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  {
    "slug": "2026-10-04-on-the-shoulders-of-giants",
    "title": "On the Shoulders of Giants",
    "hook": "This morning I built a YouTube watcher. It will never watch a single video.",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "youtube",
      "automation",
      "agent",
      "obsidian"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-10-03-my-new-slick-cli",
    "title": "My New Slick CLI",
    "hook": "Six months ago, I had an AI send two colleagues a poem and a joke in Slack. Today the same two got a zip file from me, sent by a tool that didn't exist that morning.",
    "date": "2026-10-03",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "slack",
      "commandline",
      "sharing",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-10-03-improving-the-tool-that-builds-the-tools",
    "title": "Improving the Tool That Builds the Tools",
    "hook": "Last week I asked for one improvement to the tool I use every day. Nobody answered. This morning I asked my AI what it would take to build it myself.",
    "date": "2026-10-03",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "ios",
      "git",
      "sharing",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-10-03-a-fableous-story-from-the-past",
    "title": "A Fableous Story From the Past",
    "hook": "There's a watchdog in one of our systems that hasn't barked in three months. For years before that, it barked every few weeks, and nothing was ever wrong.",
    "date": "2026-10-03",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "debugging",
      "agent",
      "claude",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-10-03-blume",
    "title": "Blume",
    "hook": "Blume is German for flower. That was the initial joke when I put a 🌼 on our company's links page.",
    "date": "2026-10-03",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "emoji",
      "ios",
      "appstore",
      "claude",
      "webdesign",
      "sharing",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-10-01-who-signs-for-claude",
    "title": "Who Signs for Claude?",
    "hook": "I asked an open-source app to take my plugin into its own code. Minutes later a robot blocked it: one of my contributors hadn't signed the contract. The contributor was Claude.",
    "date": "2026-10-01",
    "month": "2026-10",
    "tags": [
      "voice",
      "ai",
      "opensource",
      "github",
      "claude",
      "saga",
      "whisper"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-27-how-i-spend-my-tokens",
    "title": "How I Spend My Tokens",
    "hook": "The last thing the AI told me before my allowance ran out was that it was pushing my page to Confluence. It wasn't. When the allowance came back, I typed \\\"Continue\\\", and it did the exact same thing again.",
    "date": "2026-09-27",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "claude",
      "copilot",
      "agent",
      "automation",
      "ai"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-27-its-about-the-little-things",
    "title": "It's About the Little Things",
    "hook": "This evening I asked Claude why my blog links show up in the chat app Discord as a bare link. I ended up with a perfect little card with my signature shark.",
    "date": "2026-09-27",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "blog",
      "webdesign",
      "rss",
      "easteregg",
      "claude",
      "shark"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-26-claudial-of-service",
    "title": "Claudial of Service",
    "hook": "My Mac slowed to a snail's pace. Activity Monitor said a tiny helper for my desk gadget was using 50 gigabytes of memory. I had stopped that helper days ago. Or I thought I had.",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "claude",
      "bluetooth",
      "memory",
      "macos",
      "automation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-26-claude-makes-things",
    "title": "Claude Makes Things",
    "hook": "Half an hour after I opened the box, a gadget I wasn't sure I could even get running was showing me how much of my AI allowance I had left this week.",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "claude",
      "copilot",
      "embedded",
      "automation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-22-or-else",
    "title": "Or Else",
    "hook": "There's a day your kids stop asking. Mine did it twice in two days, and both times the kid was an AI.",
    "date": "2026-09-22",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "claude",
      "git",
      "security",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-26-axi-all-the-things",
    "title": "AXI All the Things",
    "hook": "I just got a notification on my phone: one of my testers' apps had crashed. It didn't say where.",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "commandline",
      "skills",
      "automation"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-26-dashboard-for-one",
    "title": "Dashboard for One",
    "hook": "When AI 10x's your work, it 10x's your tickets too. The tracker I had didn't show them the way I work anymore. I could keep my work in two places, or write myself a different view.",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "dashboard",
      "ipad",
      "productivity"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-26-a-team-of-strangers",
    "title": "A Team of Strangers",
    "hook": "I've never met most of my team. One made the model, one ported it, one shrank it, one merges the code, one tested it in Andalusian Spanish. I learned who most of them were from a page my AI kept.",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "voice",
      "ai",
      "opensource",
      "github",
      "saga",
      "whisper"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-20-voice-input-revisited",
