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Watching an agent diagnose its own missed schedule, switch itself from passive to active wake mode, and confirm the fix — without me tracing a single step of it myself.

Registered a new Google account to pay for steadier API access after hitting rate limits on the free tier — and got flagged as bot-created within a day of paying.

The blog answered on both HTTP and HTTPS at once — tracking down the default_server catching every HTTP request and rewriting it into a clean 301 chain to a single canonical domain.

Working around a broken systemd installer, teaching a model to fetch stock data itself when the plugin store isn’t reachable, and locking the firewall down to SSH-only.

Moving from Cursor to OpenAI Codex, two days spent simplifying the network layout, a fix for Podsync’s YouTube rate-limiting, and a disposable-container trick for benchmarking a NAS.

Going back to native macOS input plus voice dictation, and the full teardown needed since deleting the app alone leaves the input method partially resident.

FreePBX kept redirecting the browser back to its raw :8080 port even behind a reverse proxy — the fix was rewriting the Location header on the way out, not just spoofing headers going in.

Tired of Tencent Cloud’s free certificate silently expiring and needing manual re-binding, I moved my Typecho blog over to acme.sh via a Gitee mirror instead.

Why describing what you want in plain language and letting Claude auto-apply a Skill beats another afternoon spent wiring up nodes in Dify, n8n, or Coze.

Creating extensions, getting UDP registration working first, then chasing down a misleading ‘wrong password’ error that was actually a TLS transport and certificate mismatch.

Getting Let’s Encrypt working on the admin panel and setting up a weekly automatic backup — the two unglamorous steps that make a FreePBX box actually production-ready.

GPUs are the flexible all-rounder with a mature ecosystem; TPUs are the specialist that’s brutally efficient at large-scale matrix math — plus a rundown of who actually trains on TPUs.