In mid-2026, "loop engineering" became a common phrase 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 agents, design
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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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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.
Markr is a tiny desktop timer that lets you bookmark moments while you record, so editing means jumping to marks instead of scrubbing the whole clip. Mark the moment as it happens, not after. Electron/React/TypeScript, MIT.
Obsidian AI Skills (the `obsidian-skills` repository) is an open set of Agent Skills published by Steph Ango (kepano), Obsidian's CEO, that teach AI agents to read and write Obsidian's file formats natively instead of guessing at them. It went up in June 2026.
Docker Agent is Docker's open-source framework for running teams of specialized AI agents that delegate to each other, configured entirely in YAML and shipped as OCI artifacts. Built on the `cagent` engine; runs with `docker agent run config.yaml`.
Obsidian community plugin that turns your vault into a local-first Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) publisher and Agent Registry. It scans your AI Skills and your subagent definitions, builds a rich `ai-catalog.json`, and runs a localhost server so AI agents on your machine can discover and fetch ex
Plan, track, and schedule any set of notes visually, straight from a Obsidian Base. This plugin adds a Kanban board view to Bases, so your tasks, projects, content ideas, or anything else you keep as notes can move across columns instead of sitting in a flat list.
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Obsidian Bases turn notes you already have into live dashboards from their properties - no spreadsheets, no data entry. A Base is a lens, only as sharp as the metadata underneath. Here's how I run it over 20,000 notes.
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ADMX Viewer is a small web app I built to browse, search, and configure Windows Group Policy templates without fighting the built-in tooling. You point it at a folder of ADMX files, pick a language, navigate the policies, flip the settings you care about, and export them as `.reg` files, PowerShell
GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's) flagship open-weight LLM), released as full open weights on June 16, 2026 (coding subscribers got access on June 13). It is the successor to GLM-5.1 and, at release, the leading open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The headline change is a jump from a 2
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