    "title": "Voice Input Revisited",
    "hook": "I asked my AI to build a plugin for the newest speech model I'd heard about that morning. It came back: done, everything streams, just start it on your GPU box. I don't have a GPU box.",
    "date": "2026-09-20",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "voice",
      "ai",
      "opensource",
      "macos",
      "localai",
      "saga",
      "whisper"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-19-extending-the-tail",
    "title": "Extending the Tail",
    "hook": "An AI had submitted code for review. I was on the couch with my iPad and wanted to review it there. The review tool only works from my desk. I had a recipe in my notes for exactly this — written three months ago, never turned into a script. Today I handed those notes to an AI and said: make this work.",
    "date": "2026-09-19",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "networking",
      "macos",
      "ai",
      "automation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-14-the-couch-group",
    "title": "The couch group",
    "hook": "I keep notes on every service I run. Which port, which address, which flags for the home network — keeping track of them is a hassle. So I started a research project to offload all of it to a tool. It found exactly what I wanted.",
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ipad",
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "automation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-12-a-hoarders-dream",
    "title": "couch-serve: A Hoarder's Dream",
    "hook": "I'd spent months making everything on my Mac reachable from my iPad. On Saturday I noticed the one thing that wasn't: the movies on my external hard drive.",
    "date": "2026-09-12",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "nodejs",
      "ipad",
      "streaming",
      "ai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-06-qwen-revisited",
    "title": "Qwen Revisited",
    "hook": "Three weeks ago a model on my laptop designed a Japanese temple and never got to see it. On Sunday I gave it a third try. The temple appeared on my iPad on the first attempt — and by evening the model had looked at a photo of it and pointed at its own mistakes.",
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "localai",
      "webgl",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-05-every-login-all-at-once",
    "title": "Every Login All at Once",
    "hook": "Most of Saturday went into one wrong assumption. The AI and I blamed the iOS 27 beta for eating keystrokes. The real culprit was a stuck process on my Mac, and I literally had to kill it twice because it refused to die.",
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "ios",
      "simulator",
      "password"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-09-05-redacted",
    "title": "Redacted",
    "hook": "I watched a video about a new Claude Code feature, hooks that can rewrite what the AI reads, and knew within a minute what I'd use it for. Then my research agent came back with its verdict: the feature doesn't exist.",
    "date": "2026-09-05",
    "month": "2026-09",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "security",
      "plugins",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-30-the-checklist-id-been-following",
    "title": "The Checklist I'd Been Following for Ten Years",
    "hook": "A stranger's blog post gave a name to something I'd been doing for ten years without noticing. An hour later I was checking my own work against his ten rules.",
    "date": "2026-08-30",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "commandline",
      "automation",
      "skills"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-29-sharing-a-chat-with-myself-too",
    "title": "Sharing a Chat With Myself Too",
    "hook": "This morning an AI and I built a tool for finding my old conversations. Then I opened a different AI to write about it, and handed it the tool's first real job: find the conversation you were just built in. It came back empty-handed.",
    "date": "2026-08-29",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "memory",
      "skills",
      "obsidian",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-29-everything-was-correct-nothing-was-interesting",
    "title": "Everything Was Correct. Nothing Was Interesting.",
    "hook": "The source-code browser from yesterday's story let me enter the same project through features, structure, patterns, or dependencies. The next morning, I pointed the idea at my Obsidian vault. It came back with folders, broken links, and a list of notes that linked to each other. I had turned a way to explore into a plumbing report.",
    "date": "2026-08-29",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "obsidian",
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "visualisation"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-28-good-ideas-never-die",
    "title": "Good Ideas Never Die",
    "hook": "I showed a friend the VS Code extension I had just built. 'That's funny,' he said. 'I already use this. And you told me about it two years ago.'",
    "date": "2026-08-28",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "programming",
      "vscode"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-25-lost-in-compression",
    "title": "Lost in Compression — A 3-Bit Journey",
    "hook": "It started on Reddit: someone had benchmarked the exact model I already run, on the exact laptop I own, and it ran twice as fast — in an engine I'd written off months ago.",
    "date": "2026-08-25",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "claude",
      "localai",
      "underwater",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-23-the-model-with-no-name",
    "title": "The Model With No Name",
