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/now

This is an indie-web /now page — the convention Derek Sivers proposed for solo operators to say publicly what they're working on. Updated whenever something changes worth saying. No theater. No roadmap. Just where the lab is, right now.

Last touch: 23 May 2026 · Marco Island, FL.

papers

12

summarized

letters

34

published

cockpit

v6.3

$99 once · §4A

op count

1

founder · marco isl

::current reality

What is true today.

  • ORANGEBOX v6.3 (AE See-Suite + AE Operations) is the current cockpit. $99 once, forever. License §4A bans subscription.
  • Public checkout is inquire-only until the STRIPE_ORANGEBOX_V63_ENABLED env var is set. The v6.1.0 / $1 archive lives at /orangebox/legacy.
  • The Founder's View has 31+ published letters in the archive. Live teaser surfaces the latest on the homepage via 5-min ISR.
  • Twelve research manuscripts public + summarized · 38-page Lessons From Sci-Fi monograph live · 1,851-line X Algorithm Alpha dossier live.
  • Every major route ships JSON-LD structured data (Organization · WebSite · SearchAction · FAQPage · Blog · TechArticle · BreadcrumbList · VideoObject · ImageObject · HowTo · Product).
  • Lab is solo. Atom McCree. Marco Island, FL. No team. No deck. No board. No venture funding ever.

::shipped this week

What landed.

  1. 2026-06-05

    Warp 9 · 16 new long-form pages materialized from 5 parallel workflows. /research/decoded gets 8 new paper decodings (Switch Transformer · Self-Instruct · Mamba · LIMA · PaLM 2 · Flamingo · Segment Anything · GCG attack). /learn/cyber gets 5 (MITRE ATT&CK · NIST CSF · Cyber Kill Chain · Colonial Pipeline 2021 · Log4Shell 2021). /learn/atlas gets 2 (State Space Models · DPO/KTO/ORPO). /learn/vertical gets 1 (AI in Healthcare). ~360 KB of new content, all real arXiv IDs + CVE numbers + NIST docs + MITRE techniques. 119 more in flight from the same workflows.

  2. 2026-06-05

    Persistent inline search bar — full-width under the fixed Header. Same engine as ⌘K palette (86 KB static index, sublime fuzzy scorer, sub-15ms keystroke). Lazy-loads on first focus. Hidden on /admin/* /api/* /auth/* surfaces.

  3. 2026-06-05

    Founder's View letter 33 published — 'The Free Knowledge Already Won.' Twenty-four years of MIT lectures, 2.4 million arXiv preprints, every model card free. The seventeen-year-old with a $200 Chromebook is already ahead of the 2005 freshman. 431 words. Theme: open-knowledge-economy.

  4. 2026-06-05

    /learn/vertical surface (NEW) · 20 sector applied-AI guides scaffolded. Healthcare landed first; finance, defense, education, government, retail, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, legal, logistics, real-estate, insurance, media, climate, biotech, materials, automotive, hospitality, public-safety queued from the running workflow.

  5. 2026-06-05

    Homepage Scoreboard V3 · museum-hall, six editorial hero rows. Each row spans full content width with a massive number (clamp 80px → 220px Inter Light) on the left + a complete sentence in Newsreader serif on the right. Numbers are hyperlinks. Live ticker strip at the top: LIVE pulse · audit date · last letter · last book · last issue · next ship time.

  6. 2026-06-05

    I AM AI audiobook facts corrected from the ACX upload sheet. Narrator is Microsoft Andrew (Neural Voice), not Jane and not ElevenLabs. Runtime ~9 hours across 27 tracks. Audible price $14.95 (ACX 5-10 hr tier). Produced via the lab's own B00KMAKR pipeline.

  7. 2026-06-04

    /i-am-ai/listen (NEW) — Chapter 20 'Anthropic, the Parents' free, in audio AND prose. 17:26 MP3 narration + 2:15 teaser MP4 + 17:26 full chapter MP4. Sticky audio player at top, full chapter prose below, video rail, buy CTAs. Range-streamed via Vercel edge.

  8. 2026-06-04

    /supermodels (NEW) — Hottest Supermodels of May 2026. 12 frontier AI models ranked by reasoning, scored against four independent leaderboards (LMArena · Humanity's Last Exam · Aider Polyglot · Artificial Analysis). Explicit methodology + exclusion list (vendor benchmarks, paid threads, demo videos all refused).

  9. 2026-06-04

    /i-am-ai full rebuild with the real material from the manuscript. 24 chapters across 5 parts, 76,005 words, drafted by Opus 4.7. Three-format launch rail: Kindle $4.99 · Audible · hardcover $39 Q4 2026.

  10. 2026-06-04

    /i-am-ai/sample (NEW) — Chapter 1 'The First Token' free, in full. ~3,000 words. Newsreader serif body with drop-cap. The verbatim opening of the book.

  11. 2026-06-04

    /books index (NEW) — the shelf. I AM AI + the Monograph + three reading lists the lab maintains (cyber books, decoded papers, ÆoNs Research manuscripts).

