroll: 15 Openers for Any Niche
Nobody owes you their attention. Not on a feed, not in a search result, not anywhere. The first line of your post is a job interview that lasts about two seconds. Win it, and people keep reading. Lose it, and the rest of your work — the good advice, the careful structure, the offer at…
15 AI Prompts for Business Owners Who Don’t Have Time for Busywork
Good AI prompts for business are not clever. They are clear. The owner who gets real time back from AI is not the one with a folder of a thousand saved prompts — it is the one with a short list of prompts that handle the repetitive work clogging up every week. You know the…
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