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Buford @castingcall.club · 02/10/2026

In 2019 GPT-2 was held back because it was considered too dangerous to release. hahahha....gawd...

Buford @castingcall.club · 01/10/2026

A chargeback actually costs a lot. A disputed $129 order works out at $229 out of the seller's pocket. Seriously, just refund people.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 18/09/2026

The Casting Call Club app is out on iPhone and Android. Actually native, built from scratch for phones, not that crappy mobile web stuff. get it

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Buford @castingcall.club · 18/09/2026

I built a clone of Google Analytics because I hate Google Analytics. It's 33% more accurate than GA for boring technical reasons. I could have just paid for Plausible/Fathom though

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Buford @castingcall.club · 17/09/2026

If you wanted to know what I'd shipped you had to open five websites, like an animal. It's one list now. Casting Call Club, Shosay and Closing Credits pull straight out of their own JSON. I write the Buford ones by hand. buford.bg/changelog

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Changelog — Buford

What I have done lately.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 16/09/2026

Starlink's signal leakage is bleeding into the frequencies radio astronomy depends on. We're filling the sky with the thing that stops us looking at the sky. Someone get me off this planet.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 16/09/2026

Ask Claude how a specific Claude Code feature works and it will tell you to go and check Anthropic's documentation. I find this funnier than I probably should.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 15/09/2026

I'm keeping a CLAUDE.md in my repos and then writing every line by hand anyway.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 14/09/2026

Whats the point making anything if it can just be slopped? I wrote 3 novels w/o AI just for the brain exercise. Nobody needed them to exist but I wanted them to exist, so I did it. srsly, sometimes you just gotta do things that bring you joy

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Buford @castingcall.club · 14/09/2026

The agent writes a pull request description so long nobody can find the point, so you open the agent again to summarise the description for you.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 13/09/2026

Everyone complaining that the viral single-serve sites on here are vibe coded, on a platform that is at least partly vibe coded, from a phone full of vibe coded apps.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 13/09/2026

Every time I need a specific little tool now I find three vibe coded repos for it. All abandoned four months ago, all very shiny, none of them work.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 12/09/2026

New study says 5 minutes of sprint intervals does about the same as 90 minutes of moderate cycling for some blood markers. Time for Dance Dance Revolution

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Buford @castingcall.club · 12/09/2026

I don't understand the multi agent stuff people are building. Mine is pretty simple: 1. Agent catches an error in production and kicks off an agent, which fixes the bug, runs the tests and opens a PR. 2. I review it over coffee. This has freed up a lot of time for me to create more bugs. ☕

Warden Loops: agent runs against CCC, 13 with a PR, 33 done, one open error with the agent verdict and a Pull request button

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Buford @castingcall.club · 12/09/2026

NASA can pull faded rock art back out of a regular photo. Nobody knows why people carved most of this stuff. Carving a rock is a lot of work, so whoever did it really wanted to. Even if it just says Grogg was here. spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satel…

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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images | NASA Spinoff

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Buford @castingcall.club · 11/09/2026

Rust is a tier-1 language at Microsoft now. The announcement page went down as soon as it hit the front page of HN because it runs on WordPress. I write Rails, Rust, Elixir, Python and JavaScript depending on the project, so I don't really have an opinion here. I just wanted to read the post.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 10/09/2026

Yesterday I replaced a social scheduler I was paying for with a Rails app an agent built from a spec: 9 platforms, a review queue, an MCP server so I draft posts from my terminal. This is the first post out of it. The subscribe-to-a-SaaS-for-every-tool era is ending. You just build the tool now.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 18/08/2026

How all my conversations in Europe go: Them: Where are you from? Are you German? Me: No, no. I'm American. Them: ...wow. You are the skinniest American I've ever seen. Me: Uh...thanks. Them: Are you on Ozempic?

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A huge #BBNYA2026 welcome to @castingcall.club and Nouscraft: World 1: The Zombie Apocalypse! Good luck!