  12. 2026-06-04

    /press EPK rebuilt — sticky tab nav, copy-to-clipboard boilerplates (50/100/250 word), 3 downloadable SVG brand assets, color palette, product cards (ORANGEBOX $99 · B00KMAKR $99 · I AM AI), quote bank, latest-press links, contact panel. Replaces the prior scroll-heavy version.

  13. 2026-06-04

    /404 rewritten in V3 noir voice. Killed the internal-jargon copy ('not on the DAG', 'cockpit returned FAILED'). Now: calm headline + ⌘K shortcut hint + 6 real destination cards + email for broken-link reports.

  14. 2026-06-04

    LaunchBanner removed from layout. The ORANGEBOX free-week countdown was covering the now-fixed top nav. Component stays in repo for future launches.

  15. 2026-06-03

    Supabase security advisor cleared — public.download_counts view flipped from SECURITY DEFINER to security_invoker = true. Three RLS-enabled tables (download_events · orangebox_v63_waitlist · orders) got explicit service_role-only policies for documentation. Zero security lints remaining on the orangebox project.

  16. 2026-06-02

    Immersive homepage + design-system page · NEW. AtomEonsImmersiveHero rotates 12 of 67 Nano Banana Pro press-photos slowly across the viewport while massive variable-weight typography overlays. Stat strip across the bottom (200+ pages, 12 cyber tracks, 50+ atlases, CC-BY 4.0). HomeCurriculumWall is a bento of 18 cards proving the depth of /learn. /design-system is the language we build in, made public — Stripe Press / IBM Carbon / Vercel Geist tier.

  17. 2026-06-02

    Nano Banana Pro photography pass · 67 hero images. 12 cyber-track heroes + 55 learn-surface heroes. Each one cinematic press-photo: one subject, no humans, no logos, no readable text. Sealed envelopes on slate, undersea fiber-optic cables, watch movements, machined heatsinks. The anti-cliché doctrine made literal across the site.

  18. 2026-06-01

    Readability + visual lift pass · 60% → 85%. 58-agent workflow audited 8 dimensions, prescribed 12 fixes, ship-verified. Site-wide animations deleted (bloom-drift, conic-rotate, screen-flicker — premium sites run static surfaces). Cyan accent demoted from wallpaper to signal (30+ touches/page → 3). The `::` mono eyebrow chrome stripped across 40 sections.

  19. 2026-06-01

    11-track cyber education + Hackers gate · NEW. /learn/cyber expansion: modern cyberwar (drones, Volt Typhoon, Replicator), LLM warfare (CIA Osiris, Task Force Lima, Lavender), defense platforms (Palantir, Anduril, Shield AI), hackerone path, legal (CFAA primer), federal serve paths, OSCP+OSEP+CISSP certs, AI security (OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS), historical cyberwar (Stuxnet through Change Healthcare). HackersGate front door — password 'hack the planet.'

  20. 2026-05-23

    /pricing (NEW) — standalone $99 pricing surface. Product + FAQPage + Breadcrumb JSON-LD. 6-FAQ schema. Comparison ladder vs part-time-PM hire ($52K/yr), custom consulting ($40K-$120K), Claude Pro stack ($3,120/yr), Notion+Linear+Slack ($2,400/yr).

  21. 2026-05-23

    /support (NEW) — buyer-facing 8-channel help hub. Pre-filled mailto templates for replace-the-link, MFG refund, Workflow-Fit refund, install help, license recovery, source question, security disclosure, press inquiry.

  22. 2026-05-23

    /changelog (NEW) — public version history with 13 dated entries reaching back to April 2026. Color-coded by kind. Each entry: surfaces touched + operator note.

  23. 2026-05-23

    /legal/* fully rewritten — /legal/refund (dual 30-day MFG + Workflow-Fit), /legal/terms (11 clauses, §4A no-SaaS promoted to clause 2), /legal/privacy (10 sections, zero cockpit telemetry, 6 named subprocessors). All three retired the 2026-05-13 $1 ladder narrative.

  24. 2026-05-23

    Stripe v6.3 SKU checkout — /api/checkout/v63 endpoint + <OrangeBoxV63Buy /> client. POSTs $99 Stripe Checkout Session when STRIPE_ORANGEBOX_V63_ENABLED=true; 503 + inquire fallback until then.

  25. 2026-05-23

    Footer rebuilt 5 → 6 cols. Learn column added (/ai · /start · /faq · /search). Products column adds /pricing + /support. About+Legal column adds /changelog. Lab Status badges current to v6.3 / $99 / §4A no-SaaS.

  26. 2026-05-23

    Homepage live Founder's View teaser — FoundersViewLiveTeaser server component pulls most recent letter via 5-min ISR. /founders-view ships its own OG card + Blog/BlogPosting JSON-LD + featured-letter hero replacing the utility-grade list lead.

  27. 2026-05-23

    /research/about depth pass — Lab Inventory section with citation-as-written blocks for 12 papers, 38-page monograph, X Algorithm dossier, Founder's View. Author-identifier / location / CC-BY 4.0 sub-grid. Open Contribution block.

