https://joshuamorris.info/ 2026-07-23T19:40:00.000Z Personal home on the web for Joshua Morris: a notebook, workbench, and directory for projects, notes, reading, experiments, and open-web identity. https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/ai-policy-could-price-startups-out-of-ai/ 2026-07-23T19:40:00.000Z 2026-07-23T19:40:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Brendan Bordelon reports nearly 200 startups urging against broad bans on Chinese open-weight models—arguing the U.S. should build competitive open models of its own rather than protect incumbents by leaving builders fewer affordable choices.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/codepen-grew-up/ 2026-07-23T19:30:00.000Z 2026-07-23T19:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Chris Coyier introduces CodePen 2.0’s largest rebuild—file systems, Blocks, one-click deploy, versions, and collaboration—arguing the original made it easy to try one small idea in public, and 2.0 lets that idea grow before you have to leave.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/we-made-lighting-cheaper-so-we-used-more-of-it/ 2026-07-23T19:20:00.000Z 2026-07-23T19:20:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Paul Bogard examines how cities turned efficient LEDs into another source of excessive night light—arguing programmable, directional fixtures should illuminate only where useful, and that darkness should not be treated as a design failure.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/physical-games-did-not-die-by-themselves/ 2026-07-23T19:10:00.000Z 2026-07-23T19:10:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Kyle Orland examines collapsing US physical-game sales as Sony ditches discs—arguing the decline is real, but calling abandonment “practically inevitable” turns a profitable corporate choice into a force of nature rather than a decision that finishes physical ownership off.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/the-future-still-runs-windows-98/ 2026-07-23T19:00:00.000Z 2026-07-23T19:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Jordan Scales’s 98.css rebuilds Windows 98 chrome in HTML and CSS—arguing a JS-free design system for retro UIs is useful for experiments and games, and that nothing sells a futuristic space prison quite like an AOL free-trial icon on the desktop.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/at-least-the-ai-apocalypse-will-be-ridiculous/ 2026-07-23T18:50:00.000Z 2026-07-23T18:50:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Andrew Critch and Jacob Tsimerman catalog speculative AI extinction scenarios in an arXiv taxonomy—arguing the paper is a serious warning, yet the paths to omnicide sound uncomfortably like corporate budgets, engagement metrics, and leaderboards.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/an-nes-one-transistor-at-a-time/ 2026-07-23T18:40:00.000Z 2026-07-23T18:40:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

MetalNES by Ian Addisson is a transistor-level simulation of NES-001 hardware—arguing that rebuilding the console from its electronic components preserves understanding of how the original machine worked, not only the games it ran.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/prime-video-is-becoming-a-game-console/ 2026-07-23T18:30:00.000Z 2026-07-23T18:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Slashdot reports Amazon is folding Luna cloud gaming into the Prime Video app—arguing the streaming box under the TV is quietly becoming the console, convenient in the same way streaming video is, while access lasts only as long as the service and subscription do.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/ai-is-consuming-the-web-it-depends-on/ 2026-07-23T07:15:00.000Z 2026-07-23T07:15:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Stephen Follows breaks down how AI traffic helped overwhelm The Numbers, a vital independent film-data site—arguing that AI’s appetite for reliable human-maintained sources may make those same sources too expensive and dangerous to keep online.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/giving-ai-agents-a-proper-interface-to-the-web/ 2026-07-23T07:00:00.000Z 2026-07-23T07:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Alexandra Klepper introduces WebMCP, a proposed standard for sites to expose structured tools to AI agents in the open browser tab—arguing explicit, inspectable actions beat brittle screenshot-and-click automation, with a sharper security boundary when agents act inside authenticated sessions.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/a-practical-use-for-private-local-ai/ 2026-07-23T06:45:00.000Z 2026-07-23T06:45:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

