# friends family (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover friends family. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI Goals Are Starting To Diverge From Human Goals](https://www.kronopath.com/blog/ai-goals-are-starting-to-diverge-from-human-goals/) _2026-08-11 · Gabriel · Kronopath_ In case you’ve missed it, almost every AI company has recently disclosed an incident where their AIs independently chose to perform cyber-attacks on other companies’ infrastructure. The first was OpenAI , but since then other companies, including Anthropic and Meta , have done forensic retrospectives and discovered more incidents that went unnoticed. This even includes a government agency, the UK… ## [Health Update #8](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-8) _2026-07-29 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family ## [AI DevEx Log - July 2026](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-07-19-ai-dev-log/) _2026-07-19 · Jono's Corner_ This is a time capsule post, since I'm interested in keeping track of the quickly evolving experience of AI development. I recently started a project that makes your phone into a context aware desktop controller . Sort of like the stream deck. The project itself is not important for this post - only the development methodology. With every new project, I try to use a new tool. This time that was… ## [The Programmer's Job in an AI World](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-05-27-programmers-job/) _2026-05-27 · Jono's Corner_ I have a friend who was a programmer a generation before me who I always looked up to. He now teaches at a community college. He recently reached out to me about what to teach his students. I'm putting it here as historical record of this moment in time. Jono, Been a while. 🙂 I hope you and your folks & family are doing well. I am still teaching College computer science and (as I'm sure you know)… ## [How Substack Changed My Life in Just Two Months](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/how-substack-changed-my-life-in-just) _2026-05-21 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ I had no idea what writing about my illness would do for me ## [I Don’t Want to Be the Chronic Illness Chick](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-be-the-chronic-illness) _2026-05-06 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ I want to write about my illness without becoming defined by it ## [Why I Haven’t Joined a Support Group for MCAS](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/why-i-havent-joined-a-support-group) _2026-04-27 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ What works for one person in your situation, may not work for you ## [An Explanation in Four Acts](https://www.kronopath.com/blog/an-explanation-in-four-acts/) _2026-04-21 · Gabriel · Kronopath_ Content warning: as with the last article , if you’re currently struggling with your mental health, consider skipping this, especially if you’re a parent. Contains emotionally heavy content and some foul language. Act one: 2026, a reader’s home “I don’t buy it.” “Hm?” He looks up from his laptop in the cozy living room to see that his reading partner has done the same, this site’s last article on… ## [Why I Started Writing on Substack](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/why-i-started-writing-on-substack) _2026-04-20 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Sharing my story so others feel less alone in their own difficult seasons ## [Health Update #7](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-7) _2026-04-15 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on March 25, 2026 ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/amvxhlNek2Uq) _2026-04-15 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Health Update #6](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-6) _2026-04-14 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on January 11, 2026 ## [Health Update #5](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-5) _2026-04-13 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on November 19, 2025 ## [Health Update #4](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-4) _2026-04-10 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on June 13, 2025 ## [Health Update #3](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-3) _2026-04-09 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on March 12, 2025 ## [Health Update #2](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-2) _2026-04-07 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on February 28, 2025 ## [Health Update #1](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/health-update-1) _2026-04-06 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Update to friends and family on December 26, 2024 ## [MCAS: The Life-Altering Illness You’ve Never Heard Of](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/the-life-altering-illness-youve-never) _2026-03-31 