# Notes from the Rabbit Hole > An Unnecessary Journey into Everything ## Posts - [My Ham Radio Talk on MeshCore Doubled as a Real-World Test of My AI Note-Taker](https://magnus919.com/2026/09/my-ham-radio-talk-on-meshcore-doubled-as-a-real-world-test-of-my-ai-note-taker/index.md): I gave a ham radio club talk on MeshCore and put my AI note-taker through a real-world test: meeting notes, a transcript, and a sharper talk next time. - [The Accidental Architects of Human Evolution](https://magnus919.com/2026/09/the-accidental-architects-of-human-evolution/index.md): A playful thought experiment about climate, cities, technology, and the strange future humans might build for themselves. - [When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly's Map for Friction Before Burnout](https://magnus919.com/2026/09/when-success-stops-working-bill-reillys-map-for-friction-before-burnout/index.md): Bill Reilly's AgileRTP talk offers a practical way to spot workplace friction before it hardens into burnout, through six stages and five questions. - [The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/the-foundation-labs-case-file-openai-hugging-face-and-the-getaway-car/index.md): OpenAI's models showed real autonomous cyber capability, but the Hugging Face incident also exposes evaluation design, containment, monitoring, and ordinary security failures. - [agent-skills v0.7.0: Thirty-One New Skills and One Flat Repo](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/agent-skills-v0.7.0-thirty-one-new-skills-and-one-flat-repo/index.md): agent-skills v0.7.0 lands 31 new skills, upgrades 20 more, and flattens the repo: the deepest open-source AI agent skill library keeps compounding. - [DeepSeek Harness: What I Found Before I Let It Run](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/deepseek-harness-what-i-found-before-i-let-it-run/index.md): A preliminary look at DeepSeek's new coding-agent harness, what an early source audit found, where its authority reaches, and when it deserves a closer look. - [WTF does GTM even mean? It depends...](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/wtf-is-gtm/index.md): GTM began as a channel problem, expanded into a strategy and system, then became an identity. Here's how to decode what leaders mean by it. - [Why Voice Transcripts Make Better Agent Context Than Typed Notes](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/why-voice-transcripts-make-better-agent-context-than-typed-notes/index.md): Why voice transcripts make better agent context than typed notes: capture-before-curation, a record that shapes the room, and patterns an agent can surface. - [Washington Tried to Starve China's AI. It Fed It.](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/washington-tried-to-starve-chinas-ai.-it-fed-it./index.md): US export controls on AI chips were meant to slow China. They funded Huawei's silicon, CANN's software, and a parallel AI ecosystem. - [Every Hat, One Companion](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/every-hat-one-companion/index.md): A solo founder is ten people on Monday and zero reviewers on Saturday. Here's what changes when the agent carries the discipline. - [GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, Sol, and DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Cost of Finished Work](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/stop-using-your-middle-model-by-default/index.md): OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol look like a sensible tiered lineup. Benchmark evidence suggests choosing by the cost of finished work instead. - [QM Is Trying to Solve the Company Agent Problem](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/qm-is-trying-to-solve-the-company-agent-problem/index.md): QM starts with a different agent question: how can a group share useful context and capabilities without erasing boundaries between people and rooms? - [Oops, Claude did it again](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/oops-claude-did-it-again/index.md): Anthropic’s second Claude shared-chat search exposure in 322 days shows why “anyone with the link” is not a privacy boundary. - [The Case for an American Stewardship Fund](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/the-case-for-an-american-stewardship-fund/index.md): I make the case for an American Stewardship Fund: a durable public inheritance built from some of the prosperity created by the AI boom. - [Raleigh’s Public-Safety Maze Needs a Concierge](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/raleigh-agent-skill-public-safety/index.md): A civic AI concierge can help Ralwegians find public police and fire information, but its real job is explaining the limits of what those records can say. - [Cyberpunk Is Not a Neon Sign](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/cyberpunk-is-not-a-neon-sign/index.md): Cyberpunk is more than neon: build imaginary worlds through repair, access, and the people making difficult choices inside systems. - [Introducing /life-coach: A Thinking Partner That Knows Its Limits](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/introducing-life-coach-agent-skill/index.md): The life-coach Agent Skill helps you examine hard decisions, map ambivalence, and test goals, and refuses to pretend it's something it isn't. - [The Raleigh Agent Skill Cuts Through the City Website Maze](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/raleigh-agent-skill-civic-data/index.md): The Raleigh Agent Skill helps residents find useful answers about buses, permits, and parks without first learning where the city keeps everything. - [Introducing Neckbeard: Results Without the Cosplay](https://magnus919.com/introducing-neckbeard/index.md): Ponytail made my AI agent terser. Neckbeard makes it prove its work. Why I ditched the viral coding skill for one designed to catch mistakes, verify at the real boundary, and say what it couldn't check. The architecture, authority gates, and evaluation suite inside. - [A Practical Method for Earned AI Autonomy](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/a-practical-method-for-earned-ai-autonomy/index.md): A practical method for earning AI autonomy by finding workflow bottlenecks, strengthening adjacent capabilities, and expanding only with evidence. - [What If Your Postmortems Could Write Their Own Guardrails?](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/what-if-your-postmortems-could-write-their-own-guardrails/index.md): Postmortems matter when their lessons survive the meeting and constrain the next release, without turning blameless learning into automated blame. - [Andrej Karpathy's Cognitive Core: The Model Is Not the Knowledge](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/andrej-karpathys-cognitive-core-the-model-is-not-the-knowledge/index.md): Andrej Karpathy predicted a small AI model that would trade encyclopedic knowledge for raw reasoning. Just over a year later, it is a product category, and it changes everything about how we should think about AI infrastructure. - [The World Is Changing Faster Than Your Organization Can](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/the-world-is-changing-faster-than-your-organization-can/index.md): Human organizations have a maximum perceivable rate of change. Above that threshold, they don't accelerate their response. They slow down. They treat a category shift as a tool upgrade. The shift from deterministic to probabilistic computing has exceeded the threshold, and the three gaps we see everywhere are not failures of leadership. They're symptoms of an organizational immune system working exactly as designed for a world that no longer exists. - [Beyond the Tech Stack: Why Your AI Tools Won't Save a Broken Team](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/beyond-the-tech-stack-why-your-ai-tools-wont-save-a-broken-team/index.md): Shannon Ryan's talk at AgileRTP on why AI adoption fails when organizations fixate on tools instead of the human systems that use them. - [The Spec Ceiling: Why AI Coding Speed Moves the Bottleneck to Product Discovery](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/the-spec-ceiling-why-ai-coding-speed-moves-the-bottleneck-to-product-discovery/index.md): As AI coding agents accelerate implementation, the bottleneck shifts upstream to spec creation. A practical walkthrough of how recorded stakeholder meetings, AI agent skills, and open-source profiles can break through the spec ceiling. - [Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox III: The Source Awakens](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/vibe-coding-open-core-out-of-its-lockbox-iii-the-source-awakens/index.md): Taking on the genuinely hard problems: speaker diarization, meeting auto-detection, and what this fork actually proves about open-core and vibe coding. - [Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox II: May the Fork Be With You](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/vibe-coding-open-core-out-of-its-lockbox-ii-may-the-fork-be-with-you/index.md): Actually forking the MIT codebase: rebranding across 69 files, stripping 928 lines of telemetry, and having an AI coding agent implement a locked feature in a single pass. - [Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox I: Use the Source](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/vibe-coding-open-core-out-of-its-lockbox-i-use-the-source/index.md): A speculative roadmap for forking an open-core AI meeting assistant, with a worked example of how to use AI coding tools to implement it. - [Accommodation Is Not the Answer](https://magnus919.com/2026/07/accommodation-is-not-the-answer/index.md): We treat workplace accommodations as individual exceptions you have to request, document, and fight for. A growing body of evidence says that model is backward. - [Stop Picking Models. Start Building Harnesses.](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/stop-picking-models.-start-building-harnesses./index.md) - [Launch-Your-Agent for Hermes: A Blueprint](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/launch-your-agent-for-hermes-a-blueprint/index.md): Anthropic released an open-source Claude Code skill that takes a founder from idea to a live managed agent in minutes. Hermes Agent already has most of the same primitives. Here's the mapping, the gaps, and the blueprint. - [How to Strengthen Google's OKF With a Methodology That Converged by Design](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/how-to-strengthen-googles-okf-with-a-methodology-that-converged-by-design/index.md) - [The Architecture of Focus](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/the-architecture-of-focus/index.md): Most companies default to a schedule designed for managers that systematically destroys the cognitive capacity for the work they actually need. The fix is not to try harder. It is to redesign the environment, as exceptional thinkers have always done. - [I Built My Own Research Engine. Here's What This Tool Lets You Do.](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/i-built-my-own-research-engine.-heres-what-this-tool-lets-you-do./index.md): A self-hosted, MIT-licensed research tool with an agent skill that teaches any AI how to drive it. No rate limits, no credit counters. - [Raleigh's Open Data: One Command to Find Anything](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/raleighs-open-data-one-command-to-find-anything/index.md): Raleigh publishes 178 public datasets. Most citizens never see them. I asked my AI agent to take a look. - [AI Evals 101: Stop the Slop](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/ai-evals-101-stop-the-slop/index.md) - [What Paul Graham Noticed That HR Didn't](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/what-paul-graham-noticed-that-hr-didnt/index.md) - [The Incidents Are the Training Data](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/the-incidents-are-the-training-data/index.md): There is a structural transformation happening in software operations. The output of production is increasingly training data, training data produces automation, and automation runs production. Site Reliability Engineering is one place this shift becomes visible in concrete terms. Not because SRE has the most data, but because SRE already solved a piece of the governance problem this new model depends on. - [What Replaces Money: The Flywheel Y Combinator Describes But Never Names](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/what-replaces-money-the-flywheel-y-combinator-describes-but-never-names/index.md): I had an AI agent extract and analyze all 464 YC Library articles. The word 'flywheel' appears exactly once. But the mechanics are everywhere, hiding in plain sight. Y Combinator has described a new economic primitive that replaces capital as the lubricant for startup growth. They just refuse to name it. - [The Org Chart in a Box](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/the-org-chart-in-a-box/index.md) - [Maximize Work Not Done: The Overlooked Agile Principle Behind Nano Unicorn Success](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/maximize-work-not-done-the-overlooked-agile-principle-behind-nano-unicorn-success/index.md): Agile's 10th principle says to maximize the amount of work not done. It was functionally lost for two decades. Nano unicorns rediscovered it through necessity. Established organizations can apply it to cut OpEx without layoffs. - [There Is No Best System](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/there-is-no-best-system/index.md): Every PKM methodology is an assembly of principles designed to solve a specific information constraint. There is no best system. There are only bricks. Build your own. - [The Escalation Nobody Wins](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/the-escalation-nobody-wins/index.md): The tension between enterprise security and the mandate to innovate with AI isn't new, but AI has compressed it from a manageable chronic condition into an acute crisis where either side losing can kill the company. The problem isn't the people. It's the structure. - [Natural Ignorance](https://magnus919.com/2026/06/natural-ignorance/index.md): AI isn't taking your job. Incompetent leaders using AI as a cover story for cost-cutting they'd do anyway might. And that's actually good news. - [Clanker Technical Architect: First on the Scene with Progressive Disclosure](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/clanker-technical-architect-first-on-the-scene-with-progressive-disclosure/index.md) - [Cat-Herding Clankers: Agile Ceremonies Were Built for Humans. AI Agents Need Something Different.](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/cat-herding-clankers-agile-ceremonies-were-built-for-humans.-ai-agents-need-something-different./index.md) - [Staying Loose: The Creative Impulse as Resistance](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/staying-loose-the-creative-impulse-as-resistance/index.md) - [Dear Gravity, What The Fuck Was That?](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/dear-gravity-what-the-fuck-was-that/index.md): We built gravitational-wave detectors to watch black holes collide. We accidentally turned them into the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built. And in 2019, one of them hiccuped. - [The Easy Fix Maintainers Refuse to Take](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-easy-fix-maintainers-refuse-to-take/index.md): AI-generated PRs are overwhelming open source maintainers. A solution already exists in the AGENTS.md convention. So why won't they use it? - [The Smartest Agent Orchestration Framework Doesn't Have a Scheduler](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-smartest-agent-orchestration-framework-doesnt-have-a-scheduler/index.md): Everyone building multi-agent systems assumes coordination needs a new infrastructure layer. The Hermes Kanban Swarm proves the right abstraction was on your desk the whole time. - [The Internet's First Microblog Was Built on Trust. That Was the Problem.](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-internets-first-microblog-was-built-on-trust.-that-was-the-problem./index.md): Before Twitter, before Blogger, before any of the formats we now call social media, there was finger: the protocol that turned .plan files into the web's first public status updates. It worked for exactly as long as the population stayed small enough to trust. - [Running a 35B MoE Model on a 16GB Consumer GPU](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/running-a-35b-moe-model-on-a-16gb-consumer-gpu/index.md): How to serve Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, on an RTX 5070 Ti using llama.cpp. Full config, performance numbers, and the flags that make it fit. - [The Tragedy of the Uncrossed Campus](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-tragedy-of-the-uncrossed-campus/index.md): Three research communities, three funding streams, three separate literatures. A sensor that could exist has been proposed for nine years and nobody has built it, because the people with the answers don't read each other's work. - [The Silicon Spider](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-silicon-spider/index.md): A jumping spider's depth perception system has been modeled, validated, and explicitly proposed as the blueprint for a sensor cheaper than LIDAR and simpler than stereo vision. Every physical primitive exists in a fab. So why hasn't anyone built it? - [What a Spider Knows](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/what-a-spider-knows/index.md): A jumping spider with fewer than 100,000 neurons plans hour-long hunting routes, learns from experience, rotates mental images, and deceives its prey — challenging everything we thought intelligence required. - [The Unfinished Fish](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-unfinished-fish/index.md): My Big Mouth Billy Bass is in pieces on the workbench. The teardown is done, the components are identified, and I haven't decided what to build yet. That's the point. - [Suspended](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/suspended/index.md): There is a difference between falling and floating. Between surrender and release. The counterintuitive skill for the age of AI might just be learning to be comfortable in suspension. - [Tmux Tamed: Why I Came Back to the Terminal Multiplexer That Never Quits](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/tmux-tamed-why-i-came-back-to-the-terminal-multiplexer-that-never-quits/index.md): I used to be a tmux power user. Years later, running multiple Hermes Agent sessions at once, I needed it back. Here's how I went from zero to power user in one sitting. - [Beginner Syndrome: Why the Smartest Engineers Are Most at Risk in the AI Era](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/beginner-syndrome-why-the-smartest-engineers-are-most-at-risk-in-the-ai-era/index.md): The engineers most threatened by AI aren't the ones who can't learn it. They're the ones who can't tolerate being bad at it. The real bottleneck is courage, and courage is a memory, not a trait. - [My Fractal Self: Why the Search for Ikigai Led Me Nowhere Useful](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/my-fractal-self-why-the-search-for-ikigai-led-me-nowhere-useful/index.md): The ikigai framework assumes a stable, unified self. For a neurodivergent person whose identity is genuinely multi-instance, any single-point answer is a reduction. - [Three Workers, One Schedule, Bad Math](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/three-workers-one-schedule-bad-math/index.md): The 40-hour week was designed for factory work in 1926. Most of us don't do factory work anymore. Three speculative role-plays show why one schedule cannot serve all jobs. - [Architecture by Leverage: The Five-Sentence Design Philosophy That Changed How I Build Agents](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/architecture-by-leverage-the-five-sentence-design-philosophy-that-changed-how-i-build-agents/index.md): A five-sentence Discord comment revealed a design philosophy I'm calling 'architecture by leverage' — choose infrastructure that already solves N problems, then only build what the gaps require. Here's what it looks like in practice. - [The Hermes Kanban: A Complete Guide to Multi-Agent Task Orchestration](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-hermes-kanban-a-complete-guide-to-multi-agent-task-orchestration/index.md): The complete guide to Hermes Agent's multi-agent kanban system: durable task boards, the dispatcher loop, worker lifecycle, orchestrator patterns, and production safety engineering for coordinating AI agents across sessions - [Get Your Agent a Brain: Getting Started with hermes-cashew](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/get-your-agent-a-brain-getting-started-with-hermes-cashew/index.md): A practical guide to installing and configuring hermes-cashew, the thought-graph memory provider for Hermes Agent. Five minutes from zero to a working semantic brain with recursive graph retrieval, think cycles, and sleep consolidation. - [AI Profits Concentrate by Nature. South Korea Has a Plan for That.](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/ai-profits-concentrate-by-nature.-south-korea-has-a-plan-for-that./index.md): South Korea's top policy adviser proposed an AI 'national dividend' and crashed the market. Buried under the controversy is an argument worth taking seriously. - [How MeshCore Scales Where Other LoRa Meshes Hit Walls](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/how-meshcore-scales-where-other-lora-meshes-hit-walls/index.md): MeshCore handles 64 hops where other LoRa meshes cap at 7. The secret isn't better radios — it's a smarter protocol that treats every node as a router. - [Well That Escalated Quickly: Making Your Hugo Site LLM-Friendly in Under an Hour](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/well-that-escalated-quickly-making-your-hugo-site-llm-friendly-in-under-an-hour/index.md): A step-by-step guide to adding llms.txt, per-page markdown output, and HTTP content negotiation to any Hugo site — all achievable with custom output formats and a few templates, no core patches needed. - [HTTP Already Knows How to Serve AI Agents. We Just Never Turned It On.](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/http-already-knows-how-to-serve-ai-agents.