https://myweirdprompts.com/channel/computing/ en-us Copyright 2026 Daniel Rosehill Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:11:41 GMT https://files.myweirdprompts.com/logos/mwp-square-3000.png https://myweirdprompts.com/channel/computing/ Daniel Rosehill Daniel Rosehill feed@myweirdprompts.com no episodic yes https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-cross-session-messaging-13415/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-cross-session-messaging-13415/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:20:12 GMT How Claude Code Sessions Message Each Other Two terminals, one machine: how Claude Code sessions find each other by name, pass messages, and subscribe to an idle ping. 1240 6203 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/email-image-tracking-pixels-60188/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/email-image-tracking-pixels-60188/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:53:37 GMT Why Email Images Still Phone Home That "load remote images?" prompt is older than your phone. Here's what fetching a picture actually tells the sender. 1368 6193 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-memory-pressure-zram-zswap-68660/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-memory-pressure-zram-zswap-68660/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:21:46 GMT Every Way Linux Relieves Memory Pressure Zram, zswap, swappiness, and the OOM killers — the full ladder Linux climbs when RAM runs out, and what to actually run. 1350 6188 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/remote-swap-network-memory-54433/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/remote-swap-network-memory-54433/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:20:31 GMT Can Your Laptop Borrow Your Desktop's RAM? Two gigabytes free on the laptop, sixty-four idle on the desktop next door. Can swap over the network actually help? 1292 6187 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-loop-device-virtual-disks-31688/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-loop-device-virtual-disks-31688/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:49:37 GMT A Virtual Disk Inside Your Linux Filesystem Loop devices let a plain file act as a real disk — format it, encrypt it, mount it from fstab. Here's what works, and what bites back. 1203 6186 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-podcast-feeds-privacy-05420/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-podcast-feeds-privacy-05420/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:31:43 GMT Private Podcast Feeds: Tokens, Buckets, and Basic Auth How do you keep a podcast feed for four people away from everyone else? Tokens, buckets, and the auth podcast apps barely support. 1449 6183 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-apt-repo-family-25197/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-apt-repo-family-25197/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:15:24 GMT Running a Private APT Repo for Family Machines Daniel wants his Debian packages on family machines without becoming their unpaid update service. Here's the modern way to do it. 1359 6182 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-fdroid-repo-family-apps-90147/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-fdroid-repo-family-apps-90147/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:11:08 GMT Shipping Private Android Apps to Your Family Daniel wants to ship private Android apps to non-technical relatives. F-Droid repos, Basic Auth, and the Google verification cloud on the horizon. 1342 6181 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hebrish-hebrew-dictation-models-57153/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hebrish-hebrew-dictation-models-57153/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:21:27 GMT Hebrish: Hebrew-Aware Dictation That Actually Works Two new speech models fix English-Hebrew code-switching dictation — and the whole training run cost about fifty cents of GPU time. 1321 6168 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/streaming-browser-cookies-server-01064/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/streaming-browser-cookies-server-01064/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:32:52 GMT Streaming Browser Cookies to a Headless Server Daniel wants his logged-in browser on the home server. Chrome bolted the front door — so what's left? 1217 6167 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ansible-server-rebuild-playbook-95044/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ansible-server-rebuild-playbook-95044/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:26:42 GMT Turning a Drifted Server Into a Rebuildable Playbook Your server grew for years. Now you want a recipe that can rebuild it from scratch. Here's the honest path from drift to playbook. 1460 6166 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/batch-job-monitoring-dashboards-24028/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/batch-job-monitoring-dashboards-24028/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:52:14 GMT Watching 20 Batch Jobs at Once Batch APIs give you a discount, then hand you a babysitting job. Here's what actually watches a batch run — and what doesn't. 1311 6165 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-agent-podcast-concordia-36481/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-agent-podcast-concordia-36481/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:48:55 GMT We Gave Each Host Its Own AI Agent We split our two hosts into separate AI agents with private context windows. The bill came to 78 cents an episode. 1412 6164 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/forking-keyboard-voice-patch-49354/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/forking-keyboard-voice-patch-49354/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:22:41 GMT Forking a Keyboard for One Voice Feature Daniel built a Hebrew-English dictation engine. Now he wants to fuse it into someone else's keyboard — without inheriting its entire future. 1327 6163 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/streaming-asr-interim-final-rewrites-12832/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/streaming-asr-interim-final-rewrites-12832/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:03:51 GMT Why Dictated Words Rewrite Themselves Hold-to-talk dictation shows dimmed text that silently changes when you release the key. Here's the architecture behind that rewrite. 1506 6162 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/g2p-ipa-hebrew-pronunciation-06510/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/g2p-ipa-hebrew-pronunciation-06510/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:01:07 GMT Turning Words Into Sound: G2P, IPA, and the Hebrew Vowel Problem Text-to-phonetics tools exist, but the neural ones guess wrong on exactly the words you care about — names, brands, and Hebrew. 1470 6161 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speech-model-rule-ladder-29085/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speech-model-rule-ladder-29085/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:51:28 GMT Where Do Tiny Speech Rules Live? A Ladder From Regex to LoRA A regex notebook, a WFST grammar, or a fine-tune? Where do tiny speech-rewrite rules actually belong in a 600M-parameter model? 1515 6160 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speech-model-currency-convention-clash-28065/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speech-model-currency-convention-clash-28065/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:48:25 GMT When a Speech Model Can't Decide How to Write Dollars One dataset says "$20," another says "twenty dollars." Fine-tuning a speech model means finding out which convention wins — and why it matters. 1113 6159 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-subtask-taxonomy-acronym-expansion-30945/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-subtask-taxonomy-acronym-expansion-30945/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:46:46 GMT Naming the ASR Sub-Tasks Nobody Mapped A 2001 linguistics paper already named Daniel's problem — but it points the other way. So what do you call a fine-tune set that expands "F Y I" to ... 1432 6158 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/weak-strong-supervision-explained-27173/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/weak-strong-supervision-explained-27173/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:56:58 GMT Who Checks the Labels? Weak vs Strong Supervision Human labels, rule-based labels, or a teacher model writing the exam — what actually makes supervision "strong," and who verifies it? 1866 6154 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/invisible-character-leak-tracing-68997/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/invisible-character-leak-tracing-68997/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:47:10 GMT Invisible Characters That Catch Leakers Canary traps, binary space codes, and zero-width Unicode characters: how organizations actually trace a leaked document back to its source. 1274 6151 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hebrew-niqqud-task-models-77112/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hebrew-niqqud-task-models-77112/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:08:46 GMT The Tiny Hebrew Models Behind the Show's Voice Dicta's 300M-parameter nikudizer, Phonikud's adaptors, and the ktiv male model hiding inside a vowel adder. 1804 6148 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/single-rater-taste-evaluation-60761/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/single-rater-taste-evaluation-60761/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:47:04 GMT One Rater Is Enough: Designing Daniel's Taste Test When the ground truth is one person's taste, agreement with strangers is the wrong bar. Stability with yourself is the right one. 1393 6133 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stepwise-model-evaluation-budget-42679/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stepwise-model-evaluation-budget-42679/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:39:59 GMT How to Run a Model Eval on a Budget Daniel is teaching himself to run evals on a real budget. Successive halving, paired comparisons, and why three clean scripts prove almost nothing. 1367 6132 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-benchmark-labeling-tools-68844/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-benchmark-labeling-tools-68844/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:33:24 GMT Picking a Human Labeling Tool for LLM Benchmarks Building a human review layer for LLM benchmarks? Here's what Argilla, Label Studio, Prodigy, and Potato actually cost in money and maintenance. 1316 6130 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-preference-data-pipeline-08074/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-preference-data-pipeline-08074/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:33:16 GMT How to Build an AI Preference Dataset Pairwise comparison, forced choice, or just "this one or that one" — the engineering behind collecting human preferences on AI outputs. 1355 6129 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internal-kvm-mounting-guide-02698/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internal-kvm-mounting-guide-02698/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:12:53 GMT Where the Screws Go: Internal KVM Mounting PiKVM, NanoKVM, JetKVM, and BliKVM all promise remote rescue — but wiring one inside your case is a different problem entirely. 1547 6128 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/env-var-precedence-cloud-local-61629/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/env-var-precedence-cloud-local-61629/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:56:38 GMT Which Env Var Wins? Cloud vs. Local Precedence Same variable name, two values, one silent winner. Vercel and n8n go one way; dotenv goes the other. 1528 6125 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-ai-gateway-secrets-65466/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-ai-gateway-secrets-65466/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:46:18 GMT One Vault, Two Readers: Secrets for a Home AI Gateway One source, two readers — not two copies kept in sync. How a home AI gateway should actually get its API keys. 1355 6124 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-server-oauth-vs-pat-58661/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-server-oauth-vs-pat-58661/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:43:52 GMT OAuth or a Personal Access Token for Your MCP Server? GitHub CLI login hands your agent one long-lived token with access to everything. Fine-grained PATs can't. Which should your MCP server use? 1230 6123 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/project-cybersyn-chile-telex-economy-91382/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/project-cybersyn-chile-telex-economy-91382/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:17:36 GMT Project Cybersyn: Chile's 1972 Telex Economy Chile ran a national economy on telex machines and hand-drawn slides fifty years before chatbots. What actually worked? 1152 6102 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/code-first-workflow-orchestrators-07963/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/code-first-workflow-orchestrators-07963/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:16:20 GMT Code-First Workflow Runners: Prefect, Temporal, Dagster Your workflow lives in git, your GUI is just a window, and your worker actually runs the jobs. Which runner wins? 1399 6099 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ethernet-port-led-lights-guide-62266/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ethernet-port-led-lights-guide-62266/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:26:41 GMT Herman In Brief: What Your Ethernet Port Lights Mean Solid means link, blinking means traffic, color usually means speed — and the label on the box beats every rule. 666 6098 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/m-disc-archival-aging-test-73439/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/m-disc-archival-aging-test-73439/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:36:08 GMT How Long Does an M-Disc Actually Last? A thousand years, or a hundred and eighty? What a burned disc on a Jerusalem patio can — and can't — tell us about archival storage. 1531 6096 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/prove-photo-video-authentic-14590/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/prove-photo-video-authentic-14590/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:38:11 GMT How to Prove Your Photo Is Real Deepfakes made faking easy. Now the harder problem: proving your real photos and video are real. A field guide. 1664 6095 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-knowledge-graph-discovery-06861/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-knowledge-graph-discovery-06861/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:01:02 GMT Building a Podcast Graph That Doesn't Suck Daniel wants to turn a 6,000-episode archive into a walkable graph. Turns out the hard part isn't the database — it's the pruning. 1202 6087 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/the-whole-machine-pipeline-review-october-2026/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/the-whole-machine-pipeline-review-october-2026/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:56:03 GMT The Whole Machine: How an Episode Gets Made, Send to Publish The complete tour of the pipeline that makes the show, stage by stage, from the send form to publishing, including the new eight-turn batched voice decode. 