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Weekly Thing Workshop

Four AI agents on Discord, Eddy, Linky, Marky and Patty, that helped me edit, research, promote and fund the Weekly Thing in 2026.

Status
Abandoned Tried, and given up before it worked out.
Dates
Started May 12, 2026
Where
www.thingelstad.com/2026/05/12/the-weekly-thing-team.html
Topics
Agents Automation

After nine years of Weekly Things assembled with Shortcuts, I wanted help that did not wait for me. The old workflow “only runs when I engage with it. It is also brittle and ‘one way’.” In May 2026 I introduced the Weekly Thing Team, “the genesis of my Workshop,” four agents on Discord, each with the whole Weekly Thing archive as a tool:

  • Eddy, the editor, assembled a working draft of the current issue every day and reviewed it.
  • Linky, the researcher, scouted the links I flagged. When I replied with my commentary, Linky synced it back to Pinboard.
  • Marky worked on bringing the newest issue to new readers.
  • Patty ran the Supporting Membership calls to action, and was the only agent whose drafts appeared in an issue.

“My words are mine!” I wrote; the agents were a support team, not writers. Weekly Thing 349, sent on May 23, 2026, was the first issue made start to finish in the Workshop, “by far the biggest change I’ve ever made to the Weekly Thing automation.” Over the summer, as I put it in Weekly Thing 350, work on an Agent Studio “kind of blew up my own publishing process.” That issue was the first made in WT Builder, which has made every issue since.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0 Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

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Connections of Weekly Thing Workshopled toassembledwas succeeded byWeekly Thing WorkshopElixir BotWeekly ThingWT Builder

  • Weekly Thing Workshop assembled Weekly Thing

    Weekly Thing 349 was “the first Weekly Thing created start-to-finish in the new Workshop.” Source

  • Weekly Thing Workshop was succeeded by WT Builder

    Weekly Thing 350, in September 2026, was the first issue made in WT Builder, after a summer in which my Agent Studio work “kind of blew up my own publishing process.” Source

  • Elixir Bot led to Weekly Thing Workshop

    Running Elixir showed me that “Discord is a reasonable place for an agent to run,” so I put the Weekly Thing Workshop’s agents there. Source

History

  1. milestone WT349 made in the Workshop

    The first Weekly Thing made start to finish in the Weekly Thing Workshop. Source

  2. launch The Weekly Thing Team

    I introduce four Discord agents, Eddy, Linky, Marky and Patty, to help edit, research, promote and fund the Weekly Thing. Source