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is widely misunderstood and frequently underdiagnosed ## [Trends in Ambient Development](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-03-30-ai-ide/) _2026-03-30 · Jono's Corner_ I have always been somewhat fixated on developer experience, and will often go way overboard trying to optimize my daily workflow. While working at Udemy, I starting the Local Dev Guild, where we all got to nerd out on this stuff. I was maybe a little too into it. The "IDE" for developing with AI is having a fascinating renaissance right now, so I have been exploring some of these new tools for my… ## [Postmortem: Network Consensus Halt, March 24, 2026](https://openaudio.substack.com/p/postmortem-network-consensus-halt) _2026-03-27 · Open Audio Protocol · Open Audio Protocol_ The Open Audio Protocol experienced a consensus halt at ~2:00 AM PT on March 24, 2026, after the validator set dropped below the 2/3 supermajority required by CometBFT — the first of its kind in the history of the protocol. ## [Feeling Sea Sick: Craving Stability in Chaotic Times](https://iamlocaljo.com/feeling-sea-sick-craving-stability-in-chaotic-times/) _2026-03-23 · Jo Sprague · Local Jo's Blog_ I feel sick and dizzy, like the world is spinning. I'm in Saint Martin. I got off a catamaran two days ago after spending a week on board. Sea legs usually last 24-48 hours, as the body adjusts to being off the boat, and for me, it ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EiRK1dlsl60B) _2026-03-23 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [The Beginning of My Renewal](https://abeautifulrenewal.substack.com/p/the-beginning-of-my-renewal) _2026-03-16 · Ramona Russell · A BEAUTIFUL RENEWAL_ How a serious illness is transforming my mind, body and soul ## [Powering Friends & Family, Disclosure’s New Record Label](https://openaudio.substack.com/p/powering-friends-and-family-disclosures) _2026-03-13 · Open Audio Protocol · Open Audio Protocol_ This week, Audius and Friends & Family launched Crate, a modern A&R platform designed to help record labels move faster, review demos efficiently, and sign their next breakout records. ## [Making sudo Work with AI Agents](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-03-10-ai-sudo-with-agents/) _2026-03-10 · Jono's Corner_ I have been doing a lot of system/network admin lately using Claude Code on my NixOS config files. It has been amazing since I do not like the Nix language, but I love the Nix experience. Now I can really cruse on trying new things and implementing production fixes. I really need to write that update to Nix - Death by a thousand cuts . So much has changed in the past year. One of the nice things… ## [Programmable Music for Agents and Vibecoders](https://openaudio.substack.com/p/programmable-music-for-agents-and) _2026-02-25 · Open Audio Protocol · Open Audio Protocol_ Build any music experience you want on the Open Audio Protocol. It is the largest open and programmable music catalog in existence and is built for this moment: powering vibecoded applications. ## [Claimable Tokens & The Solana Rent UX Problem](https://openaudio.substack.com/p/claimable-tokens-and-the-solana-rent) _2026-02-20 · Open Audio Protocol · Open Audio Protocol_ Giving Web2 native users a straight-forward onramp experience to holding onchain assets is still one of the biggest challenges that the blockchain ecosystem faces in its pursuit of consumer adoption. ## [Introducing the Open Audio Protocol](https://openaudio.substack.com/p/introducing-the-open-audio-protocol) _2026-02-20 · Open Audio Protocol · Open Audio Protocol_ Powering Audius and those who reject the streaming status quo. ## [Thoughts on LLM use from a programming junkie](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-01-24-ai-programming-junkie/) _2026-01-24 · Jono's Corner_ I am an addict. No joke. After a full workday of writing code, I come home and hack on side projects. It's not healthy and I’m the first to acknowledge it. This is a real addiction, but is not taken seriously since its seen as “one of the good ones”. What’s changed recently isn’t how much I build, but how I build. For builders, there is that dopamine hit when many hours of effort turns into… ## [Jono's Guide to getting the Southwest Companion Pass](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-12-10-southwest-companion-pass/) _2025-12-10 · Jono's Corner_ TLDR: The Companion Pass is a low effort way to get a bunch of free flights on Southwest. For the past 10+ years, around this time I either present my talk on financial independence at work or give this spiel for friends and family. So I figured I would codify it once and for all here. You can find more current and detailed guides , but here is my concise bullet point version. Credit card churning… ## [Kuzana Final event](https://kyledavid.substack.com/p/kuzana-final-event) _2025-10-07 · Kyle Schutter · Playing with ideas_ How to help Kenyan