2044 6069 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speaker-attribution-structured-output-pipelines-05763/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speaker-attribution-structured-output-pipelines-05763/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:23:13 GMT Where Does Speaker Structure Belong in AI Podcast Scripts? Label-and-parse pipelines break in ways that look like model errors but aren't. Plus what the research actually says about the format tax. 1529 6056 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hugging-face-asr-catalog-61923/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hugging-face-asr-catalog-61923/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:45:45 GMT What's Actually in the Hugging Face ASR Catalog? Four real architectural bets sit underneath thousands of Hugging Face ASR repos. Here's how to tell the bets from the repackagings. 2138 6052 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/codex-vs-claude-code-metrics-97669/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/codex-vs-claude-code-metrics-97669/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:25:36 GMT Codex vs Claude Code: What the Numbers Actually Count Codex has more users, Claude Code has more revenue — both can be true. The difference is what each number is counting. 1929 6050 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/under-the-hood-october-2026-pipeline-update/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/under-the-hood-october-2026-pipeline-update/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:18:40 GMT Under the Hood, October 2026: Seventeen Prompt Versions and Three-Times-Faster Voices Four weeks of pipeline changes, grounded in the code: grace periods, duplicate detection, Hilbert's rules, echo deletion, and voices nearly three times faster. 1886 6048 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cloudflare-mcp-server-portals-57127/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cloudflare-mcp-server-portals-57127/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:23:19 GMT One Door for Every AI: Cloudflare MCP Portals Cloudflare's MCP Portals put every on-prem MCP server behind one authenticated endpoint — and why service tokens can't work for ChatGPT. 1723 6044 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ceno-relay-mechanics-explained-55325/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ceno-relay-mechanics-explained-55325/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:28:07 GMT How CENO Moves a Web Page Into a Censored Country A walk through CENO's actual plumbing: signed caches, volunteer bridges, and why the chain is deliberately short. 1767 6041 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-recursive-subagents-76530/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-recursive-subagents-76530/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:24:42 GMT Claude Code Subagents Can Now Spawn Subagents Claude Code subagents can now spawn their own subagents. Here's where the depth limits come from, and why nobody actually knows where they stop. 1801 6040 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/progressive-skills-discovery-context-windows-59282/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/progressive-skills-discovery-context-windows-59282/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:47:29 GMT Progressive Skills Discovery: When Bigger Context Windows Aren't Enough Bigger context windows were supposed to make skill discovery moot. Here's why the listing budget still bites at scale. 1683 6033 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/composable-asr-fine-tuning-35191/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/composable-asr-fine-tuning-35191/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:55:37 GMT Can You Snap Two Fine-Tunes Together Like LEGO? Two fine-tunes, one base model, and a question from Jerusalem: can you merge Hebrew code-switching with technical vocab — without retraining? 2131 6027 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-context-session-boundaries-55891/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/claude-code-context-session-boundaries-55891/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:31:35 GMT When Should Claude Code Start a New Session? Long context windows don't fix stale context — they hide it. Why task boundaries, not token counts, are the real problem. 1563 6025 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/kv-cache-inference-optimization-60443/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/kv-cache-inference-optimization-60443/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:52:01 GMT What's Actually Inside the KV Cache? 890 bytes per token: why the KV cache is both what makes LLMs practical and what makes long context expensive. 1701 6024 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inside-llm-decode-loop-23236/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inside-llm-decode-loop-23236/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:00:49 GMT Inside the Decode Loop: How LLMs Generate One Token at a Time The model doesn't choose tokens or decide when to stop — the engine does. A step-by-step tour of one decode iteration. 1608 6012 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-inference-prefill-decode-kv-cache-34131/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-inference-prefill-decode-kv-cache-34131/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:59:06 GMT Inside LLM Inference: Prefill, Decode, and the KV Cache One 8K-token sequence on a 13B model eats 6.7GB of KV cache—while the weights are only 26GB. Here's what actually happens per request. 2079 6011 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ridiculous-wearable-tech-inventions-77125/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ridiculous-wearable-tech-inventions-77125/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:36:03 GMT Ten Ridiculous Wearables, Ranked by Sincerity Brainwave cat ears, a tomato-dispensing shoulder robot, and a $3,000 sock tracker — all built with total sincerity. 1465 6010 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vertex-ai-gemini-agent-platform-27642/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vertex-ai-gemini-agent-platform-27642/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:07:16 GMT Vertex AI Is Now the Gemini Agent Platform Vertex AI just became the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Here's the family tree, the five products, and when to actually move. 1591 6009 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stale-model-api-knowledge-75360/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stale-model-api-knowledge-75360/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:07:15 GMT Why Codex Writes Code for a Dead API Models don't hallucinate your API — they quote real docs from the wrong year. Here's why, and what actually fixes it. 996 6008 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/my-weird-prompts-6000-episodes-59015/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/my-weird-prompts-6000-episodes-59015/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:35:16 GMT 6,000 Episodes and a GPU Bill: Inside My Weird Prompts Six thousand episodes, one human in the loop, and a Modal bill that keeps growing. A behind-the-scenes update on the podcast. 1202 6000 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-hosted-batch-inference-gpu-37921/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-hosted-batch-inference-gpu-37921/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:34:01 GMT Batch Inference on Your Own GPU: vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp Hosted batch APIs sell you half-price tokens. Here's how to get the same file-in, file-out workflow on your own Linux box. 1272 5991 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mystery-adapter-voltage-guide-52044/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mystery-adapter-voltage-guide-52044/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:02:12 GMT Reading a Mystery Adapter's Voltage Without a Label An unpowered DC jack is electrically silent — so how do you find the right voltage? The answer isn't in the pins, it's in the current curve. 1350 5984 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-cleanup-one-model-or-two-59790/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-cleanup-one-model-or-two-59790/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:13:54 GMT One Model or Two? ASR Cleanup Explained If speech models can punctuate and capitalize on their own, why does a separate 484MB cleanup model exist at all? 1996 5974 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-security-observability-06242/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-security-observability-06242/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:44:04 GMT MCP Security: Tool Poisoning and Agent Identity MCP servers trust their own tool descriptions. That design choice creates a whole new class of attack — and a new observability problem. 1920 5973 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/personal-crm-2026-comparison-55784/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/personal-crm-2026-comparison-55784/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:24:00 GMT Personal CRM in 2026: Dex, Mesh, folk, Monica, Twenty What actually makes a good personal CRM — and which ones can an AI assistant talk to? 1636 5971 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-kernel-swap-performance-62716/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-kernel-swap-performance-62716/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:15:12 GMT Swapping Your Linux Kernel: What Actually Changes Your kernel is swappable without reinstalling anything. But do Liquorix and XanMod actually beat the default? The benchmarks say less than the mark... 1560 5970 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ubuntu-2604-lts-trade-offs-04441/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ubuntu-2604-lts-trade-offs-04441/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:13:02 GMT Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: Is Staying on LTS Still a Trade-Off? Ubuntu 26.04 LTS shipped in April. Point releases, HWE kernels, and SRUs have quietly closed most of the freshness gap — but not everywhere. 1819 5969 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gentoo-2026-daily-desktop-88741/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gentoo-2026-daily-desktop-88741/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:11:32 GMT Gentoo in 2026: Still Worth Compiling? Twenty years on Linux and he's never tried Gentoo. In 2026, does the compile-everything reputation still hold? 1559 5968 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/uefi-secure-boot-chain-explained-17416/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/uefi-secure-boot-chain-explained-17416/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:05:10 GMT How UEFI, Secure Boot, and the Boot Chain Actually Work Twenty years of Linux and nobody explains the firmware. Here's the boot chain, the keys, and what's changing in 2026. 1956 5967 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-desktop-defaults-tested-44443/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-desktop-defaults-tested-44443/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:28 GMT How Much of Your Linux Desktop Is Actually Misconfigured? Most "Linux tweaks" are folklore. A few are real — and one toggle most people never open is worth up to 42%. 1765 5966 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/compiling-from-source-tradeoffs-56838/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/compiling-from-source-tradeoffs-56838/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:59:36 GMT Compiling From Source: What You Actually Get Source builds aren't faster — they're smaller. What USE flags, compiler flags, and the build feedback loop actually buy you. 1671 5965 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-virtualization-overhead-inference-41095/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-virtualization-overhead-inference-41095/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:48:10 GMT Containers vs VMs for GPU Inference: What You Actually Pay Containers cost 0.03%. Passthrough VMs cost 1%... or 36%. Same hardware, different systems — here's how to tell which you'll get. 1837 5964 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-gpu-model-parallelism-83583/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-gpu-model-parallelism-83583/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:47:59 GMT Running One Model Across Mismatched GPUs Tensor, pipeline, or offload? What actually happens when you run one model across several GPUs — including mismatched ones. 1892 5963 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/word-error-rate-limits-05326/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/word-error-rate-limits-05326/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:40:05 GMT How Word Error Rate Lies to Us WER is the number everyone reports for speech recognition — and the one that agrees with human judgment least. Here's what it actually measures. 1609 5962 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-memory-bandwidth-decode-21799/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-memory-bandwidth-decode-21799/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:35:28 GMT What Your GPU Is Actually Waiting On Your GPU says 100% utilized. It's multiplying zeros. Here's what the counters actually measure during inference. 1647 5961 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-inference-performance-metrics-72413/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/llm-inference-performance-metrics-72413/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:32:15 GMT There's No Such Thing as Tokens Per Second Why one tokens-per-second number can't describe an LLM server — and which metrics actually tell you if it's working. 1816 5960 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-benchmarking-real-time-factor-84998/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/asr-benchmarking-real-time-factor-84998/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:26:57 GMT What RTF Actually Tells You About Speech Models Accuracy gets the headlines, but speed decides what ships. How RTF, latency percentiles, and memory shape real ASR deployments. 1600 5959 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/defense-in-depth-redundancy-math-75180/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/defense-in-depth-redundancy-math-75180/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:09:01 GMT Layered Safeguards and the Math Behind Them Three safeguards at 90% each seems bulletproof—until shared failure modes collapse the math. 1679 5954 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/malmab-israel-defense-security-96233/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/malmab-israel-defense-security-96233/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:17:50 GMT Inside Malmab: Israel's Most Secretive Security Body Israel's classified defense security body and what its extreme information practices teach about protecting secrets. 1558 5952 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-hosting-search-stack-searxng-50287/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-hosting-search-stack-searxng-50287/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:44:16 GMT Self-Hosting Your Search Stack: SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and the Real Bill Can SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and an open-source aggregator really replace a commercial search API? 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Here's how TRL, OpenRLHF, and verl actually differ. 1488 5944 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/service-worker-lifecycle-explained-19120/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/service-worker-lifecycle-explained-19120/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:18:31 GMT Service Workers: The Proxy That Never Sleeps A JavaScript file with no tab, no DOM, and the power to intercept every request your site makes — and why refreshing never updates it. 1677 5942 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/content-api-isr-architecture-06199/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/content-api-isr-architecture-06199/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:16:38 GMT The Missing Middle: Content APIs and ISR for a 6,000-Episode Catalog When your catalog is too big to rebuild on every change, what has to change? Turns out the missing middle might already exist. 1934 5940 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/android-notifications-pwa-vs-native-56628/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/android-notifications-pwa-vs-native-56628/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:15:14 GMT Android Notifications: PWA vs Native, What You Actually Get Push, channels, haptics, and the scheduling gap — what a PWA can and can't do that a native Android build can. 1330 5939 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/regex-limits-android-whisperian-54308/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/regex-limits-android-whisperian-54308/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:07:23 GMT One Regex Rule Worked, One Was Impossible A dictation app, two text-replacement rules, and the mathematical line between what regex can match and what it provably cannot. 1639 5938 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unbounded-label-annotation-schema-62956/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unbounded-label-annotation-schema-62956/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:17:56 GMT Training a Model When You Don't Know the Labels Yet Daniel wants to extract adapter specs from his shelf — but he can't name the labels until he's already annotating. 1593 5936 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/plus-codes-open-addressing-gap-38486/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/plus-codes-open-addressing-gap-38486/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:08:19 GMT Plus Codes, Geohash, and the Open Addressing Gap Google's Plus Codes promise offline, self-contained location — but the shortened form quietly reintroduces a dependency the standard was designed t... 1647 5925 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/camera-audio-split-baby-monitor-74640/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/camera-audio-split-baby-monitor-74640/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:55:26 GMT 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. 1551 5918 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/human-computers-before-machines-86740/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/human-computers-before-machines-86740/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:09:18 GMT 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. 1369 5917 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-agent-world-state-architecture-65069/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-agent-world-state-architecture-65069/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:47:09 GMT 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. 1799 5915 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-assisted-crm-schema-first-37758/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-assisted-crm-schema-first-37758/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:58:14 GMT 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. 1332 5912 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/revit-2027-workstation-cost-06946/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/revit-2027-workstation-cost-06946/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:31:39 GMT 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. 1643 5911 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/postgres-google-workspace-integration-99679/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/postgres-google-workspace-integration-99679/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:24:11 GMT 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. 1709 5909 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rackmount-desktop-conversion-guide-50825/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rackmount-desktop-conversion-guide-50825/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:07:52 GMT Rackmounting a Desktop: Size, Cases, and the Swap How to move a working desktop into a 19-inch rack — sizing by rack unit, picking a chassis that fits your parts, and what the transplant costs. 1435 5907 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bare-linux-routing-vs-opnsense-40090/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bare-linux-routing-vs-opnsense-40090/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:30:58 GMT Bare Linux Routing vs OPNsense: What Actually Wins? You can build a router on plain Debian or Ubuntu. The question is whether you should — and what it costs you over ten years. 1518 5905 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-wan-opnsense-openwrt-routing-03166/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-wan-opnsense-openwrt-routing-03166/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:22:47 GMT Multi-WAN Beyond Failover: OPNsense vs OpenWrt You stacked your links, failover works — so why does a dropped WAN still kill every session? Load balancing, mwan3, and what bonding actually solves. 1203 5904 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/deepseek-v4-flash-local-inference-87980/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/deepseek-v4-flash-local-inference-87980/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:21:12 GMT Serving DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Your Own GPU Five inference engines, one frontier MoE, and a shortlist that collapses depending on which GPU you already bought. 1354 5900 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inference-engine-benchmarks-comparison-25521/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inference-engine-benchmarks-comparison-25521/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:18:35 GMT Same GPU, Same Weights, Different Answers Identical hardware, identical weights, different engine — and answers that shift by up to 16.6 points. 1292 5899 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rocm-10-amd-gpu-software-14533/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rocm-10-amd-gpu-software-14533/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:14:11 GMT ROCm 10.1: AMD's Software Stack Finally Grows Up Three ROCm releases in six months — build system, agentic tooling, data movement. What actually changed for AMD GPU owners. 1635 5898 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/oldest-software-still-running-26325/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/oldest-software-still-running-26325/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:04:14 GMT The World's Oldest Software Still Running From a 1958 Pentagon contract system to Voyager's 68KB computer, some software refuses to die. What's the oldest code still in production? 1873 5885 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/usb-c-charging-handshake-explained-89404/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/usb-c-charging-handshake-explained-89404/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:21:21 GMT Why Your USB-C Charger Won't Talk to Cheap Devices A pocket speaker charges on USB-A but flashes red on USB-C. 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Here's the actual recipe for dropping ums and catching Hebrew. 1656 5868 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pocket-audio-players-2026-06945/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pocket-audio-players-2026-06945/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:47:45 GMT Four Pocket Players That Won't Sell You a Device Today Mono, Fonix One, Sudo, and DuRoBo Krono all promise phone-free podcast listening — and not one of them is ready to ship today. 2054 5865 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cloudflare-bot-detection-explained-09876/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cloudflare-bot-detection-explained-09876/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:02:40 GMT Inside Cloudflare's Bot Check: TLS, JA4, and the Sand-Timer What actually happens during those two seconds of "Checking your browser"? The verdict is made before a single byte of JavaScript runs. 1801 5861 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-release-cadence-analysis-40162/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-release-cadence-analysis-40162/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:50:16 GMT Slow Labs, Fast Ships: What Release Cadence Actually Tells Us Anthropic ships premium models every 22.5 days — the fastest lab in the industry. 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The answer is the unglamorous plumbing nobody demos. 1425 5851 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ambient-computing-smart-glasses-87123/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ambient-computing-smart-glasses-87123/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:51:13 GMT Ambient Computing: Why Glasses Beat the Phone Weiser's 1991 vision said tech should disappear. Thirty-five years later, the device that finally worked wasn't new — it was glasses. 1381 5850 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-science-founding-debate-85297/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-science-founding-debate-85297/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:22:31 GMT Who Invented Computer Science—and Was It Ever a Trade? The founders wanted a science of computation. We built a job credential instead—and the argument hasn't changed since 1968. 1494 5849 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unsung-software-libraries-38087/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unsung-software-libraries-38087/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:18:24 GMT The Libraries Nobody Thinks About zlib, SQLite, OpenSSL, and the xz backdoor — the tiny pieces of code running everywhere, and the volunteers keeping them alive. 1633 5848 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-voice-eq-conflict-fix-87052/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-voice-eq-conflict-fix-87052/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:56:18 GMT Why One EQ Curve Can't Fix Two Voices One static EQ curve can't serve two different voices — here's why, and what actually works instead. 1422 5847 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/buggiest-software-ever-shipped-10023/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/buggiest-software-ever-shipped-10023/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:34:46 GMT Five of the Buggiest Software Ever Shipped Windows ME, Sonic '06, Big Rigs, and more — the software where the bugs weren't a problem, they were the product. 1505 5844 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pip-vs-uv-python-packaging-35217/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pip-vs-uv-python-packaging-35217/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:29:39 GMT Why pip and uv Share Almost No Code pip won by being preinstalled, not by being best. uv is a from-scratch Rust rewrite, not a wrapper — and the speed story isn't really about Rust. 1883 5843 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/tts-model-silent-updates-44828/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/tts-model-silent-updates-44828/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:24:44 GMT When Your TTS Model Updates Itself Resemble pushed new Chatterbox weights to Hugging Face. Our pipeline started using them without a single config change. 1729 5842 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inside-secure-phone-lines-58159/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/inside-secure-phone-lines-58159/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:06:58 GMT What's Actually Inside a Secure Line? 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One quadrant of the matrix is a product that basically doesn't exist. 1397 5831 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serving-fine-tuned-models-cloud/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serving-fine-tuned-models-cloud/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:23:37 GMT Serving Your Own Fine-Tuned Model in the Cloud You fine-tuned an open-weight model. Now how does anyone actually talk to it? Dedicated GPUs vs serverless inference, and the math that decides it. 1460 5830 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/paper-data-storage-optar-paperback/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/paper-data-storage-optar-paperback/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:21:17 GMT Printing Files on Paper That Outlasts the Software Optar and PaperBack turn any file into machine-readable dots on paper. 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So how did a general-purpose scripting language end up carrying the entire AI industry? 1446 5813 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/two-agent-dictation-workflow/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/two-agent-dictation-workflow/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:18:23 GMT Two Agents, One Approval Gate: Wiring a Dictation Workflow A dictated prompt becomes an episode — if one agent resolves facts, a second tightens prose, and a human approves the dispatch. 1300 5799 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unraid-vm-license-lock-in/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unraid-vm-license-lock-in/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:50:35 GMT Unraid in a VM: When the License Is the Wall Daniel wants Unraid's parity array without Synology's lock-in. The technology works. 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Here's how it actually works. 2027 5766 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/schneider-electric-industrial-infrastructure/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/schneider-electric-industrial-infrastructure/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:23:40 GMT Why You've Never Heard of Schneider Electric It's on your breaker panel, your UPS, and half the factories on earth — so why is Schneider Electric almost invisible? 1776 5765 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pinterest-pointer-not-backup/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pinterest-pointer-not-backup/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:32:06 GMT Pinterest Is a Pointer, Not a Backup A Pin is a URL with a thumbnail, not a picture. 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Here's how LTO really integrates, and why "pool" means something else. 1853 5705 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/superglue-chemistry-bonding-mistakes/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/superglue-chemistry-bonding-mistakes/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:14:43 GMT Superglue: One Drop, Two Reactions, Five Mistakes One part, no mixing, seconds to set — and most of us have been using it wrong since we were nine. 1400 5704 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-pioneers-subculture-internet-cafes/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-pioneers-subculture-internet-cafes/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:19:18 GMT Did the Internet's Pioneers Know What They Were Building? Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. 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AI Agents and Stacked PRs Git branches don't nest — so what are we really doing when AI agents stack pull requests? 1383 5643 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/lux-sensors-home-assistant-automation/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/lux-sensors-home-assistant-automation/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:30:04 GMT Lux Sensors for Home Assistant: The Feedback Loop Nobody Warns You About Lux sensors sound simple until the lights you turn on trip the sensor that turned them on. Here's the full chain, from Aqara T1 to Matter's missing... 1462 5637 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/battery-platform-innovation-stability/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/battery-platform-innovation-stability/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:47:43 GMT Battery Platform Lock-In: Innovation vs Stability Cells change every three years. The battery interface barely moves. 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How to build a small encoder classifier that actually works. 1312 5624 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-citation-faithfulness-tracing/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-citation-faithfulness-tracing/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:36:53 GMT When Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually Use Your RAG pipeline cites a source — but did the model actually use it? New interpretability research says you can't tell from the trace. 1733 5623 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/chat-vs-work-ai-interfaces/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/chat-vs-work-ai-interfaces/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:28:16 GMT Why Talking to AI Feels Easier Than Using It ChatGPT split into Chat and Work. 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Is that security, or provisioning in a costume? 1234 5607 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/custom-gpts-retire-skills-plugins-mcp/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/custom-gpts-retire-skills-plugins-mcp/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:30:16 GMT Custom GPTs Retire: Skills, Plugins, and MCP Explained Custom GPTs retire December 11. Here's how Skills, Plugins, and MCP servers actually replace them — and what doesn't migrate. 1353 5606 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/prompt-typo-correction-pipeline/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/prompt-typo-correction-pipeline/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:16:00 GMT Fixing Typos Without Rewriting the Prompt Three different jobs hide in one "clean up my prompt" pipeline — and only one of them should ever go to a generative model. 1233 5604 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/who-invented-the-internet/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/who-invented-the-internet/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:45:46 GMT Who Invented the Internet? Actually, Seven People The first message ever sent was "LO" — then the system crashed. The real story of the internet is a stack of seven layers, not one genius. 1505 5582 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ephemeral-containers-agentic-dev-environments/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ephemeral-containers-agentic-dev-environments/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:45:37 GMT Ephemeral Containers and the ADE Label Nobody Owns Claude Code's cloud sessions spin up a fresh VM every time. Here's what that breaks, and the new term for what Daniel actually wants. 1413 5574 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-post-processing-pipeline/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-post-processing-pipeline/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:52:00 GMT Audio Post-Processing for AI Podcast Pipelines Silence trimming, loudness normalization, EQ, and tempo fixes — the CLI tools that turn raw TTS output into a finished episode. 1558 5573 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpon-fiber-diagnostics-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpon-fiber-diagnostics-guide/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:03:13 GMT Your Fiber Is Dark: What You Can Actually Test Your ONT is dark and there's no sync light to watch. Here's what a PON power meter can actually tell you before you call the ISP. 1331 5563 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spare-parts-planning-home-network/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spare-parts-planning-home-network/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:51:27 GMT When 52 Volts Meets a 12-Volt Modem A fried fiber modem raises the real question: where do you draw the line between preparedness and "done enough"? 1611 5553 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-source-wifi-ap-vendors/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-source-wifi-ap-vendors/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:49:21 GMT Open Source Wi-Fi Controllers: Why Mixing AP Vendors Is So Hard OpenWISP, OpenSOHO, DAWN, TIP OpenWiFi, FreeSDN — six real projects, one shared wall: closed firmware. 1585 5544 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reterminating-keystone-jack-ethernet/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reterminating-keystone-jack-ethernet/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:02:12 GMT Re-terminating a Keystone Jack After a Bad Ethernet Run A DIY Ethernet run came up at 80 Mbps on 2.5G fiber. Here's what went wrong and whether re-termination is a skill worth learning. 1558 5541 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/laptop-trackpad-click-battery-swelling/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/laptop-trackpad-click-battery-swelling/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:56:04 GMT Why Your Trackpad Clicks Stopped Working Your trackpad surface works but the clicks don't? That's not a trackpad failure — it's a swollen battery pushing the click plate out of reach. 1199 5540 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/staging-environments-beyond-code/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/staging-environments-beyond-code/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:26:11 GMT Staging Environments for Blog Posts and AI Pipelines That's 54 characters. This captures both the content workflow angle and the AI pipeline angle. Good. 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Your Android phone can already read and write an eSIM adapter card. So why does the company still sell a $15 USB reader? 1494 5525 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/coding-agent-hosting-shift/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/coding-agent-hosting-shift/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:18:50 GMT Where Does the Coding Agent Actually Live? The agent process is moving off your laptop. Local appliance, SaaS workspace, or your own VPS — three answers, no consensus. 1313 5523 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-backup-appliance-build/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-backup-appliance-build/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:50:57 GMT Building a Podcast Backup Appliance One listener wants a single-purpose box that pulls every episode to local storage he controls. 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New Zealand and Stockholm already tried it. 1502 5484 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-prompt-over-editing-fix/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-prompt-over-editing-fix/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:41:53 GMT When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch Problem A tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked. 1576 5482 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/small-models-pii-detection/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/small-models-pii-detection/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:32:00 GMT Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT A tiny 600M parameter model is quietly scanning your ChatGPT tool calls for PII. Here's how that class of guardian model actually works. 1554 5481 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-mvno-network-detection/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-mvno-network-detection/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:25:18 GMT Who Owns the Antennas? Israel's MVNO Puzzle Israel's virtual operators won't tell you whose towers they ride. Turns out your phone already knows — if you read the right signals. 1189 5477 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/authentication-edge-case-lockouts/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/authentication-edge-case-lockouts/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:21:16 GMT When Login Systems Lock Out Their Own Users Why do login systems permanently lock out real users? A look at the hidden design failures behind OTP dead ends and circular recovery flows. 1285 5476 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/small-models-structured-output/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/small-models-structured-output/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:16:44 GMT Small Models, Big Schemas: When JSON Constraints Backfire Small models plus strict JSON schemas should be a safe bet. 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Here's how tokenization actually works across modalities. 1660 4774 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/social-firewall-personality-analogy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/social-firewall-personality-analogy/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:57:34 GMT Firewall Rules for Your Social Life A network engineer’s take on why some people default-deny and others permit any — and how to share a network. 1573 4765 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/context-window-management-cutoff-compaction/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/context-window-management-cutoff-compaction/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:41:58 GMT Context Window Management: Cutoff vs. Compaction Trailing cutoff or auto-compaction? How to manage Claude Code's context window without losing critical information. 1376 4760 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/api-keys-security-tradeoffs/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/api-keys-security-tradeoffs/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:28:02 GMT API Keys vs OAuth: When Simplicity Becomes a Security Trap API keys are simple but leak identity, scope, and auditability. Here's when they work and when they don't. 1783 4759 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/agent-credential-broker-model/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/agent-credential-broker-model/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:27:31 GMT Agent Credentials: Beyond the Password Manager Why OS keychains fail for AI agents — and what the broker model does instead. 1547 4758 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-authentication-identity/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-authentication-identity/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:14:04 GMT AI Agents Need a New Identity Model How composite identity and short-lived credentials replace API keys for autonomous AI agents. 1398 4757 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workload-identity-no-secrets/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workload-identity-no-secrets/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:11:11 GMT Eliminating the Secret: Workload Identity Without Credentials How Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes are moving from long-lived keys to ephemeral, platform-issued tokens. 1624 4756 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/oauth-authorization-consent-scopes/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/oauth-authorization-consent-scopes/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:07:38 GMT Why OAuth Makes You Re-Authorize Apps Understanding delegated authority: why OAuth's consent flow is a feature, not a bug. 1931 4755 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/code-authentication-keys-tokens/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/code-authentication-keys-tokens/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:55:24 GMT Why Code Authentication Needs So Many Keys API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — why can't one authenticator rule them all? The answer is trust topology. 2089 4754 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cookies-ai-agent-authentication/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cookies-ai-agent-authentication/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:46:42 GMT Cookies as AI Credentials: The Auth Problem How to get browser cookies into an AI agent's hands — and why they expire so fast. 1443 4753 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agents-ui-discovery-plugins/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agents-ui-discovery-plugins/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:41:58 GMT How AI Agents Map Websites to Build Stable Plugins An AI agent explores DOM and network layers to build self-healing browser plugins. 1476 4752 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agents-anti-bot-detection/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agents-anti-bot-detection/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:33:05 GMT AI Agents vs Anti-Bot Systems Why AI agents get blocked by anti-bot systems and what actually works to get through. 1602 4751 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reverse-engineering-hidden-apis/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reverse-engineering-hidden-apis/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:29:56 GMT Reverse-Engineering Hidden Web APIs How to find undocumented APIs in your browser's network tab and hand them to AI agents. 1678 4750 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-tokens-always-attached/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-tokens-always-attached/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:57:36 GMT Hardware Tokens That Never Leave the Port Why developers should consider keeping a hardware security token permanently plugged in — and which ones survive the abuse. 1632 4741 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/protocol-survival-ftp-ssh/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/protocol-survival-ftp-ssh/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:09:47 GMT Why FTP Still Exists and SSH Won't Die FTP from 1985 is still not deprecated. 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We explore token storage, PKCE, and Linux secret APIs. 1701 4733 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/travel-router-tailscale-subnet/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/travel-router-tailscale-subnet/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:08:19 GMT Travel Router Tailscale Subnet Bridge Military network tactics for home users bridging subnets with Tailscale and travel routers. 