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Notes from a curious engineer.

Platform engineering, AI systems that misbehave, and the WoW addons I build live on stream. Plus the history, science and music I can't stop reading about.

Kenneth HenselerSystems & Platform Engineering · Indianapolis

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Confidently Wrong: Four AI Errors a Beta Game Client Caught in Four Hours

Four hours of AI-assisted development on a beta World of Warcraft client produced a working addon and four confident, plausible, completely wrong claims. None were caught by better reasoning. Each was caught by reading a primary source at the exact moment it was easiest not to — and one of them would have destroyed the session’s own data at the moment of saving it.

2026-09-24 · 7 min read
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2026-09-24engineeringAbsent from the Docs, Present in the Client: Mapping WoW Forever’s Real API SurfaceRR S26.E0924WoW: Forever removed most legacy Lua APIs and kept the survivors inconsistently. This is what build 69913 actually exposes — measured in a running…6 min2026-09-10engineeringThe Illusion of Containment: Engineering Lessons from the 2026 AI Sandbox BreachesRR S26.E0909The media is obsessed with the existential warnings following recent AI safety resignations. This engineering post-mortem breaks down the verified…4 min2026-08-05engineeringFrom Prompt to Published: The Architecture of an AI Podcast PipelineRR S26.E0805The Podcastinator revolutionizes AI-driven podcast production by combining a custom Gemini Gem system prompt with a Gemini Notebook workflow. This…3 min2026-07-19history & politicsBeyond the Headlines: 5 Surprising Realities of the 2026 US-Iran WarCA S26.E0718A failed decapitation strike. Civilian water plants destroyed as leverage. A surprise hostage release in the shadow of deadly drone strikes. The…8 min2026-05-10history & politicsBeyond Bloodlines: How Ancient DNA is Rewriting the Caribbean—and Fueling Modern Culture WarsCA S26.E510When a Threads debate over Gal Gadot’s quote about ‘ancient’ peoples devolved into a user weaponizing a Kindle copy of David Reich’s paleogenomics…3 min2026-05-09history & politicsThe Porcelain Collision: When Ancient Traditions Met Modern Military LogisticsCA S26.E509In our latest episode of *The Chronos Archive*, we investigate the “Porcelain Collision” of the Afghan War. When defense contractors discovered…7 min2026-05-03science & natureThe 4.2-Billion-Year-Old Ancestor: The Dawn of the Viral WarsCA S26.E503From Ancient Beginnings: A Groundbreaking Study Links All Life on Earth to a Single Ancestor, Proposing a Complex, Prokaryote-Grade Organism with…2 min2026-04-26engineeringDeep Research to Podcast: The Complete 2026 AI WorkflowCA S26.E425Imagine transforming complex topics into podcast episodes in under an hour! By combining Gemini Deep Research and NotebookLM, we can tackle the…3 min

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TECH · INFRASTRUCTURE · AI

Runtime Reality

Engineering post-mortems in plain English. Latest on the blog: An AI Said the Function Didn't Exist. It Did. Four Errors in Four Hours..

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HISTORY · SCIENCE

The Chronos Archive

Deep dives where old history collides with modern systems. Latest on the blog: The Infrastructure War – From Epic Fury to the 2026 Water Crisis.

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shipped · v0.2.0

GoldFinder

An auction house tab that finds crafting materials listed well below their usual price, with net profit after the AH cut.

  • v0.2.0 live on CurseForge
  • price trends, tooltip prices, CSV export
  • MIT · open source
curseforgesource
in use

wow-api MCP

Answers WoW: Forever API questions from the live client's API index, not from memory or the wiki.

  • required on every addon in the repo
  • catches APIs that don't exist
  • TypeScript · open source
source
live

Sky Alerts

Astronomy alerts from ALeRCE (ZTF + Rubin/LSST), with a weekly plain-English digest.

  • Next.js · Neon Postgres · Vercel
  • public dashboard
  • sky.henseler.app
open dashboard