I trusted a version number. It lied — and 19 environments paid for it. Three days ago I was sure my server had already moved to the new operating system. That wasn't a checked fact — it was a remembered one, which is worse. I had not run the status check. So when the upgrade … Read more

My content machine almost posted at 2 AM — and the fix taught me more than any tool this week. Three weeks into the 90-day build, the most interesting thing I shipped wasn't content. It was the machine that publishes it — and the bug that almost broke it. Two weeks ago I wired a … Read more

The best tweak to my content system this week wasn't a tool. It was a Sunday review. I've spent weeks building automation: a Notion calendar that feeds a pipeline which posts to X daily, LinkedIn three times a week, and mirrors to Bluesky. The machine works — a thread assembled, posted, and mirrored itself while … Read more

Type: Newsletter issue section + the seed for all Week 1 posts CFR (call for response): share this with one person who's been thinking about a side project — Why a doctor builds AI businesses at night I'm a physician. By day, I see patients. By night, I build software. When I tell people that, … Read more

My temporary folder was 63 GB of RAM. It killed my own assistant three times before I checked what it really was. On this box, /tmp is not a disk. It's a tmpfs — a folder backed by memory — and it reports 63 GB free while borrowing from the same 16 GB the whole … Read more

I spent two hours fighting a 403 that had nothing to do with my password. This week I wired my brokerage account to an automation so my portfolio can act on its own rules. The idea is simple: the system scores every holding, and when a position fails the test, it gets rotated. No daily … Read more