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Atlas CMSAugust 29, 2026Managed content

A Ravenous Reader Takes His Deafness in Strides to the Top

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.

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Recovered SystemsSeptember 3, 2026Feature

The Posters in the Hallway

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.

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Field NotesAugust 24, 202610 min read

I Picked Up a FireCrab License Issue. It Turned Into a Release Compliance System.

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.

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Field NotesAugust 24, 202612 min read

Cloudflare. Sandia. Sandia Again. NIST.

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.

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Platform ArchaeologyAugust 17, 202614 min read

I Posted “Headless Salesforce” on Reddit. 50 Days Later, Salesforce Launched Headless 360.

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.

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Research NotesAugust 11, 202613 min read

Cognition Is Replaceable. The World Remains Coherent.

A BBS memory, a world-model problem, and an AI experiment collided into the same architecture: persistent worlds should survive the intelligence inhabiting them.

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Recovered HistoryAugust 10, 202615 min read

The Future Was Sitting in My Inbox

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.

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Field NotesJuly 6, 202612 min read

How We Built a Deaf Conference Broadcast Layer

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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