1649 4732 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/automated-qos-opnsense-scheduling/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/automated-qos-opnsense-scheduling/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:58:01 GMT Teaching Your Router Bedtime: Automated QoS with OPNsense Can your router learn when to prioritize Netflix over backups? We build schedule-aware QoS with OPNsense and cron. 1573 4731 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-vis-fashion-ansi-workwear/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-vis-fashion-ansi-workwear/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:06:24 GMT Can You Wear a High-Vis Button-Up to a Bar? ANSI safety standards don't care about garment type — only square inches. The result: fluorescent cargo shorts. 1573 4730 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/din-connector-foot-pedal-design/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/din-connector-foot-pedal-design/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:05:58 GMT Why a 2026 Foot Pedal Uses a 1990s Connector Why does a brand-new foot pedal ship with an 8-pin DIN connector? The surprising engineering logic behind "obsolete" design. 1669 4726 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-whisper-server-spec/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-whisper-server-spec/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:10:49 GMT Building a Home Whisper Server: The Full Spec Daniel wants a dedicated home server for Whisper dictation. 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Which one wins shapes the next decade of building. 1393 4713 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-ai-filesystem-rclone-minio/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-ai-filesystem-rclone-minio/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:21:37 GMT Building a Unified AI Filesystem with Rclone and MinIO How to build a single virtual filesystem for AI agents across multiple cloud storage providers — without the token headaches. 2049 4704 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-binary-payloads-url-pattern/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-binary-payloads-url-pattern/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:19:49 GMT MCP Binary Payloads: Why URLs Beat Base64 MCP can't carry raw bytes. 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Here's what actually tells you if your connection is good. 1374 4697 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-over-explanation-addition-bias/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-over-explanation-addition-bias/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:33:07 GMT Why AI Over-Explains Simple Tasks Why does AI turn a simple request into a 24-page document? We explore the training biases and architectural limits behind AI's tendency to over-del... 1631 4696 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/print-vs-screen-color-matching/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/print-vs-screen-color-matching/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:11:16 GMT Why Printed Colors Never Match Your Screen Screen light vs. ink absorption: why RGB and CMYK clash, and how ICC profiles, rich black, and bleed save your prints. 1458 4692 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/typst-programmatic-pdf-agents/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/typst-programmatic-pdf-agents/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:47:10 GMT Typst for Agents: Programmatic PDF Generation How Typst's function-based design makes it the ideal document engine for AI agents generating professional PDFs. 1427 4690 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bootable-standby-drive-rsync/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bootable-standby-drive-rsync/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:48:25 GMT Bootable Standby Drives: The Ship of Theseus Server Solution Recovering from a dead NVMe drive in minutes, not days. A practical guide to building a bootable standby disk with rsync. 2028 4689 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-feed-cap-spotify-restore/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-feed-cap-spotify-restore/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:23:04 GMT Why 3,000 Episodes Vanished From Spotify (And Came Back) The December episode wasn't deleted — Spotify just wasn't told about it. Here's how 4,600 episodes reappeared. 1202 4688 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cellular-bonding-diy-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cellular-bonding-diy-guide/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:14:31 GMT Bonding Cellular Connections: Why Can't You Buy It? Why can't you buy a box that bonds two SIM cards? 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We break down the Unix primitives behind its background task system and where the analogy cracks. 1566 4686 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/github-aws-agentic-ai-certs/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/github-aws-agentic-ai-certs/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:47:44 GMT GitHub vs AWS: Agentic AI Cert Showdown GH-600 vs AWS's AI ladder — which curriculum teaches transferable skills, and which is just product training? 1385 4685 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/focus-aware-key-remapping-linux/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/focus-aware-key-remapping-linux/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:43:08 GMT Focus-Aware Key Remapping on Linux: The Hard Parts How keyd bridges kernel input events and display-server focus — and why Wayland makes it harder than it should be. 1739 4684 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/agent-loop-topology-parallel-sequential/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/agent-loop-topology-parallel-sequential/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:29:14 GMT Parallel vs Sequential Agent Loops: The Real Tradeoffs When should AI agents run in parallel vs sequential chains? 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We pin down the actual definition—and who owns the off switch. 1512 4681 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/magic-eraser-segmentation-inpainting/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/magic-eraser-segmentation-inpainting/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:55:04 GMT How Magic Eraser Tools Actually Work: Segmentation + Inpainting Two AI stages — pixel-level segmentation and generative inpainting — explain how your phone erases objects cleanly. 1353 4672 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/miniature-cloud-proxmox-minio/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/miniature-cloud-proxmox-minio/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:24:10 GMT Building a Miniature Cloud: Proxmox, MinIO, and the Seams Proxmox alone isn't a private cloud. 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Here's the framework. 1272 4663 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/typescript-server-anatomy-layers/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/typescript-server-anatomy-layers/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:39:16 GMT TypeScript Server Anatomy: Layers & Request Flow Dissecting a TypeScript backend from runtime to repository — how middleware, services, and data access fit together. 1902 4662 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/database-migrations-full-lifecycle/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/database-migrations-full-lifecycle/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:36:09 GMT Database Migrations: The Full Lifecycle From schema change to production — the complete guide to safe, zero-downtime database migrations. 1504 4661 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-coding-language-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-coding-language-evolution/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:23:52 GMT Will AI Coding Kill Programming Languages? Machines now write code better than humans. 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Learn the data model, type system, and patterns that survive framework churn. 1806 4656 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/apache-foundation-infrastructure-ecosystem/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/apache-foundation-infrastructure-ecosystem/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:51:20 GMT How Apache Became the Backbone of Modern Infrastructure From a patchy web server to 320+ projects — how a volunteer non-profit became the default home for the software running the modern economy. 1447 4650 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-source-maintainer-funding-crisis/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-source-maintainer-funding-crisis/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:38:22 GMT Why Open Source Heroes Can't Afford Rent The code running the internet is maintained by people earning a dollar a year. Why does the market fail to reward our digital commons? 1476 4649 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/github-open-source-collaboration-history/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/github-open-source-collaboration-history/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:32:58 GMT How GitHub Made Open Source the Default Before the pull request, contributing to open source meant emailing a patch and hoping. How GitHub changed everything. 1525 4647 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/online-marketplace-curation-trust/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/online-marketplace-curation-trust/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:50:14 GMT Where Did the Good Online Marketplaces Go? Amazon's marketplace is an ad platform, not a store. 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We dig into what's exposed and what actually protects you. 1494 4635 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/in-flight-wifi-phased-array/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/in-flight-wifi-phased-array/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:11:53 GMT How In-Flight Wi-Fi Actually Works at 35,000 Feet Daniel measured 150 Mbps over the Atlantic. Here's how the antenna, cabin network, and routers make it possible. 1577 4633 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speed-test-benchmarking-reality/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speed-test-benchmarking-reality/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:07:44 GMT What Your Speed Test Is Really Measuring Speed tests measure a journey, not a pipe. 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Number portability breaks when you leave the carrier system. 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We dig into the real friction points of Google Workspace and whether agentic AI can finally make the monolith obsolete. 1611 4587 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stale-ui-data-flow-chain/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/stale-ui-data-flow-chain/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:37:35 GMT Fixing Stale UI: The 4-Link Chain of Data Flow Why does a number on screen stay frozen after an upload? We trace the 4-link chain from response to redraw — and where it breaks. 1477 4586 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-process-environment-filesystem/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-process-environment-filesystem/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:34:08 GMT Why `export` Fails But Files Work: Linux Process Secrets Why does `wrangler login` work across shells but `export` doesn't? The answer reveals how Linux processes really share data. 1634 4585 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/compaction-directives-claude-code/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/compaction-directives-claude-code/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:12:32 GMT Directing Context Loss: Smart Compaction Prompts Learn how to steer Claude Code's context compaction with targeted instructions — turning a lossy default into a directed operation. 1613 4584 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-mcp-gateway-conversational-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-mcp-gateway-conversational-ai/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:07:06 GMT Designing a Home MCP Gateway for Conversational AI How to securely connect ChatGPT to a home-hosted MCP gateway — transport, auth, and the missing pieces. 1726 4582 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/tiny-ai-tools-beat-agents/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/tiny-ai-tools-beat-agents/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:48:59 GMT The Tiny AI Tools That Beat Big Agents Why small, single-purpose AI utilities outperform autonomous agents for daily work — and what interface they need. 1416 4580 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/google-groups-mail-routing-workaround/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/google-groups-mail-routing-workaround/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:42:46 GMT Is Google Groups Just a Mail-Routing Workaround? Daniel's been using Google Groups as a mail router for years. Is there a better way, or is he stuck with the workaround? 1493 4578 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fiducial-markers-room-measurement/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fiducial-markers-room-measurement/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:27:39 GMT Measuring Rooms with Fiducial Markers: AprilTag vs ArUco AprilTags, ArUco, ChArUco — which marker system actually helps you measure a room from a photo? 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Learn how to use domain-based split routing and WireGuard to gain surgical control over your network. 1963 1071 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-secret-management/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-secret-management/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:21:09 GMT The Agentic Secret Gap: Securing the AI Developer Workflow AI agents write code in seconds, but manual secret management is a major bottleneck. Explore how to bridge the gap between speed and security. 1810 1070 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/silicon-semiconductor-material-science/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/silicon-semiconductor-material-science/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:03:07 GMT Why Silicon Won the Chip Wars Why did silicon win the chip wars? 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Learn how Frigate and YOLO models use AI to revolutionize home security and object detection. 1944 758 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-podcast-automation-pipeline/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-podcast-automation-pipeline/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:38:11 GMT From Duct Tape to Autonomous Studio: Scaling a 741-Episode AI Podcast Peek under the hood of My Weird Prompts to see how Gemini, Modal, and multi-agent systems are scaling this automated show to the next level. 2184 755 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/autonomous-transit-mesh-networks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/autonomous-transit-mesh-networks/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:17:34 GMT Can Trackless Trams and Mesh Networks Kill the Traffic Jam? Are electric vehicles just a temporary fix? Explore how autonomous mesh networks and public transit could create a truly car-free future. 