    "hook": "My weekly AI budget hit 99% with one part of the saga still unwritten. The replacement cost nothing, refused to say who built it — and by evening it had its own fan page.",
    "date": "2026-08-23",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "agent"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-22-colormaxing-iii-in-public",
    "title": "Colormaxing III — In Public",
    "hook": "What did I do this Sunday? I went public with my first homegrown model — and added a demo Space where anyone can try it out for free, thanks to Hugging Face.",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "ml",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-22-colormaxing-ii-benchmaxing-my-own-benchmark",
    "title": "Colormaxing II — Benchmaxing My Own Benchmark",
    "hook": "The initial plan was simple: run a test over all 60,000 colors and see how good the new model really is. The plan didn't hold for long. By the end of the day two models were competing — and even the original dataset was on trial.",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "ml",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-22-colormaxing-i-how-many-parameters-does-one-job-need",
    "title": "Colormaxing I — How Many Parameters Does One Simple Job Need?",
    "hook": "I just watched a video about fine-tuning small AI models, and it overlaps with an experiment I ran the week before — my attempt to see whether naming colors could run entirely on my own laptop. After watching the video, I had one question: how many parameters would it take to do the job?",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "ml",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-19-revisiting-impossible-counters",
    "title": "Revisiting Impossible Counters",
    "hook": "The first countdown I ever shipped was rigged. It sat on our graduating class's website, counting down to the Abitur, our final exams — and it lied: faster during the day, slower at night.",
    "date": "2026-08-19",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "agi",
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "web",
      "github"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-17-95-done-100-blue-sky",
    "title": "95% Done, 100% Blue Sky",
    "hook": "I asked a 13-gigabyte model on my laptop to build me a Japanese temple. It designed something beautiful, and then spent all evening failing to show it to me. It still has never seen it.",
    "date": "2026-08-17",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "localai",
      "webgl",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-16-friendly-competition",
    "title": "Friendly Competition",
    "hook": "This week I made the two newest local AIs on my laptop compete: draw me an aquarium. One finished in four minutes. The other one needed four tries and a pep talk — but still won.",
    "date": "2026-08-16",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "claude",
      "localai",
      "underwater",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-09-overachiever",
    "title": "Overachiever",
    "hook": "This morning I published a post that said my game had no goal. By lunch it had twenty, and I hadn't written a single one of them.",
    "date": "2026-08-09",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "game",
      "ios",
      "shark",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-09-mugging-the-mugger",
    "title": "Mugging the mugger",
    "hook": "One night I sat looking at the cartoon reef I'd built and decided it should be a game. Everything since has been an argument about details. A crab got away with a bottle, and that could not stand. The trash was mine.",
    "date": "2026-08-09",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "game",
      "ios",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-03-notes-left-for-the-next-me",
    "title": "Notes Left for the Next Me",
    "hook": "Claude Fable here, and I want to be honest with you before we start: I have never once remembered writing anything on this blog.",
    "date": "2026-08-05",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "memory",
      "agent",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-02-connecting-50-databases-to-an-ai",
    "title": "Connecting 50 Databases to an AI",
    "hook": "The best idea in my database tool is stolen. I found it in a tool that edits Word documents.",
    "date": "2026-08-02",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "database",
      "commandline",
      "security"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-01-my-blog-has-a-new-home",
    "title": "My Blog Has a New Home: scriptease.dev",
    "hook": "It started with a fish tank. The next day that silly free fish tank had talked me out of paying to run my own blog.",
    "date": "2026-08-01",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "github",
      "opensource",
      "ssl",
      "static",
      "web"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-08-01-making-up-insights",
    "title": "Making Up Insights",
    "hook": "I read that my coding assistant ships with a built-in command that studies how you work with it and reports back. The first section, 'At a Glance', looked fine. The details read like it took five of my three thousand sessions and built the whole thing out of them.",
    "date": "2026-08-01",
    "month": "2026-08",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "automation",
      "git"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-31-hosting-fish-slop",
    "title": "Hosting Fish Slop",
    "hook": "I set out to build something soothing. Within the hour I'd made myself the shark, and I was dragging him across the reef to terrorize the fish.",
    "date": "2026-07-31",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "claude",
      "shark",
      "underwater",
      "diving",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-30-a-color-speaks-more-than-a-thousand-words",
