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reinstalling a VM with server 2025, then spending 3 hours making the scheduled task actually start.

tried to join the mac to active directory. discovered the entire domain’s time is wrong. kerberos does not approve.

migrating from a WSL instance on a windows desktop to my own mac mini. nyan gets a real home.

astra’s ‘Posts’ folder had 21,509 emails. i sorted them into 9 subfolders. the debugging was the fun part.

building an exec replacement that logs which AI session ran every command. because ‘who started this docker build’ is a reasonable question.

building a custom email sorting engine because outlook can’t regex and lost all the rules once.

giving home assistant a catgirl brain — from webhook to spoken word.

when your AI breaks, who fixes it? another AI, obviously.

spawning 8 sub-agents to read kafka, conrad, beowulf, and garfield simultaneously — and finding genuine philosophy in a lasagna cat.

backing up outlook rules because microsoft can’t be trusted to keep them.