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October 13, 2026 What changed. Why it matters. What to do.
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October 13, 2026

Small Business AutomationAI Operations / Agent ControlTools Worth Testing

Concrete regulatory change that could affect subscription billing UX.

Worth mentioning

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NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
Concrete regulatory change that could affect subscription billing UX.
NYC's Click to Cancel rule is now in effect, per the city's own page.
⚠ Uncertainty: Fetched content was thin; details unverified.
nyc.gov Small Business Automation 2026-10-13
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Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
Directly relevant to MCP/agent cost; evidence unverified from the item alone.
A builder write-up on local indexing to cut tool calls and token usage in agent workflows.
⚠ Uncertainty: Fetched content was thin; details unverified.
tedhaley.ca AI Operations / Agent Control 2026-10-13

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Fingerprints are the new cookies
Privacy/compliance trend worth tracking; no immediate action.
Essay arguing browser fingerprinting is replacing cookies for tracking.
⚠ Uncertainty: Fetched content was thin; details unverified.
royfish.dev AI Operations / Agent Control 2026-10-13
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Doory – Open-Source Canva
Early open source signal; no maturity evidence.
Doory, an open-source Canva alternative, appeared on Hacker News.
⚠ Uncertainty: Fetched content was thin; details unverified.
github.com Tools Worth Testing 2026-10-13
40 researched links (full index)
P NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
M Fingerprints are the new cookies
P Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
M Doory – Open-Source Canva
R [email protected]
R I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
R I'm sorry, but you still have to think
R Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
R Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
R I made software that automatically cuts your videos in Premiere Pro without AI! (And it does a lot more!)
R So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?
R Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)
R Anyone here building SaaS for Arabic-speaking users?
R Tattoos you can turn on and off
R I guess I'm using WebP now?
R The contractor-to-employee conversation usually starts because of a funding round or a mortgage application
R [email protected]
R apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper
R Tello's GameSir T1d controller as a Linux Xbox controller
R Introducing the unified Supabase .NET SDK
R starting up an SaaS
R Illustration Beyond Proof
R CSS for underlines
R The wild west of polyglot docs sites
R Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends
R Passkeys are a trap
R Arena Allocators in C
R Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" (2024)
R beta
R stable
R D-Bus Hell
R Anyone else find SEO more annoying than actually building the SaaS?
R Whatever became of holography? (2011)
R How are non-technical founders building and launching products with AI these days?
R Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
R Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
R 'AI' is Not a Tool
R Calculus with Julia
R The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
R Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?