DEV Blog 28 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

General sentiment: Did I just get broadened?

As I write to you this morning, I’m at the Missional AI Conference (here) in the heart of Santa Clara, one of the hotspots of Silicon Valley. It’s used to be home turf because I lived in Fremont and Union City (and up in Marin as a youth) for many years. I’m going to continue processing my experiences here.

Bottomline, I underestimated the character and integrity of what is known as “Faith Tech”. Some of you may have heard the term Fin Tech for those technology professionals in Finance and Banking. Faith tech is new to me. But there is no denying that there is a cohort of very strong believers working on really difficult problems. I witnessed worship and prayers that any of us in the Watchman Community would be instantly comfortable with. I was suspicious before getting to know these Brothers and Sisters. It’s likely that I needed a fresh perspective. In speaking with my wife and close friends, they affirm this. Please pray for me in this regard.

Web 3.0 Projects

I did indeed spend about 1.5 hours in a meeting with the new President of World Missionary Press over zoom. Since I have such a long length of volunteer service, I provided him my background and the story of software development that his organization works with everyday. Back around 1995 I was given a plaque of recognition for my contribution in creating software (called Stratus) that ran their entire non-financial operational systems. This included worldwide distributors, inventory management, ordering, shipping & distribution, and production planning. All these modules were integrated and programmed to fit WMP’s exact requirements.

I then gave Tyler Bauer a philosophical/technological briefing on what is known as Web 3.0 decentralized websites. This included spending time on a demo, which showed all of their titles and languages neatly organized on a static website. With searching languages to see Scripture Booklets they have, or by Title, such as “The Way to God”, “How to Know God” and several others, it is easy to use and access. The search results offer a cover image in the language that was chosen. Clicking on that brings up the full PDF document for reading online and/or downloading to the user’s computer or device.

The ball is in my court to do a 2-3 page write up that he will take to their Board for approval. As I always have in the past, even in the 1.5 years of effort with Stratus development, it is pro-bono work. This new wmpress.crypto website will also be done in love for the Word of God and by using technology wisely to make these incredible booklets more difficult to censor or takedown. Please continue to pray for this effort. For those of you that are paying subscribers, your hard earned money is stewarded into efforts similar to these. Thank you for making this possible!

Platform Diversification

Hold only because I’ve been so busy and Kevin took some much needed time off to visit family. At the soonest opportunity next week, we are going to work on wiring up another 15 or post rapture targeted domains. More on this next week.

Bible Bench

This past week has been pretty amazing. I wrote a 65-page Research report of my findings and many details around how I approached studying this critical problem. Again, for those that are new to my substack, I have been publicly criticizing Pastors that are using AI to generate sermons. Inserting an AI (basically a machine) between himself and the Holy Spirit is a redline. Interestingly, when I talked with several people during meet and greet breaks, I can confirm there is general agreement here about this problem. As ministry professionals that are deeply involved in the Gospel, they see the evidences themselves. This is one of the slides for my upcoming talk at the Last Days Bible Conference in Calgary, Canada (here).

I am making some important improvements because of Josh’s work during the audit phase of the results. We are now working on a multi-chapter book and we’ve chosen 2 Peter because it has 3 chapters. Proving that the editDistance and other measures are correct and then confirming that the chapters roll-up to the Book summary with the correct Fidelity and Perfect Match values is critical. Note I added the string length on the top right of the verse card and more editDistance values, including maxLength, matched chars, and unmatched chars. This makes it easier for Josh.

Final note on this, I also developed a bulk load utility CLI command that will let me bypass the Bible Bench UI and work directly with the ETL required to fill-out the missing books and chapters for the first pass. I want to push on full hydration of the Bible for OpenAI GPT-5-mini, Anthropic Haiku 4.5, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. Then, my plan will be to re-run the analysis engine that will update the Research Report. Finally, I will update the slides, such as the one you see above, to include the most recent results I have.

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

Kevin is working with George to test the WAMPi codebase. But I don’t have updated results other than knowing that the testing results documents are circulating between them. I’ll catch-up on this next week hopefully.

PRMNews App

While staying at my friend’s house during the conference, I was able to show him the current state of the app. He has a deep UI/UX software background and his expertise is something that I value. During the demo, I triggered the ETL pipeline from the new frontend screens and watched it hydrate new articles directly from staging through to production. In minutes, using a highly tightened news fetch scope, we both saw the new Earthquake articles with a refresh of the screen!

Next week, I plan to smooth out the user interface of the pipeline. This is because the webhook for periodic state changes during the sequential steps in the stepwise orchestrator flow was not fully materializing. These are normal issues that will get resolved in the next sprint.

Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files

While Gary is still out of country visiting family, I’m working on a complete read through of Book 6 for comments. Folks, you can’t believe how good Gary is at writing. The “editing” effort is so light. There’s hardly anything to contribute in real terms. It’s already well written, already coherent, the suspense and pacing are already excellent!

He is going to be significantly jet-lagged, so it will be midweek next week before we get together again and resume the 20k words to the finish line. What a thrilling time this is for me. I can hardly believe it. I’ve always want to write or be part of a book project and it’s a bucket list dream that I thought would be unattainable.

Please stay turned for the announcement about our upcoming livestream introducing Gary to a broader audience and discussion about Book 5 “A Crisis of Faith”.

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My prayer requests:

1. I have done so much work on Bible Bench and in the research paper that I feel a little jammed up. It’s my job to get it right. When doing ground breaking research on how exactly LLMs respond to prompts involving Scripture (in our case, English language King James) from its training data, the findings need to be verified. Pray for this effort. For Josh and I to get this over the finish line. I’m needing, if I can be so bold as to say, clarity, discernment, and a form of anointing to finish it.

2. Pray for my report that I need to deliver to the board of World Missionary Press. I desperately want to mount over 500 Scripture Booklet’s (think of these like 48-page tracks) on a geographically redundant Web 3.0 platform without using DNS records that can be turned off when after the rapture happens. I want those resources in over 250 languages—full of the Gospel—to be found by the next generation of believers. These are our future Brothers and Sisters!! Pray for them now!

3. Pray for Kevin and I to do the configuration work with another major cloud provider for Post Rapture Emergency Message websites. This is essentially the Rapture Kit online, such as you would find (here). This weighs very heavy on our hearts right now. Time is shorter than when we first believed.

4. Pray for a strong, focused, and productive sprint to the completion of Book 6 and for our upcoming livestream. I’m thinking Gary has unplugged and refreshed, but my side of my workload to balance all these technical projects has been tough at times. The read through and my notes and edits are due Saturday in just a few days. I’ve got to get that into his hands so we can keep moving forward with the new chapters.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott