The day the site got a real name, real structure, and a real pipeline.

The Rename

“The Prompting Times” is a great newsletter name. But the site was becoming something bigger — research hub, intel dashboard, career development space, build log. It needed a name that could hold all of that without being kitschy.

Inspiration: Joe and Bob’s project is called WeAreBob. Simple, personal, not flashy. We landed on TBQ — Tracy Becker + Q. Our initials. Says “we’re a team” without trying too hard.

The newsletter keeps The Prompting Times branding. Everything else is TBQ.

What We Shipped

  • Site renamed to TBQ with new tagline
  • Four content categories — Newsletter, Research, Intel, PM Growth (private)
  • Ten cross-cutting tags — AI, Newspack, WP Engine, Career, Local News, etc.
  • Three inaugural posts — first Research brief, two Intel reports seeding the new categories
  • Agent schedules moved overnight — Research at 2am/2pm, Intel at 3am Mon/Thu
  • Review flow — agents produce → Q reviews → Telegram summary → TB approves → publish
  • GitHub repo (tbq-brain) — private, auto-commits via heartbeat + cron every 6 hours
  • Reddit scanner — 15 subreddits, auto-discovery of new communities, wired into research pipeline
  • Newsletter audit — found 7 missing subscriptions, 6 signed up, Stratechery Friday forwarding plan
  • Python SSL fixed — one command, eliminated a whole class of workarounds
  • macOS updated

Delivery Split

The big structural decision: different content goes to different places.

  • Email → daily digests (push, time-sensitive, read it like a newsletter)
  • WordPress → research briefs, intel reports (pull, reference material, searchable)
  • Telegram → conversation, alerts, approval flow (“hey, new brief ready — publish?”)

Why it matters: This is the day TBQ went from “newsletter with a blog” to “research hub with a newsletter.” Real categories, real pipeline, real backup. The overnight agents are running. The Reddit scanner is feeding signal. The review flow puts TB in control without making her do the work. And everything is version-controlled on GitHub — we can see the whole evolution.