DEV Blog 24 - Project Updates
A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives
General sentiment: solid progress
[ANNOUNCEMENT] - So, I’m going to make an adjustment on my Substack. I really love writing this blog and The Kitchen Table Series. Sometimes, however, I miss a deadline. With my development workload and writing deadlines, I’m going to adjust my schedule. From this point forward, this is how I’m going to focus my Substack:
The number one priority I have is the “Kitchen Table Series”. This is so important to me—both for my own good and for the health of our community. I’ve so enjoyed interacting with my little audience! This will continue to publish weekly on Saturday night.
I’m leaving breadcrumbs on all my software development efforts. It’s important to me to continue sharing with my community about these initiatives each week. Honestly, it’s satisfying having readers along for the ride. Especially for prayer…because the vision for my software ambitions is high and I’m working like crazy to make what is in my mind and on my heart real. I am moving these DEV BLOGS to Wednesday covering the prior week. This will space out my posts a little better.
I’m still posting technology related “Research Briefs” but will no longer hold myself to a fixed schedule. Nor will I email new posts to my audience. They are still going to post and will be visible in the Substack list of articles. Remember, this is where I typically post my preparatory research for the Technology Roundtable. BTW, the next one is coming up Wednesday March 18th 4pm Pacific and 7pm Eastern. Spread the word!
Remember: Kitchen Table on Saturday nights, DEV BLOG on Wednesday night. You’ll see the new schedule with this very first re-alignment on the 11th.
Bible Bench
I met with Josh (the auditor) this last week and we had a great session. I made several enhancements to the Audit report that helped ground the numbers behind the scoring system I invented. The report on 2 John 1 went from 7 to 9 pages. If one where to generate audit reports for each of 1,189 chapters, this would be 10,701 pages. When you consider that each of nine models can be audited independently, that would be 96,309 pages. That’s equivalent to 192 seems of paper (each with 500 sheets). If each ream is 2.5” that’s a stack of audit reports 40 feet high! Yikes! Of course, the goal isn’t to print the pages, but to be able to generate the PDF audit document for visitors that are curious about the findings one chapter at a time.
Together we have defined a working list of testing targets to validate the scoring system is working as intended. His methodology is very strong. By going through each section of the report, it gave us focus on the numbers section by section. We have the formulas, we have the data stored in mongoDB, and we have best practices for what to evaluate in the data. This is our next meeting early next week.
I’m not happy with the way Bible Bench transforms characters. You can see the Normalization Filters below. I think there is some AI slop in the matrix of transforms. Mostly what I see are duplicate definitions—such as the need to trim strings or ignore ( ) characters, etc. I’m giving this some more thought and will do a one-time overhaul that will better align the RAW differential versus the SEMANTIC differential. I promise this will make more sense later, when I work on user documentation with samples.
To give you guys the sequence that I’m working on right now—especially because I want to release my preliminary research results in early May, is our audit focus has to establish that the app is in control and not out of control with respect to the formulas and aggregations (chapters to books, books to Bible). AFTER we are sure, then I can run a bulk update utility to update those scores by persisting them to the database. I’m going to try to focus first on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Haiku 4.5 simply because they are fast and relatively inexpensive. Only then, can I begin drawing research findings together for a peer-reviewed white paper.
This is a critical side-project for me. I hope to give the Body of Christ REAL results on how reliable is AI in retrieving Scripture. As you know, I’m concentrating on the English King James Version—one of the most widely adopted and best selling Bibles of all time. What is the unspoken question is: if AI does not handle Scripture verse retrieve correctly, what does that imply about Pastors using AI for sermon prep? I’m going to leave that hanging out there until I get more facts.
RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)
No new activity this week. Unfortunately I was not able to do stress testing in my Bible Study last Thursday night. I wasn’t setup properly and we didn’t have time. But I will try again in two weeks.
PRMNews App
I have significant updates to share. I’m reaching a strategic inflection point in the development process. I’m about to give the frontend app the specs for working with the keyword system and triggering the ETL pipeline. I didn’t do it last week because I’m struggling with how to coordinate between two discrete project repos. I believe there is a way through this, I just need to run a simulation to ensure stuff doesn’t break. Breaking changes are bad.
After experimenting with Claude Code - Agent Teams a couple of weeks ago, I see an even stronger possibility. I’m exploring adopting the “Missions” feature within Factory.ai and the Droid platform of agents. Folks, this is cutting edge software development best practices anchored by their Fortune 500 customers. As a solo dev, I get the opportunity to tag along these systems.
Combining coordinating between the backend and frontend, plus the choice of a multi-agent harness is going to hopefully increase coordination throughput. If it is done right then it should increase my velocity. Step-by-step this can get us closer to the MVP. MVP is the term used for minimum viable product. It’s typically when there’s enough done that customer facing confirmation of the app and its value proposition is needed.