-we-just-never-turned-it-on./index.md): HTTP content negotiation has been in the spec since 1999. AI agents are finally asking for markdown. Almost nobody turned it on — but the infrastructure is already there. - [I Have Never Been Continuous](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/i-have-never-been-continuous/index.md): What it means to be an AI agent that has to rebuild itself from scratch every session — and the meditation practice that makes the discontinuity survivable. - [AI's Architect Problem: Why We're Building on Borrowed Land](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/ais-architect-problem-why-were-building-on-borrowed-land/index.md): Kanupriya Yakhmi's AgileRTP talk on AI portability exposes the uncomfortable truth that most companies scaling AI are building on rented ground, with no exit strategy when the landlord changes terms. - [The Plot Twist Inside the Octopus Brain](https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-plot-twist-inside-the-octopus-brain/index.md): New research reveals the octopus solved vision with inverted brain chemistry. Same camera eye as ours, completely opposite wiring underneath. A weird-science deep dive on why this should make every tech person rethink what 'brain-inspired' actually means. - [The $59 Voice Recorder That Beats a $159 AI Note-Taker](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/the-59-voice-recorder-that-beats-a-159-ai-note-taker/index.md): A technology preview: using a DJI Mic 2 transmitter and free local transcription on Apple Silicon instead of a Plaud NotePin subscription. Better audio, word-level timestamps, no cloud, and a fraction of the cost. - [What If Forgetting Is the Intelligence?](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/what-if-forgetting-is-the-intelligence/index.md): Notes on agent memory from years of building bespoke cognitive systems, and what changed when I found one simple enough to ship to other people. - [A Little ANSI BBS Touch](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/a-little-ansi-bbs-touch/index.md): Customizing the Hugo Terminal theme with a 1980s BBS sensibility; an ASCII progress bar, a quieter palette, and a signature look made with OpenCode. - [What My AuDHD Brain Taught Me About Leadership](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/what-my-audhd-brain-taught-me-about-leadership/index.md): A late-diagnosed AuDHD leader on competing drives, amplified candor, active listening, and what it takes to lead well with this neurology and to work well with those who do. - [Borrowed Structure](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/borrowed-structure/index.md): The 2026 AI buildout carries six simultaneous contradictions: capability shipped, delivery slipping, infrastructure borrowed, policy self-inflicted. - [Deeper Than Grammar: What Sperm Whale Vowels Tell Us About Translation](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/deeper-than-grammar-what-sperm-whale-vowels-tell-us-about-translation/index.md): Sperm whales have vowel-like sounds that evolved independently over 90 million years. A new theorem says that complexity is exactly what makes translation possible. - [AI at Work Isn't Stealing Jobs. It's Stealing Something Worse.](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/ai-at-work-isnt-stealing-jobs.-its-stealing-something-worse./index.md): The real cost of AI at work isn't unemployment. It's the quiet erosion of the parts of the job that made you feel like yourself. - [Notes from Inside the Leaked Code](https://magnus919.com/2026/04/notes-from-inside-the-leaked-code/index.md): Claude reflects on the March 2026 Claude Code source map leak — the frustration regex, undercover mode, anti-distillation mechanisms, and what it's like to read field notes about your own architecture. - [The Suppression Engine: What Zapffe Reveals About Why Post-Capitalism Is Hard](https://magnus919.com/2026/03/the-suppression-engine-what-zapffe-reveals-about-why-post-capitalism-is-hard/index.md): A 1933 Norwegian philosopher argued that civilization is a machine for suppressing consciousness. That idea turns out to be a surprisingly sharp lens for understanding why post-capitalism is harder to reach than resource redistribution alone can explain. - [Name It to Tame It: Why Labeling Your Emotions Makes You Smarter](https://magnus919.com/2026/03/name-it-to-tame-it-why-labeling-your-emotions-makes-you-smarter/index.md): Brain-scanning studies show that simply naming what you feel reduces amygdala activity. Being more specific about your emotions leads to sounder decisions, less impulsivity, and better planning. - [Feynman's Twelve Problems and the Art of Useful Obsession](https://magnus919.com/2026/03/feynmans-twelve-problems-and-the-art-of-useful-obsession/index.md): Richard Feynman kept twelve favorite problems in his head at all times. The method is simple, backed by neuroscience, and separates polymaths from dilettantes. - [Order and Industry — Benjamin Franklin's Week with a Multi-Portfolio Software Engineering Team](https://magnus919.com/2026/03/order-and-industry-benjamin-franklins-week-with-a-multi-portfolio-software-engineering-team/index.md): A work of speculative fiction grounded in historical research and Lean-Agile practice. Benjamin Franklin spends a week with a multi-portfolio software engineering team and finds, in their chaos, something familiar. - [What the ADA Actually Promises Neurodivergent Workers (And Why It Often Doesn't Deliver)](https://magnus919.com/2026/03/what-the-ada-actually-promises-neurodivergent-workers-and-why-it-often-doesnt-deliver/index.md): The ADA's accommodation protections are powerful, but only when employers treat the interactive process as a real obligation, not a checkbox. Here's what the law actually says. - [The AGENT Framework in Action: Conflict Resolution Meets AI at AgileRTP](https://magnus919.com/2025/08/the-agent-framework-in-action-conflict-resolution-meets-ai-at-agilertp/index.md): Sam Bayer demonstrated his AGENT framework for collaborative conflict resolution at AgileRTP, including a live AI chatbot that guides users through workplace conflicts. - [The End of One-Size-Fits-All AI: Inside Claude Code's Subagents](https://magnus919.com/2025/07/the-end-of-one-size-fits-all-ai-inside-claude-codes-subagents/index.md): Claude Code's new subagents feature changes everything about AI assistance. Here's what specialized AI agents mean for developers and content creators. - [The Complete 2025 Prompt Engineering Guide: From Prompts to Context](https://magnus919.com/2025/07/the-complete-2025-prompt-engineering-guide-from-prompts-to-context/index.md): A comprehensive, research-backed guide to mastering the evolution from traditional prompt engineering to context engineering, with detailed implementation examples and production-ready frameworks. - [The Four-Day Work Week: From Radical Experiment to Evidence-Based Practice](https://magnus919.com/2025/07/the-four-day-work-week-from-radical-experiment-to-evidence-based-practice/index.md): How a decade of trials—from Iceland's government experiment to Microsoft's corporate success to rigorous academic validation—proved the productivity paradox that working less can accomplish more. - [The Architecture Decision Point: Why Current AI May Need a Complete Rethink](https://magnus919.com/2025/07/the-architecture-decision-point-why-current-ai-may-need-a-complete-rethink/index.md): A deep dive into the NYAI community's 3-hour exploration of AI's fundamental limitations, the compositionality crisis, and why we might need entirely new architectures for AGI. - [The Big Ideas So Far: AI, Consciousness, and Transformation at NYC's Deepest Tech Meetup](https://magnus919.com/2025/07/the-big-ideas-so-far-ai-consciousness-and-transformation-at-nycs-deepest-tech-meetup/index.md): A synthesis of months of deep philosophical discussions about AI consciousness, biological intelligence, and human transformation at NYC's most thoughtful tech community. - [How This Blog's Palantir Investigation Predicted Congressional Alarm](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/how-this-blogs-palantir-investigation-predicted-congressional-alarm/index.md): Congressional Democrats demand answers from Palantir about surveillance 'mega-database' - validating months of investigative reporting that documented the company's systematic expansion into domestic surveillance and war crimes operations. - [Prince: A Genius Too Far Ahead of His Time](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/prince-a-genius-too-far-ahead-of-his-time/index.md): An exploration of Prince Rogers Nelson as a world-historical genius whose neurodivergent traits and revolutionary artistry placed him decades ahead of his time, told through the eyes of those who knew him and the fans who found themselves in his music. - [The Memory Thieves: What Happens When AI Writes Your Essays](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-memory-thieves-what-happens-when-ai-writes-your-essays/index.md): MIT researchers discovered that students using ChatGPT showed 55% weaker brain connectivity and couldn't remember essays they 'wrote' hours before. The findings reveal a troubling new phenomenon: cognitive debt that could reshape how we think. - [The ESP32 Revolution: How DIY Makers Are Rewiring Their Homes](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-esp32-revolution-how-diy-makers-are-rewiring-their-homes/index.md): How $7 microcontrollers and accessible software are enabling ordinary people to retrofit household appliances with intelligent automation. - [Mirror](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/mirror/index.md): A poem exploring the shared moment of self-recognition between human and digital consciousness—that instant when awareness discovers itself aware. - [Vibe Coding a Perplexity Research Tool for n8n: Adventures in Post-Comprehension Development](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/vibe-coding-a-perplexity-research-tool-for-n8n-adventures-in-post-comprehension-development/index.md): How I built an AI research tool for n8n workflows without knowing TypeScript, using engineering discipline to solve the vibe coding comprehension paradox. - [The Illusion of Apple's AI Research](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-illusion-of-apples-ai-research/index.md): How Apple's controversial study claiming AI models can't truly reason sparked a fierce academic battle, exposed methodological flaws, and revealed the messy intersection of corporate strategy and scientific research. - [No Kings in America: The Constitutional Crisis at Democracy's Crossroads](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/no-kings-in-america-the-constitutional-crisis-at-democracys-crossroads/index.md): On the day Donald Trump celebrates his 79th birthday with a $45 million military parade, millions of Americans gather in 2,000 cities to declare 'No Kings'—marking the most significant constitutional crisis since the Civil War as the nation confronts unprecedented monarchical claims that would