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The episodes live on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. These are the posts written alongside them, with sources and show notes.
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: The Infrastructure War – From Epic Fury to the 2026 Water Crisis.
// runtime reality · 4 on the blog
2026-09-24engineeringConfidently 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 min
// the chronos archive · 7 on the blog
2026-07-19history & 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 min2026-04-26field notesThe Eighty-Fourth Iteration: How Camacho Defied Thermodynamics to Craft the Impossible MaduroCA S26.E425Experience the revolution in premium cigars with the Camacho Triple Maduro, which defies tradition by crafting an all-Maduro cigar that redefines…5 min2026-03-27engineeringNew Podcast Launch: Welcome to The Architecture Archive (Plus a Little Feed Housekeeping)The Chronos ArchiveIf you’ve been following my work over on The Chronos Archive, you know I love deconstructing the systems that shape our world. But recently, it…2 min