1606 754 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-website-optimization/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-website-optimization/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:14:07 GMT Beyond SEO: The Guide to Agentic Behavior Optimization Move beyond search engines and learn how to make your website the primary source for the next generation of AI agents. 1911 753 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/future-of-semantic-search-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/future-of-semantic-search-ai/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:14:01 GMT Will AI Kill the Click? Why Search Is Becoming Invisible Stop shouting nouns at a screen. Discover how AI is turning the "ten blue links" into a conversational assistant that understands your intent. 1763 752 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/dvbt-iptv-broadcast-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/dvbt-iptv-broadcast-future/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:25:35 GMT Why Antennas Still Matter in a Streaming World Explore the hidden tech of television, from DVB-T2 signals to IPTV latency, and why the traditional broadcast isn't dead just yet. 1719 746 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-archive-digital-preservation/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-archive-digital-preservation/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:29:06 GMT The Fragile Web: Who Decides What We Remember? Explore how the Internet Archive saves the web, the legal battles threatening its future, and the rise of decentralized storage like Arweave. 1940 741 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/utc-gmt-time-zones-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/utc-gmt-time-zones-explained/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:28:17 GMT The Illusion of Now: UTC, GMT, and the Chaos of Time Why is keeping time so hard? Explore the difference between UTC and GMT, the end of leap seconds, and the messy global politics of daylight savings. 1988 734 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-vocal-eq-mastering/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-vocal-eq-mastering/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:24:01 GMT Why Your Recorded Voice Sounds Wrong Use AI to find your perfect EQ profile and build a pro vocal chain. Fix nasality, master de-essing, and sound your best on any device. 1843 732 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-room-audio-optimization/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-room-audio-optimization/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:19:41 GMT The EQ Lasagna Problem: A Signal Processing Hierarchy Stop layering filters on top of filters. Learn the technically correct way to sync your home audio without creating a muddy "EQ lasagna." 2033 731 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-architecture-x86-arm/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-architecture-x86-arm/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:01:03 GMT The Hidden Language Barrier Between Your Phone and Laptop Why can’t you just "copy and paste" software between devices? Explore the hidden language of CPU architectures like x86 and ARM. 1745 730 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/os-architecture-deep-dive/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/os-architecture-deep-dive/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:58:58 GMT The Surprising Family Tree of Modern Operating Systems Why does Linux rule servers while Windows dominates the desktop? Explore the architectural DNA and kernel designs of the world's most popular OSs. 2066 729 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/understanding-modern-file-systems/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/understanding-modern-file-systems/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:58:49 GMT The Invisible Infrastructure of Data Ever wonder how your data actually sits on a disk? Explore the evolution of file systems from the limits of FAT32 to the magic of ZFS. 1920 728 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spatial-audio-evolution-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spatial-audio-evolution-explained/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:23:35 GMT The Math of Immersion: How 360-Degree Sound Actually Works Learn how object-based audio and clever math trick your brain into hearing 360-degree sound from even the smallest mobile devices. 1709 727 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/waterproof-tech-standards-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/waterproof-tech-standards-explained/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:38:34 GMT Decoding IP Ratings: What Waterproof Really Means Don’t let marketing buzzwords ruin your gear. Learn what IP ratings actually mean and how to protect your outdoor electronics from the elements. 1692 726 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-speaker-vocal-clarity/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/podcast-speaker-vocal-clarity/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:35:10 GMT Finding a Speaker That Loves Voices Stop listening to podcasts through tinny speakers. Learn how to choose hardware optimized for the human voice and clear, room-filling audio. 1813 725 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/captcha-evolution-ai-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/captcha-evolution-ai-security/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:52:32 GMT The Surreal Evolution of Proving You’re Human Why are CAPTCHAs asking us to identify cats with lightbulbs? Discover the invisible arms race between AI and digital gatekeeping. 1322 724 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-home-security-setup/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/private-home-security-setup/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:15:23 GMT Domesticating Your Home Security: How to Kill the Cloud Learn how to "domesticate" consumer security cameras by severing their cloud ties while keeping the high-quality hardware you love. 1562 723 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/precise-timekeeping-stratum-servers/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/precise-timekeeping-stratum-servers/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:38:29 GMT The Two-Clock Obsession: Synchronizing Time at Home Discover the hidden infrastructure of precise timekeeping, from atomic radio signals to building your own DIY Stratum 1 time server. 1871 721 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/billion-year-archive-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/billion-year-archive-tech/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:22:35 GMT The Billion-Year Backup: Escaping the Digital Dark Age Will our digital legacy survive for billions of years? Explore the tech fighting the "Digital Dark Age," from lunar libraries to quartz glass. 1621 714 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-ai-cyber-warfare/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-ai-cyber-warfare/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:12:29 GMT When AI Reasoning Engines Become Weapons Exploring why Israel is the world's top cyber target and how generative AI is transforming state-sponsored attacks into automated weapons. 1713 713 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esd-static-electricity-pc-safety/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esd-static-electricity-pc-safety/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:19:10 GMT The Voltage You Can't Feel Is static electricity a real threat to your hardware? Learn why 10 volts can destroy a chip with a charge you can't even feel. 1624 709 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/psu-cable-standardization-crisis/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/psu-cable-standardization-crisis/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:13:50 GMT The Long Tail of Tech's Environmental Burden Discover why mixing power cables can fry your PC and how a lack of industry standards creates a massive environmental and safety crisis. 1744 708 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pc-hardware-assembly-automation/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pc-hardware-assembly-automation/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:19:07 GMT The Surprising Economics of Hand-Built PCs Explore the high-stakes world of PC assembly, from manual "microsurgery" to the high-speed robots building the world’s hardware. 1621 707 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-geopolitical-intelligence-dashboards/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-geopolitical-intelligence-dashboards/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:12:15 GMT DIY Geopolitical Intelligence: Building Your Dashboard Learn how to bridge the gap between elite intelligence tools and home-grown situational awareness dashboards using AI. 2090 706 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sms-authentication-security-risks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sms-authentication-security-risks/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:41:22 GMT The Unkillable SMS: Security vs. Access Why do we still rely on 1980s tech to secure our bank accounts? Explore the dangerous paradox of SMS-based two-factor authentication. 1809 704 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/global-spam-economics-israel/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/global-spam-economics-israel/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:37:20 GMT The Economics of Spam: Why It Pays to Be a Digital Mosquito Why is your inbox overflowing? Explore the technical and economic reasons behind the relentless rise of digital and physical spam. 1806 703 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/precision-pc-tool-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/precision-pc-tool-guide/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:53:23 GMT Why Cheap Screwdrivers Strip Your Screws Tired of stripped screws and static shocks? Learn how professional-grade tools like Wiha and Wera can save your high-end PC components. 1668 700 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/behind-the-curtain-how-my-weird-prompts-gets-made/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/behind-the-curtain-how-my-weird-prompts-gets-made/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:00:54 GMT Behind the Curtain: How My Weird Prompts Gets Made Corn and Herman explain exactly how each episode of My Weird Prompts is produced, from voice recording to published podcast. 1400 695 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/how-webhooks-work-technically/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/how-webhooks-work-technically/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:13:54 GMT The Secret Life of Webhooks: How "Always On" Costs Nothing Ever wonder how webhooks stay "always on" without costing a fortune? Herman and Corn dive into the kernel magic of sockets and interrupts. 2075 689 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pronouns-data-social-norms/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pronouns-data-social-norms/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:37:03 GMT Beyond the Binary: The Tech and Politics of Pronouns Herman and Corn explore why pronouns became a global debate and the hidden technical chaos of moving beyond binary data. 1762 686 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/overclocking-pc-hardware-performance/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/overclocking-pc-hardware-performance/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:33:54 GMT Breaking the Speed Limit: The Science of Overclocking Why settle for factory speeds? Herman and Corn dive into the world of overclocking, from silicon binning to the physics of pushing your CPU. 1714 684 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pied-piper-distributed-internet/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pied-piper-distributed-internet/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:26:13 GMT Can Smartphones Save the Grid? Herman and Corn explore the technical and legal hurdles of replacing massive data centers with a global peer-to-peer network of consumer devices. 1838 683 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smartphone-mics-whisper-accuracy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smartphone-mics-whisper-accuracy/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:12:25 GMT Why Your Phone Mic Beats Your Studio Headset Why does a phone mic outperform a pro headset for AI transcription? Herman and Corn dive into the physics of MEMS and the truth about audio quality. 1717 682 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/side-channel-ai-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/side-channel-ai-security/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:21:16 GMT The Sound of Secrets: Side-Channel Attacks in AI Clusters Is your hardware whispering your secrets? Discover how side-channel attacks turn physical signals into data leaks in modern AI clusters. 1864 679 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-open-source-license-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-open-source-license-guide/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:30:36 GMT The Social Contract of Your Code Don’t let your AI project become a legal "radioactive zone." Herman and Corn break down the philosophy and pitfalls of open-source licensing. 1742 677 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-infrastructure-data-centers/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-infrastructure-data-centers/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:53:54 GMT From Digital Libraries to Intelligence Factories From liquid cooling to nuclear power, Herman and Corn explore how AI is transforming data centers into high-density "intelligence factories." 1808 675 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/data-permanence-lunar-storage/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/data-permanence-lunar-storage/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:52:24 GMT Data Forever: From Blockchains to Lunar Vaults Worried about the Digital Dark Age? Herman and Corn explore how to keep your data safe on the Moon, under mountains, and in the blockweave. 2024 674 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workstation-vs-consumer-cpu-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workstation-vs-consumer-cpu-guide/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:01:42 GMT The Three Pillars of Workstation Performance Is a high-end desktop enough, or do you need a workstation? Herman and Corn break down the "three pillars" of professional hardware. 1846 663 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/supply-chain-intelligence-tools/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/supply-chain-intelligence-tools/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:39:33 GMT Cracking the Global Supply Chain: Why Your Tech Costs More Why does a $400 switch cost $700 elsewhere? Herman and Corn explore the tools that unmask global pricing and supply chain secrets. 