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Yes, singluar.

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Dave Richardson
Oct 19, 2024
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Has it been two weeks already?

Actually, it’s been three weeks since my first dev journal post and general article.

Why so long? Writing those two articles left me a little dazed and daunted. Call it writer’s fatigue. I also wanted to get some technical work worth writing about under my belt. I’ve been going from minus one to zero for long enough already.

So I made some progress on an unorthodox foundational ontology. I'm calling it Kosmion. Anouncement forthcoming, maybe in a week or three.

Progress might’ve been quicker but I’ve been deep in the gopher holes, including a stand-off with the “gentle” Unified Foundational Ontology; planning for a semantic static site generator; a review of Named Graphs and the w3c Data Catalog standard; and posting an article surveying authoring tools for Semantic Web data.

Moving Forward

I’d like this dev journal to be somewhat frequent and less engrossing (to write, that is). So I might have to rein in the rumination, lower my standards, and just crank out more updates and public learnings, goddammit. I can save the over-polishing for my other blog, Carpe Noctem.

If you're curious about Kosmion, I’m posting chats with my tireless synthetic co-conspirator

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