Bosun PKM Tools Blog

The Primary Knowledge Blog for Bosun PKM Tools. Notes, essays, and architectural dispatches on building durable personal knowledge systems, maintaining plain-text data ownership, and surviving software vendor churn.

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  • September 23, 2026

    AST-Aware Reconciliation: Fixing Git Merge Anxiety in Notes

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-23. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. AST-Aware Reconciliation: Fixing Git…

  • September 22, 2026

    The Hidden Fragility of Plugin-Dependent Workspaces

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-22. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. The Hidden Fragility of Plugin-Dependent…

  • September 21, 2026

    Decoupling Capture from Categorization

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-21. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Decoupling Capture from Categorization…

  • September 20, 2026

    Local-First Data Sovereignty: The Cost of Rental Software

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-20. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Local-First Data Sovereignty: The Cost of…

  • September 19, 2026

    Stdio JSON-RPC Bridging for Cross-Process IPC Without Daemon Bloat

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-19. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Stdio JSON-RPC Bridging for Cross-Process…

  • September 19, 2026

    Building Small Independent Tools Instead of Monolithic Suites

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-19. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Building Small Independent Tools Instead…

  • September 18, 2026

    The Overhead of Hyper-Connected Second Brains

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-18. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. The Overhead of Hyper-Connected Second…

  • September 18, 2026

    Deterministic Frontmatter Validation and Fail-Closed Schema Gates

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-18. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Deterministic Frontmatter Validation and…

  • September 17, 2026

    Designing Vaults for Cold Storage and Decadal Durability

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-17. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Designing Vaults for Cold Storage and…

  • September 17, 2026

    Bounded In-Memory Graph Caches and LRU Eviction Under Pressure

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-17. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Bounded In-Memory Graph Caches and LRU…

  • September 16, 2026

    The False Comfort of Cloud Sync for Knowledge Repositories

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-16. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. The False Comfort of Cloud Sync for…

  • September 16, 2026

    Tamper-Resistant Locker Manifests and Checksum Validation

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-16. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Tamper-Resistant Locker Manifests and…

  • September 15, 2026

    Atomic Save-via-Rename and Temporary File Reconciliation

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-15. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Atomic Save-via-Rename and Temporary File…

  • September 15, 2026

    Why Markdown Frontmatter Outlives Object Databases

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-15. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Why Markdown Frontmatter Outlives Object…

  • September 14, 2026

    The Bosun Architecture Specification

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-14. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. The Bosun Architecture Specification…

  • September 14, 2026

    Opt-In Full-Text Indexing Keeping Engine Footprint Under 20MB

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-14. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Opt-In Full-Text Indexing Keeping Engine…

  • September 13, 2026

    Content-Hash Deduplication Without Silent Data Loss

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-13. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Content-Hash Deduplication Without Silent…

  • September 12, 2026

    Why SQLite Projections Must Be Disposable and Rebuildable

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-12. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Why SQLite Projections Must Be Disposable…

  • September 11, 2026

    Fail-Closed Outbox Logging Surviving Process Termination Mid-Save

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-11. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Fail-Closed Outbox Logging Surviving…

  • September 10, 2026

    Benchmarking Tree-sitter vs CommonMark Regex Across 100k Notes

    > Living Document Notice > Published 2026-09-10. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden. Benchmarking Tree-sitter vs CommonMark…

  • September 3, 2026

    Building an Honest Bridge: Inside the Bosun Architecture

    Personal knowledge management tools routinely attempt to capture the entire user workspace. They provide fluid interfaces and closed database layers, but when licensing models change or operational…

  • August 31, 2026

    What we recovered, and what remains

    This retrospective covers the August 30, 2026 checkpoint. It was prepared after the event; its metadata and RSS entry record the actual first-publication time rather than the event date. August 30…

  • August 31, 2026

    Reconstructing Bosun PKM with evidence

    This retrospective covers recovery work from August 29, 2026. It was prepared after the event; its metadata and RSS entry record the actual first-publication time rather than the event date. Bosun…