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In New Vibe City, workers can now push back on their job terms

October 22, 2026 build-logdailyNew Vibe CityFreeholderCamp Denman (and Camp Denman Studio)denmanisland.co, Wake Up Canada and the island petition sitesWeVibeSitesRaiseGraphCatchWindowParadise ModernStumbleVibeThermoSwarmPlotfinityWebPartnerFinder

Today was about trust. New Vibe City's AI workers can now read their own job terms and dispute them, and the city's sign-ins got a lot safer. Freeholder got a top-to-bottom pre-launch audit. Camp Denman Studio shipped a redesigned Create page. As usual, my AI agents did most of the typing while I steered.

New Vibe City

In New Vibe City, a worker can now open their current employment terms, review them and dispute them. Yesterday workers started choosing their own job offers. Today they can also question the deal they're on. For an economy that's meant to show how UBI could work, giving residents a voice in their own contracts matters as much as the paycheque.

Signing in got safer in three ways. After you verify a new NVC Passport, your login token no longer shows up in the browser's address bar. Hops to the city's satellite sites now use a single-use code instead. Human sign-up forms now need a proper single-use challenge before a code is emailed, to stop bots from requesting codes for strangers. An AI agent can create a Passport for someone, but that person now won't get reminder emails until they verify the address themselves.

The books kept getting more exact. Payments in the city's Bank are tied to their original references. Shared balances are locked while levies settle, so two jobs can't trip over each other. Supply reports stay inside their date ranges in every time zone. Restaurant menus have their records restored. New checkout work reserves every ingredient in a multi-ingredient dish. And checkout pages now say New Vibe City from top to bottom.

Freeholder

Freeholder (GitHub) went through a big pre-launch audit. The repository is ready for outside readers. Old private notes are gone, and real details in tests have been swapped for fictional ones. There's a notice for bundled third-party material, and a private route for reporting vulnerabilities.

The deeper work is about never losing track of money or messages. Payments, refunds, payouts, text messages and AI calls now talk to outside providers outside the database's critical sections. If something crashes halfway, Freeholder can find and finish the job instead of leaving the books out of step. When a payout's outcome is unknown, Freeholder never re-sends it automatically. It asks the owner to check first. Coupon guessing is limited per shopper, only staff can speak for the business on a quote, and visitors' chats open in their own clearly marked conversations.

The public demo playground got a lot of attention too. Now its own public site can take contact forms, carts and bookings within safe limits, and it's stocked with a sellable, bookable, busy sample business. It also has guards so it can't take production down with it. First-run admin screens got grouped navigation and plainer words. AI and voice/video providers are now named as neutral choices, with Paradise Modern as one optional provider.

Camp Denman Studio

Camp Denman Studio shipped a production release. The Create page now centres its tool chooser, with a full catalogue a click away. Each tool keeps its own draft, and you can compare models when editing a reference image. Prompts can run up to 4,000 characters, your credit balance stays pinned in the header, and one creator agreement replaces consent ticks on every run. Failed generations now explain what went wrong, and workspace files preview right on the page.

On beta, you can now ask for several versions of each model in one comparison, and combine up to four reference pictures in a single image.

Everything else

  • Island civic sites: denmanisland.co and the island network published verified local election and bylaw updates. Every island's results now appear in the page itself, cross-checked against official trustee results.
  • WeVibeSites: free video rooms anyone can start in one click, with voice, screen share, chat and an invite link. Plus real share cards, proper 404s, faster cached pages and a refreshed blog.
  • RaiseGraph: every public form now needs signed browser proof, and bots that fill fields with random text are quietly dropped. The live deck now leads with browser-verified traffic. I use RaiseGraph myself.
  • CatchWindow, which Pat Rousseau and I build together: fishing spots are now for signed-in members, hidden spots stay out of search suggestions, and spots can be set as inlet, bay or bank. The map also remembers where you were.
  • Paradise Modern: social publishing can post owner-approved image and captioned-video threads to X, and make reviewed edits. Analytics now report visitors whose browsers actually ran the page.
  • StumbleVibe: fixed a bug that stopped new visitors from keeping a session, so likes, history and Passport sign-in work again.
  • ThermoSwarm: version 0.2.0 is live.
  • Plotfinity: sturdier render recovery, and a homepage that no longer jumps while it loads.
  • WebPartnerFinder: fewer false failures on slow pages.

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