Tag: automation
All the articles with the tag "automation".
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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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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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Trust Defaults
An iPad, a chatbot, three subagents, and 333 sessions all failed the same way this week. They were trusted by default.
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One Bot Starved the Other. So I Fired the Cloud.
OpenClaw's two studio audits shared a 30K token/minute budget. The first one ate it all. The second one silently died for two days.
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Rebranding a Website With AI in 90 Minutes
I rebranded Signal Over Noise from flat monochrome to claymorphic 3D — CSS, hero images, 6 sourced articles — in a single session. Here's what the process actually looked like.
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238 Apple Books Into Booklore Via a Categorisation Script
Built a bash script to categorise 304 Apple Books files by content type, dedupe against 3,054 existing entries, and import 238 survivors into 5 Booklore libraries.
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One iPhone Screenshot, Eight Sites Broken
My iPhone showed horizontal scrolling on jimchristian.net. I audited all 8 of my Astro sites in parallel and found the same class of bug in 7 of them.
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Vault Reorganization Broke Every Search Index
Reorganized the vault. Every search index pointed at folders that no longer existed. Rebuilt from scratch — 9 collections, 21K chunks, a 4-hour auto-refresh.
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Tasks Live in Two Places. Neither Knew About the Other.
Vault tasks and phone reminders existed in parallel. Built a bidirectional sync. The hardest part was macOS sed choking on emoji.
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Found 22 of 26 Logos. Assumed the Other 4 Didn't Exist.
Stopped searching for logos at 22 out of 26. All 26 existed in the same folder. Pattern matching success created false confidence.