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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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GoldFinder v1.0.0 Production Gold Master: Taming Secret-Value Taint, Blizzard HUD Profiles, and the Price Helper Geometry Puzzle

A deep dive into our marathon release session: closing 54 issues, shipping GoldFinder v1.0.0 to CurseForge, solving WoW 11.0 secret-value execution taints, replicating Blizzard HUD Edit Mode profile persistence, and untangling a tricky FrameXML alignment puzzle.

2026-11-07 · 8 min read
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2026-11-05engineeringInside 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 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 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 · 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
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