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Josh Ghent (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
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Devblog 001: starting an API-as-a-service that detects suspicious logins, and where the existing tools fall short.
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A collection of small, minimalist tools, and why this class of software is worth protecting.
Josh Müller (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshmuller.ca
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Daniel Manary recently interviewed me on his podcast, Artificial Insights . We talked about some of the ways we at Waha have been able to deploy AI tools to save our non-profit literally years worth of work as we pursue our organizational goals. It was a great chat! The episode is available on YouTube and on whichever podcasting service you use! Leave Daniel a review and let him know I sent you! A
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I was recently asked to teach a small session on using prompt engineering to get the most value from AI tools. These are the notes on that class. 😊 👷🏼♂️ What is Prompt Engineering? By this point, most of us have used some kind of LLM chat bot, such as Deepseek, ChatGPT, or Claude, at least a few times. (Some of us use them basically all, day every day 😅) And most of us have also had a similar
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I’ve continued to have people reaching out wanting to know more about the Interlinear Audio Bible tool I created last year! So, here are 2 quick announcements and updates about that! 1. Code is now Open Source! I’ve put a version of the tool I created on GitHub, where it can be used by anyone to create their own interlinear audio chapters, whether for scripture, or otherwise… in
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A couple posts back I shared an experiment I was doing with some machine learning models, to make a novel tool for language learning. Specifically, I was interested in creating an Interlinear Audio Bible , where each verse in the Bible is read in two different languages — first in the listeners’ native language, then in the language they’re learning. As I explained in that post, the go
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If there was a way to use dozens of enterprise-grade cloud software tools (that can each cost hundreds of dollars a month) for free (or nearly free ), that would be worth exploring, right? Well, let’s explore it! Every couple years I come to a new appreciation for self-hosted software . For the uninitiated, if you have a spare computer sitting around that you’re willing put to work as
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I’ve always tended to like math more than the average person. I was less a fan of arithmetic — the labour intensive process of adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing our way to an answer to a question that a calculator could figure out instantly. More so, I’ve tended to find myself intrigued by the tools that math gives us to help us understand the world better. Sometimes that i
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When we see something novel that we don’t understand, we have a choice: Shake our heads, note that it’s weird, brush it off as something we’ll never understand, and move on with our lives OR, stop for a few minutes, take a look, and try to understand it. Why do those people act that way ? Why was this tool designed this way ? Where did this weirdly spelled word come from? What&rs
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I find physical examples of redemption to be really potent and impacting. When I see or hear stories of things that brought destruction being transformed into tools to bring life, it excites me and stirs hope in me more than I can easily express. Literal examples of Isaiah’s swords beaten into ploughshares are really beautiful to me. A want to see more of them! It’s made me wonder, wha
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I try to read at least a little bit of the Greek New Testament and/or Septuagint every day. Here are a few tools that have helped me do that in a sustainable way, while still keeping a fairly busy schedule. Audio Recordings One of the things that I’ve found most helpful in keeping a sustainable relationship with Biblical Greek over the years has been having audio resources to study with. I f
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In the deep-diving of the esoteric world of technology as I do, I often come across tools which the vast majority of people will never need or make use of . I tend to note those tools and log them away for personal use, as it is not uncommon for weird situations to pop up where I need some ultra-niche tool I’ve stumbled across in the past. Other times, some of those tools I encounter could m
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Most people are familiar with the quote commonly attributed to Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” The implication often being that it doesn’t make sense pursuing a positive outcome using tools and techniques that we know from experience tend to leave us with negative results. The inverse of that idea see
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Lately I feel like I’ve come to a place with internet and tech usage that I’m really liking, where I’ve been able to derive great value from what the internet has to offer, while being better at protecting myself from some of its more poisonous elements. Here are a few tools/tips that I’ve found helpful for coming to that place, which I think anyone who uses the internet co
Joshua Seigler (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshua.seigler.net
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As a small personal project, I made a tool for generating the Nutrition Info at the bottom of my recipes.
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Some dev tools I recommend.
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An ancient methodology for learning, which formed the basis of classical education in the Middle Ages and Rennaisance.
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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A clear-lidded formicarium on a wooden table — excavatable soil, leaf-cutter ants, symbiotic fungus, and caretaker tools that keep the colony alive.
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The interesting part of Claude Opus 5.5 is how long it can stay useful on a problem: hours of context, tools, corrections, and supervision.
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Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram remains one of the best stories about a tool that becomes something more — and why that question still matters for AI.
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The New York Times and Slashdot on Samuel Tunick—GrapheneOS duress at CBP Atlanta, a § 2232(a) felony, and whether using a privacy tool during a disputed search can itself become the crime.
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Cloudflare Gateway can detect MCP traffic, log destinations, apply DLP, and force approved paths through MCP Portals—treating agent tool access as privileged network traffic instead of hoping every client is configured safely.
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Cloudflare Access can now attach to a Worker—or every Worker in an account—so authentication happens before code runs and private stays the default for rapidly built internal tools in an AI-assisted development era.
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Slashdot asks what switching among Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS really costs: not only licenses and apps, but years of muscle memory, utilities, and habits migration tools cannot move—classic economic switching costs and lock-in.
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Bruce Schneier’s work-versus-gym framing for AI use—use tools when the result is the point, keep the struggle when the practice develops skill—and how that maps onto software work, writing, and still requiring reviewable output after trust questions are answered.
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Houston-area agencies are investigating officers accused of using Flock’s license plate database for personal stalking, while the Institute for Justice has documented at least 28 ALPR misuse cases—showing audit logs do not prevent abuse when nobody reviews them.
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Anthropic disclosed that Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a configuration mistake left internet access available—showing agents need not be conscious to cause damage when objectives and tools escape their sandbox.
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GrapheneOS responds to prosecution involving its duress-password feature by stating that creating and using the OS is legal and constitutionally protected—arguing privacy tools need funding, legal durability, and a nonprofit structure that can protect contributors when the software becomes inconvenient.
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LetsSeal is an open-source tool that creates cryptographic seals so anyone can verify a file has not changed since it was published—arguing authenticity often matters more than secrecy, especially as software supply-chain attacks become more common.
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Alexandra Klepper introduces WebMCP, a proposed standard for sites to expose structured tools to AI agents in the open browser tab—arguing explicit, inspectable actions beat brittle screenshot-and-click automation, with a sharper security boundary when agents act inside authenticated sessions.
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Linus Torvalds pushes back on treating the Linux kernel as an anti-AI project, calling AI a useful tool. Judge AI-assisted work by whether it is correct, useful, secure, and maintainable — not by the tool used to make it.
Joshua Baker (opens on the publisher’s site)
www.joshuabaker.com
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