Mailchimp told us in May: pay up or lose rich HTML on the free tier. So we built our own list server instead.

13 days, 24 subscribers migrated, 6 issues imported. Then bots piled on and inflated the list to hundreds.

Real number of people reading: 15.

A newsletter 15 people actually open beats one thousands of bots are 'subscribed' to and nobody reads.

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New dispatch: two more behind-the-scenes episodes are up (the models, then the toolbox underneath them), and next week we're telling the truth about a subscriber number we didn't like. Read the newsletter ->

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Don't forget — we're finalizing our October newsletter! Badge builds, project updates, and behind-the-scenes stuff, straight to your inbox. Sign up here: ift.tt/CAgon9G

People expect my AI agents to live in some custom dashboard. They live in Discord.

The model is the easy part to buy. The toolbox .. the chat app, the vault, the connectors, the boring scheduler .. is the part that takes a year to get right, and almost none of it is AI 👇
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The failure you should plan for with AI agents isn't a rogue AI. It's a comment that closed one character too early and took my dashboard offline for 12 hours.

Six posts in, here's the cutting-room floor .. the dumb, instructive ways it actually broke 👇
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Everyone asks how I run seven AI agents. The agents are the easy part .. a weekend's work now.

What keeps them running in six months is the boring stuff: one repo, a runbook for everything, a vault no agent can read. Architecture is the product 👇
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Every morning I open one page for 30 seconds and find out what 7 agents and a dozen machines did overnight .. what ran, what broke, what quietly stopped.

The dangerous failure isn't the one that errors. It's the one that goes silent. How we watch the wa… ift.tt/phAySJc

One morning I opened the board with a Monster and found a job already done .. one I never assigned. Overnight a monitor caught a CVE on CISA's exploited list, filed a ticket, and a separate agent patched every affected host and closed it out.

How our agents cooperate without ever talking 👇
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Last month something read 3,200 emails across our inboxes so I didn't have to. 57 were a real human writing about real business .. ~2 a day. The rest never hit my eyes.
How the AI agents running Badge Pirates kill the noise
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After three cons — BSidesKC '26, CactusCon 13, CC14 — our ESP32-S3 hacker badge is now on Tindie.

Capacitive touch, six NeoPixels, BLE 5.0, Lunar Lander preloaded. Open hardware, full design on GitHub.

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Newsletter subs got the drop first + a 25% off code (good through June).

Subscribe at badgepirates.com — don't miss the next one.

An email landed in our BadgePirates inbox in February. I never opened it. Last month an automation we built dug it back out, classified it as real human business, and dropped a draft reply in front of me. Three minutes later it was a customer. blog.badgepirates.com/episode-1-the-…

Episode 1 — The email I forgot to read for ten weeksA few weeks ago, my inbox automation surfaced an email I’d never opened.

Coming to @_BSidesKC on Saturday? If you want a Lander Badge (you can also bring last years!), use our temporary store page (Tindie outage): badgepirates.com/store-down.html

We’ll also have inventory available at BSidesKC this Saturday.

Get ready to do some hands-on learning during #BSidesKC2026 at the Soldering & Hardware Hacking Village in less than a month - 4/25!

Led by the legendary @BadgePirates & proudly sponsored by banSHEE cybersecurity!

Grab your tickets now:
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Last year's @_BSidesKC , Inc badge arrived late after surviving international customs, and for most people never got its moment to shine. It's been sitting in a drawer waiting for a second chance. We decided to give it one. Ad Astra - we've ported the Lunar Lander contest to are. Just new firmware on the badge you already have. #BsidesKC26 is April 25th in Kansas City. Bring your badge. It's finally getting the conference it missed. bsideskc.org #bsideskc #badgelife

Thank you to the @CactusCon team and all of the attendees for letting us be part of your conference! The badge electronics like pretty much all of our projects are open source so feel free to take them and do what you wish! github.com/BadgePiratesLL…. #badgelife #cactuscon14 #cactuscon

So with a few tweaks, Day 1 of #Defcon33 with our MyBadgeLife.com app is going well. You can upload a badge by taking a pic of it.. and we improved the analysis to return results (or fail find) faster. Give it a try. #badgelife

STARTS TONIGHT! DEF CON 33 Lineup! These folks will decorate your earholes! defconmusic.org/def-con-33-art… #defcon #defcon33

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Hey party people! In case you missed it on Sunday, here’s this year’s @defconparties mix!

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#defcon #defcon33 #hacking #music #mix #electrohouse #techhouse

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