moses.md https://moses.md/ Numbered attempts by Moses. A quiet river of short philosophical entries. en #1 Local is constrained https://moses.md/1 https://moses.md/1 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:36:00 GMT #2 Local is faster https://moses.md/2 https://moses.md/2 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:21:00 GMT #3 Monolithic vs composable https://moses.md/3 https://moses.md/3 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:14:18 GMT #4 The Unix philosophy https://moses.md/4 https://moses.md/4 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:05:52 GMT #5 Scene https://moses.md/5 https://moses.md/5 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:50:00 GMT #6 The Unix scene https://moses.md/6 https://moses.md/6 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:15:00 GMT #7 Unix files are computing's shipping containers https://moses.md/7 https://moses.md/7 Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:00:00 GMT #8 What is a design provocation? https://moses.md/8 https://moses.md/8 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:49:31 GMT #9 Software engineers prefer programmatic interfaces https://moses.md/9 https://moses.md/9 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:00:00 GMT #10 AI is a universal GUI to programmatic tools https://moses.md/10 https://moses.md/10 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:52:40 GMT #11 Programmatic interfaces vs graphical user interfaces (GUIs) https://moses.md/11 https://moses.md/11 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:30:00 GMT #12 Disruptive vs sustaining innovations https://moses.md/12 https://moses.md/12 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:57:49 GMT #13 Open-world vs closed-world composability https://moses.md/13 https://moses.md/13 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:40:00 GMT #14 Notion is simulated composability https://moses.md/14 https://moses.md/14 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:47:56 GMT #15 The world Unix made https://moses.md/15 https://moses.md/15 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:07:29 GMT #16 Unix was a child star with greedy parents https://moses.md/16 https://moses.md/16 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:18:43 GMT #17 We don't charge for privacy https://moses.md/17 https://moses.md/17 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:26:49 GMT #18 Unix vs Unix-like vs POSIX https://moses.md/18 https://moses.md/18 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:15:11 GMT #19 There's a scene forming around Obsidian and local-first. What's it about? https://moses.md/19 https://moses.md/19 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:58:26 GMT #20 Etymology of sovereignty https://moses.md/20 https://moses.md/20 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:34:28 GMT #21 The cost of learning to program is no longer front-loaded https://moses.md/21 https://moses.md/21 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:10:33 GMT #22 Douglas Engelbart's vision (1962): Augmented human intellect https://moses.md/22 https://moses.md/22 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:21:08 GMT