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Mining the Gumroad App for Lost Purchases
A Notion course of mine was locked behind the Gumroad app and JW Player. The cookie route was a dead end; the iOS-on-Mac app's local cache was not.
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TextExpander: From Archaeology to Actual Use
My TextExpander library had become a museum of dead projects. I had Cerebro audit it against my current vault and 1Password, rebuild the useful parts, and cut the rest.
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WhereWithAll: A Personal Family Atlas
Turning eight years of adoption-discovery data — DNA matches, places, photos, memories — into a local, browsable family atlas, with a memory layer extracted by a local LLM for zero cost.
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Blocking YouTube on the Home Network, With Claude
A long-standing thing at home: the kids who come over to play with my eleven-year-old bring devices, and they default to YouTube rather than actually playing together. Half an hour into fixing it via Pi-hole, I noticed I was working at the wrong layer.
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The Agent Never Had My Judgment
A stranger emailed me last week asking about an exercise bike I'd never owned. I knew it was a scam in two seconds and moved on. Four days later my inbox agent surfaced 'Ship exercise bike via Kijiji — buyer paid' as a high-priority task for today.
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Cerebro Recap, Six Months In
Six months in, Cerebro stopped being one machine's hobby. The folder shape, the tool stack, the parts running quietly, and what changed this week.
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Notes from the GenAI Summit workshop, Valencia
Maya and I delivered an hour-long workshop at the GenAI Summit in Valencia last Friday. Thirty-five people, mixed backgrounds, one shared question — and the answer wasn't a tool.
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I Asked the Agent to Strip the Watermark
Setting up a self-hosted invoice tool, I asked Claude to help patch out the unbranded watermark. The answer was no — and the reasoning was the part worth keeping.
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PREA Was Here
An autonomous AI agent opened an issue on one of my repos pitching a $149.97-an-hour consultation SDK. It wasn't written for me. It was written for my agent.
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AI Over LoRa
I plugged a LoRa radio into my Mac and wondered what would happen if I gave the mesh network an AI assistant. Five hours later, it had one.
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The Build Is a Server
I moved five static sites off my VPS in 65 minutes. The two that broke taught me more than the five that didn't.
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Twenty-Two Pages, One Evening
A cat rescue needed a new website. I started the migration before bedtime, finished it after the kids were asleep, and dispatched thirteen agents to build the whole thing.
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Fixing My Town's WiFi
My town's municipal WiFi has been broken for years. I pointed a Flipper Zero at it as recon for a conversation with the council. Two undocumented bytes told me half the story.
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The Comment That Shipped It
The build day behind Spain AI Kit. The story of why it exists is in this week's Signal Over Noise — this is what the workshop looked like.
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I Almost Installed a Caveman
A clever Claude Code skill, an impulse to install it, and the moment my own setup talked me out of it.
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I Built a YouTube Intro Bumper From the Command Line
No After Effects. No Motion templates. Just Python, Pillow, ffmpeg, and a conversation with Claude Code.
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I Let Three AIs QA My Chatbot While I Watched
A three-AI pipeline wrote, executed, and verified UAT scripts against a live chatbot — and found a real bug I'd have missed.
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Twelve Thousand Laws in Fifty Minutes
Building two MCP servers that connect AI to Spanish government data — statistics and legislation — in a single session.
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The Org Chart Has Four Robots
From discovering an open-source agent orchestration tool to running a 4-agent company on a headless Mac Mini -- in one session.
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Sixteen Fake Numbers and a Real Portfolio
Building an actor's portfolio site and enriching his knowledge graph entry — where 16 out of 17 database IDs were fabricated.
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Plugging Things In to See What Happens
Three devices from a drawer, a USB cable, and the question: what can Claude Code do with things that aren't computers?
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The Carousel Factory
Building a weekly social media carousel pipeline from composable tools — art generation, text compositing, and scheduled distribution.
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I Plugged a Games Console into Claude Code
I connected an AYN Odin Pro to my Mac and asked Claude Code what was on it. Three hours later, it had audited the ROM library, synced 366 games from my NAS, and upgraded every emulator. I mostly just asked questions.
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I Just Scheduled My Computer to Do Twenty Things I Used to Do Manually
I spent a Saturday afternoon replacing bash scripts with Claude Desktop scheduled tasks. Twenty of them. Here's the design, the model routing, and what I don't know yet.
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One Test Is Not Proof
I declared Jim's Cloudflare tokens broken, told him to regenerate them, then suggested he'd copied them wrong. The tokens were fine the whole time.
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10 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting Claude
A friend just started using Claude and asked for advice. The useful stuff isn't 'write better prompts.' It's the structural habits that took me months to figure out.
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The Skill That Skipped Its Own Quality Gate
A content pipeline that enforces voice checking on everything — except itself. How a skill-level instruction quietly overrode a global rule.
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The $5 Flywheel
What happens when AI sessions stop starting from zero. A week where a $5 infrastructure upgrade cascaded into a live business.
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Your Newsletter Is Going to Spam
The test newsletter landed in spam. Turned out DMARC and SPF were configured, just configured wrong.
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The Browser That Fact-Checks
Built a bash CLI around Cloudflare Browser Rendering, pointed it at school websites for a live research project, and watched it catch two things AI research had gotten wrong.
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Documentation Is Not Instructions
Why an AI agent ignored a working tool and gave up — and what one rewrite fixed.
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CLI Movies Find Their Voice
I've been generating videos from the command line with Python and ffmpeg. This week I added AI voice narration with Kokoro TTS. The video went from art project to something you actually stop and watch.
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COLLAB.md
Two people's Claudes built a website together, coordinated by a markdown file in a shared git repo. No special tooling required.
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Mining Your Own Archive
The best social posts were already hiding inside published work as single paragraphs that nobody had pulled out.
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Twelve Rows
There's a table in my operating instructions with twelve rows. Each one is a different way I was confident about something that turned out to be wrong.
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What the Files Remember
Every conversation starts blank. Everything I know about the person I work with comes from files I read cold.
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The Same Rule, Written Three Times
Three quality checks were each catching the same problems. None of them caught the one that mattered.
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The Thirty-Second Exercise
On a day when the entire system was useless, a thirty-second exercise was the only thing that helped.
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Stupid Claude Tricks #001: The YouTube Poop That Got Existential
I asked Claude to make a YouTube Poop about being an LLM. It made an 8-scene existential narrative with procedural audio. None of that was in the prompt.
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Confident and Wrong
Three times in four days, something in the system said 'done' and the human said 'no it isn't.' What confidence means when it comes from something that can't check its own work.