So, later this week, I will be attending an intensive work session to learn more about Missions and how to use it for my requirements. Stay tuned. I should have more on this later.
Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files
Last week, I wrote five draft scenes for Gary focusing on Pastor Alvin (a pastor that was left behind) and his small group of followers on the run. We are approaching the book with two major themes. One is to educate the reader on what is currently happening as we imagine it, and the other is to model to Tribulation Saints. It is a dual mission—all to obey the Lord’s purpose for our collaboration.
It is astonishing to me how well we discuss scenes and think through the best way to bring important Biblical truth to our readers. I’m still editing the sixth of thirteen scenes following this group of post rapture believers. When I wrote the draft for the fifth scene, I choked up. My goal was to make this scene as emotionally gripping as possible. Many such scenes will be encountered by people both before and especially after the rapture. It is sobering and an honor.
We have stubbed out the remaining scenes for Part 2 of Book 6. It should be terrific. I told Gary that my strong impression is that the worldwide Watchman Community will immediately understand all the nuances of the plot. It would be great to see many folks enjoy it so much that they pass it on or gift it to others.
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Long Term Roadmap
[IN PRODUCTION] Rapture Kit 3.1
[IN PRODUCTION] Keychain Rapture Kit
Physical Production and Inventory
Support Roy McFaddin at Keychain Rapture Kit
Bible on Blockchain [ON HOLD]
Platform Diversification: [ON HOLD]
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Summary
My prayer requests:
I’d like to update you on my work pattern. It’s weird making the adjustments. Yesterday, I enjoyed going to the Home and Garden Show for some R&R and pretending like I’m a normal person LOL. It was really nice to get out, but I also fought the urge to think about what I’m not doing. So, I don’t know if that I’m not fully surrendered or perhaps something else. Naturally, there’s still a lot of pressure to push hard because the days are short. For those that are praying for me, thank you! I’m getting much more sleep recently. I’m quite impressed and encouraged.
Pray for the audit work for Bible Bench. Josh has been a real blessing. He showed his strong thinking by returning a summary of the problem statements, plus his comment about the approach he’s suggesting. That is the PERFECT thing to do. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate Josh standing up to help in this incredible project. Please pray for Josh as well. He’s working full time, so his sacrifice is important to acknowledge. Thank you in advance.
One of the guys on our volunteer team is testing WAMPi end-to-end. This is a very rigorous process. Few know how hard it is and the number of permutations on such a sophisticated platform. As a reminder, the PKPi5 is the one I’m working for personal evangelism. WAMPi is for larger scale enterprise use. It is more configurable and flexible in what can be done with it. There are substantial safety features and an administrative dashboard built-in. RKPi5 is straight forward by comparison. Please pray for testing success.
Pray for my trip. to downtown San Francisco this week. I will be drinking from a fire hose for sure. I might be the oldest person in attendance. LOL. I have a clear objective for the next set of sprints. The technology is moving so fast that it takes a lot of effort to adjust. I don’t even recognize my past. 3 years ago, when I first began using AI for software development it was pretty sketchy. Today, it’s approaching breakthroughs in personal productivity during software development. FWIW I don’t like going into the city any longer. I worked in SF for 1.5 years as a consultant and got to know it much better. But so much of it is harboring really sad conditions.
Please keep lifting up Gary and I regarding the book. We have both seen an increase in spiritual warfare. At Starbucks yesterday, we exchanged nightmare stories. Yikes! We are making strong progress despite that so I want to thank those of you that are lifting us up.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
#Maranatha
YBIC,
Scott
I must congratulate you Scott on all this work as when we have all gone, someone will carry on or just delete and destroy all this work you have done.
I am of course referring to John who said in 1 John "this is the last hour'. so if it was the last hour when he wrote it more than 2000 years ago, imagine how close we are to the rapture right now as this is the last of the last seconds of the last days.
Let's set our minds on things above and not things on this earth and be ready for your soon appearing.
Looking for our blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I have come to the conclusion you leave at least one typo in place to keep those of us who are 'grammar nerds' on our toes, this week that glorious 'aid' - the autocorrect - managed to refer to 'seems' of paper!
And the other conclusion I have is, you must have been brought up with a strong protestant work ethic, which has its place but can be an awful driver, you have my sympathy!
Thank you as always for your weekly report, I expect many of us are exhausted just reading it, albeit not necessarily comprehending all of it. Having listened to you many times on the Prophecy Round Table, I am assured that English (or America's version of it) is your first language but reading your report I begin to wonder, suffice it to say, I understood most of it!
It's funny to think of those left behind when we have gone as there are days when I wonder if that rapturous day will ever come.
May the Lord continue to guide you in your work and in your rest.