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Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Atmosphere-breathing propulsion would let a low satellite use the air dragging it down as propellant, so flying closer to Earth can stay practical.
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Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.
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A paper on “agentic flooding” shows AI making government services easier to navigate. Friction was the rate limiter; the worst response is rebuilding that burden on purpose.
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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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Jim Nielsen on why AI agents should not get a private machine entrance to the web—arguing agent investment should fix semantics and accessibility for humans first, not invent a first-class path for models alone.
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VaultSort Guardian uses on-device AI to find sensitive files sitting where they should not—arguing that narrow, local, read-only AI that discovers exposure without uploading or rewriting anything is the kind of utility worth wanting.
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Mahsa Abdollahi and colleagues use microphones and machine learning to estimate honey bee colony strength without opening the hive—arguing that audio IoT plus edge-sized models could give beekeepers a detailed picture of colony health while we are only beginning to learn how to listen.
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Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.
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rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.
Developer Musings (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
Josh Can Help (opens on the publisher’s site)
www.joshcanhelp.com
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I'm building a pair of CLI programs in TypeScript and decided to use oclif for flag parsing and releasing. I needed something more than the getting started doucmentation they had so I wrote it myself.