DEV Blog 30 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

We live close to Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. Above, this is Banff National Park. Isn’t it beautiful!

[ANNOUNCEMENT]: I will not have a DEV BLOG next Wednesday. I’m going to unplug and rest ahead of the conference.

General sentiment: Praise for the AGI Nerds

AGI does not mean Artificial General Intelligence, it means Advanced Gospel Initiatives. The nerd part perfectly describes this team. Each of us has deep background and that special quality that sets nerds apart from the general population. Although we don’t wear pocket protectors anymore, there is still evidences of gifting, experience, and critical thinking that I have benefited from immensely.

Over the last 3-years, these technical men of God that have come around some of the technical initiatives to put their shoulder in. Men of integrity, with full knowledge of what is happening in the world. In the last year especially, we have coalesced in alignment and purpose. Even though these men shun the light, preferring to work in anonymity, their contributions continue to be a source of blessing and encouragement. Unless there is a schedule conflict, we meet weekly to discuss progress, blockers, and thinking through strategy.

Before I go into the next updates below, please praise God with me for this team. We are supporting each other and functioning at a high level. I could not push as hard as I do without their acts of service.

Bible Bench

Now, if you’ve been following the preparatory phase of my talks in Calgary, it would not be a surprise to you that I continue to polish my four presentations. For example, I noticed that the font size and weight needed to be a bit larger to increase readibility and contrast. Since I am using Keynote on my MacBook, a new platform for me, I decided to ask the A/V team at Church to let me do a test. Everything is good with the exception of the screenshots. Those just display too small. Therefore, I have a little more work to do on about 15 slides with screenshots on them. It’s easy to do this.

The last phase of my preparation is to rehearse. It helps establish timing, pace, ensure that I tighten up the verbal part of the presentation. As you know, I tend to drift as I try to pull in value-added commentary. Also, I’m going to discern where to skip over certain sections that are important, but not necessarily required if I get under some time pressure. I like to have this practice done ahead of time.

I received a significant blessing when I was told that I’m speaking on Sunday to a bi-lingual congregation and will be paired with a translator. This is amazing!! I’m insanely happy to practice my Spanish!

Web 3.0 Projects

I’m happy to report that the presentation document that explains the Web3 initiative for was delivered this morning. Furthermore, I expect that there will be a follow-up to adjust or answer questions prior to this going to the Board for approval. The programming is done and most of the content is complete. There might be some catch-up to the materials. That is detailed work, but it is not difficult. Pray for favor! When I get back, I will have a mental placeholder on my schedule in reserve for this project. You may see a gap, but continue praying please.

Platform Diversification

One of the real praises I have is that tomorrow another AGI Nerd team member and I are working to deploy more Post Rapture Emergency Website. This process is identical in content to what we’ve already done (here). This is identical to the Rapture Kit 3.1 USB drive.

Reminder that you can get pre-made KeyChainRaptureKit.com from Roy McFaddin, see those links below. They are a perpetual reminder that he is serving you—as many folks don’t have the computer, or technical ability to download the Rapture Kit content and make their own duplicates. Please head his direction if you don’t have at least one Rapture Kit in your house, apartment, office desk, garage, car, etc.

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

No further development this week. But I’m planning to export the microSD image with a new utility program designed for backups. I will attend to this when I get back. The goal is to revamp the rkpi5.com website and update the new and easier installation methodology. This will involve change to the documentation and a video tutorial or two. More on this in a couple of weeks. I’d like to wrap up beta and get our list of volunteers activated.

PRMNews App

I’ve been resuming work on the first web app for the Watchman Community. Today, I’m working on making the articles_validation collection more visible. This is a rich source of data as the news article gets fetched from the news service API and pipeline statistics are hydrated. I am trying to make this more visible so I can see the data without having to work directly in MongoDB Compass UI.

At the same time, I want to create a UI for the articles_search collection. This collection is the one that supports the full-text and semantic search that the filter panel uses. The filter panel allows users to filter to a specific category/subcategory of interest and focus deeper into the news feed.

The third milestone is the semantic search chat feature on the lower right. It supports search on the data from the title + content without having to be letter perfect like the full text search feature. I’m new to this. But the engineering for the vector embeddings has been done and now I’m working on the frontend experience.

In a major breakthrough since I’ve brought the execution pipeline into the frontend, I get a few kinks worked out and it flows much better now. With just a few clicks and some parameters, I witnessed a full step-flow through the etl_orchestrator with green statuses. That doesn’t mean I’m out of the woods yet, but it was very good to see it work as designed.

This is a screenshot of a working mission using the Factory AI droid system. It’s methodically going through each of the three milestones and doing long-horizon work over many hours. At the end of the process, I will begin unit testing. I hope to have more updates in a couple of weeks.

Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files

Britt Gillette was a fantastic host giving Gary Albyn and I a chance to talk about A Crisis of Faith and the newly announced Book 6: A Creed of Saints. With over 6k views so far, we decided to create a new menu (here) for interviews. I hope you take advantage of getting to know more of the backstory of what we are doing.

Please support Gary Albyn … it helps me too. I should mention that there is no financial benefit to me. Gary is a personal friends of mine. I just want to step up and help out to the best of my ability.

Support Gary Albyn at these outlets

Gary’s personal website (here)
Go to Barnes and Nobles (here)
Go to Amazon (here)

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

Go to Keychain Rapture Kit (here)
Go to Facebook (here)

Bible on Blockchain [ON HOLD]

My prayer requests:

1. Please pray for my sleep again.

2. When my wife and I are in Calgary, we will be driving around for a new days and it looks like the weather conditions are freezing overnight, with scattered snow, and 40’s during the day. Fortunately, I lived in Michigan and Indiana for 28-years and know how to drive in these type of conditions. We will mostly be on major highways. But, I’d appreciate prayer for protection and safety that we can get to the venue on time and safely.

3. The technology roundtable is later today, as I write this and I already know the agenda will be jam packed. I hope that you can attend and be a part of the Watchman / remnant community! It’s always an intellectual challenge and kind of intense, LOL.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott