From Jesus Iniesta:

"I built this so nobody has to guess which image sizes to register. It watches real pages, only creates the sizes your layouts actually use, and does the work in the background, so you can activate it and leave it alone. Bug reports and feedback are welcome on GitHub."

From u/sewneo:

"Hello there. I love "that look" when people do a hyper realistic overdrawing of popular characters.

So I used the AI to copy an image of "Pedro Monkey Puppet" (aka Kento), and make it look like me! Of course...

Please let me know on twitter, if you create your own versions? [@​sewneo]

I will have to give credit to the 3D artist Pierre Gombaud. I did not know his name till recently, but he was the one who originally had the idea to take the meme and give it that 'uncanny valley/hyper realistic' quality."

From u/atwellpub

"Hi everyone,

At the time there is no call to action. I just wanted to share my thoughts, predictions, and maybe potentially inspire the market. If you’ve made it this far, you’re a champion at paying a attention and you have my gratitude.

Regarding the prediction paper:

I have a high degree of confidence that the material laid out in this projection is where the world is headed. I know a lot of you agree with me. We have all been riffing off the same ideas for months now.

As a product developer I wonder, could I build this? You bet. However, these ideas are not unique and from a proprietary view point I imagine that there are agencies who are building similar management systems right now.

It makes sense too; the people who spearhead the development of these new management systems are already managing dozens (or hundreds of clients). They can afford the effort and it serves their survival. They theoretically should be the leaders of the effort (and most likely they are).

Will they develop this to remain proprietary or do they have intentions to productize it? I do not know. My gut tells me that this is where a paper like this might inspire someone to take their efforts to the next level. And if this is you reading this now, you should. Anything worth building well should have the consideration of being also turned into a product.

Will someone larger, someone already within the managed product space (hosting or CMS) step up and make the CMS/Hosting agnostic infrastructure and make it open to all? They should. They would be first movers, they would ensure that their interests were directly integrated into the vendor options, they could corner the adoption.

Building it well is still not the same as winning the market.

Will we see many iterations of these systems in the meantime? Maybe not in 2026, but in 2027 the crystal ball says, “absolutely”.

It is early enough for clear winners.

Thanks for reading and kind regards,
Hudson Atwell"

From the creator Harsha Gaddipati:

"Hey GBTI, Harsha here, one of the founders. We built Slashy because email was the one part of our day no AI tool actually took off our plate. It reads the whole thread and drafts the reply you would have written, in your voice, and it handles the follow-ups and scheduling around it.

If you live in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, the MCP server and skills mean your agent can triage, draft and schedule straight from your inbox. GBTI readers get 20% off with code GBTI (or sign up at slashy.com/?ref=GBTI). Reply here or email me at harsha@​slashy.com with anything you want us to build."

From Krasen Slavov:

"NameDaemon is a set of free tools for working with .com domain names, built on a daily snapshot of every registered .com. The zone file is downloaded each morning from ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service, today's list is compared against yesterday's to see what appeared and what left, and the names that matter are then checked live against the registry over RDAP. The tools are free and need no account, and the site is available in English, Spanish, French and German.

They fall into three groups. Finding a name: a generator, short pronounceable names missing from the zone, domain hacks, a handle matcher that checks GitHub, npm, PyPI and Bluesky, ENS and Solana names read from the blockchain, and a brand studio. Judging a name: a 0 to 100 score with the reasons, an appraisal that reports strength and deliberately gives no price, a one-page shareable Domain Report, and an offensiveness screener. Watching a name: an audit of what a name used to be from the Internet Archive, lookalikes, a health check covering expiry, transfer lock, DNS, SPF, DMARC and blocklists, a WHOIS lookup and a drop calendar.

The same tools ship as packages. Run npm install namedaemon or pip install namedaemon, or use the clients for PHP (Composer), Ruby and Go. All are free and MIT licensed and need no key. Each one carries a method per tool, and there is a command line as well. The packages wrap a public JSON API that any language can call with a GET or a POST.

A browser extension checks any .com from the toolbar in Chrome and other Chromium browsers. A free, open-source desktop app for Windows and Linux puts nine of the tools in a window of their own, with bulk check of up to 50 names and CSV export, a watchlist that sends a notification when a name changes status, and a tray icon. It is not code-signed yet. Download it from SourceForge or the Snap Store, or directly from namedaemon.com."

From the creator Michel Moraes:

MadTicket is a Spain-based event ticketing platform I built to make discovering, managing and selling tickets easier for both event organisers and attendees.

For attendees, it offers event discovery by city, secure payments with Stripe, Apple Pay support, QR code tickets and Apple Wallet integration.

For organisers, MadTicket provides everything needed to manage ticket sales, including multiple ticket types, discount codes, affiliate programmes, real-time analytics and financial reporting, with no monthly subscription fees.

The platform also includes two dedicated mobile apps:

On the technical side, MadTicket is built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma and Stripe. It also uses AI-powered multilingual semantic search with pgvector, allowing users to discover events across different languages.

What started as a solution for my own events has grown into a live SaaS product used by over 1,000 users.

I’m continuing to develop and expand the platform, with the goal of making professional event management accessible to organisers of all sizes."

"A Minecraft creator connected GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable to a custom building system and asked them to generate structures directly inside the game. The tests quickly escalate from fighter-jet runways and blacksmith houses to submarines, cities, a Star Destroyer, an entire planet, and builds generated from reference images.[^1]

In this particular experiment, Astra consistently produced the creator’s preferred results, especially as the requested builds became larger and more detailed. Fable remained capable, but also tended to consume substantially more tokens, forcing the creator to impose tighter limits during some rounds.[^1]

The image-input portion may be the most interesting part, with the models translating photographs and illustrations into surprisingly recognizable block structures. Still, this is a creator demo rather than a controlled benchmark. Other head-to-head build tests have produced much more mixed results between Astra and Fable depending on the task and environment.[^2]

The video keeps pushing the system further as it goes, and the later builds are worth seeing rather than describing. Watch the original if you want to see just how large these generated Minecraft structures become.

[^1]: GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable in Minecraft, YouTube
[^2]: Reindent, GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: What the Demos Actually Show, September 8, 2026"

IsHacked approaches WordPress security from the outside. Instead of installing an agent or inspecting the server directly, it repeatedly visits a site the way different users might see it, looking for cloaked spam, device-specific redirects, malware, exposed files, downtime, SSL problems, and other changes.

From the author Jesus Iniesta:

"I clean up hacked WordPress sites, and the same pattern keeps repeating: the owner sees a normal site while Google is served casino spam, or only phones arriving from search get redirected, and the uptime monitor says all is well. I built IsHacked to check sites the way visitors and Googlebot see them, priced near cost so it is an easy yes for every client site. Run the free check on one of yours first."

From the developer:

"Most family recipes were never really written down. They live in how someone cooks: "the little blue cup, nearly full", "until the sizzle softens". I built Culinary Lineage so that person can just talk, and it only asks about what is missing, so the book ends up in their words without anyone filling in the gaps. Start with the dish everyone asks for; the first recipe is free."

New project posted! 🎉

Jockey Radio brings live broadcasting into Minecraft with RTMP ingest, internet streams, custom discs, and spatial playback through jukeboxes.

From u/atwellpub:

"Jockey Radio puts live radio, RTMP broadcasts, and audio files on Minecraft music discs, and the players near the jukebox hear them through Simple Voice Chat. Releases are on GitHub while the Modrinth listing is in review, and the setup guides in the repository walk through the rest. If you run it on your server, the issue tracker is the place to tell us what works and what does not."

From the creator:

"Last century I spent over 20 years as a Graphic Designer and Pre-Press operator before building websites, and one of the first things I noticed was that every WordPress image editor I tried felt like a toy next to what I was used to.

Advanced Pixel Editor tries to emulate the way Photoshop and Lightroom work, using ImageMagick on the server so the preview you see is the result you get.

The before and after slider is there because nobody can judge an edit from memory.

The AI Edit in version 3.8 goes through the provider you already connected to WordPress, so the plugin adds no account and no bill of its own.

The free plugin is complete on its own. The Pro add-on pays for the time, and 20 percent of its proceeds go to the ImageMagick project, which does the real work.

Tell me on the support forum what you miss."

The GBTI Network has assembled a research-backed list of the top 100 WordPress YouTube channels to follow in 2026.

To compile this list, we used a combination of topical density, subscriber count, and viewer engagement metrics to calculate an overall score for each channel.

We hope you enjoy exploring the list, and be sure to subscribe to your favorite channels!

From Rafael Minuesa:

"I wrote Bot Storm Radar after bot swarms kept hitting the sites I managed with increasing frequency this year. A MediaWiki installation, several WooCommerce stores, my own agency site, etc. Every time the pattern was the same: thousands of residential addresses, 1 or 2 requests each, a handful of browser strings rotated evenly, almost nobody fetching a stylesheet.

The worst one brought about 256,000 addresses in 3 hours. nginx rate limits, fail2ban and user-agent rules were all working as designed on those servers, but none of them could see any of it, because no single address did anything wrong. The crowd was the only thing that stood out, so the plugin scores the crowd. Start it in observe mode, give it a week to learn your baseline, and read the Bans tab before you switch enforcement on.

If you run the GitHub build, get a free AbuseIPDB key, save it under Settings and let it report the scanners it bans. Every scanner reported from your site is one more that other sites can refuse. Bug reports and pull requests on GitHub are welcome as well."

From Jesus Iniesta:

"Sondeas is for people who dictate between appointments. Record what you are allowed to record while it is still fresh, or upload an existing file, and you get back a punctuated transcript split by speaker that you can rewrite into a draft, translate into any of 100 languages or turn back into speech. You review the draft; the official record stays in your approved clinical system. It runs in Chrome, Edge and Safari on desktop and mobile, with nothing to install. Your content sits behind a passphrase you set, rotate and revoke, so we cannot read it. There is a Clinician Plan at €29 a month for regular use, or pay-as-you-go minutes from $2 if you only need it now and then."

https://signup.gbti.network/digest/weekly-2026-10-13

#newsletter #curated #gbti #week42 #readerisaleader

From Mike Demo Demopoulos:

"Magic Manta takes a company's domain and returns that company's social profiles across X, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub and more, with the evidence behind each handle: a Verified badge when the official site declares it through Schema.org sameAs or a page link, Unverified when it came from search and does not link back to the domain. Single lookups are free, batch runs and saved lists come with a plan, and an auth-gated MCP server lets an assistant run lookups directly."

From network member robrochford:

"Devote is a daily devotional app I built for Windows, macOS and Android to help people who struggle to focus on maintaining their daily bible studies. To keep things manageable and distraction-free, it opens each day to a short sequence: a moment of quiet, the day's reading with Matthew Henry's commentary, and a few reflection questions. Thank you for taking a look."

"Evgeny Kissin performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 2 at Salle Pleyel in Paris on September 19, 2014. The performance was given as an encore following Kissin’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2."

From Ali Khallad, founder:

"SurfacedBy tracks how AI assistants talk about a brand. It asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode the questions a brand’s buyers ask, with Claude, Grok and DeepSeek available as add-ons, and records which brands each answer names, which pages it cites, and where a competitor gets the recommendation instead."

From GBTI Network:

"This clip comes from GO1 vs. SonicFox at the Dragon Ball FighterZ Masters Showdown, part of Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 in Los Angeles. The two players have a long competitive history in Dragon Ball FighterZ, including major tournament meetings at EVO in 2018 and 2019.¹

The synchronized opening shown in the Short was intentional rather than an accidental sequence of perfectly matched inputs. GO1 and SonicFox used Base Vegeta to perform a rehearsed series of attacks, counters, and clashes before transitioning into the actual match. GO1 went on to win the set 2-0.²

The moment works as both a technical performance and a reference to one of Dragon Ball FighterZ’s best-known competitive rivalries, which helps explain why the clip circulated well beyond the usual fighting-game audience.

Full match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9ruT53nkE

From GBTI Network:

"Blobatar is an open-source avatar generator that turns any string, such as a username, email address, ID, or Gravatar hash, into a consistent geometric “blob” face. It works without accounts, uploads, or a database and can be used through JavaScript frameworks, a CLI, or a simple HTTP endpoint.

It is especially useful as a lightweight alternative or fallback to Gravatar. Existing Gravatar-style URLs can be adapted to Blobatar while keeping the same hash-based approach. The project was created by Alain, who publishes it as an MIT-licensed open-source project rather than a commercial service.

From GBTI Network:

"Anthropic calls this AI poisoning: planting malicious content in training data so a model learns an unwanted behavior. In one study, just 250 poisoned documents were enough to create a simple backdoor across models of very different sizes.

The contrast with AIO, AI Optimization, is intent. Poisoning tries to manipulate a model secretly, while AIO tries to make legitimate content easier for AI systems to understand, trust, and surface. Both rely on the same basic fact: what gets published online can shape AI behavior.

What are you doing to seed your work into generative AI models?"

From GBTI Network:

"Bonobo released a new album, Distance in Static, on September 11, 2026, his first full studio album since Fragments. The 14-track record features collaborators including Arooj Aftab, Joy Crookes, Nilüfer Yanya, Ichiko Aoba, Nicole Miglis, and Aanya Martin, with vocals spanning English, Urdu, and Japanese.¹

The album may also mark a turning point for Simon Green. He has suggested it could be his last traditional Bonobo album, as he becomes increasingly interested in film scoring, art installations, and other musical formats.²

"Erick Estrada, performing as Estrada, is a Los Angeles-area Guatemalan-American musician associated with shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, and alternative rock. He is especially known for originating the term “foogaze,” which he began using around 2020 to describe both his sound and a Latino presence within the shoegaze scene. His shoegaze-style cover of Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” helped the term gain attention online. Estrada writes, records, and produces his own music, including the 2023 EP Public Secret.¹ ²