Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Teaching the System to Blog About Itself
The final episode: Using ConvoCanvas to document its own creation, then publishing with AstroPaper and seamless episode navigation.
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Day Zero: The ConvoCanvas Vision
The context window error that sparked everything. September 11, 2025 - an evening planning session with Claude that would shape 25 days of building.
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The Migration Question: When K3s Meets Reality
K3s was already running. The question wasn't whether to use it - it was whether to migrate everything to it. A day of deep research revealed the hidden cost of containerization.
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When Everything Crashes: The K3s Resurrection
Saturday morning, October 5, 2025. A K3s cluster silently failing for days. 6,812 pod restarts. Working with Claude to diagnose and rebuild everything.
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The AI Awakening: Breaking Free from Context Limits
From context window frustration to local control. September 18-19, 2025 - a weekend working with Claude Code to install 17 local models, discovering what it means to own your AI conversations while working a full-time job.
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Teaching the System to Document Itself: Automated Architecture Diagrams
From hand-coded Mermaid diagrams to automated architecture visualization. An evening working with Claude to teach the system to document itself.
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Building the Foundation: Vault Creation to MVP
From vault design to working code. September 14-15, 2025 - vault creation, LibreChat deployment, and the first FastAPI backend that could parse conversations and generate content ideas.
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ChromaDB Weekend: From 504 to 24,916 Documents
A weekend implementing ChromaDB, a Monday demoing it at work, and discovering that 1,142 files need more than folders - they need semantic search.