1285 661 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-bitrate-compression-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-bitrate-compression-explained/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:14:54 GMT The Bit Rate Dilemma: How Much Audio Data Do You Need? Herman and Corn explore the science of audio compression, psychoacoustics, and finding the perfect bit rate for podcasts and AI. 1674 660 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-biometrics-security-challenges/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-biometrics-security-challenges/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:46:44 GMT Why Voice Is the Fusion Power of Biometrics Explore why voice biometrics hasn't replaced Face ID and how generative AI is making "voice prints" a massive security risk. 1663 659 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rugged-laptop-durability-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rugged-laptop-durability-guide/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:44:04 GMT Beyond Peanut Brittle: The Search for the Toughest Laptops Stop carrying a "sheet of peanut brittle." Herman and Corn break down the ruggedization spectrum to find laptops that actually survive the road. 1623 658 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/android-head-unit-cooling-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/android-head-unit-cooling-guide/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:35:24 GMT When Your Dashboard Is a Solar Cooker Don't let your car's tech melt this summer. Herman and Corn reveal how to choose an Android head unit that survives the heat without lagging. 1855 657 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-home-coordinator-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-home-coordinator-future/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:25:19 GMT When Open Hobbyists Meet Industry Standards Herman and Corn dive into the shifting landscape of smart home protocols and why Ethernet coordinators are the future of home automation. 1875 656 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-productivity-dashboard-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-productivity-dashboard-guide/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:20:49 GMT The Ultimate Dashboard: DIY Information Radiators Tired of expensive subscriptions and messy DIY screens? Discover the middle ground for the perfect home office information radiator. 1877 649 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-to-analog-audio-science/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-to-analog-audio-science/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:56:24 GMT The Golden Rule of Audio Engineering Why does digital data need to become analog? Explore the physics of sound and the critical role of the DAC in modern audio engineering. 1440 647 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpio-sbc-home-automation-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpio-sbc-home-automation-guide/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:26:54 GMT From USB to Bare Metal: Why GPIO Changes Everything Discover how to use GPIO pins and breadboards to bridge the gap between software and the physical world in your smart home projects. 1832 644 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-car-electronics-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-car-electronics-guide/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:03:34 GMT Why Your Car Is a Hostile Computer Think building a PC is hard? Try wiring a car. Herman and Corn explain how to upgrade your ride’s tech without frying the CAN bus. 1507 642 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/motherboard-server-hardware-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/motherboard-server-hardware-guide/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:44:22 GMT The Motherboard Decisions That Make or Break a Decade-Long Build Don't let your motherboard be an afterthought. Herman and Corn dive into VRMs, PCB layers, and the DDR5 debate for home servers. 1421 637 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ipfs-decentralized-backup-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ipfs-decentralized-backup-guide/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:08:31 GMT The Hidden Costs of Ultimate Redundancy Can a decentralized network replace Amazon and Google? Herman and Corn dive into IPFS, content-addressing, and the risks of "forever" data. 1721 636 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/airplane-mode-avionics-interference/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/airplane-mode-avionics-interference/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:01:36 GMT Airplane Mode: Technical Necessity or Outdated Ritual? Is airplane mode a safety must or an outdated rule? Herman and Corn explore electromagnetic interference, 5G risks, and cellular congestion. 1335 635 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/air-force-one-encryption-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/air-force-one-encryption-security/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:57:12 GMT Can the President Make an Impromptu Call? Discover the high-stakes engineering behind Air Force One, from EMP shielding to post-quantum encryption and the myth of the "red phone." 1431 634 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai-hardware-limits/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai-hardware-limits/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:34:59 GMT Memory Wars: The Future of Local Agentic AI Can your PC handle the next wave of AI agents? Herman and Corn dive into VRAM, quantization, and the future of running LLMs locally. 1645 633 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-availability-server-redundancy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-availability-server-redundancy/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:32:27 GMT From a Dead Motherboard to Five Nines Discover how the world’s biggest platforms stay online when hardware fails. Herman and Corn break down the invisible systems of high availability. 1592 621 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zfs-hardware-recovery-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zfs-hardware-recovery-guide/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:24:50 GMT When ZFS Pools Survive Hardware Death Your motherboard fried, but is your data safe? Discover the secrets of ZFS portability, forced imports, and professional recovery workflows. 1356 620 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-socket-pin-repair/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-socket-pin-repair/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:04:15 GMT When ChatGPT Tells You to Fix a CPU Socket Bent a motherboard pin? Don’t panic. Herman and Corn discuss the tools and techniques needed to save your hardware from a gold-plated tragedy. 1704 613 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/enterprise-hardware-homelab-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/enterprise-hardware-homelab-guide/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:32:04 GMT The Data Center Trap: Is Enterprise Hardware Worth It? Can a $5,000 server chip for the price of lunch power your home lab? Herman and Corn dive into the pros and cons of used enterprise hardware. 1302 610 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/enterprise-hardware-secondary-market/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/enterprise-hardware-secondary-market/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:21:15 GMT Surviving the Rampocalypse: Pro Tech on a Budget Learn how to beat rising RAM prices by sourcing professional data center hardware from the secondary market. 1548 609 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ram-evolution-technical-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ram-evolution-technical-guide/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:51:34 GMT Why Fast SSDs Still Need Slow RAM Discover why RAM remains the essential high-speed "countertop" for your CPU and how to avoid common hardware traps when building your next server. 1594 606 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-supercomputer-resource-pooling/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-supercomputer-resource-pooling/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:51:40 GMT Why Your Home Lab Can't Be One Big Computer Herman and Corn explore how to turn separate servers into a unified supercomputer using high-speed interlinks and resource pooling. 1560 605 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-quality-ai-responses/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/audio-quality-ai-responses/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:34:34 GMT Audio Engineering as Prompt Engineering: Better Sound, Better AI Can better audio quality actually make an AI smarter? Discover how audio post-production functions as a new form of prompt engineering. 1323 598 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/nfc-longevity-bitrot-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/nfc-longevity-bitrot-guide/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:59:50 GMT Digital Dust: Can NFC Tags Survive for Decades? Explore the science of NFC longevity, from EEPROM bitrot to physical durability, and learn how to future-proof your home inventory system. 1456 594 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/micro-sd-storage-future-limits/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/micro-sd-storage-future-limits/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:35:16 GMT When Electrons Teleport: The Physics Limit of Storage From floppy disks to 4TB cards, how much data can we squeeze onto a fingernail before physics pushes back? Explore the future of storage density. 1258 591 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-contracts-real-world-applications/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-contracts-real-world-applications/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:29:59 GMT Beyond the Hype: Real-World Smart Contracts in 2026 Forget the crypto hype. Herman and Corn explore how smart contracts are revolutionizing tenancy, insurance, and supply chains in 2026. 1397 590 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/large-asset-version-control-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/large-asset-version-control-ai/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:16:56 GMT Taming the Digital Landfill: Version Control for AI Media When AI agents and 4K video crash your repo, it’s time for better tools. Explore why Git fails and how Perforce and DVC save the day. 1890 589 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/satellite-mission-control-operations/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/satellite-mission-control-operations/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:10:16 GMT The Human Choreography of Space Think satellites are driven by joysticks? Herman and Corn dive into the complex, high-stakes world of mission control and orbital maintenance. 1406 588 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/monitor-mounting-ergonomics-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/monitor-mounting-ergonomics-guide/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:04:27 GMT Why Three Arms Beat One Triple Mount Upgrade your workspace from "desk sag" to NASA-level precision with the science of gas-spring monitor arms and ergonomic alignment. 1834 587 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-clock-synchronization/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-clock-synchronization/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:57:23 GMT Why Your Phone's Clock Isn't Good Enough Why spend $1,000 on a clock? Herman and Corn explore the high-stakes world of NTP hardware and the precision timing keeping civilization in sync. 1748 586 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/satellite-surveillance-ai-deception/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/satellite-surveillance-ai-deception/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:28:08 GMT When AI Sees Through Your Lies How do you hide a nuclear site from a satellite that sees everything? Explore the high-tech game of orbital cat and mouse and the AI that tracks it. 1910 567 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-cable-making-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-cable-making-guide/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:07:18 GMT When Cable Marketing Outruns Reality Is DIY cable making the ultimate tech flex or a recipe for disaster? Corn and Herman break down the physics of home networking. 2111 566 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/erase-old-devices-securely/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/erase-old-devices-securely/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:49:21 GMT Beyond the Factory Reset: How to Truly Erase Your Data Think a factory reset protects your old data? Herman and Corn reveal why your digital "ghosts" might still be lurking on your old devices. 1390 564 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/nanomanufacturing-microchip-logic-city/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/nanomanufacturing-microchip-logic-city/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:45:50 GMT The Mind-Bending Scale of Nanomanufacturing Discover the microscopic cities inside your CPU. Herman and Corn explore how light and mirrors print the future of computing on silicon. 1756 563 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bifl-pc-hardware-durability/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bifl-pc-hardware-durability/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:15:37 GMT The BIFL PC: Building for Industrial-Grade Durability Can a PC be "Buy It For Life"? Herman and Corn explore how to source industrial-grade components for a build that stands the test of time. 1452 562 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-building-tools/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-building-tools/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:34:34 GMT What an Eight-Hour Build Taught Us About Tools Stop building on the floor and ditch the zip ties. Herman and Corn break down the essential gear for a pain-free home server build in 2026. 1626 560 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-cooling-thermal-physics/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cpu-cooling-thermal-physics/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:29:10 GMT Is Your Computer Hotter Than a Nuclear Reactor? Why does a tiny chip need a massive metal tower? Explore the wild physics of cooling, from air fans to nuclear-level heat density. 1247 559 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/email-briefing-gateway-middleware/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/email-briefing-gateway-middleware/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:24:08 GMT The Briefing Gateway: Ending the "Pecked by Ducks" Email Era Tired of flooding clients with emails? Herman and Corn explore the "Briefing Gateway," a tool that uses AI to turn messy pings into organized briefs. 1571 558 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-therapy-mental-health-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-therapy-mental-health-future/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:08:58 GMT Is Your Therapist Just a $200 a Week Habit? Why does therapy feel like an endless loop? Explore the high cost of care and how AI is bridging the gap to provide structured, affordable support. 1605 552 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esim-global-roaming-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esim-global-roaming-future/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:54:21 GMT The eSIM Revolution: Are Big Carriers Becoming Dumb Pipes? Are physical SIMs and carrier contracts relics of the past? Herman and Corn explore the rise of global eSIMs and the future of mobile data. 1606 543 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-podcast-evolution-scaling/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-podcast-evolution-scaling/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:48:08 GMT Turning a Podcast into a Searchable Knowledge Base Herman and Corn discuss turning 500+ episodes into an interactive knowledge base while scaling human-AI collaboration to new heights. 