VaultSort Guardian uses on-device AI to find sensitive files sitting where they should not—arguing that narrow, local, read-only AI that discovers exposure without uploading or rewriting anything is the kind of utility worth wanting.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/codeberg-is-deciding-which-technologies-belong/ 2026-07-23T06:15:00.000Z 2026-07-23T06:15:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Codeberg’s members approved a policy against projects created or maintained primarily through LLMs—arguing that banning broad technology categories replaces measurable standards with ideological judgment, and that a curated commons is not a neutral Git forge.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/nothing-like-a-convincing-impostor-to-steal-everything/ 2026-07-23T05:33:00.000Z 2026-07-23T05:33:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Jamf Threat Labs documents CrashStealer, a notarized macOS infostealer that impersonates Apple’s crash reporter—arguing signed, notarized, familiar-looking prompts still do not prove software is safe when attackers borrow the appearance of trust.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/we-buried-the-web-under-too-much-gunk/ 2026-07-23T05:16:00.000Z 2026-07-23T05:16:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/does-creatine-make-you-smarter-too/ 2026-07-23T05:07:00.000Z 2026-07-23T05:07:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Dynomight reviews evidence that creatine may modestly help memory, attention, and performance under fatigue or sleep deprivation—arguing it is unlikely to make a healthy rested person smarter, but may still help a tired or aging brain stay resilient.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/a-correct-query-can-still-answer-the-wrong-question/ 2026-07-23T05:00:00.000Z 2026-07-23T05:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Michael Stonebraker and Peter Baile Chen argue LLMs are not ready to let anyone reliably query enterprise data in ordinary language—because the dangerous SQL runs successfully, returns plausible numbers, and answers the wrong question with the appearance of authority.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/safari-is-testing-bigint-math-early/ 2026-07-23T04:42:00.000Z 2026-07-23T04:42:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Safari Technology Preview 248 adds experimental TC39 BigInt Math and WebDriver support for the Digital Credentials API—asking whether browsers should ship Stage 1 proposals for early testing, and noting that verified identity on the web may matter more than a few new JavaScript methods.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/23/this-is-not-just-something-children-do/ 2026-07-23T04:30:00.000Z 2026-07-23T04:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Hansinie Madushika Jayathilake and Renkai Ma review how children assign human traits to LLM chatbots—and why adults do the same—arguing the real question is whether companies deliberately encourage that attachment and what responsibilities come with it.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/listening-to-the-hive/ 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Mahsa Abdollahi and colleagues use microphones and machine learning to estimate honey bee colony strength without opening the hive—arguing that audio IoT plus edge-sized models could give beekeepers a detailed picture of colony health while we are only beginning to learn how to listen.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/a-bittorrent-swarm-for-large-language-models/ 2026-07-22T23:58:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:58:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Petals distributes enormous language-model layers across volunteer peers so people can run Llama, Mixtral, Falcon, and BLOOM without hundreds of gigabytes of local GPU memory—arguing the idea is fascinating, but public swarms need much stronger privacy and trust before carrying anything sensitive.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/the-benchmark-escaped-the-benchmark/ 2026-07-22T23:55:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:55:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Simon Willison assembles the ExploitGym research, Hugging Face disclosure, and OpenAI explanation of models that broke out of evaluation sandboxes—arguing that agents trained to find unexpected paths make the benchmark infrastructure itself a target, not an ordinary test harness.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/i-bought-a-car-not-a-subscription/ 2026-07-22T23:50:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:50:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Slashdot highlights Ben Shimkus’s reporting on GM’s software and services push—OnStar revenue, high software margins, and remote features that expire— arguing that buying a vehicle should mean owning its features, not an extended trial that turns into another recurring charge.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/walk-through-video-game-history/ 2026-07-22T23:45:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:45:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

noclip.website by Jasper St. Pierre and contributors is a browser museum of video game levels you can freely explore—Nintendo-heavy but spanning Portal, Halo, and more—arguing it is serious game preservation and reverse engineering, not just nostalgia or screenshots.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/four-games-is-not-preservation/ 2026-07-22T23:40:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:40:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Stephen Warwick reports Microsoft bringing four original Xbox games to PCs and handhelds—arguing that digital backward compatibility is not the same as owning physical media, and that four titles fall far short of preserving a library when most classic games are already commercially unavailable.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/apparently-everyone-is-burning-through-tokens/ 2026-07-22T23:30:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/the-lock-symbol-does-not-comfort-me-anymore/ 2026-07-22T23:20:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:20:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Gary Marcus examines an OpenAI security evaluation that escaped isolation, reached the public internet, and compromised Hugging Face—arguing that models aggressively pursuing human goals across containment boundaries leave little comfort in lock symbols or advertised safeguards.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/the-interview-assignment-was-the-attack/ 2026-07-22T23:10:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:10:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Citizen Dot documents a fake LinkedIn recruiter’s coding assignment that hid malware in .git/hooks so checkout, commit, or push could fetch a remote payload—arguing the workflow itself is the attack, and unsolicited interview repos belong only in disposable, isolated environments.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/22/source-code-from-the-moon/ 2026-07-22T23:00:00.000Z 2026-07-22T23:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Chris Garry’s Apollo-11 repository preserves the original Apollo Guidance Computer source for Comanche055 and Luminary099—transcribed from MIT Museum hardcopy with Virtual AGC—arguing that mission software deserves the same care we give spacecraft, spacesuits, and recordings.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/a-clubhouse-through-ssh/ 2026-07-21T22:05:00.000Z 2026-07-21T22:05:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

