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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #214 - Timeline Mode and the Summer Sale
A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
Sebastien Dubois
I help you organize your thoughts, life & work⚡
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My 2026 summer sale is live. 30% off everything in the store until July 30 with the code SummerSale2026. The quiet weeks of summer are the perfect time to finally build the knowledge system you've been postponing all year.
Kurt Vonnegut - Enough
True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island.
Kanban Action Planner 1.1.0 - timeline mode
I just shipped version 1.1.0 of the Kanban Action Planner plugin. It adds board, calendar, and now timeline views to Obsidian Bases, all driven by your own note properties.
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's mid-tier Claude model, released early July 2026. Anthropic calls it "our most agentic Sonnet yet": it plans, drives browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously at a level that required Opus-class models a few months earlier. The pitch is simple: near Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Tag
Claude Tag is Anthropic's way for teams to work with Claude as a teammate inside Slack. Announced June 23, 2026 (beta for Claude Team and Enterprise), it lets Claude join Slack as a team member: admins grant it access to selected channels, tools, data, and codebases, and anyone in a channel can tag
The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break
> The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break
AI and Context Engineering Glossary
Unified terminology reference for AI, Context Engineering, and Knowledge Management. Organized by domain. Each entry links to its dedicated vault note.
Comprehension Debt
Comprehension debt is the gap between what a system does and what its owners actually understand about it. Every line of code you ship without understanding adds to it. You still own the behavior; you just can't explain it, debug it, or safely change it.
Loop Engineering Went Mainstream
Mid-2026, and "loop engineering" is now the phrase you keep seeing in AI conversations. Boris Cherny from Anthropic (creator of Claude Code) said it directly: "I don't prompt Claude anymore. My job is to create loops." Peter Steinberger made the same point in his own words: stop prompting coding age
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Knowii Voice AI 0.7.0 - Rock-Solid Linux Support
Knowii Voice AI 0.7.0 is out, and it makes voice typing rock-solid on Linux. Reliable global shortcuts on GNOME, KDE, and Hyprland, correct keyboard layouts on Wayland, GPU acceleration out of the box, plus quality-of-life improvements for every platform.
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How I Turned My Obsidian Notes Into Kanban Boards
I built a plugin that turns any Obsidian Base into a Kanban board, a calendar, and a triage queue, with every change written straight back to your notes. Here's how I plan my whole vault with it.