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Give your AI superpowers with the Obsidian vault I run my whole business from
Obsidian Starter Kit v5: the AI-ready vault I run my whole business from. Your AI knows your context, does the work, and it's ready on day one.
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Don't keep AI out of your vault. Put it in charge of the plumbing.
The standard 'keep AI away from your vault' advice solves the wrong problem. AI doesn't belong outside your knowledge base; it belongs inside, in charge of the plumbing while you stay in charge of the thinking. Here's the mindset and the structure that make that work.
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How to Run Claude Code on Your GitHub Copilot Subscription
A 15-minute setup that wires Claude Code to GitHub Copilot's backend through a local LiteLLM proxy. No Anthropic plan needed.
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Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Live: The AI-Native Release Is Here
Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is out. Hundreds of AI skills, dozens of agents, persistent memory, LLM Wikis, a CLI, an MCP server, and a brand-new plugin that powers it all.
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Heavy AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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Where Your AI Prompts Really Go: A Practical Guide to AI Privacy
Most people send sensitive prompts to AI tools without knowing where that data ends up. Here's what really happens, why the rules differ wildly per tier, and what to pay attention to.
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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #211 - Shipping AI Skills in the Open
Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
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4 Years, 20K Notes, and AI Agents: The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Almost Here
The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
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Why Your AI Skills Break on Other Machines
Your AI skill works perfectly on your machine, then falls apart for everyone else. Here are the twelve portability traps that break AI skills the moment they leave your environment, and exactly how to fix every single one of them.
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Slopsquatting, Typosquatting, and the New Software Supply Chain Attacks: How AI and Vibe Coding Are Making Package Registries Even More Dangerous
AI coding tools hallucinate fake package names. Attackers register them. You install malware. Here's how slopsquatting works and what you can do about it.
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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Convert Handwritten Notes to Markdown
Point any image in your Obsidian vault at a local AI model and get structured Markdown back. Headings, lists, quotes, even Mermaid diagrams. No data leaves your machine.
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Collective Intelligence and PKM: Why Your Notes Are Smarter Than You Think
What do ant colonies, Wikipedia, and your personal knowledge graph have in common? More than you'd expect. Your notes are a collective intelligence system — and when you compose them as context for AI, they become something far more powerful.