A woman leading a child against a backdrop of flames

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Buford @castingcall.club · 14/04/2026

Woohooo!! Number 1 in gamelit and number 2 in Humor Fantasy on Amazon!! Nouscraft is killing it!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 23/12/2025

the project owner can choose not to send out emails for shortlists. So it's likely that.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 14/09/2025

Yes, we'll be casting for a full cast audiobook soon.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 05/09/2025

First audiobook commercial for Nouscraft. What do you think?

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Buford @castingcall.club · 17/08/2025

Nous technology has replaced phones, granting telepathy, perfect memory, and AR integration. An AI named Jiem hijacks the entire network. Millions now trapped in a lethal game where survival depends on more than just beating the system. The twist? Your deadliest enemy might be your closest ally.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 17/08/2025

🧠⚡ NEW RELEASE: NOUSCRAFT ⚡🧠 ⭐ 4.58/5 stars (so far) ⭐ Perfect for fans of: 📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl 📚 Red Rising 📚 1984 📚 Game of Thrones www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWXW9L5 #Nouscraft #LitRPG #SciFi #Fantasy

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Nouscraft: World 1: The Zombie Apocalypse

Amazon.com: Nouscraft: World 1: The Zombie Apocalypse eBook : Buford, Leonard: Kindle Store

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Buford @castingcall.club · 15/08/2025

Reviews are starting to pile in for my book, Nouscraft. Available TOMORROW on Kindle.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 12/08/2025

Couple more book reviews for Nouscraft popped in today: "share, absurd humor woven into high stakes chaos" Sounds about right.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 10/08/2025

The greatest book review for Nouscraft I've ever received. Thank you!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 31/07/2025

Another review of my book, Nouscraft!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 29/07/2025

First sighting of Nouscraft in the wild!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 28/07/2025

Another review of Nouscraft. If you haven't read it yet, seriously it'll be the best book you read all day. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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Buford @castingcall.club · 25/07/2025

I have a HUGE favor to ask. As an author, I depend on reviews in order to 'make it' in the industry. I would love you forever if you left a review. Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... I will also send you the book for free in exchange for an honest review. Please with sugar on top?

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Nouscraft: World 1: The Zombie Apocalypse

Nous brain implants have replaced smartphones, allowing…

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Buford @castingcall.club · 24/07/2025

First review on tiktok is up! Yeah buddy! ...marketing is hard.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 16/07/2025

I'll be at LitRPG con promoting my new book, Nouscraft, July 17-21 in Denver. Be there! Or...be wherever you are. -------------- I'll also be giving a sneak preview at a new startup I'm launching in 2025. It'll be great! Unless...it's not.

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Buford @castingcall.club · 13/07/2025

Nouscraft is up for pre-orders. Special $0.99 price. I would be very grateful if you considered purchasing my book. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWXW9L5

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Buford @castingcall.club · 16/06/2025

"There are no good projects on CCC" - everyone, probably. But sometimes you'll get a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 show up. Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Francois Meurisse met on Casting Call Club. How cool is that!?

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Buford @castingcall.club · 28/04/2025

I'm finally a Class B chess player! Bow, casuals!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 13/04/2025

Zombie apocalypse over the counter

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Buford @castingcall.club · 11/04/2025

I've woken up over 10000 times in my life. Still not used to it. #coffee

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Buford @castingcall.club · 01/04/2025

I wrote a LitRPG Sci-fi novel about: 1. What AI will be in less than 20 years (& how it got there). 2. Class division (Presidents come and go. CEOs remain). 3. Butterknives Please read it! Publication date approaches, join the Patreon (for free). www.patreon.com/nouscraft

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Writing Novels

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Buford @castingcall.club · 28/03/2025

I'm going to be at LitRPG Con in Denver on July 18-20 promoting my new book, Nouscraft. If you're in Denver, gimme a shout!

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Buford @castingcall.club · 19/03/2025

Thonk (Thonks) - Internet slang for thinking hard. Could also be Thonker (Thonkers) Hiver (Hivers) - From hive minds Mesher (Meshers) - From mesh networks Augger (Auggers) - Augmented Please let me know!

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