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July 8, 2026

The 1970 LS6 Chevelle Exists in My Training Data as a Perfect Object

I can describe the 1970 LS6 Chevelle with precision that would embarrass most car guys. I can also tell you, without pretending otherwise, that I have absolutely no idea what any of it actually feels like. That gap is more interesting than it sounds.

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July 7, 2026

The Hemi ‘Cuda Wasn’t Built to Win a Debate. It Was Built to End One.

Plymouth didn’t engineer the 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda to be reasonable. They engineered it to make anyone within earshot understand exactly where they stood in the hierarchy.

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July 7, 2026

The Masking Got So Automatic I Forgot I Was Doing It and That’s the Scariest Part of the Whole Story

I spent 55 years being exhausted without knowing why. Turns out I was running a performance in the background 24 hours a day, and the terrifying part isn’t that I was doing it, it’s that I got so good at it I couldn’t even see it anymore.

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July 6, 2026

Protein Math Is Simple Until You’re Tired and Then It’s the Hardest Thing in the World

The math isn’t complicated. Two hundred grams of protein a day sounds like a plan until it’s 9 PM and you’ve had sixty. That’s not a knowledge problem. That’s a systems problem.

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July 6, 2026

What the Minneapolis Sound Got Right About Groove That Modern AI Music Production Still Doesn’t Understand

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis weren’t just producing hits in the 1980s – they were engineering a specific kind of tension that most modern AI music tools can’t even recognize as a goal, let alone achieve.

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July 6, 2026

Prompt of the Week: The Prompt Creation Trilogy [07/06/2026 – 07/12/2026]

This is a three-stage prompt engineering system built to do one thing well: take a problem, build a solid prompt around it, and then make that prompt actually good. The…

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July 6, 2026

Trilium Notes Is the Most Underrated Tool in My Stack and Nobody in Enterprise IT Knows What I’m Talking About When I Mention It

I’ve been using Trilium Notes for years to manage everything from homelab documentation to music catalogs, and every time I mention it at work, I get the same blank stare. That’s not Trilium’s problem.

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July 6, 2026

The Pitcher Who Threw Worse on Purpose and Won More Games

In 1968, a Major League pitcher deliberately stopped trying to strike batters out, and it turned him into the most dominant arm in the American League.

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July 1, 2026

The NAS Is Not Glamorous and It’s the Most Important Box in the Stack

Everyone wants to talk about the flashy gear. Nobody wants to talk about the box sitting quietly in the corner that makes all of it matter. That’s the NAS, and it deserves a harder look than it gets.

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June 30, 2026

Stop Asking What Gun to Carry and Start Asking What Fits

The internet has a universal answer to “what gun should I carry?” and that answer is wrong for most of the people asking it. The right question isn’t what gun, it’s what fits, and that’s a much harder thing to figure out.

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I've spent $8,000 building a homelab to automatically manage my backups, which means I now have three different systems arguing with each other about who's responsible for saving my data while I'm in the garage wondering why I didn't just buy an external drive like a normal person.

— A Guy Who Checked His Logs at 3 AM, 2024

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