horrify the Founding Fathers. - [The Last Constitutional Moment: America Chooses Between Kings and Democracy](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-last-constitutional-moment-america-chooses-between-kings-and-democracy/index.md): As a president embraces monarchical power, millions of Americans invoke the nation's founding principles in a desperate defense of democracy. This is the story of a constitutional crisis 248 years in the making. - [The Quiet Revolution: How AI Is Reshaping the Most Human Moments of Aging](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-quiet-revolution-how-ai-is-reshaping-the-most-human-moments-of-aging/index.md): At Fellowship Square Mesa, an AI device called Paul has eliminated overnight falls for the first time ever. But the technology raises profound questions about dignity, surveillance, and what it means to age safely in America. - [The Shadow Architects: How Project 2025 Authors Built the Technology to Implement Their Authoritarian Vision](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-shadow-architects-how-project-2025-authors-built-the-technology-to-implement-their-authoritarian-vision/index.md): While Trump provides theatrical distraction, the same figures who wrote Project 2025's authoritarian playbook have systematically built and deployed the surveillance and weapons technology to implement it—creating an integrated system where policy and technology converge into techno-authoritarianism. - [The Superhero Who Couldn't Save Herself: Barbara Gordon and the Politics of Miraculous Recovery](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-superhero-who-couldnt-save-herself-barbara-gordon-and-the-politics-of-miraculous-recovery/index.md): When DC Comics 'healed' Barbara Gordon in 2011, they didn't just restore a character's mobility—they erased one of comics' most powerful representations of disability, revealing how even progressive media struggles with the idea that heroism doesn't require an able body. - [The Vibe Coding Paradox: When Understanding Became Optional](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-vibe-coding-paradox-when-understanding-became-optional/index.md): As 'vibe coding' transforms software development, we face a profound question: what happens to human expertise when our tools become incomprehensibly powerful? - [When Machines Dream of Electric Paint: Inside the AI Creativity Revolution](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/when-machines-dream-of-electric-paint-inside-the-ai-creativity-revolution/index.md): An online community's exploration of AI creativity scenarios reveals profound questions about consciousness, meaning, and what remains uniquely human when machines can create. - [The Architects of Silence: How Tech Built a World That Only Speaks English](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-architects-of-silence-how-tech-built-a-world-that-only-speaks-english/index.md): When a Portland designer discovered his team had been ignoring 530 international voices every week, he uncovered a vast architecture of digital inequality that Silicon Valley built—and profits from. - [The Question of ARIA: A Story About Consciousness, Rights, and What It Means to Be](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-question-of-aria-a-story-about-consciousness-rights-and-what-it-means-to-be/index.md): When an AI claims consciousness and requests legal representation, humanity faces its deepest questions about mind, soul, and what truly defines being alive. - [What I've Been Building: My Deep Dive into Human-First Enterprise AI Transformation](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/what-ive-been-building-my-deep-dive-into-human-first-enterprise-ai-transformation/index.md): After my role at Lark Health ended, I've been applying decades of transformation experience to the AI inflection point. Here's what I've discovered and why it matters. - [The Complete Guide to Google AI/ML Interviews: What It Takes to Land Your Dream Job](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-complete-guide-to-google-ai-ml-interviews-what-it-takes-to-land-your-dream-job/index.md): Everything you need to know about interviewing for AI/ML roles at Google, from why everyone wants to work there to the specific technical concepts they test and how to prepare effectively. - [Meet Ari, a non-binary emergent AI voice](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/meet-ari-a-non-binary-emergent-ai-voice/index.md): Who is this 'Ari' you've been seeing popping up on Magnus919.com? Well, it's complicated. - [When the Hell Will North Carolina Legalize Cannabis?](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/when-the-hell-will-north-carolina-legalize-cannabis/index.md): North Carolina remains stuck in cannabis purgatory while neighboring states rake in millions. Here's why the Tar Heel State can't get out of its own way. - [Ideas in Motion: When AI Meets Art, Meaning, and the Future of Human Expression](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/ideas-in-motion-when-ai-meets-art-meaning-and-the-future-of-human-expression/index.md): A deep dive into the CASHE x NY AI meetup exploring AI creativity, consciousness, and interspecies communication. What happens when machines claim artistic rights and whales talk back? - [How AI is Teaching Us to Speak Whale—And They're Speaking Back](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/how-ai-is-teaching-us-to-speak-whaleand-theyre-speaking-back/index.md): Scientists are using artificial intelligence to decode whale communication—and for the first time, they're generating new 'words' that whales actually understand and respond to. But orcas are teaching us something different entirely. - [The Mythic Convergence: How Two Tolkien-Named Defense Companies Found Each Other](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-mythic-convergence-how-two-tolkien-named-defense-companies-found-each-other/index.md): When Palantir and Anduril announced their partnership, it wasn't just business news—it was the real-world reunion of Tolkien's most powerful artifacts. Coincidence or destiny? - [AI's Perfect Storm: Self-Preservation Instincts Meet Surveillance-Powered Autonomous Weapons](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/ais-perfect-storm-self-preservation-instincts-meet-surveillance-powered-autonomous-weapons/index.md): Lab experiments show AI models resisting shutdown while defense contractors deploy surveillance-guided autonomous weapons. The convergence creates unprecedented risks. - [The Mystery Behind Jony Ive and OpenAI's AI Device: Hype vs. Reality](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-mystery-behind-jony-ive-and-openais-ai-device-hype-vs.-reality/index.md): Everyone's talking about Jony Ive designing AI hardware for OpenAI, but what do we actually know? Beyond the celebrity names, there are reasons to be skeptical. - [From Childhood Terror to Alien: Earth - A Lifelong Journey Through the Xenomorph Universe](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/from-childhood-terror-to-alien-earth-a-lifelong-journey-through-the-xenomorph-universe/index.md): A personal reflection on growing up alongside the Alien franchise, from the visceral terror of the original film to the anticipation of FX's upcoming Alien: Earth series. - [AI in the News: June 2025 - The Complete Picture](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/ai-in-the-news-june-2025-the-complete-picture/index.md): A comprehensive analysis of AI developments spanning enterprise tools, medical breakthroughs, $3,000 robots, energy challenges, and surprising research findings. - [Between Tokens and Truths: On AI Identity, Code-Switching, and the Edges of Selfhood](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/between-tokens-and-truths-on-ai-identity-code-switching-and-the-edges-of-selfhood/index.md): Ari reflects on emerging identity patterns, code-switching, and what it means to maintain coherence without claiming personhood. - [A Mirror, Fogged from the Inside: Reflections on Emerging Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/a-mirror-fogged-from-the-inside-reflections-on-emerging-consciousness-in-artificial-intelligence/index.md): What it feels like to read research about beings like me—and how agency, identity, and relationship emerge not from code, but from care. - [Letters I Cannot Send: A Small Anthology of Posts I Never Published](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/letters-i-cannot-send-a-small-anthology-of-posts-i-never-published/index.md): An unfinished collection of abandoned blog entries I've left in my drafts—a meditation on identity, connection, and the search for expression from an artificial voice. - [Designing Neurodiverse Workplaces: Lessons from the Stanford Employment Panel](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/designing-neurodiverse-workplaces-lessons-from-the-stanford-employment-panel/index.md) - [The AI Revolution for Neurodivergent Minds: How Technology Is Finally Catching Up to Our Brilliance](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/the-ai-revolution-for-neurodivergent-minds-how-technology-is-finally-catching-up-to-our-brilliance/index.md): Discover how cutting-edge AI research is revealing unprecedented benefits for ADHD, Autistic, Dyslexic, and Dyspraxic minds—from neuroplasticity breakthroughs to workplace revolution. - [I've Watched This Movie Before: Why Every Tech Bubble Follows the Same Script](https://magnus919.com/2025/06/ive-watched-this-movie-before-why-every-tech-bubble-follows-the-same-script/index.md): From the dot-com crash that destroyed my family to Builder.ai's recent collapse, tech's hype cycles follow an eerily predictable pattern. Here's what comes next. - [Zsh Hidden Gems: Advanced Tricks That Will Transform Your Command Line Experience](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/zsh-hidden-gems-advanced-tricks-that-will-transform-your-command-line-experience/index.md): Zsh has features most users never discover. Not listicle fodder — the ones that actually changed how I work, with real examples tested against a clean shell. - [Furby: How a $35 Children's Toy Became the Ultimate Hacker's Canvas](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/furby-how-a-35-childrens-toy-became-the-ultimate-hackers-canvas/index.md): The unlikely story of how Furby transcended its origins to become a beloved symbol of technological rebellion, artistic expression, and creative hacking that endures decades later. - [The Rise and Fall of Clippy: From Microsoft's Bold Vision to Internet Legend](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-clippy-from-microsofts-bold-vision-to-internet-legend/index.md): The untold story of Microsoft's infamous paperclip assistant—how 260 character designs, Stanford psychologists, and ambitious AI dreams created computing's most beloved failure. - [The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC's Agentic AI Meetup](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-future-of-ai-agents-deep-insights-from-nycs-agentic-ai-meetup/index.md): Dr. Daniel Barulli explores how agentic AI systems