observatory

the shape of your signal

Everything below is computed from your curated corpus and your taste model, here on this page, at build time — a portrait of what you read drawn only from what you've kept. Nothing is phoned home; nothing leaves the device. The instrument simply turns its gaze inward.

snapshot Jul 9, 2026 · refreshes daily as you read

206 items curated
42 reading hours in the corpus
7 median read minutes
14 channels of 18 covered
41 sources distinct
0 podcasts transcribed
just now freshest pull
120 months span oldest → newest

interests

where your attention lives

Every channel you've curated, sized by volume and lit by taste — the brighter the block, the more it resonates. Beside it, how those channels travel together.

block size = items · brightness = avg taste

taste

credible, and worth your time

Trust against taste for every item — the upper-right quadrant is the catch: sources you trust, saying things you care about.

highest resonance

01 Endless Warfare – Part II: Countering Endless Warfare and its Networks geopolitics 12m
02 NLAs read thoughts beyond the J-space ai 12m
03 Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026) tech 15m
04 Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control ai 12m
05 Free will as a model parameter ai 12m
06 Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents ai 12m
07 Data filtering works a lot worse than you would expect ai 17m
08 The lanternflies are here. Is it okay to stomp them? politics 13m
09 Optimum number of items to inspect before buying one ai 11m
10 Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows tech 9m

reading rhythm

how long you sit with things

The corpus skews toward a ~15-minute read — long enough to say something, short enough to finish. The curve is the target; the bars are reality.

provenance

where it all comes from

The mix of mediums, the sources that feed you most, and how much you trust what comes in.

rss 137 eng-blog 57 news 12

top sources

bair-blog 8
chip-huyen-blog 8
danluu-blog 8
ieee-spectrum-diy 8
oreilly-radar 8
pluralistic-doctorow 8
the-conversation-history 8
alignment-forum 7
dynomight 7
gh-rel-tasmota 7
github-engineering 7
ieee-spectrum-tech 7

top authors

github-actions[bot] 9
Cory Doctorow 8
skalapurakkel@oreilly.com 8
dynomight 7
Ryan Simons 5
Alex Kladov 4
dhalbert 4
Eli Bendersky 4
lnkuiper 4
Martin Fowler 4

trust distribution

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temporal

the signal over time

What's flowed in week by week, banded by group — and every day the corpus drew breath.

aiworldscience·techdatamake

activity calendar

clusters

where the stories converged

The day's most-covered stories — bigger means more sources converged on the same thread.