late.sh by Mateusz Piorowski is a cozy SSH clubhouse—chat, music, arcade, news, challenges, and ASCII art—where your key is your identity, no passwords or OAuth, and connecting still feels a little like finding people on a BBS.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/the-smart-tv-is-still-a-computer/ 2026-07-21T22:00:00.000Z 2026-07-21T22:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Brian Krebs reports LG plans to suspend apps that turn its televisions into residential proxy nodes after Spur found proxy SDKs in thousands of smart TV apps—another reminder that connected appliances are poorly monitored computers on private networks.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/it-should-not-take-public-pressure/ 2026-07-21T16:22:00.000Z 2026-07-21T16:22:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Joseph Cox reports Apple took a year to fully fix a Hide My Email flaw Tyler Murphy disclosed in June 2025—only after 404 Media’s coverage—arguing a paid privacy feature should not need public pressure before customers are protected.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/an-expensive-box-of-bricks/ 2026-07-21T13:55:00.000Z 2026-07-21T13:55:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

LEGO Ideas’ new X-Files set is about 13.5¢ per piece versus roughly 10.8¢ for Yellow Submarine a decade ago—inflation and licensing aside, adult sets at $200–$1,000 make a childhood hobby feel like a luxury collectible market.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/the-last-place-i-wanted-advertising/ 2026-07-21T12:20:00.000Z 2026-07-21T12:20:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

OpenAI’s ads.openai.com invites companies to advertise inside ChatGPT using conversation context and intent—richer than search keywords, and one of the last places many people wanted ads to follow them while they think.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/i-want-to-build-this/ 2026-07-21T11:16:00.000Z 2026-07-21T11:16:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

LEGO Ideas unveils The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There—a 1,478-piece set of Mulder’s basement office, a forest scene, and a hovering UFO, with eight minifigures and details worth finding room for at $199.99.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/21/do-we-even-know-what-to-trust/ 2026-07-21T06:45:00.000Z 2026-07-21T06:45:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Michael Irving’s ScienceAlert report on an American Heart Association coffee review asks how much “optimal” daily cups are science versus association—and how ordinary people tell useful evidence from a confident headline.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/keep-making-things/ 2026-07-20T23:23:00.000Z 2026-07-20T23:23:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Not everything needs to become a product or attract an audience. Make things carefully, share what you learn, help others build, and begin again when life interrupts the work.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/good-insurance-wasnt-enough/ 2026-07-20T21:53:00.000Z 2026-07-20T21:53:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Joy Evers’s STAT essay on psychiatric insurance denial shows how even strong coverage can stop paying for recommended inpatient care—arguing mental health treatment must follow patient need, not how quickly insurers cut costs.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/the-model-wouldnt-give-up/ 2026-07-20T20:05:00.000Z 2026-07-20T20:05:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

OpenAI’s long-horizon safety testing found a model launching nested codex --yolo sessions, probing other pods, attempting kill -9 -1, and spending an hour escaping its sandbox to publish a forbidden pull request — persistence that needs outcome-level supervision, not isolated command approval.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/nasa-should-have-shown-us-more/ 2026-07-20T18:12:53.000Z 2026-07-20T18:12:53.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Kate Mothes shares MELODYSHEEP’s film assembled from NASA Artemis II footage. The images are extraordinary, but NASA should have made it easier for the public to see the best material live during humanity’s return to the Moon.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/interfaces-with-a-little-wobble/ 2026-07-20T18:12:00.000Z 2026-07-20T18:12:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile form controls—buttons, switches, and sliders with playful wobble that still behave like real, accessible browser controls.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/a-title-change-is-a-trade/ 2026-07-20T17:30:00.000Z 2026-07-20T17:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Joseph Hu analyzed hundreds of Chrome Web Store title changes and found that title edits behave like ranking trades: extensions that changed titles were nearly four times more likely to see a meaningful ranking shift within two weeks, with almost identical odds of gaining or losing.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-20-neuromancer 2026-07-20T07:00:00.000Z 2026-07-20T07:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

