Writing
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I Took Seventeen Reels Apart, Frame by Frame
I downloaded seventeen popular explainer reels, cut them into frames, transcribed them and measured their audio. The patterns were specific enough to code: a number that moves, a tally that fills, cuts in the breath. Then I packaged the engine...
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A Content Studio That Runs Without Me
A single RTX 3090 in my house runs an unattended content pipeline: it finds a story, writes a script with claude -p, synthesizes a voice, scores a music bed, renders the video in code, and posts it. The hardest bugs...
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Cult Focus: A Coin You Tap to Lock Your Phone
Screen Time fails because the same hand that sets the limit lifts it. So the unlock became a coin you tap. The honest version: a free app and a blank tag can do the same thing, and everything interesting is...
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A Private AI Cloud From Three Dead Machines
Reusing old hardware for real AI work: a 3090 desktop as the compute node, a Synology NAS as the always-on control plane, and a 2012 laptop as a padded-room sandbox for a coding agent. The constraints wrote the architecture.
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The Cult Project
A side business built the way I build at work: delegated to AI agents, measured honestly, and held to a simple rule. Made to order, never made to waste. The cult is a wink. The craft is not.
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A Desk Pet That Approves My Code
Anthropic's claude-desktop-buddy runs on an M5StickC Plus. I had a Cheap Yellow Display instead. One evening later: a capybara on my desk that blinks when Claude wants permission, and approves it when I press on its screen.
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Change Your Sky
Six years without a real break, then a World Cup trip across America. What Seneca and the Mahabharata say about the two kinds of time off, and why a real pause wakes you up.
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