The Problem: Four Basement Disasters I Didn't Know Were Happening My house was built sometime in the early 1900s. Best guess is between 1910 and 1920, but no one knows for sure. It's been remodeled, expanded, and "improved" over the decades, and I'
I see it all the time on LinkedIn. Security people, software engineers, DevOps guys (people who understand tech better than anyone) all posting the same take: "I'll never put a smart device in my house." And honestly? I get it. The security is garbage. The privacy
I hate studying endless documents for the sake of studying. When it's just reading with no hands-on work, I can only go for so long before my brain checks out. Give me a problem to solve or something to build, and I'll stay engaged for hours.
It was Saturday afternoon. I walked out of my office and headed upstairs and immediately thought "man, it's way colder up here than it should be." I hadn't noticed from my office because I run an electric heater to keep it fairly warm while
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Part 2 – Under the Hood: How the Meal Prep Engine Actually Works Now for the gears and wires. Underneath the story, the Meal Prep Engine is basically: 1. A set of rulebooks (MealPrepInstructions.md and MealHistory.md, ). 2. A structured conversation flow with a review step. 3. A simple HTML
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Part 1 – Slightly Overengineered Meals: How a Simple Prompt Snowballed Into a Family System For a long time, dinner at my house followed a familiar pattern: * No plan. * Everyone’s hungry. * We make the easiest thing in sight. * Leftovers die in the fridge. I was trying to lose weight. The