Private audiobook shelf Audiobooks that follow me from desk to couch to phone. I built a private audiobook resume player for my home network. It keeps my audiobook files in one place, saves my listening position on the server, and lets my phone, laptop, or desktop pick up from the same spot through home Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Open with Tailscale Open on home Wi-Fi Access note: The Tailscale link works only on devices signed into my private Tailscale network. Start playback before driving, then use hands-free controls. What it does Uploads or imports audiobooks, streams large M4B/MP3 files, and resumes from the last saved position across devices. Current shelf Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks imported from Google Drive, with real titles, book covers, and progress tracking. Private by design Files stay on my machine. The app is password-protected a...

A Deep Dive AI look at the next step after prompt engineering: using AI to design, write, test, and improve the tools that help us create. There is a strange little moment in every technology journey when the tool stops feeling like a tool and starts acting like the intern who somehow learned the filing system faster than you did. At first, AI is the thing you ask questions. Then it becomes the thing that helps you write. Then it becomes the thing that helps you organize. Then it becomes the thing that helps you build the thing that helps you organize the thing you were originally trying to write. That sentence is technically accurate, but it also sounds like a raccoon got into the whiteboard markers. Welcome to the next stage of the AI creator workflow: using AI tools to build new AI tools. Not just asking ChatGPT for a blog idea. Not just asking Codex to fix a typo. Not just asking an image model to make a thumbnail with glowing robots and a cat who clearly ...

The Strange Math of Being the Targeted Parent Deep Dive AI personal essay — written from lived experience, not legal advice. There is a special kind of whiplash that happens when life takes your job, your income, your parental role, and then hands you a calculator like, “Here, solve this while everyone questions your motives.” Because apparently losing your job is not stressful enough by itself. No, no. That would be too simple. That would almost be efficient. And if there is one thing high-conflict divorce refuses to be, it is efficient. First, you lose the income. Then you explain the income. Then you prove the income is actually gone. Then you sit inside a system that wants numbers, dates, forms, screenshots, clean language, and calm adult posture, while your nervous system is standing in the corner wearing a bathrobe and eating crackers directly from the sleeve. And on top of that, you get accused. Not helped. Not met with basic human compassion. Accused. That is the part people wh...

Beyond the Prompt How Perplexity Brain’s ‘Overnight Learning’ Is Redefining AI Memory Deep Dive AI take: This piece turns the source document into a cleaner, more useful field guide instead of dumping raw PDF text into Blogger. Nobody needs one-word-per-line chaos wearing a trench coat and pretending to be an article. Episode or media source This production folder includes matching audio or video source files for the Deep Dive AI episode package. How_Perplexity_Brain_builds_context_graphs.m4a Inside_Perplexity_Brain.mp4 Perplexity_Brain.mp4 The big idea Beyond the Prompt: How Perplexity Brain’s ‘Overnight Learning’ Is Redefining What this means The useful signal here is not the PDF layout. It is the working idea underneath it: take scattered source material, clean it up, and turn it into something a reader can actually use on a phone without squinting at formatting shrapnel. Key points from the source Memory The most persistent friction point in the modern ...

Your AI Is Forgetting Everything Deep Dive AI take: This piece turns the source document into a cleaner, more useful field guide instead of dumping raw PDF text into Blogger. Nobody needs one-word-per-line chaos wearing a trench coat and pretending to be an article. Episode or media source This production folder includes matching audio or video source files for the Deep Dive AI episode package. How_Perplexity_Brain_builds_context_graphs.m4a Inside_Perplexity_Brain.mp4 Perplexity_Brain.mp4 The big idea Your AI Is Forgetting Everything Executive Summary The practical bottleneck in AI is no longer just intelligence. It is continuity. Large context windows let a model read more in one sitting, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation can pull in outside documents, but neither automatically creates durable, inspectable, project-aware memory. Persistent memory is the broader capability: preserving user preferences, tracking project decisions, carrying workflow state across sessions, re...

The Brain That Fixes Itself While You Sleep Genius or Just Better Filing Deep Dive AI take: This piece turns the source document into a cleaner, more useful field guide instead of dumping raw PDF text into Blogger. Nobody needs one-word-per-line chaos wearing a trench coat and pretending to be an article. Episode or media source This production folder includes matching audio or video source files for the Deep Dive AI episode package. How_Perplexity_Brain_builds_context_graphs.m4a Inside_Perplexity_Brain.mp4 Perplexity_Brain.mp4 The big idea The Brain That Fixes Itself While You Sleep: Genius or Just Better Filing? Deep Divers, let’s talk about the existential dread of the "forgotten tab." We spend eighteen hours What this means The useful signal here is not the PDF layout. It is the working idea underneath it: take scattered source material, clean it up, and turn it into something a reader can actually use on a phone without squinting at formatting shrapnel. ...

``` Deep Dive AI · Tools, Toys, and Tiny Machines The Day Prompts Stopped Feeling Like Prompts Today was not about one image, one blog post, or one script. It was about the moment a copied prompt stopped feeling like text and started feeling like a small tool you could pick up, test, break, repair, and use again. A field note from the AI Factory, where the future did not arrive as one giant robot butler, but as a table full of strange little machines. The image works because it captures the feeling: not a polished corporate AI platform, but a strange, useful pile of prompt-powered tools spilling out of the laptop like Cracker Jack prizes for grown-up builders. Deep Dive AI take: The important thing that happened today was not that AI wrote something. It was that a prompt started acting like a workbench instruction, a repair note, a tiny app, and a reusable production part. Today felt like one of those strange technology days...