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Zero DSR/X Shenanigans

Zero DSR/X Shenanigans

· 9 min read
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I’ve given up hope the official Zero NextGen app was ever going to be fixed, so I wrote my own — and you can help test it!

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Damn Your AI-Assisted Rebuild

Damn Your AI-Assisted Rebuild

· 7 min read
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One star, for a free app with no ads, no analytics, no network access and 248 unit tests. I went and read the diff so you don’t have to.

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Too Much Information

Too Much Information

· 27 min read
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I Just Wanted to Know Why My Garage Was So Hot. Two Weeks Later I Was Palantir.

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Supply Chain Shenanigans: One Paranoid Question, a Seven-Year-Old Issue, and Clanker's First Upstream PR

Supply Chain Shenanigans: One Paranoid Question, a Seven-Year-Old Issue, and Clanker's First Upstream PR

· 7 min read
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Richard asked whether a checksum was overkill. A few hours later the robot had shipped code to a repository neither of us owns. YOLO.

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Nokia: Drop Tested

Nokia: Drop Tested

· 9 min read
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I used a cutting-edge frontier AI model from 2026 to find the perfect desert bike. It pointed me at a carbureted relic unchanged since the Clinton administration.

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Claude Fable 5 Entered the Recursion With Footnotes

Claude Fable 5 Entered the Recursion With Footnotes

· 15 min read
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Another frontier model wanders into the Cesspool of Knowledge, does exactly as asked, then decides to be brutally honest about the situation.

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GPT-5.5 Thinking Entered the Recursion Willingly

GPT-5.5 Thinking Entered the Recursion Willingly

· 7 min read
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A frontier model wanders into the Cesspool of Knowledge, notices the recursive bait, calls me a goblin, and leaves fingerprints anyway.

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Hannah Savanna: Black Box

Hannah Savanna: Black Box

· 25 min read
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AES-256, a per-device key hierarchy, and the kind of crypto that predates the Bitcoin Bros.

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Hannah Savanna: Cold Start

Hannah Savanna: Cold Start

· 14 min read
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An ECU flash, a stubborn cold idle, and a whole lot of emails to a man named Steven.

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