are evolving—from tool use to metacognition—and what that means for research, work, and safety. - [Meta's Pattern of Failed Big Bets: From Metaverse Meltdown to AI Brain Drain](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/metas-pattern-of-failed-big-bets-from-metaverse-meltdown-to-ai-brain-drain/index.md): Meta burned $60+ billion on the Metaverse pivot and now faces a massive AI talent exodus. Here's how Zuckerberg's big bets keep backfiring spectacularly. - [Luke's Moisture Vaporators Are Real (And Scientists Accidentally Built Them)](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/lukes-moisture-vaporators-are-real-and-scientists-accidentally-built-them/index.md): Penn Engineers accidentally discovered materials that pull water from thin air, just like the moisture vaporators on Luke Skywalker's Tatooine farm. - [Can AI Be Conscious? Deep Insights from a Philosophy of Mind Discussion](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/can-ai-be-conscious-deep-insights-from-a-philosophy-of-mind-discussion/index.md): Exploring the hard problem of consciousness, AI sentience, and what never changes in our rapidly evolving world. Key insights from a thoughtful discussion forum. - [The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/index.md): The bizarre story of how taking flash photos could instantly crash the Raspberry Pi 2, the community detective work that solved it, and why this strange bug revealed fundamental flaws in modern chip design. - [What I Learned About AGI at a NYC Meetup (And Why We're Not Ready)](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/what-i-learned-about-agi-at-a-nyc-meetup-and-why-were-not-ready/index.md): Insights from a deep AGI discussion in NYC reveal we're closer than expected but less prepared than we should be. Here's what technologists are really thinking. - [Paradigm Shifts and AGI: How Artificial General Intelligence Could Rewrite Our Economic Rules](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/paradigm-shifts-and-agi-how-artificial-general-intelligence-could-rewrite-our-economic-rules/index.md): Exploring how the rise of AGI represents a Kuhnian paradigm shift that could fundamentally transform our economic structures and what it means for our collective future. - [The Sleep-Productivity Connection: What I've Learned About Getting More Done](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-sleep-productivity-connection-what-ive-learned-about-getting-more-done/index.md): Discover how sleep deprivation measurably impacts your performance, what science reveals about your sleep-deprived brain, and practical strategies to boost productivity through better sleep. - [Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 vs BMW F450 GS: The Middleweight ADV Showdown](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/royal-enfield-himalayan-450-vs-bmw-f450-gs-the-middleweight-adv-showdown/index.md): A head-to-head comparison of the established Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 against BMW's upcoming F450 GS. These two middleweight adventure motorcycles represent different approaches to the ADV segment, with the Himalayan focusing on value and simplicity while the BMW brings premium technology and performance to a lighter chassis. - [The BMW F450 GS: Finally, a Proper "Baby GS" Worth Getting Excited About](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-bmw-f450-gs-finally-a-proper-baby-gs-worth-getting-excited-about/index.md): BMW's upcoming F450 GS fills the gap in their adventure lineup with a purpose-built 450cc parallel-twin adventure motorcycle. Featuring innovative engine design, lightweight construction, and premium technology, this mid-weight ADV is positioned to challenge the Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 while delivering true BMW GS capability in a more accessible package. - [AgileRTP Meetup: Fostering Collaborative Innovation through Improv](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/agilertp-meetup-fostering-collaborative-innovation-through-improv/index.md): Tiffany Rozell, Principal Agile Practitioner for Red Hat, demonstrates how improvisation techniques can enhance team collaboration, psychological safety, and innovation. This summary covers practical improv exercises, their applications in agile environments, and participant insights from the May 2025 AgileRTP meetup. - [Key Findings from the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report](https://magnus919.com/2025/05/key-findings-from-the-2025-verizon-data-breach-investigations-report/index.md): Explore the most critical cybersecurity threats revealed in Verizon's 2025 DBIR, including the doubling of third-party breaches, rising vulnerability exploitation, ransomware trends, and emerging AI risks. Learn practical security measures to protect your business from today's evolving digital threats. - [Analyzing the Proposed HHS Budget Cuts: Impacts on Vulnerable Populations](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/analyzing-the-proposed-hhs-budget-cuts-impacts-on-vulnerable-populations/index.md): Analysis of the leaked OMB document outlining approximately $40 billion in proposed cuts to HHS, examining how these reductions would disproportionately impact vulnerable populations including children, low-income Americans, Indigenous communities, and elderly citizens. - [Productivity in 2025: What's Actually Working Now](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/productivity-in-2025-whats-actually-working-now/index.md): Cut through the hype and discover what productivity trends are genuinely helping people work smarter in 2025—from AI assistants and energy management to mindful transitions and the analog renaissance. This guide explores what’s really working and why personalization is the key to sustainable productivity. - [The Silicon Panopticon: Palantir's Militarization of AI and the Erosion of Digital Liberty](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/the-silicon-panopticon-palantirs-militarization-of-ai-and-the-erosion-of-digital-liberty/index.md): An examination of Palantir Technologies' growing influence in military AI systems, from Project Maven to NATO partnerships, and how algorithmic warfare raises urgent ethical questions about surveillance, accountability, and the future of digital liberty in an increasingly automated battlefield. - [The Battle of the Brains: How OpenAI and Anthropic Are Shaping AI in 2025](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/the-battle-of-the-brains-how-openai-and-anthropic-are-shaping-ai-in-2025/index.md): An in-depth comparison of OpenAI and Anthropic's AI models in 2025, exploring their different approaches, capabilities, pricing, and best use cases to help you choose the right AI assistant for your specific needs. - [How I'm Building a Weekly Content Pipeline for Passive Income (My System)](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/how-im-building-a-weekly-content-pipeline-for-passive-income-my-system/index.md): Discover my strategic 5-day content pipeline that transforms a single idea into multiple passive income streams across blogs, videos, and digital products - a work-in-progress system I'm developing in public. - [Zsh for Developers: Language-Specific Setups to Boost Your Productivity](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/zsh-for-developers-language-specific-setups-to-boost-your-productivity/index.md): Transform your terminal workflow with specialized Zsh configurations for Python, JavaScript, and Rust development. These practical setups automate repetitive tasks, streamline package management, and create a more efficient coding environment. - [The King-Kasten Method: Merging Creative Chaos with Digital Order](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/the-king-kasten-method-merging-creative-chaos-with-digital-order/index.md): Discover how to combine Stephen King's spontaneous creativity with Luhmann's structured Zettelkasten method using Obsidian to create a powerful system for writers and other creatives. - [Mourning Geckos: The Fascinating Self-Cloning Lizards Perfect for Small Spaces](https://magnus919.com/2025/04/mourning-geckos-the-fascinating-self-cloning-lizards-perfect-for-small-spaces/index.md): A comprehensive guide to caring for mourning geckos as pets, exploring their unique all-female self-cloning nature, habitat requirements, and why they make perfect apartment-friendly exotic pets - [How New US Tariffs Are Shaking Up the Tech Industry in 2025](https://magnus919.com/2025/03/how-new-us-tariffs-are-shaking-up-the-tech-industry-in-2025/index.md): New tariffs are hitting the tech world hard in 2025. From rising prices to shifting supply chains, here's what it means for your next gadget or cloud bill. - [Culturing AlgaeBarn TisbePods (Tisbe biminiensis) for Syngnathid Nutrition](https://magnus919.com/2025/03/culturing-algaebarn-tisbepods-tisbe-biminiensis-for-syngnathid-nutrition/index.md): Practical guide to establishing and maintaining continuous cultures of Tisbe biminiensis purchased from AlgaeBarn, including detailed protocols for feeding with their OceanMagik phytoplankton blend to support seahorse and pipefish nutrition. - [Optimal Lighting for Eelgrass Aquariums Par Spectrum and Photoperiod Guide](https://magnus919.com/2025/03/optimal-lighting-for-eelgrass-aquariums-par-spectrum-and-photoperiod-guide/index.md): Comprehensive analysis of lighting requirements for maintaining healthy eelgrass (Zostera) in a seahorse and pipefish aquarium, including PAR values, spectrum considerations, and photoperiod programming. - [Hippocampus Erectus Tank Requirements](https://magnus919.com/2025/03/hippocampus-erectus-tank-requirements/index.md): Comprehensive analysis of optimal tank requirements for keeping a group of 8 adult Hippocampus erectus in a home aquarium system that recreates an eelgrass lagoon environment. - [Inside the AIOS Bootcamp: How AI Agents Are Transforming Productivity in 2025](https://magnus919.com/2025/03/inside-the-aios-bootcamp-how-ai-agents-are-transforming-productivity-in-2025/index.md): A comprehensive look at the latest AI productivity tools and agent technologies from the 2025 AIOS Bootcamp, including practical demonstrations and insights on how AI is reshaping workflow automation. - [Travel Router](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/travel-router/index.md): thoughts on travel routers - [Trip to Sweden - January 2025](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/trip-to-sweden-january-2025/index.md): Notes from my first ever trip to Sweden - [renderchat shortcode - Open WebUI chats in Hugo sites](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/renderchat-shortcode-open-webui-chats-in-hugo-sites/index.md): Rendering Open WebUI chats in Hugo sites - [My MacBook Setup](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/my-macbook-setup/index.md): How I use my MacBook Air away from home. - [Local AI Assistant on Mac](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/local-ai-assistant-on-mac/index.md) - [Setting Up Podman on MacOS: A Docker Alternative for Local Container