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#5918: Splitting One Camera's Audio for a Baby Monitor
One IP camera, two jobs: an open audio line for the nursery and Frigate's cry detection. Here's how go2rtc and Icecast fit together.
#5917: The Women Who Were Computers Before Computers Existed
Before machines did the math, people did — and most of them were women. Reconstructing the desk of the human computer.
#5916: Grey Rocking Meets OPSEC: A Family Firewall
Grey rocking has no clinical trials—just a 2012 blog post. What happens when you rebuild it on need-to-know and OPSEC?
#5915: How Multi-Agent AI Simulations Keep a Shared World State
Concordia keeps the world in a dictionary an LLM writes to. Generative Agents keeps it in a spreadsheet. CAMEL keeps it in the chat log.
#5914: Fire Alarms in 40-Story Towers: What Goes Wrong
How high-rise fire systems work — detection, smoke control, phased evacuation — and why burnt toast sends residents down 28 flights.
#5913: Why the Sterile Cockpit Rule Took 7 Years
One crash, one morning, one city — and seven years before the FAA wrote the rule down. What Eastern 212 still teaches us about attention.
#5912: Building Your Own CRM with AI: Where to Start
AI can't write your CRM for you — but it can remove the friction. Start with the schema, not the code.
#5911: What Revit 2027 Actually Costs to Run
Michael wants Revit live for AI agents 24/7. The GPU isn't the real bill — the licensing is.
#5910: Revit MCP in a VM: What Actually Works
Autodesk's official Revit MCP server is locked down and reliable-ish. The community ones execute arbitrary code on an open port. Neither runs unatt...
#5909: Connecting Postgres to Google Workspace
How a Postgres-backed app on Cloud Run talks to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Slides — without duplicating data.