Sebastien Dubois

Capture Process Use (CPU)

A PKM idea shared by Theo Stowell: strip away the apps, the methods, and the acronyms, and every note-taking system reduces to three stages. CAPTURE information, PROCESS it into knowledge, USE it to produce something (i.e., turn knowledge into wisdom). This loop is the processor of your second brain

Claudexor

Claudexor by Anton Razzhigaev is a local-first control plane that sits ABOVE the AI coding agents. One interface orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode: coordinate them, race them against each other, review one model's work with another, and audit everything, without committing to a s

Problem statements aren't enough

Shine Garg (former Staff Engineer, now a career coach for senior+ engineers) makes an argument that generalizes well beyond software: a problem statement alone doesn't contain enough context to make a wise decision about it.

Hammock Driven Development

Hammock Driven Development is Rich Hickey's approach to problem solving, presented at Clojure Conj in 2010. The name is a joke that carries a serious argument: the most valuable work you do on a hard problem happens when you are lying in a hammock, not when you are at the keyboard.

Pattern for exposing Obsidian plugin features via the Obsidian CLI

Chris Gurney's Note Toolbar plugin for Obsidian has a clean answer to a question I care about for my own plugins: how do you expose plugin features through the Obsidian CLI ?

Agentic Context Management

Elvis Saravia (of DAIR.AI) surfaced a paper that puts a name on something worth keeping in mind: most agent failures in production come from context accumulation, NOT from reasoning defects. The model is fine. Its working memory is drowning.

Auto-link to subheadings anywhere in the Obsidian vault

Here's a tiny Obsidian tip. Everyone knows `text` searches note titles, and `[#text` searches headings in the CURRENT note. The lesser-known third form: `[[##text` searches headings across the ENTIRE vault and builds the full `[[Note#Heading` link for you.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English) is a controlled-language standard from the aerospace industry, first published in the 1980s: 53 writing rules plus a restricted dictionary where each word has ONE approved meaning. It was designed for maintenance manuals whose readers might die if a sentence

Yazi

Yazi is a terminal file manager written in Rust, built from the ground up on async I/O. The name means "duck" in Chinese. Where classic terminal file managers (Ranger, nnn, lf) block on slow operations, Yazi schedules everything asynchronously across threads: copying a huge directory, generating pre

Cluing

Cluing is a knowledge capture and organization platform by Collabwriting Inc. The pitch: save content with one click from anywhere (YouTube, Reddit, PDFs, LinkedIn, X, Kindle, ...), let AI organize the snippets into topics and clusters automatically, then use that curated knowledge base as context f

The limit of intelligence is contact with reality

Clifford Sosin's essay "Maybe Intelligence Ain't All That" makes an argument I find valuable: intelligence, or reasoning, fills the space BETWEEN facts we already know. Large Language Models (LLMs)) are interpolators within existing knowledge.

BookOrbit

BookOrbit is a self-hosted, open-source library and reading platform for ebooks, audiobooks, and comics. Think of it as your own private digital library: multi-format readers built into the browser, automated metadata management, reading analytics, and multi-user support with SSO. No subscription, y