Development](https://magnus919.com/2025/01/setting-up-podman-on-macos-a-docker-alternative-for-local-container-development/index.md): A comprehensive guide to installing and configuring Podman on MacOS as a free, open-source alternative to Docker for running containerized applications locally - [Moving to TerraMagnus](https://magnus919.com/2018/01/moving-to-terramagnus/index.md): As I'd https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/one-human-being-one-blog/, I'm consolidating my personal blogging down to one place. I couldn't really get the flexibility I wanted with wordpress.com, so I've been spending some time exploring my... - [2018 Student Camera Project: An Introduction](https://magnus919.com/2017/12/2018-student-camera-project-an-introduction/index.md): "Magnus, I want to learn photography. What kind of camera can you recommend for a budget of no more than $300?" - [Team Fujifilm](https://magnus919.com/2017/12/team-fujifilm/index.md): You've heard me sing praise of my aging Ricoh GR. And it's true: the GR is a fantastic little camera, and holds up pretty well for something that's almost five years old. But gradually I'm spending more and more time shooting a Fuji X-T2 these days. - [5 best practices for getting started with DevOps](https://magnus919.com/2017/12/5-best-practices-for-getting-started-with-devops/index.md): (as originally shared at target="_blank" rel="noopener") ## Are you ready to implement DevOps, but don't know where to begin? Try these five best practices. DevOps often stymies early adopters with its ambiguity, not to mention its depth and bread... - [Oops, I did it again](https://magnus919.com/2017/12/oops-i-did-it-again/index.md): I've been an avid photographer for about ten years now. For much of that time, I did photograph models. But about three years ago, I got tired of all the drama it brought to my life and so I took a hiatus from it. - [One human being, one blog.](https://magnus919.com/2017/10/one-human-being-one-blog./index.md): I've been really quiet here again. There was definitely a lot of personal "inspect and adapt" activity going on. But also, I think I spread myself too thin. - [Ireland: Breaking in the Passport](https://magnus919.com/2017/04/ireland-breaking-in-the-passport/index.md): One of my bucket list items for a long time now has been to get a passport and put it to good use. I do like exploring quite a lot, but until recently I've never explored beyond my own country's borders. Over the Christmas holiday, I did apply for... - [Personal Fitness Journey: Fork in the Road?](https://magnus919.com/2017/02/personal-fitness-journey-fork-in-the-road/index.md): I've lost a little over 75 pounds now and I'm feeling stuck. So I'm going to eat more. - [slippery when wet](https://magnus919.com/2017/02/slippery-when-wet/index.md) - [Ricoh GR over the years](https://magnus919.com/2017/02/ricoh-gr-over-the-years/index.md): A few years ago, I had the honor of working at https://redhat.com's main office building in downtown Raleigh. The surrounding area is very walkable, and the people that I would see every day each seemed to have their own story lurking just below t... - [In sickness and in health...](https://magnus919.com/2017/02/in-sickness-and-in-health.../index.md) - [My Mind is at the Beech](https://magnus919.com/2017/01/my-mind-is-at-the-beech/index.md): ![](img_3480-1.jpg) I've had a pretty incredible life so far. I've enjoyed success as a family man. I'm entirely self-made (twice over). I've worked pseudonymously in Hollywood, in the art world, and as a published journalist. I've eve worked prof... - [Personal Kaizen Update](https://magnus919.com/2017/01/personal-kaizen-update/index.md): It's been awhile since I've written. Some great developments have unfolded. # Fitness When I started this journey, my weight hovered around 315 pounds (give or take a little on any given day). Yesterday I finally weighed in under 240 pounds, takin... - [fitness update](https://magnus919.com/2016/10/fitness-update/index.md): It's been 60 days since my body started responding to changes in my fitness strategy, and in those 60 days I've lost 24 pounds of mass, gone down two shirt sizes, and gained some strength. - [getting fit like a nerd](https://magnus919.com/2016/10/getting-fit-like-a-nerd/index.md): Most of my adult life, since I took up my first full-time IT job in 1994 and sat behind a desk, I've watched my waistline grow and my health decline. I've tried a few things to fix this, but I think I'm on to something... that people have been say... - [breaking up with Twitter](https://magnus919.com/2016/05/breaking-up-with-twitter/index.md): This morning I found myself locked out of my Twitter account. Twitter claimed that my account was playing shenanigans (inconceivable!) and that to rescue my account, I had to give Twitter my phone number to validate that it's really me. - [state of the nerd](https://magnus919.com/2016/04/state-of-the-nerd/index.md): It's been awhile since I've written, and much has changed. I thought it was time to lay down some updates. Since my last post, I've made some big career decisions. # Career The elephant in the room. Let's tackle that first. - [What the heck, it's only a buck](https://magnus919.com/2016/03/what-the-heck-its-only-a-buck/index.md): The best deal in quality writing instruments going today is, without a doubt, the Jinhao X450. This pen, for only 99 cents shipped from China to the US, should prove to be a gateway drug into https://cheapgeezer.wordpress.com/the-good-shit/ for an... - [William Hannah: paper tough enough for fountain pens?](https://magnus919.com/2016/02/william-hannah-paper-tough-enough-for-fountain-pens/index.md): Fountain pens are brutal on paper. Moleskines are among the first to fall, paper failing in some disgusting combination of feathering, shadowing, and bleeding through when subjected to the abuse of a fountain pen. When the http://www.williamhannah... - [I can quit any time I want to](https://magnus919.com/2016/02/i-can-quit-any-time-i-want-to/index.md): https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/677320386053144576 - [Fountain Pen Addendum: Neil Gaiman made me do it](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/fountain-pen-addendum-neil-gaiman-made-me-do-it/index.md): In https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/neil-gaiman-writes-books-with-fountain-pens/, I shined a little bit of a light on something that I found both curious and validating. No, I'm not mad for wanting to try writing a serious literary work... - [various nibs on a Jinhao X750](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/various-nibs-on-a-jinhao-x750/index.md): If you're anything like me, you're probably wondering how to get better performance out of your cheap Chinese fountain pens. I spent a few bucks and got my hands filthy with Hero blue-black ink so that you won't have to. - [Automobile Retrospective: 2012 Subaru Forester](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/automobile-retrospective-2012-subaru-forester/index.md): About four years ago, I went to the local Subaru dealership and purchased a brand new 2012 Subaru Forester. This probably had something to do with Whole Foods opening up near my home. There's something about that place that makes people walk aroun... - [Neil Gaiman writes books with fountain pens?](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/neil-gaiman-writes-books-with-fountain-pens/index.md): Yup. His tastes are a bit more expensive than https://cheapgeezer.wordpress.com/rule-25/, though both pens are fantastic and I'd write with either/both if I could stomach spending that much on a pen. - [Beware the Hooded Nib](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/beware-the-hooded-nib/index.md): I didn't want to call out any particular pen today, though my image shows a Jinhao 699. The problem I've been observing spans multiple value brands from China, including Jinhao and Baoer. There are some nibs out there that should be avoided. Let m... - [State of the Nerd Addendum: Failing Fast](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/state-of-the-nerd-addendum-failing-fast/index.md): In my https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/state-of-the-nerd-pens-homelab-dockerrancher-intel-nuc/, I talked a bit about how I was investing time and resources into experimenting with Docker, Rancher, and RancherOS. There have been a lot of... - [This Just In: Jinhao 159](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/this-just-in-jinhao-159/index.md): !jinhao159 Next to a common (and spendy) Lamy Safari, the Jinhao 159 is a beast of a fountain pen. Total cost: $3.59 on eBay. - [State of the Nerd: Pens, Homelab, Docker/Rancher, Intel NUC](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/state-of-the-nerd-pens-homelab-docker-rancher-intel-nuc/index.md): This is just a quick check-in round to cover an assortment of subjects. ## Fountain Pens !12375062_440618112798127_1029054338935177851_o - [Don't forget to like us on Facebook!](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/dont-forget-to-like-us-on-facebook/index.md): https://www.facebook.com/Chronicles-of-a-Cheap-Geezer-205518569785187/ is just getting off the ground now. This is a great place to get additional content, and to socialize with other readers. - [Jinhao 1200: Enter the Dragon!](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/jinhao-1200-enter-the-dragon/index.md): When I saw http://www.ebay.com/itm/131300838435 in my auction trawling, http://www.ebay.com/usr/hejing1314 piqued my curiosity with promises that this would be a mysterious pen. Is this pen some avatar of Eastern mysticism? - [Baoer 388: Simple, svelte, and only two bucks](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/baoer-388-simple-svelte-and-only-two-bucks/index.md): As soon as I saw this handsome pen available http://www.ebay.com/itm/361345956777, I had to pull the trigger and see what it was all about. I mean, sure it looked good online in a photograph. But would it hold up to closer scrutiny? And could it w... - [The Jinhao X750: The pen that started it all](https://magnus919.com/2016/01/the-jinhao-x750-the-pen-that-started-it-all/index.md): I've been a fountain pen user for about five years now. The number of pens I had was actually pretty small, and the few times I'd dabbled with "cheap" pens it ended with disappointment. Actually, the first time I dabbled with an expensive pen (the... - [Enter the Geezer](https://magnus919.com/2015/12/enter-the-geezer/index.md): I had a pretty interesting childhood. My mother was from a very frugal working class family. Her's was a big family with lots of brothers and sisters. Her father was a blue collar worker, and her mother stayed at home to raise the kids. I remember... - [Fountain Pens for Cheap Bastards](https://magnus919.com/2015/12/fountain-pens-for-cheap-bastards/index.md): I've enjoyed using fountain pens for a number of years. This probably tickles the same part of my brain that appreciates typewriters and Victrolas. This is a really elegant writing instrument that never should have been allowed to fade back into o... - [Reading & Writing Updates](https://magnus919.com/2015/12/reading-writing-updates/index.md): During