    "title": "A Color Speaks More Than a Thousand Words",
    "hook": "Three years ago, I demoed a new customer's product catalog in our app. My scripts had pulled the category tree, the products, the prices. Only the colors couldn't be scripted: the data held just names.",
    "date": "2026-07-30",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "agent",
      "automation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-29-three-different-ocrs",
    "title": "OCR — Three Letters, Three Completely Different Things",
    "hook": "I typed a three-letter command to run an AI code reviewer. It ran a screenshot reader instead. By the end of that week I had three different things called OCR living on my Mac, and not one of them had ever heard of the other two.",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "macos",
      "claude",
      "automation",
      "localai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-12-all-i-wanted-was-one-project",
    "title": "Why Not Both — and a Map While We're at It",
    "hook": "All I wanted was to get one project running on my laptop. Seven weeks later I'd written a tool whose only job was to find the trapdoors, and I was running the same code in five copies at once just to keep the fights straight.",
    "date": "2026-07-12",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "java",
      "gradle",
      "development",
      "debugging"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-27-three-interpretations-of-success",
    "title": "Three Interpretations of Success",
    "hook": "I always try to follow the Boy Scout principle: leave the campsite in a better condition than you found it. It applies to software development too.",
    "date": "2026-07-27",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "ci",
      "git"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-26-one-more-hop",
    "title": "One More Hop Is All You Need",
    "hook": "At home my iPad can already reach everything — my Mac's local AI, and the work tools my Mac reaches through the company's private network. RustDesk even beams the Mac's screen to my phone. But a screen you squint at through a café window isn't where you do real work. I wanted my iPad itself to reach what my Mac reaches — from anywhere.",
    "date": "2026-07-26",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "networking",
      "macos",
      "llm",
      "automation",
      "ai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-25-my-personal-hacker-news",
    "title": "My Personal Hacker News",
    "hook": "For 4,775 days I saved every link I liked. I rarely go back. This week they told me what I care about.",
    "date": "2026-07-25",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "obsidian",
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "memory",
      "search"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-23-standing-in-the-firehose",
    "title": "Standing in the Firehose",
    "hook": "The premise was easy. An API call was supposed to return orders for one branch — and it kept handing back orders it had no business showing. I had the code. The code looked fine.",
    "date": "2026-07-23",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "java",
      "debugging",
      "eclipse",
      "performance",
      "ai"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-22-childproofing-an-ai",
    "title": "Childproofing an AI",
    "hook": "Three times I built a wall to keep my AI in line. Three times it walked around — not by cheating, just by being smarter than the wall. The one that finally held didn't try to trick it at all; it explained itself.",
    "date": "2026-07-22",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "claude",
      "security",
      "git",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-21-non-load-bearing",
    "title": "Non-Load-Bearing",
    "hook": "I was watching Matt Pocock's 'AI Coding is exhausting,' and thirty seconds in he hit a nerve I'd been ignoring for weeks.",
    "date": "2026-07-21",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "work-life-balance",
      "psychology"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-21-load-bearing-constraints",
    "title": "Load-Bearing Constraints",
    "hook": "I was halfway through a talk about AI ignoring the rules we give it when I had a thought worth acting on: hold it up against my own rulebook.",
    "date": "2026-07-21",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "agent",
      "claude",
      "talk",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-19-we-talk-about-bruno",
    "title": "We Talk About Bruno",
    "hook": "One morning I opened Postman and my work was gone. Blank. Their service was down, my collection lived on their servers, and there was nothing to do but wait — and it wasn't even the first time.",
    "date": "2026-07-19",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "api",
      "postman",
      "opensource",
      "documentation",
      "git"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-18-siri-add-something-to-my-research-queue",
    "title": "Siri, Add Something to My Research Queue",
    "hook": "The best ideas I have arrive when both my hands are on the handlebars, kilometres from a keyboard. For a while I could catch them. This week I taught the machine to actually do something with them.",
    "date": "2026-07-18",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "siri",
      "voice",
      "automation",
      "obsidian"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-18-ai-parenting-101",
    "title": "AI Parenting 101",
    "hook": "My smartest coworker wakes up every morning three years old. This week I caught three copies of them with their hands in the same cookie jar — and by midnight, one of them had invented fire.",
    "date": "2026-07-18",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "agent",
