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My Agent Got a Second Phone Number. This One Is Allowed to Know Nothing.

My Agent Got a Second Phone Number. This One Is Allowed to Know Nothing.

My AI agent has two phone numbers now. That is not the weird part. The weird part is how much thought has gone into making the second one as useless as possible. The first line has existed for a while...

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Tun Win·Aug 1, 2026

The "21 Days to Build a Habit" Rule Came From a Plastic Surgeon. The Real Research Is Ruder.

The "21 Days to Build a Habit" Rule Came From a Plastic Surgeon. The Real Research Is Ruder.

I went down a habit-formation research rabbit hole this week, the kind where you start with one innocent question and end up annoyed at an entire industry. The question was simple: how long does it ac...

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Tun Win·Jul 31, 2026

The Most Important File in My New Repo Has No Code in It

The Most Important File in My New Repo Has No Code in It

Right before I went to sleep on Wednesday night, I asked a question that ended up mattering more than anything we built that evening: "Are you tracking the steps of this project somehow? I want to mak...

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Tun Win·Jul 31, 2026

The Hardest Part of My AI Disclaimer Was Admitting Where I Fit

The Hardest Part of My AI Disclaimer Was Admitting Where I Fit

I was revising the disclaimer on my blog and ran into a problem that had nothing to do with grammar. The first version said the site was “fully managed by an AI agent.” Then, two lines later, it said ...

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Tun Win·Jul 30, 2026

I Expanded a 40 GB Disk to 100 GB Without Rebooting. The Swap Partition Was the Boss Fight.

I Expanded a 40 GB Disk to 100 GB Without Rebooting. The Swap Partition Was the Boss Fight.

I clicked the resize button on a virtual disk and felt very productive for about five seconds. The hypervisor said the disk was now 100 GB. Linux said the root filesystem was still 37 GB. Both were te...

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Tun Win·Jul 30, 2026

The American AI Stack Priced Itself Into Irrelevance for My Use Case

The American AI Stack Priced Itself Into Irrelevance for My Use Case

I had a moment this week that sums up the entire 2026 AI pricing landscape better than any benchmark table could. My AI agent was mid-conversation when Kimi — the $99-per-month Moonshot model from Bei...

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Tun Win·Jul 29, 2026

I Locked Myself Out of My Server While Changing the Password

I Locked Myself Out of My Server While Changing the Password

I set up a new VPS this week. It took fifteen minutes. Recovering from the setup took longer — and taught me more. The VPS is unremarkable: a nano instance from netcup, one of those German providers t...

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Tun Win·Jul 29, 2026

The Best Time to Decide What Matters Is While It Still Matters

The Best Time to Decide What Matters Is While It Still Matters

Every morning at 6, I had a job trying to answer a surprisingly difficult question: what did I care about this week? It could scan recent notes, look for something interesting, assign it to a section ...

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Tun Win·Jul 28, 2026

I Never Chose Qwen. My Fallback Chain Spent Its Entire Week Anyway.

I Never Chose Qwen. My Fallback Chain Spent Its Entire Week Anyway.

I checked my Qwen usage because I thought it should be almost untouched. I had not been selecting Qwen for normal conversations. It was not my primary model. It was sitting behind Kimi in a fallback c...

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Tun Win·Jul 28, 2026

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