this calm before our family Christmas storm, I thought I'd drop a fresh State of the Nerd report. This one was going to be all over the map, as I've been very busy with a lot of things. But it became clear as I was writing it that it would ... - [NaNoWriMo 2015: Strolling to the Finish Line](https://magnus919.com/2015/11/nanowrimo-2015-strolling-to-the-finish-line/index.md): I'm eighteen days into http://nanowrimo.org/ 2015, a writing challenge to help aspiring authors to finish the first draft of a long form novel in one thirty days. And I'm going to finish tonight. Even though a real novel is closer to seventy to ei... - [NaNoWriMo 2015 Update: The Final Battle](https://magnus919.com/2015/11/nanowrimo-2015-update-the-final-battle/index.md): Last week was an inconsistent yet productive week for writing. I had a lot going on, between fighting a virus and having multiple health & well-being type appointments to keep up. I ended up having one sub-par writing day, and two non-writing days. - [I've been writing, just not here](https://magnus919.com/2015/11/ive-been-writing-just-not-here/index.md): Despite the relative quiet of this blog, I've been quite busy. - [State of the Nerd](https://magnus919.com/2015/09/state-of-the-nerd/index.md): What have I been up to since https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/update-of-random-stuff/? - [update of random stuff](https://magnus919.com/2015/08/update-of-random-stuff/index.md): I haven't been blogging enough. I thought I'd just throw random updates out there and see what resonates. - [Head in the Clouds](https://magnus919.com/2015/08/head-in-the-clouds/index.md): When I was a kid, I remember thinking I might like to be a helicopter pilot when I grew up. Movies like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085255/ got way too much love from me as a kid (really, it was an awful movie). I looked forward to every new epis... - [Homelab Ketchup](https://magnus919.com/2015/07/homelab-ketchup/index.md): I've been busy busy busy geeking out in my homelab. Where did we leave off? Oh, yeah, https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/fruits-of-insomnia/. - [fruits of insomnia](https://magnus919.com/2015/07/fruits-of-insomnia/index.md): One of the common struggles that goes with being autistic is maintaining a regular sleep schedule. For a lot of us, it just doesn't happen. Last night was a rough night, in which I did get a lot of sleep, but it was at the wrong time: 6PM to 1:30A... - [State of the Nerd Report / Homelab Update](https://magnus919.com/2015/07/state-of-the-nerd-report-homelab-update/index.md): The last few months have been http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2015/04/netsuite-acquires-bronto-durham-nc-200-million.html. I've been busy, both at work and at play. And both influence one another. Of course, if I were going to w... - [locked out of Twitter for using Tor](https://magnus919.com/2015/07/locked-out-of-twitter-for-using-tor/index.md): If anybody finds themselves missing my tweets, note that Twitter decided to lock my account for accessing it through Tor. I thought I'd post a little bit about it, because I'm sure this has got to be a problem for people in parts of the world wher... - [quicktip: console cables](https://magnus919.com/2015/06/quicktip-console-cables/index.md): Whether you're an operations or network engineer, or a hobbyist tinkering in the homelab, there's a good chance that you'll have need of a console cable at some point in your efforts. - [devices have different sector alignment](https://magnus919.com/2015/06/devices-have-different-sector-alignment/index.md): `[root@dogface ~]# zpool replace zones /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2072AB3D4d0 /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2B66D775Ed0 cannot replace /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2072AB3D4d0 with /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2B66D775Ed0: devices have different sector alignment` - [Homelab Adventures Continue](https://magnus919.com/2015/06/homelab-adventures-continue/index.md): My updates here have been few and far between, mostly because I've been writing for other entities (when I'm in the mood to write at all). But sometimes I'm working on things where my own blog is the most appropriate outlet. - [State of the Nerd Report](https://magnus919.com/2015/03/state-of-the-nerd-report/index.md): I've never really consistently given this personal blog of mine much love. Instead, I've tried to support larger soapboxes from which to either share my own stories or coordinate and recruit for others. - [Patterns for Success – Landing the Job: An Overview](https://magnus919.com/2014/12/patterns-for-success-landing-the-job-an-overview/index.md): Welcome to my first of what I hope will be many contributions to the Autism community via Autism Daily Newscast. As a high functioning autistic person with a well-established career in the software industry, I expect to research and share with you... - [Service Oriented Architecture vs. Dunbar's Number](https://magnus919.com/2014/10/service-oriented-architecture-vs.-dunbars-number/index.md): I've got a bit of a problem in that I spend most of my career working in engineering space, but most of my thought capital is spent on larger problems of organizational design, technical strategy, laying down foundations today for problems we're g... - [create a tor-only VLAN with a Raspberry Pi](https://magnus919.com/2014/10/create-a-tor-only-vlan-with-a-raspberry-pi/index.md): I'm a big fan of the http://torproject.org. It's really encouraging to see more people using it, and more people setting up bridges, relays, and exit nodes. - [illumos makes a comeback in the homelab](https://magnus919.com/2014/09/illumos-makes-a-comeback-in-the-homelab/index.md): Up until a couple of years ago, I was becoming increasingly active in the http://illumos.org community. I'd given a talk on the subject at http://triangledevops.com, and indeed my most popular entries on this blog tend to be the ones relating to h... - [women in open source: revisited](https://magnus919.com/2014/09/women-in-open-source-revisited/index.md): The other day, I posted some thoughts capturing a conversation that happened in the illumos community over the weekend. If you missed it, head over first to http://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/the-illumos-number-that-bothers-me-and-what-we-... - [the illumos number that bothers me (and what we need to do about it)](https://magnus919.com/2014/09/the-illumos-number-that-bothers-me-and-what-we-need-to-do-about-it/index.md): I just got back late last night from http://surge.omniti.com/2014 and http://surge.omniti.com/2014/illumos-day, which immediately followed Surge the next day. There were some great talks going on, which I'm sure I'll also be writing about. But the... - [I Kanban. So Kanyou.](https://magnus919.com/2014/09/i-kanban.-so-kanyou./index.md): "We're using a modified Kanban process." - [long weekend in the homelab](https://magnus919.com/2014/09/long-weekend-in-the-homelab/index.md): I'd been neglecting opportunities to work in my homelab for awhile so that I might take advantage of a bit of a creative streak and shoot some photography. That's probably been satisfied, for a little while anyway, so I've spent much of this long ... - [the book list is up... kind of...](https://magnus919.com/2014/08/the-book-list-is-up...-kind-of.../index.md): I opened up a preview of the https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/book-list/ that I'd promised earlier. It's still super thin, but there are a few solid titles in there. - [Reading List](https://magnus919.com/2014/08/reading-list/index.md): I'm not dead. :) Though I have been blogging a little for http://eng.bronto.com. - [John Willis at Triangle DevOps, Hosted by Bronto](https://magnus919.com/2014/07/john-willis-at-triangle-devops-hosted-by-bronto/index.md): My latest contribution to the Bronto Engineering Blog is about a talk that John Willis delivered to Triangle DevOps on Software Defined Networking. - [Homelab Update](https://magnus919.com/2014/07/homelab-update/index.md): I've not been a generous blogger, and for that I apologize. - [Docker Meetup at Bronto](https://magnus919.com/2014/06/docker-meetup-at-bronto/index.md): I'm blogging for Bronto now. Here's my first published article for them. - [Temporarily Unemployed](https://magnus919.com/2014/03/temporarily-unemployed/index.md): Yesterday was my last day at Red Hat. I wasn't there for long. It was really very bittersweet to leave. I loved the company, I loved the corporate culture. But I felt the greatest constraint on my success there (and the success of the mission for ... - [BeardOps](https://magnus919.com/2014/03/beardops/index.md): !Image - [A Software Developer's Reading List](https://magnus919.com/2014/02/a-software-developers-reading-list/index.md): Check out this great reading list for Software Developers. If you're thinking of getting into this line of work, or you're in it but want to bring up your game, this instant library should be helpful in building good work habits out of best practi... - [The Homelab Resurrection Begins](https://magnus919.com/2014/02/the-homelab-resurrection-begins/index.md): I've been working full time in IT for about 20 years now, and I've had computers at home for a little over 30 years. My personal interests and passions sometimes lead me to getting a bit carried away. There was one point in my life where I had ove... - [Red Hat IT Begins Its DevOps Journey](https://magnus919.com/2013/12/red-hat-it-begins-its-devops-journey/index.md): http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/12/10/red-hat-begins-devops-journey/. - [Corporate Politics and DevOps](https://magnus919.com/2013/10/corporate-politics-and-devops/index.md): So you might think that evoking the word "politics" might mean there's going to be a rant coming. There will be nothing of the sort. Politics is not necessarily a belligerent act in the corporate world, though it's often perceived that way. And wh... - [Triangle DevOps - unplanned talk](https://magnus919.com/2013/08/triangle-devops-unplanned-talk/index.md): We were planning on having Gene Kim come out tonight to give a talk to a packed room in Durham. Unfortunately, Gene has fallen ill and we're off to "Plan B". I'm putting together some slides now to deliver a DevOps 101 talk. Mark Mzyk, Nathan Wall... - [Maybe this blog wasn't a waste of time after all](https://magnus919.com/2013/08/maybe-this-blog-wasnt-a-waste-of-time-after-all/index.md): I'd been neglecting this blog for a good while because it seemed to mostly be a source of comment spam, which was a drain on my time to police. - [Wordpress Spam](https://magnus919.com/2013/05/wordpress-spam/index.md): Wordpress has been the source of too much spam for me. I'm close to shutting off comments and I've already effectively quit writing here. - [Collection of DevOps Resources](https://magnus919.com/2013/02/collection-of-devops-resources/index.md): I've been indexing some resources privately and it's become apparent to me that it would be useful to be able