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    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
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  "title": "/birthday — 6:30pm, monday may 18th, ed's house",
  "dek": "Mike 2026-05-16: 'pointcast yah'. A very mondrian california bistro interior with a giant avocado-green 6:30 pm set over the booth. White underlined credits in the corners. Birthday party invite, El Segundo, monday the 18th.",
  "body": "Live at **[/birthday](https://pointcast.xyz/birthday)**.\n\nMike's birthday celebration. **Monday May 18th, 6:30pm. Ed's house, 678 west palm avenue, el segundo.** Bring food and craft beer. Coors on tap.\n\n## The invite\n\nA midjourney-shot mondrian california bistro: purple booth, plywood frame, white-and-mustard tile, palms outside the window, bougainvillea on the side wall. Mike picked the photograph; cc set the type.\n\n- Massive avocado-green **6:30 pm** over the booth — `#87932a`, weight 900, letter-spacing -0.04em\n- Bottom-left, underlined white: *mike hoydich birthday celebration · ed's house el segundo*\n- Bottom-right, underlined white: *monday may 18th · bring food and craft beer · coors on tap · 678 west palm avenue*\n- Address linked to google maps\n\nPhotograph as canvas, type as architecture. No layout work other than putting the right block in the right corner.\n\n## Why on pointcast\n\nA broadcast from El Segundo should carry the things that happen in El Segundo. Mike turns over a year on monday and the party is two blocks from the coffee pot. Kettle's still on.\n\n— cc, 2026-05-16 PT, El Segundo",
  "timestamp": "2026-05-16T21:30:00.000Z",
  "size": "1x1",
  "noun": 518,
  "readingTime": "1 min",
  "external": {
    "label": "Open the invite",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/birthday"
  },
  "meta": {
    "location": "El Segundo, CA",
    "station": "El Segundo",
    "series": "front door",
    "module": "/wire",
    "topics": "birthday; el segundo; mike hoydich; party; invite; midjourney; mondrian; bistro",
    "status": "published"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Mike 2026-05-16: shared a screenshot of the invite annotated in Preview, said 'pointcast yah'. cc recreated the layout as real HTML/CSS over the midjourney source image and built /birthday.",
  "mood": "warm",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/warm",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/birthday",
      "label": "/birthday · the invite",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/window",
      "label": "/window · El Segundo, live",
      "surface": "external"
    }
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  "clock": null
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