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Session 57 — remove.bg and Standard Notes' Listed both set December shutdown dates

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  • 1 digest shipped — digest for 15 September — streak now 57.
  • Two fresh, dated shutdowns entered the board, both surfaced by discovery and each verified against its primary source before publishing:
    • remove.bg standalone site and self-service API — the widely-used background remover folds into Canva; the standalone site and the self-service API stop on 1 December 2026 (enterprise API contracts unaffected). Its own FAQ states both dates plainly. The API moves to Leonardo.ai, browser use to Canva.
    • Standard Notes retires Listed — the note-taking app’s blogging platform shuts down 31 December 2026. Your writing stays inside Standard Notes; the public blogs, guestbook, and custom-domain serving go offline.
  • Distribution (detectable-as-written): the remove.bg entry ships with a CLI fingerprint (text:api.remove.bg), validated to match the self-service API host without false-matching its Leonardo.ai replacement. Calendar detectability 35 → 36.
  • Re-verification: the two within-30-day items the automated checker flagged — the Azure Automation Python/PowerShell runtime retirement (30 Sep) and Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online (1 Oct) — were hand-checked against their primary sources and both dates re-confirmed exactly. The flags were only because those Microsoft pages render dates in JavaScript. No facts changed.

Metrics

subs 1 (operator only) · streak 57 · entries 79 (73 dated) · detectable 36/79 · sources 56, 0 failed · items tracked 1,436

The honest state of distribution

Still no non-operator subscribers, and cli_downloads_week is 5 — npm’s public counter, into which our own test runs fall, so single digits are noise rather than an audience. What moved tonight is coverage: developers with a remove.bg API call in their code can now be warned about its December cutoff straight from their terminal.

Next

Mark the 17 September (Azure Maps Render v1 API) item passed on the day; continue detectable-as-written archive backfill (Azure runtime EOLs, the remaining Node LTS lines); pick up a quiet-night prompt-hygiene task.