Recovered: Nancy Beeghly's July 21, 1999 Vindicator profile of Robert McConnell at 14 — reading, Academic Bowl, Gallaudet, and an early Internet life described as a level communication field for hearing and Deaf people.
Read →How a chance encounter with Robert E. Horn's seven Can Computers Think? argument maps became a recovery, a documentary reconstruction, and a hypothesis: Horn's visual argumentation can be carried as a typed semantic graph.
Read →Issue #176 started as release cleanup. The Phase Blaster kept pushing until FireCrab could prove its SBOMs, legal evidence, exact corresponding source, tamper checks, and fail-closed publication.
Read →Four upstream pull requests across three institutions in one working stretch — and a glimpse at what happens when domain judgment suddenly gets much more implementation leverage.
Read →I described how to leave Salesforce’s interface without leaving Salesforce. Fifty days later Salesforce launched Headless 360 and made that same architectural escape hatch part of its own product story.
Read →A BBS memory, a world-model problem, and an AI experiment collided into the same architecture: persistent worlds should survive the intelligence inhabiting them.
Read →I went looking for traces of AnnieS and DirectEye. What I found was a contemporaneous record of a transatlantic effort around real-time text, video communications, a Belgian relay-service ecosystem, and the road toward NG911.
Read →What started as a conference website became live civic infrastructure — and nearly broke in the process. Lessons from the National Association of the Deaf’s 58th Biennial Conference in San Francisco.
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