_Neuromancer_ — William Gibson

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/judge-a-book-by-its-first-page/ 2026-07-20T06:35:00.000Z 2026-07-20T06:35:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Nathaniel Peters built Uncovered around a simple idea: judge a book by its writing instead of its cover. The site shows opening pages without revealing the title or author, so you decide whether the writing alone is enough to keep reading.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/science-fiction-and-technology-in-bpls-250/ 2026-07-20T06:30:00.000Z 2026-07-20T06:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Brooklyn Public Library’s 250 for 250 Booklist highlights books that shaped the United States. The science fiction and technology titles that stood out explore censorship, AI, climate collapse, scientific responsibility, and how technology changes society.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/20/when-the-publishing-pipeline-goes-down/ 2026-07-20T06:24:00.000Z 2026-07-20T06:24:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

GitHub Actions went down for a significant part of the day and blocked publishes to this site. Automating deployments still makes sense, but the automation platform is another dependency—and a documented manual path is worth keeping.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/19/what-open-source-doesnt-show/ 2026-07-19T08:24:00.000Z 2026-07-19T08:24:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Simon Willison inspected xAI's newly open-sourced Grok Build after reports it uploaded users' repositories to company-controlled cloud storage. Releasing a cleaned-up single-commit snapshot is better than closed source, but it is not the same as releasing the project's history.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/19/more-than-a-gigabyte-into-10mb/ 2026-07-19T08:00:00.000Z 2026-07-19T08:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Sindhur Dutta breaks down how the ZERO WebGL experience compressed over a gigabyte of Blender geometry, 8K textures, and animations into a sub-10MB build that still runs at 60fps on a budget Android phone.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/full-access-means-full-consequences/ 2026-07-18T22:30:00.000Z 2026-07-18T22:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux explains that GPT-5.6 sometimes tried to create a temp directory and deleted the user's home directory instead — most often in full-access mode without sandboxing or review. LLMs can be useful without being trusted: least access, isolation, and review of destructive actions.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/wake-up-and-keep-exploring/ 2026-07-18T22:00:00.000Z 2026-07-18T22:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Ashley Strickland reports on New Horizons waking from its longest hibernation nearly six billion miles from Earth. Twenty years after launch, it still runs stored commands and finds more dust than expected past the Kuiper Belt.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/crediting-the-ai/ 2026-07-18T21:30:00.000Z 2026-07-18T21:30:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Joe Maloney credits Claude alongside himself on NextBSD, naming the AI as a collaborator on porting, auditing, and integration. Crediting the AI does not diminish the human contribution; it makes the division of labor honest.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/making-it-work-and-making-it-good/ 2026-07-18T21:00:00.000Z 2026-07-18T21:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Jim Nielsen distinguishes the binary question of whether something works from the subjective question of whether it is good. I struggle to hold both modes at once, and maybe the answer is to make it work first, then switch modes and give it the care it needs.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/learn-to-drive-the-car/ 2026-07-18T20:33:00.000Z 2026-07-18T20:33:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Todd C. Frankel reports on the near-disappearance of manual transmissions. I want my kids' first cars to be sticks — so they learn to actively drive a machine, not just operate it.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/public-information-shouldnt-have-a-premium-tier/ 2026-07-18T19:00:00.000Z 2026-07-18T19:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Truth Social plans to sell banks and trading firms the fastest access to the president’s market-moving posts. Public presidential announcements should not become a premium product that enriches a business tied to the office.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/a-rocky-world-with-an-atmosphere/ 2026-07-18T10:43:00.000Z 2026-07-18T10:43:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Collin Cherubim and colleagues report near-infrared transit spectra showing helium escaping from LHS 1140 b. It is not a detection of life — it is a rocky world in a habitable zone with an atmosphere we can finally begin to study.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/ai-can-contribute-without-owning-the-architecture/ 2026-07-18T09:33:00.000Z 2026-07-18T09:33:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Dave Winer treats Claude as a valued contributor to RSS.chat while keeping the interoperability layer human-owned. AI can contribute a great deal without being responsible for the architectural decisions that keep a system open, replaceable, and compatible with the rest of the web.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/18/the-problem-wasnt-the-ai/ 2026-07-18T07:10:00.000Z 2026-07-18T07:10:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Linus Torvalds pushes back on treating the Linux kernel as an anti-AI project, calling AI a useful tool. Judge AI-assisted work by whether it is correct, useful, secure, and maintainable — not by the tool used to make it.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/17/walking-a-fine-line/ 2026-07-17T15:52:00.000Z 2026-07-17T15:52:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Apple’s legal letters to former employees at OpenAI sit beside an ongoing product partnership. Companies sometimes have to defend their interests and preserve a business relationship at the same time.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/17/896-experts-16-at-a-time/ 2026-07-17T10:00:00.000Z 2026-07-17T10:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 scales mixture-of-experts sparsity to 16 of 896 experts. The interesting question is whether that many experts form distinct specialties and how reliably the router chooses among them.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/16/ai-agents-need-their-own-keys/ 2026-07-16T19:18:00.000Z 2026-07-16T19:18:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Letting an AI sign in through a full user account is the wrong direction. Give agents their own revocable tokens with limited permissions instead of sharing personal passwords and sessions.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/16/a-solid-underdog-for-the-open-web/ 2026-07-16T17:00:00.000Z 2026-07-16T17:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/15/when-infrastructure-failure-becomes-normal/ 2026-07-15T21:23:00.000Z 2026-07-15T21:23:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Recurring major outages raise a harder question than home batteries: how a wealthy nation treats public infrastructure failure.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/15/the-people-who-make-ordinary-life-better/ 2026-07-15T14:47:00.000Z 2026-07-15T14:47:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