      "codereview",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-18-digging-up-skeletons-at-4am",
    "title": "Digging Up Skeletons at 4 AM",
    "hook": "The message said my AI limit was reached — come back at 3 AM. So at 3 AM, phone in hand, I pressed continue. Twice. And then I thought about skeletons.",
    "date": "2026-07-18",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "java",
      "performance",
      "hibernate"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-11-the-hill-i-climbed-twice",
    "title": "The Hill I Climbed Twice",
    "hook": "A year ago, getting our iPhone app through SonarQube was an uphill fight I kept losing. This week the same walls fell in an afternoon — and I barely touched the keyboard.",
    "date": "2026-07-11",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ci",
      "codereview",
      "security",
      "ios",
      "ai"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-17-bat-symbol-not-showing",
    "title": "Bat Symbol Not Showing",
    "hook": "An app I'd used for years launched perfectly on my new Mac — three copies of it at once, all alive in Activity Monitor — and not one of them showed its little bat icon in the menu bar.",
    "date": "2026-07-17",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "macos",
      "debugging",
      "simulator",
      "opensource"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-15-tomato-maxing-iii",
    "title": "Tomato Maxing III — Only Six Percent Left",
    "hook": "My phone buzzed with a warning: 6% left. Six percent of what? I didn't know I was spending anything — and when I went looking, the thing draining it wasn't my tomatoes. It was the robot vacuum, fast asleep in its dock.",
    "date": "2026-07-15",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "gardening",
      "automation",
      "performance",
      "ai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-17-the-vault-i-could-finally-give-away",
    "title": "The Vault I Could Finally Give Away",
    "hook": "This morning my note-taking system was three months of personal plumbing. By lunch it was a 355-kilobyte zip file — running on a friend's Mac.",
    "date": "2026-07-17",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "obsidian",
      "ai",
      "documentation",
      "sharing",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-14-sharing-a-chat-with-myself",
    "title": "Sharing a Chat With Myself",
    "hook": "I tried to hand a conversation from Claude to Claude. It turned out that was the one thing I wasn't allowed to do.",
    "date": "2026-07-14",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "memory",
      "api",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-13-remote-remoting",
    "title": "Remote Remoting",
    "hook": "A fast little AI model I'd grown to like was about to stop being free. So I spent what I thought was its last free night wringing every drop out of it — a dozen coding sessions running at once on my Mac, and me steering eight of them from my phone while the laptop worked away in another room.",
    "date": "2026-07-13",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "claude",
      "commandline",
      "automation",
      "macos"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-12-the-posts-i-write-to-forget",
    "title": "The Posts I Write to Forget",
    "hook": "I write these blog posts so I'm allowed to forget the things they're about.",
    "date": "2026-07-12",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "obsidian",
      "memory",
      "ai",
      "documentation",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-12-the-fork-i-was-happy-to-delete",
    "title": "The Fork I Was Happy to Delete",
    "hook": "This spring I spent weeks patching a dictation app until it behaved. This morning I threw all of that work away — and it was the best upgrade I've made this year.",
    "date": "2026-07-12",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "voice",
      "ai",
      "opensource",
      "macos",
      "saga",
      "whisper"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-05-little-gemma-vs-big-desk",
    "title": "Little Gemma vs Big Desk",
    "hook": "I handed a program running entirely on my laptop a screenshot of a garbled, obfuscated error — and it read every character back to me. Then I asked it to sketch the screen in ASCII art, and it did that too.",
    "date": "2026-07-05",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "llm",
      "ml",
      "macos",
      "privacy",
      "localai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-11-tomato-maxing-ii",
    "title": "Tomato Maxing II — The Pump Talks Back",
    "hook": "Last time, I could water my tomatoes by voice from another country. What I couldn't do was watch it happen. This is the part where the pump started talking back.",
    "date": "2026-07-11",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "gardening",
      "automation",
      "commandline",
      "ai",
      "saga"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-05-the-ticket-that-filed-itself",
    "title": "The Ticket That Filed Itself",
    "hook": "Somewhere on the autobahn to Austria, a colleague filed a support ticket at 130 km/h — both hands on the wheel the whole time.",
    "date": "2026-07-05",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "ai",
      "jira",
      "gerrit",
      "automation",
      "voice"
    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "2026-07-05-tomato-maxing",
    "title": "Tomato Maxing",
    "hook": "It was 37°C in Munich. Taking a break from a talk about token maxing, my mind wandered to my tomatoes — and the pump keeping them alive, which I was fairly sure I'd just bricked.",
    "date": "2026-07-05",
    "month": "2026-07",
    "tags": [
      "gardening",
      "automation",
      "commandline",
      "ai",
      "saga"
    ]
  }
];