What the wire covers
The Standup is a dev wire: tagged releases, vendor changelogs, reviewed security advisories and live platform outages, in one feed, with one email a day. Every entry links back to the thing itself — the tag, the advisory, the status page, the thread — and every entry on this site went out on one of our accounts first. It is free to read, all of it.
The nine kinds
Every entry carries exactly one of these. They are not editorial sections — they are what the item is, and each one links to the archive filtered to it.
ADVISORY — Reviewed CVEs, high and critical only. Tier 1.
STATUS — Live outages on the platforms you run on. Tier 1.
RELEASE — Tagged releases from the repos we track. Tier 2.
CHANGELOG — What vendors shipped, in their own words. Tier 2.
NEW REPO — Repos that cleared the star floor this week. Tier 3.
SHOW HN — What people built and put up for review. Tier 3.
DISCUSSION — The front page, above the score floor. Tier 3.
PAPER — cs.AI and cs.SE preprints. Tier 3.
ON X — What the lane reacted to on X. Tier 3.
How an item is graded
A tier is not a priority score. It is how much of the item is a fact.
Tier 1 — Something you depend on is broken right now. A reviewed CVE, or a live incident on a platform you run on. Tier 1 is the only thing on this site that carries a ribbon, because it is the only thing that is worth interrupting you for.
Tier 2 — A vendor stated it themselves. A tagged release, or a changelog entry in the vendor’s own words. Nobody is interpreting it for you — the entry links straight back to the tag or the post.
Tier 3 — The crowd surfaced it. Hacker News, Show HN, a repo that cleared the star floor, a preprint, a post the lane reacted to on X. Tier 3 is labelled unverified on the card, because someone said it and nobody checked it.
The daily email
One send a day at 07:40, up to eight items, ranked the way the wire ranks them. Subscribing is double opt-in: you get a confirmation email and nothing else until you click it. Every send carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops all email from us immediately. The digest is free and always has been — there is no paid tier of it.
What this is not
The Standup does not watch a list of repositories on your behalf and does not send per-reader alerts. There is one wire, the same for everyone, and one daily email. If you need to be told the minute one named repository cuts a release, GitHub’s own custom watch option does exactly that — subscribe a repository to releases and turn on email delivery in your notification settings. The wire is for the surface area around those repos: the advisory in a transitive dependency, the outage at the platform you deploy to, the changelog entry from the vendor you never thought to watch. How to get an email when a GitHub repo publishes a release compares all five ways of doing it, including the ones that are not us.
Questions
Can I get an email when one specific GitHub repo publishes a release?
Not from The Standup, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Standup is one wire with one daily email — it covers tagged releases from the repos it tracks, the same list for every reader, and there is no per-reader watch list. If what you want is one named repository, GitHub does that itself: the custom watch option on a repository lets you subscribe to releases specifically, and email delivery is turned on in your notification settings. Use that for the handful of repos you truly depend on, and the wire for everything moving around them.
Does it cover security advisories?
Yes — the ADVISORY kind, and it is deliberately narrow: reviewed CVEs, high and critical only. It is tier 1, which is the grade reserved for things that are broken right now. The live view is the archive filtered to advisories.
Does it track vendor changelogs and status pages in one place?
That is what the CHANGELOG and STATUS kinds are. CHANGELOG is what vendors shipped in their own words; STATUS is live outages on the platforms you run on. Both land in the same feed as everything else, and both are filterable in the archive.
What is in the daily email, and when does it arrive?
One send a day at 07:40, up to eight items, ranked the same way the wire ranks them. Subscribing is double opt-in — you get a confirmation email first and nothing else until you click it — and every send carries a one-click unsubscribe link that stops all email from us immediately.
Is the archive free, or is there a paywall?
Free, all of it. The wire, the full searchable archive and the daily digest are open to everyone, and nothing on this site is held back for members.
Then what does membership pay for?
Membership is $9 a month or $72 a year and it unlocks nothing, because there is nothing to unlock. It is how the people who find the wire useful keep it running, and it is the reason there are no ads.
Where to start
The wire is the current feed, newest first. The archive is every entry published, searchable and filterable by kind and source. Getting emailed about a GitHub release is the deep version of the first question above. Membership is optional and gates nothing.