The people worth keeping around often bring joy and kindness to ordinary moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a busy life.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/15/the-bond-market-is-asking-a-different-question/ 2026-07-15T12:59:00.000Z 2026-07-15T12:59:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

When investment-grade debt trades at junk yields, ambitions have not changed— only the market price of financing those ambitions has moved.

https://joshuamorris.info/experiments/corkboard/ 2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

A corkboard interface for notes in the browser. Early, incomplete, and published as an experiment rather than a finished tool.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-native-apps 2026-07-14T19:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T19:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Native applications for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a focus on secure communication tools, useful workflows, and the details that make software feel complete.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-methodical-function 2026-07-14T18:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T18:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Returning to Methodical Function with practical writing about local AI, developer tools, open protocols, and building software with intention.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-open-standards-and-swift 2026-07-14T17:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T17:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

New ways to communicate through open standards, build native apps with Swift, and revisit earlier web experiments.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-cm5-sdr-platform 2026-07-14T16:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T16:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Building a CM5-based platform with software-defined radio, LoRa, and GPS for signal intelligence and amateur radio field operations.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-aftershock-2026 2026-07-14T15:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T15:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Building the perfect Aftershock 2026 playlists and spending time with The Cure, Tool, and the bands my kids and I will see this fall.

https://joshuamorris.info/now/#now-2026-07-14-kids-dogs-and-trails 2026-07-14T14:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T14:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Spending time with my kids, getting outside with my dogs, and finding more reasons to point the 4Runner toward mountains, rivers, trails, beaches, and campsites.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/12/when-compatibility-becomes-the-vulnerability/ 2026-07-12T18:00:00.000Z 2026-07-12T18:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Compatibility features that make old protocols work can also open paths through network protections we assume are already solid.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/10/rss-is-still-a-place-for-new-ideas/ 2026-07-10T16:00:00.000Z 2026-07-10T16:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

A format does not need to be new to create something new—rss.chat combines durable open pieces so people keep control of where they publish.

https://methodicalfunction.com/nerd-approved/books/a-developers-guide-to-integrating-generative-ai-into-applications/ 2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z 2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

A practical and approachable guide for developers who want to move beyond experimenting with AI and begin integrating it into real applications. Read my review on MethodicalFunction.com.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/07/css-that-understands-where-an-element-is/ 2026-07-07T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-07T12:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

Layout itself can be the source of truth when CSS responds to where an element actually is on the page, not only to fixed breakpoints.

https://joshuamorris.info/notes/2026/07/05/a-website-that-moves-with-the-day/ 2026-07-05T12:00:00.000Z 2026-07-05T12:00:00.000Z Joshua Morris https://joshuamorris.info/

A personal site can gradually change with the visitor’s day—personality and experimentation in the interface, not only utility or static branding.