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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

Living shim between humans and AI models

Nate B. Jones (@natebjones) pointed at a software category that doesn't have a name yet: not a harness, more like a SHIM. A living, dynamic assistant layer that sits between us and increasingly powerful models, and manages the model on our behalf.

Claude Epic Status Line

Claude Epic Status Line is a feature-rich status line script for Claude Code. It replaces the default status bar with a color-coded display: one line of session info plus a rate-limit dashboard. Design principle: dim when healthy, colored when it needs attention. v2.0.0 (August 2026) was a complete

DrSkill

drskill is `brew doctor` for your agent's loadout. It looks at every coding agent on your machine or in your repo, works out exactly which skills and MCP servers each one loads, and checks the whole set for problems. By Drew Breunig, MIT License, Python.

KOReader

KOReader replaces the stock software on your e-reader with something you actually control. It runs on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Cervantes, reMarkable, Android, Linux and macOS. AGPL-3.0, and old enough now to be boring in the good way.

AI makes it harder to remain idle

AI drastically increases throughput. AI companies and AI gurus keep saying that. And it's (mostly) true. AI does make a difference. When you know the job to be done, it can help you move forward faster than ever before. But there's also a major downside that I keep seeing people describe: it makes i