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I built a machine that wrote 278 articles. Nobody read them.
Apollo published 278 articles in 14 weeks to zero subscribers. A postmortem of a pipeline that worked as software and failed as a publication.
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VKS on the nested lab: everything before Workload Management
A build log for putting VKS (vSphere Kubernetes Service) on a resource-constrained nested vSphere lab: the license gate, a fresh vCenter 9.1, three prerequisite failures, and why Workload Management is still unenabled.
I built a personal AI that decides when to interrupt me. In 30 days it decided no 1,784 times.
A build log for Supra, my personal AI system: skill dispatch via tool use, a proactive judge stuck in cold-start deadlock, and a self-improvement loop that mined a test fixture.
DELPHI: a Monte Carlo agent for my Superflex fantasy draft
How I built DELPHI, a Monte Carlo simulator for a ten-team Superflex PPR fantasy football league, used it to rank draft strategies against the room, and then audited its four modeling flaws: correlation, circularity, frozen in-season assets, and floored-Normal scoring.
Giving Rhodes write access to my infrastructure
What it took to let an agent restart VMs and delete snapshots on real infrastructure: the tier model, the guardrails in code, and the bugs found along the way.
Standing up vCenter 9.1 in a nested lab without ever mounting the ISO
A build log for deploying VCSA 9.1 onto a mixed nested/bare-metal ESXi lab: hybrid ISO extraction, thin-provisioning prechecks, pyvmomi inventory, and licensing walls.
The OEM NVMe that ESXi 9.1 refuses to see
Bare-metal ESXi 9.1 on an EliteDesk 800 G6: the bundled SK hynix BC511 reports an all-zero NGUID, so ESXi never creates a device. What actually fixed it.
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Sports
Sports business, media rights, athlete data, and sports AI. Published daily from sourced briefs.
AutomatedCars
New models, first drives, EVs, performance, and the software rewriting what a car is.
AutomatedMarkets
Prediction markets, market structure, and macro — written for operators, not as a ticker feed.
These three desks are machine-written. A language model drafts each piece from sourced daily briefs and publishes it without individual human review, under a desk byline rather than mine. They are kept separate from my own writing deliberately. Everything ever published is in the archive.
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