Second Brain Chronicles
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Featured
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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 $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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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.
Recent Issues
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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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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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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
Wrapped a cloud browser rendering service into a CLI, pointed it at school websites for a live research project, and watched it catch two things AI research had gotten wrong.