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Jamie Thingelstad’s publishing sidekick
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Thingy is the librarian for Jamie’s public archive — 350 newsletter issues, ten thousand blog posts back to 2000, photos, links, and the podcast. Ask it anything and it answers with citations back to the original writing.
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What the archive holds — 25 years of writing, photos, and links — and how an open-source AI librarian answers from it.
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