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• The Memory Fix That Broke Its Own Alarm 8 Sep 2026 A memory-containment fix that worked, until something built on top of it discovered the fix had a silent second failure mode, and a live config-drift bug hiding inside that one.
• The Guardrails File That Grew Itself 5 Sep 2026 Part 5 of a series on building a personal AI-maintained knowledge system — seven rules became twenty-eight, and not one of them came from imagining what might go wrong.
• The Bottleneck Is Also the Inspector 3 Sep 2026
• My Wife Called Me a Vampire 17 Aug 2026
• Why a Mini-PC, Not a Hosted Server 10 Aug 2026 A decision-making case study using Franklin's weighted pros and cons — run three times on purpose, because the first pass treated a real regional risk as a vague one.
• Score a Platform Before Adopting It 7 Aug 2026
• My First Month With a Second Brain 3 Aug 2026
• The Real AI Limitation Isn't Missing Capability — It's the Gates Between Tools 3 Aug 2026 Every AI tool is a sovereign city with its own gates. The limitation isn't the AI — it's that moving context between them is still manual. Then I closed one of those gates in about two hours.
• The File Structure for My AI-Maintained Second Brain 3 Aug 2026 Part 4 of a series on building a personal AI-maintained knowledge system — five folders, atomic notes, and the hand-maintained index that went stale almost immediately.
• The Retry Loop Was the Real Problem, Not the Platform 3 Aug 2026 A hidden API quota looked like an outage. Of ten calls that day, only two were real publish attempts — the other eight were retries and diagnostic calls spent before anyone checked the gauges.
• Check the Bytes You're Actually Publishing 2 Aug 2026
• Finish the Text Before It Forks 2 Aug 2026
• Treat a Graphical-Only Surface as Terminal 2 Aug 2026
• If a Fork Is Unavoidable, Automate the Diff 2 Aug 2026
• Keep an Explicit "Needs a Desktop" List 2 Aug 2026
• How I Built a Working AI-Maintained Second Brain 2 Aug 2026 Part 1 of a series on building a personal AI-maintained knowledge system with Claude and Obsidian — the spark, the guardrails, and the hardware that made it real.
• Hardware Choice + Day 1 Security Setup for My AI-Maintained Second Brain 2 Aug 2026 Part 2 of a series on building a personal AI-maintained knowledge system — the actual hardware picked, and how day 1 of setup was approached.
• Locking Down Remote Access for My AI-Maintained Second Brain 2 Aug 2026 Part 3 of a series on building a personal AI-maintained knowledge system — reaching the machine from anywhere without exposing it, and the four phone-side failures that actually broke it.