w3c-web-annotation
The Web Has Margins Again: W3C Annotations for the Developer Community Graph
How devreal.ai links Functional TV metadata and external videos through portable W3C Web Annotations.
Alexy Khrabrov
DNSSEC in the spirit of tinydns
August 2026 — rgbdns 0.6.3 DNSSEC can look like an invitation to build a control plane: a key database, a signing service, an RPC protocol, a stateful rollover controller, and an online authority that knows too much. That would be one way to add cryptographic signatures to DNS. It
Interoperable Cloud Sevrices at First Pair
a URL reservation system between two SaaS platforms
chief.sc is both in Ghost and Suffix
For almost a decade, I've used the chief.sc domain in bit,ly, as a custom domain for my short URLs, typically Medium posts on my own publication chiefscientist.org. At some point bit.ly caught up to my free account with a custom domain, and I could
All 12 Rust AI Begins recordings are live
The shortest, deepest technical conference about Rust in AI: ten systems talks compressed into one three-and-a-half-hour San Francisco meetup. Rust AI Begins was built as a technical sprint. On July 27, 2026, builders gathered at AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco to show where Rust is
DevReal is live: the graph behind developer culture
x 7,233 people, events, talks, recordings, organizations, projects, topics, and photo albums—connected by 14,246 relationships. A conference page tells you what happened once. A community graph can tell you who was there, what they built, where the recording lives, which company they represented at the time, who
The Adversarial Cognition Trilogy: one boundary, attacked at three layers
What began as a single benchmark for an AI's memory is now three, and the reason is worth stating plainly, because we did not set out to build a suite. We set out to attack one boundary — the governed boundary that decides who may reveal or change this,
marciana
MARCIANA-ADVERSARIAL-v1: benchmarking cognition under attack
MARCIANA-ADVERSARIAL-v1 is now a standalone benchmark with a site at adversari.al, a FirstPair book, six systems compared, and an open call for contributions — plus why the boundary is unforgeable, not just careful.
marciana
Marciana 2: cognition is a governed semantic layer
Marciana 2 turns ubiquitous AI memory into an auditable semantic layer with TypeDID, TypeSec, Grust, Sail, LakeCat, Apache Ossie, benchmarks, and a Honduras coffee-market proof.
first-pair
Rosetta: from comparative reader to editorial instrument
Rosetta now joins aligned editions to source-bound chunk, sentence, word, phrase, heading, variant, and Review workflows for editorial revision.
agent development
Welcome to the Moshpit
A new First Pair Press field guide to persistent remote agent development.
rgbdns
rgbdns is operational: Debian, openSUSE, and ANAME across AXFR
July 2026 — rgbdns 0.3.3 The first rgbdns release established the larger idea: rebuild the djbdns program family in memory-safe Rust without losing the small-program design, the tinydns data format, or the ability to understand the entire authoritative serving path. The newest release turns that implementation into