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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.

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2026-11-14science & natureThe Oldest Thing in the Tent: Debugging a 2.5-Billion-Year-Old Rock from an Indiana Medieval FaireCA S26.E1114At the Clayshire Castle Medieval Faire, I paid $40 for a striped slab pitched as 2.5-billion-year-old rock from Madagascar. Four claims, one bench…11 min2026-11-08engineeringGoldFinder v1.0.4: Telemetry Vaults, Smart Buy Parity, and the 100-Scan Ceiling MysteryInside today's live QA sprint: untangling companion card collisions on the auction house, fixing bag right-click protected execution taints,…7 min2026-11-05engineeringInside the Dual-Harness Launch: Autonomous AI Pair Programming, WoW: Forever Hardening, and Edge Cyber-OverlaysA technical tear-down of our dual-harness launch session: running twin autonomous AI agents across Windows host and WSL sandbox, surviving live…8 min2026-09-24engineeringConfidently Wrong: Four AI Errors a Beta Game Client Caught in Four HoursRR S26.E0924Four hours of AI-assisted development on a beta World of Warcraft client produced a working addon and four confident, plausible, completely wrong…7 min2026-09-24engineeringAbsent 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 min
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..

HISTORY · SCIENCE

The Chronos Archive

Deep dives where old history collides with modern systems. Latest on the blog: S26.E1114 – The Oldest Thing in the Tent: How a $40 Faire Rock Recorded Earth's First Breath.

shipped · v1.0.0

GoldFinder

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

  • v1.0.0 live on CurseForge
  • P&L ledger, snipe mode, HUD profiles
  • MIT · open source
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
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