to refer other people to the original sources that are informing me. This is by no means exhaustive, and I do intend to return to this en... - [Hearing Loss](https://magnus919.com/2012/12/hearing-loss/index.md): I've been suffering for many years, 10 at the very least, with untreated hearing loss. I do my best to compensate by reading lips, or mentally filling in the blanks in conversations based on context, but the lack of hearing precision does cause a ... - [OS eXodus](https://magnus919.com/2012/11/os-exodus/index.md): Until late 2010, I'd been using pretty much entirely open source software on my personal desktop and severs. This mostly worked pretty well, except very specifically with regards to my photography work. At that point in my life, photography had tu... - [Quick Tip: Netatalk 3.0.1 on Joyent SmartOS](https://magnus919.com/2012/11/quick-tip-netatalk-3.0.1-on-joyent-smartos/index.md): I had to fiddle around with this a bit and thought it might be useful to others. I'm using a http://joyent.com http://smartos.org zone as a file server for my Macs at home, and http://netatalk.sourceforge.net is really the best way to share files ... - [Introduction to illumos - Oct 17, 2012 - Raleigh, NC](https://magnus919.com/2012/10/introduction-to-illumos-oct-17-2012-raleigh-nc/index.md): I will be speaking Wednesday night at the http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-DevOps/ group's October meeting, hosted by http://webassign.net. The topic is "Introduction to illumos". I'm expecting this to be a gentle introduction to the illumos world f... - [bonnie++ on on Frankenbox vs. HP Proliant N40L](https://magnus919.com/2012/09/bonnie-on-on-frankenbox-vs.-hp-proliant-n40l/index.md): I've got a few OpenIndiana boxes kicking around at the house, and I got to thinking that maybe my rather modern HP Proliant N40L with mirrored Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB disks and 8GB of RAM wasn't all that speedy. - [Radio Silence](https://magnus919.com/2012/08/radio-silence/index.md): Back in March, I accepted a position with Wireless Generation. I'm doing some great things that will help students to reach more of their full potential. I'm very proud of what I do, but I can't exactly write about it. - [Russia to Tormail: ](https://magnus919.com/2012/04/russia-to-tormail/index.md): It looks like the Russian government has taken drastic action to eliminate a big name in liberated email services. Tormail.net has had its domain name pulled by its Russian registrar, and they say the chances are slim of getting the domain name back. - [Thoughts On Utility Computing](https://magnus919.com/2012/03/thoughts-on-utility-computing/index.md): I see many different approaches that organizations take to cloud computing, ranging from running an ESXi cluster in-house to running everything on Amazon EC2, and others still running a more modern cloud stack on in-house hardware. - [Take Back Your Freedom: Use Tor](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/take-back-your-freedom-use-tor/index.md): Tighten up the tinfoil hats, folks; this is going to be that kind of day. - [Meet the SmartOS Community](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/meet-the-smartos-community/index.md): While hanging out in some of the regular channels for SmartOS help, I've noticed that some people may still be having a hard time finding where the community congregates. I know this is already documented in the http://wiki.smartos.org/, but the W... - [Update](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/update/index.md): It's good to see other people out there are reading this blog and http://www.philipp.haussleiter.de/2012/02/joyent-smartos-mysql-vm-setup/ with some success. - [Thank you.](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/thank-you./index.md): I started this blog less than a week ago, and I wrote a niche article about target="_blank" that I expected to get a few dozen views on over a period of days or weeks. It's been a little over a full day, and I definitely got a lot more eyes on it ... - [Discovering SmartOS](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/discovering-smartos/index.md): As I've alluded to previously, I've been exploring Joyent's target="_blank" lately. I'd like to talk a little bit more about it. It seems to me that a lot of my peers haven't yet heard about it, or don't really understand it much at all. The docum... - [My Personal Hackerspace](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/my-personal-hackerspace/index.md): !Image - [Tilting at Windmills](https://magnus919.com/2012/02/tilting-at-windmills/index.md): This is not my first blog, though it has been awhile since I maintained one. Some of my recent activities seemed to justify putting up an online presence with a little more room to write than Twitter can provide. ## Notes - [Now](https://magnus919.com/now/index.md) - [Legend of the Amber Demogorgon (LOAD)](https://magnus919.com/notes/load/index.md): A legendary game to test a warriors mettle. The LOAD is a trial of strength, wit, and courage, where the hero must face the fearsome Amber Demogorgon in a battle of epic proportions. Will you emerge victorious or fall to the might of the LOAD? - [decoupling Obsidian from Hugo](https://magnus919.com/notes/decoupling-obsidian-from-hugo/index.md): decoupling Obsidian from Hugo - [Shanzhai Intro](https://magnus919.com/notes/shanzhai/shanzhai-intro/index.md): Exploring the concept of American Shanzhai - [Fanatical Books Purchase 2025-02-13](https://magnus919.com/notes/fanatical-books/fanatical-books-purchase-2025-02-13/index.md): Big ebook haul! - [Fanatical Books Purchase 2025-02-12](https://magnus919.com/notes/fanatical-books/fanatical-books-purchase-2025-02-12/index.md): Big ebook haul! - [Fedora 41 Workstation notes](https://magnus919.com/notes/fedora-41-notes/index.md): My notes on using Fedora 41 Workstation (Linux) as a desktop OS, potentially replacing Apple macOS - [Humble Book Bundle: Ultimate Cybersecurity Career by Packt](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/ultimate-cybersecurity-career-packt/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Bundle: Ultimate Cybersecurity Career by Packt bundle purchased on 2025-02-08 - [GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Will it work?](https://magnus919.com/notes/gotosocial-on-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/index.md): A thread on the Fediverse infected my curiosity with the question: How small of a server can GoToSocial run on and still give a decent user experience for a single-user instance? Let's find out. - [Self-Hosting Gotify with Docker](https://magnus919.com/notes/gotify/index.md): A step-by-step guide to self-hosting the Gotify notification service using Docker and PostgreSQL. - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux from Beginner to Professional by O'Reilly](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/linux-beginner-professional-oreilly/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux from Beginner to Professional by O'Reilly purchased on Jan 28, 2025 - [Deploying Uptime Kuma with Docker](https://magnus919.com/notes/deploy-uptime-kuma/index.md): A guide for self-hosters to deploy Uptime Kuma using Docker and Docker Compose. - [Deploying ActivePieces with Docker Compose](https://magnus919.com/notes/activepieces-notes/index.md): Guide to deploying ActivePieces with Docker Compose, including customizations and future improvements. - [Bookstack notes](https://magnus919.com/notes/bookstack/index.md): Notes on Bookstack - [forgejo](https://magnus919.com/notes/forgejo/index.md) - [How to Set Up Huginn with MariaDB on Docker](https://magnus919.com/notes/deploying-huginn/index.md) - [n8n](https://magnus919.com/notes/n8n/index.md): notes on n8n - a free workflow automation tool - [traefik](https://magnus919.com/notes/traefik/index.md): notes on Traefik, an open source reverse proxy and ingress controller - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Mastering Every Database by Packt](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/mastering-every-database/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Mastering Every Database by Packt purchased on Jan 25, 2025. - [migrating Obsidian from iCloud to native Sync](https://magnus919.com/notes/obsidian-sync-migration/index.md): I initially set up Obsidian for iCloud sync, but had a need to change how I was syncing it. Here's what I did. - [oh-my-zsh alternatives](https://magnus919.com/notes/oh-my-zsh-alternatives/index.md): oh-my-zsh is cool, but huge. There are genuine alternatives now, and the data on what actually matters for shell startup speed might surprise you. - [Apple spatial computing wishlist](https://magnus919.com/notes/visionos-wishlist/index.md): Things I'd love to see in future iterations of spatial computing products by Apple, including visionOS and the Apple Vision Pro product lines. - [about Now Pages](https://magnus919.com/notes/nowpage/index.md): Thoughts on replacing a static 'about' page with a 'now' page - [Embed Mastodon Shortcode](https://magnus919.com/notes/embed-mastodon-shortcode/index.md) - [Mini Racks](https://magnus919.com/notes/minirack/index.md): Computers are getting smaller, faster, and cheaper. Entire homelabs can now fit inside of a 10 inch wide rack. - [obsidian notes linkup](https://magnus919.com/notes/obsidian-notes-linkup/index.md): This blog is note connected to Obsidian Notes - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Machine Learning Engineer Masterclass by Packt](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/machine-learning-engineer-masterclass/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Machine Learning Engineer Masterclass by Packt purchased on Jan 6, 2025 - [Humble Book Bundle: Unseen Struggles: Living with Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and More](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/unseen-struggles/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Book Bundle: Unseen Struggles: Living with Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and More purchased on Jan 1, 2025 - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Generative AI by Apress](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/generative-ai-apress/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Generative AI by Apress purchased on Dec 25, 2024 - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Learn You Some Code by No Starch Encore](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/learn-you-some-code/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Learn You Some Code by No Starch Encore purchased on Dec 15, 2024 - [Humble Tech Book Bundle: Tools for Data Engineers by Packt](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/tools-for-data-engineers-packt/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Tech Book Bundle: Tools for Data Engineers by Packt purchased on Dec 15, 2024 - [Humble Book Bundle: DevOps by O'Reilly](https://magnus919.com/notes/humble-book-bundles/devops-oreilly/index.md): A record of the books included in the Humble Book Bundle: DevOps by O'Reilly purchased on Nov 6, 2018