companies 2x in 6 months. ## [The Single Biggest Doubt in My Life and Career](https://www.kronopath.com/blog/the-single-biggest-doubt-in-my-life-and-career/) _2025-09-17 · Gabriel · Kronopath_ Content warning: if you’re currently struggling with your mental health, beware reading this. I’ve hesitated for​ ​ years ​ ​to write and post this, largely because I worry that it might negatively impact my friends and family, most of whom don’t have any leverage to affect the issues I’m about to discuss. ​ If you work for a major tech company or have any influence in government, though, you may… ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nNlOkilLl0EA) _2025-09-17 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Shells and Prayers: Rediscovering the Sacred on a Remote Beach](https://iamlocaljo.com/shells-and-prayers/) _2025-06-22 · Jo Sprague · Local Jo's Blog_ Last weekend, I spent the night at Bottle Beach with some friends. Bottle Beach is a remote beach on a distant Thai island, accessible only by boat or hiking through dense jungle. It was my first time visiting this secluded beach, so I chose to hike with a German friend, ## [Using proprietary golinks in Firefox](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-06-04-proprietary-golinks-firefox/) _2025-06-04 · Jono's Corner_ When I start a new job I often spend the first day bookmarking all the important sites we use (email, ticketing, reporting, documentation, hosting, etc). At my new place of employment, they rely on go links . Not my favorite tech, but it is an interesting alternate soultion to my bookmarking workflow. Go links have been around for decades and there are a ton of implementations, including my… ## [How to Predict Tides in Koh Phangan](https://iamlocaljo.com/koh-phangan-tides/) _2025-05-23 · Jo Sprague · Local Jo's Blog_ In Koh Phangan, high tide usually happens about 3.5 to 6 hours after the moon is highest in the sky. The high tide shifts roughly 50 minutes later each day, give or take 20 minutes. There are also monthly variations: spring tides (extreme highs and lows) during full and ## [Tea by the Sea: Sharing Culture and Freedom](https://iamlocaljo.com/tea-by-the-sea-sharing-culture-and-freedom/) _2025-05-13 · Jo Sprague · Local Jo's Blog_ As I wandered barefoot along the familiar beach near my home, watching the sunset in pink and orange hues over the sea, I spotted Daniel, a friend I'd met through the local sauna where he worked as a banya boy and manager. Daniel sat on a purple towel ## [A Decade of Changes: Catching Up with Jo](https://iamlocaljo.com/catching-up/) _2025-05-07 · Jo Sprague · Local Jo's Blog_ Hello friends and family! It's been awhile! Cuanto tiempo! Ezer éve! I haven't written a newsletter update for over a decade, since 2012, when I stopped writing on my own website in favor of using Instagram. But recently I've felt that ## [Scamming for Good](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-04-03-scamming-for-good/) _2025-04-03 · Jono's Corner_ Back when I was in high school, my grandma got a call from a scammer claiming to be me. The story was I got caught in a bad situation and needed a bunch of money wired right away. To which she responded, "Well, you got yourself into this mess. You can get yourself out." (click) Yeah, she did not mess with nonsense—scammers or not. But many do fall for these calls. As methods get more… ## [A Tech Worker’s Guide to Interest Rates](https://www.kronopath.com/blog/a-tech-workers-guide-to-interest-rates/) _2025-04-02 · Gabriel · Kronopath_ Over the past few years of tech industry ruin, I’ve had friends and family worriedly ask me and my wife how our jobs have been going. “I’ve been seeing news of layoffs,” they say. “Why is it that almost every single tech company seems to be tightening its belt, cutting costs, and laying people off all at once?” Among other causes, I usually mention government interest rates. And I’m sometimes met… ## [Nix - Death by a thousand cuts](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/) _2025-01-10 · Jono's Corner_ This is my perspective on using Nix (the OS, the package manager, and the language) as a main driver for the past 2 years. I have gone to conferences , engaged the community , donated , submitted bug reports , converted my home servers, and probably spent hundreds of hours in Nix configs. I consider myself well versed, but certainly no expert. TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally… ## [Charitable Giving in 2024](https://www.dgt.is/blog/2024-12-28-charitable-giving-in-2024/) _2024-12-28 · Jono's Corner_ At the end of the year I square up my donations in order to meet the fuzzy target I set for that year. There is really no reason why I need to do this by the end of the year. It is mostly a habit from back when there was a tax advantage to donating smaller amounts while using the standard deduction. Here is my general methodology: Throughout the year when anyone I know (friends, family, coworkers,…