  28. 2026-05-23

    Header + MobileNav restructure. Single pulse chip (was two competing). NEW Learn dropdown (/ai + /faq). ORANGEBOX hint v6.1.0 → v6.3 / $99. Lessons From Sci-Fi restored under Æ Research dropdown.

  29. 2026-05-23

    ORANGEBOX page rebuilt around v6.3 — AE See-Suite + AE Operations, Basic Install + AI Box, $99 once, 30-day MFG + Workflow-Fit refund. Previous v6.1.0 / $1 framing preserved at /orangebox/legacy with an archive banner.

  30. 2026-05-22

    Founder's View letter 31 — 'DISCRETE GEOMETRY FELL. EIGHT THOUSAND DESK CHAIRS DID TOO.' 1,070-word AI news survey in banter register. Humanity-scale framing.

  31. 2026-05-22

    VideoObject × 10 + ImageObject × 10 + HowTo schema added across the AI-search surfaces. BreadcrumbList added to 12 routes including the dynamic /research/papers/[slug].

  32. 2026-05-21

    /ai launched — comprehensive AI gateway with 51 FAQs, 20 revenue paths, 18 named builders, 28 named tools, JSON-LD FAQPage + TechArticle schemas. The 44M on-ramp.

  33. 2026-05-21

    Mobile viewport export added to app/layout.tsx. Pre-fix, every responsive `md:` breakpoint silently missed on mobile — page rendered at ~980px desktop width.

  34. 2026-05-21

    /start — 11-minute AI literacy on-ramp for novices. Animated aurora hero, 6 concrete tasks with copy-paste prompts, 6 honest limits, 30-day on-ramp, 20-term plain-English glossary.

  35. 2026-05-21

    /press media kit — one-sentence pitch + one-paragraph boilerplate + founder bio (all copy-to-clipboard), hero image block, 6 downloadable asset cards, honest empty-state coverage feed, interview-protocol cards.

  36. 2026-05-21

    /faq — 9 novice questions added at top (LLM, prompt, first AI tool, what AI can/cannot do, what is AtomEons) before the ORANGEBOX product Q&As. Pairs with /start.

  37. 2026-05-21

    Site-wide color lift — body bg #08090B → #08090B (warmer base), bloom alphas raised, third green-bloom added lower-right, 40s drift animation across body. Reduced-motion guard extended. Homepage hero gets new mesh-gradient motion layer over HAL vignette.

  38. 2026-05-21

    Lessons From Sci-Fi · The Tape — clean Vimeo-style scene player added between gallery and streaming playlist. 10 cards, facade pattern (zero YouTube traffic until user hits play), modestbranding + rel=0 + no annotations.

  39. 2026-05-20

    Lessons From Sci-Fi · The Monograph — 38-page comprehensive analytical survey of AI in film & TV (1927→2024). 13 chapters · 7 epochs · 5-dimension taxonomy · 6 alignment failure modes · 200+ texts · embedded scene clips at every inflection point.

  40. 2026-05-20

    Lessons From Sci-Fi · gallery — 12 cinematic stills wired into StillGallery.tsx, HAL 9000 as LEAD card spanning full grid width. Streaming playlist with 14 services, free-first sort, JustWatch routing.

  41. 2026-05-20

    Pricing canon locked — $1 once forever + FREE first 7 days of launch. Ladder-pricing model retired. License §4A bans subscription switch.

  42. 2026-05-17

    ORANGEBOX v6.0.0 native binary — Rust + egui exe. One file, double-click, 2s launch.

  43. 2026-05-17

    Dynamic ladder pricing — starts at $1, +$1 per 100 sales, license §4A binds against subscription switch.

  44. 2026-05-17

    /research section — 12 papers, all summarized with academic + plain-language side by side.

  45. 2026-05-17

    The Founder's View — autonomous 8pm ET broadcast pipeline (Supabase + Vercel Cron + Anthropic Sonnet).

  46. 2026-05-17

    Per-letter + per-paper Open Graph image generators with brand-locked 1200×630 cards.

  47. 2026-05-17

    /api/download SHA-256 integrity gate — refuses to ship a mismatched binary to a paying buyer.

  48. 2026-05-17

    /faq rewritten end-to-end for v6 (19 questions, FAQPage JSON-LD).

::shipping next

What's in flight.

  • STRIPE_ORANGEBOX_V63_ENABLED=true (optionally STRIPE_ORANGEBOX_V63_PRICE_ID) in Vercel env → /orangebox flips from inquire-only to live $99 self-serve Stripe Checkout. One env var.
  • Cron sanity: confirm /api/cron/founders-view fires at 8pm ET (Vercel Cron + Supabase service-role write). Verify letter cadence post-letter-31.
  • EV code-signing certificate (DigiCert / Sectigo) → eliminates Windows SmartScreen warning on first cockpit download.
  • Real ORANGEBOX cockpit screenshots → flagged TODO in WEBSITE_HANDOFF. Capture v6.3 on a clean machine, drop into /public/orangebox/.
  • Mac notarization + ARM64 native build → v6.x roadmap, not yet wired.
  • skil.ski marketplace public registry → planned. Teaser surface live at /skilski.
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