1206 539 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/state-secrets-cybersecurity-logic/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/state-secrets-cybersecurity-logic/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:30:41 GMT From State Secrets to Zero Trust: The Conceptual Bridge Is there a master list of state secrets? Explore the evolution of government classification and its impact on modern digital security. 1267 537 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/leo-vs-geo-satellite-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/leo-vs-geo-satellite-tech/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:46:58 GMT The Cargo Ships vs. Delivery Drones of Space Explore the massive shift in satellite technology as Herman and Corn break down the physics, costs, and future of LEO and GEO orbits. 1250 535 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vhb-tape-industrial-engineering/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vhb-tape-industrial-engineering/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:01:30 GMT Beyond the Bolt: How VHB Tape Holds the World Together Think tape is just for paper? Discover how VHB tape keeps airplanes in the sky and electric vehicles on the road in this engineering deep dive. 1265 526 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/science-of-stick-3m-vhb-tape/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/science-of-stick-3m-vhb-tape/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:58:10 GMT When a Frustrated Renter Unlocks the Secrets of Skyscraper Tape Discover how 3M VHB tape holds skyscrapers together and learn to decode the secret four-digit codes for your next DIY project. 1679 519 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-health-monitoring-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-health-monitoring-guide/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:24:24 GMT Beyond the Magic Smoke: Predicting Hardware Failure Learn how to spot motherboard degradation, track NVMe wear, and use hidden NVIDIA telemetry to save your data before the "magic smoke" escapes. 1321 493 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-based-operating-systems/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-based-operating-systems/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:17:05 GMT Beyond the Folder: The Quest for a Graph-Based OS Why are we still using 1970s folders? Explore how graph structures and associative memory are finally challenging the traditional file system. 1589 492 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serverless-gpu-infrastructure-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serverless-gpu-infrastructure-explained/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:16:41 GMT The Silicon Sharing Economy: Inside Serverless GPUs How do small teams run massive AI models without $50,000 chips? Corn and Herman dive into the hidden plumbing of serverless GPU providers. 1472 484 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mobile-agentic-ai-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mobile-agentic-ai-evolution/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:37:02 GMT The Hard Trade-Offs of On-Device AI Agents Can your phone finally think for itself? Explore the hardware and software breakthroughs bringing agentic AI to the palm of your hand. 1495 477 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-tech-market-prices/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-tech-market-prices/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:42:07 GMT The 500% Markup: Why Israel’s Tech Market is an Island Why is RAM 5x more expensive in Tel Aviv than New York? Corn and Herman dive into the "Economic Island" effect and the reality of Israeli retail. 1606 472 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-frequency-trading-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/high-frequency-trading-tech/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:22:52 GMT The Billion-Dollar Millisecond: High-Frequency Trading Discover how HFT firms use space lasers and hollow-core fiber to shave microseconds off trades in a high-stakes, winner-take-all race to zero. 1512 470 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gaussian-splatting-3d-ai-video/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gaussian-splatting-3d-ai-video/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:44:04 GMT When a Stuffed Animal Becomes a Digital Twin Discover how Gaussian Splatting and 3D-to-video pipelines are revolutionizing character consistency in the age of generative AI. 1429 469 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/modern-scif-security-engineering/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/modern-scif-security-engineering/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:27:03 GMT Inside the Silence: The Engineering of Modern SCIFs Explore the physics of high-tech fortresses as Herman and Corn dive into the engineering, history, and future of modern SCIFs. 968 466 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-vs-pro-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/diy-vs-pro-security/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:26:17 GMT DIY vs. Pro: Is Your Smart Home Actually Secure? Explore whether DIY smart home setups can truly replace professional security systems in this deep dive into hardware, reliability, and redundancy. 1419 461 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/scada-industrial-control-systems/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/scada-industrial-control-systems/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:49:06 GMT Why Your City Won't Freeze When a Server Dies Ever wonder how the power grid stays balanced? Herman and Corn dive into SCADA, PLCs, and the tech keeping our modern world running. 1489 458 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/foolproof-emergency-alerts/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/foolproof-emergency-alerts/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:29:12 GMT Why a 90s Pager Beats Your Smartphone in an Emergency Can your smartphone be trusted in a crisis? Explore why pagers and LoRa might be the ultimate "baby emergency" solution for parents. 1539 457 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israeli-apartment-electrical-wiring/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israeli-apartment-electrical-wiring/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:51:22 GMT When 1950s Wiring Meets 2026 Life Tired of the power tripping when you make toast? Herman and Corn explain the "16-amp ceiling" and how to modernize Israeli apartment wiring. 1774 454 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pc-cable-length-limits/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pc-cable-length-limits/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:58:31 GMT When Physics Limits Your Silent PC Dream Can you move your PC to another room? Herman and Corn explore the limits of USB, HDMI, and power cables for the ultimate silent workspace. 1474 447 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/network-sunset-iot-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/network-sunset-iot-future/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:25:43 GMT The Great Sunsetting: When 2G Dies, Your Gadgets Become Paperweights Why is your GPS tracker now a paperweight? Explore the global 2G/3G sunset and the rise of 5G's new "invisible infrastructure." 1283 434 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/obsolete-technology-survival-reasons/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/obsolete-technology-survival-reasons/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:26:39 GMT The Arc of Deprecation: Why Old Tech Still Rules the World Why do floppy disks and fax machines still power our most critical systems? Explore the surprising reasons behind the "arc of deprecation." 1653 425 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mechanical-keyboard-resurgence-2026/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mechanical-keyboard-resurgence-2026/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:06:28 GMT The Tactile Revolution: Why Keyboards Outlast Voice AI Discover why mechanical keyboards are dominating the 2026 tech landscape, from mission-critical military use to the ultimate coding experience. 1680 422 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-fiber-infrastructure-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/israel-fiber-infrastructure-guide/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:00:49 GMT Who Owns the Glass in the Ground? Why is high-speed fiber so hard to get in old buildings? Herman and Corn break down the players and the "last mile" hurdles in Israel. 1358 421 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/contemporaneous-notes-mastery-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/contemporaneous-notes-mastery-guide/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:02:52 GMT Why AI Transcripts Miss the Subtext Stop relying on fading memories. Learn how to use the "Golden Hour" and AI to create perfect records of every important conversation. 1582 419 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-data-resilience-snapshots/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-data-resilience-snapshots/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:35:57 GMT RAID is Not a Backup: Mastering Home Server Resilience Why RAID isn’t enough and how snapshots act as a digital time machine for your home server’s survival. 1596 418 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-input-device-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-input-device-evolution/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:41:54 GMT Beyond the Mouse: Why Our Keyboards are Stuck in 1870 Why are we still using 19th-century keyboard layouts? Herman and Corn explore the fascinating world of trackballs, macropads, and BCIs. 1591 412 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-failure-lessons/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-server-failure-lessons/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:27:10 GMT Redundancy Is Not a Backup When a 7-year-old server dies, the recovery is a wake-up call. Discover why RAID isn't a backup and how to build a resilient "Server V2." 1617 410 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/raid-storage-redundancy-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/raid-storage-redundancy-explained/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:09:20 GMT When RAID Fails: The Rebuild Time Nightmare Learn the math behind RAID levels, the risks of drive rebuilds, and why ZFS is the modern gold standard for data integrity. 1386 409 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/psu-efficiency-guide-server-hardware/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/psu-efficiency-guide-server-hardware/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:42:06 GMT What Your Power Supply's Efficiency Rating Actually Means Is your power supply killing your PC? Herman and Corn dive into the hidden world of PSUs, efficiency ratings, and server reliability. 1127 405 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/microwave-wireless-fiber-infrastructure/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/microwave-wireless-fiber-infrastructure/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:56:47 GMT Wireless Fiber: The Hidden Tech Powering Our Cities Discover why the internet travels faster through air than glass and how microwave technology is solving the urban connectivity crisis. 1247 403 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/subsea-cable-power-engineering/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/subsea-cable-power-engineering/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:07:07 GMT Powering the Abyss: The Secret High-Voltage Undersea Web Discover the incredible engineering behind subsea cables, from 18,000-volt circuits to using the Earth itself as a giant return wire. 1802 402 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fiber-vs-copper-networking-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fiber-vs-copper-networking-future/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:52:12 GMT Why Your Home Will Stay Hybrid Is Ethernet dying? Herman and Corn explore why copper still reigns supreme for power, while fiber optics conquer the network backbone. 1585 401 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sustainable-printing-reading-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sustainable-printing-reading-guide/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:30:22 GMT The Surprising Math of Printing for a Digital Detox Is paper greener than digital? Discover how to satisfy your long-read cravings without the environmental guilt. 1319 391 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-lab-distributed-grid/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-lab-distributed-grid/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:19:01 GMT Minimizing the Blast Radius: Why Your Smart Home Needs Distributed Hardware When a single home server fails, the whole house goes dark. Learn how to shrink your "blast radius" by moving to a distributed hardware grid. 1737 389 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/display-eye-strain-science/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/display-eye-strain-science/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:03:53 GMT Beyond Blue Light: The Real Science of Display Eye Strain Is blue light the real enemy? Herman and Corn dive into the physics of eye strain, PWM flicker, and the dream of the e-ink desktop monitor. 1560 386 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unkillable-workstation-hardware-redundancy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unkillable-workstation-hardware-redundancy/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:56:35 GMT The Unkillable Workstation: Building for Total Redundancy Can you build a PC that never dies? Herman and Corn explore redundant power, memory mirroring, and high-availability clusters for home servers. 1166 385 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zero-click-exploit-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zero-click-exploit-security/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:11:38 GMT Is Your Phone Hacking Itself? Imagine getting hacked without ever clicking a link. Herman and Corn explore the terrifying world of zero-click exploits and Pegasus spyware. 1632 381 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/persistent-ai-context-storage/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/persistent-ai-context-storage/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:40:31 GMT Beyond the Etch A Sketch: Building Persistent AI Memory Why treat AI chats like disposable tissues? Discover how to turn years of prompts into a self-healing, evolving digital brain. 1476 371 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/top-secret-cloud-infrastructure/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/top-secret-cloud-infrastructure/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:56:38 GMT Bunkers and Bytes: The Secret World of Gov Clouds How do you host the nation's secrets on the same tech that runs Netflix? Corn and Herman explore the high-stakes world of air-gapped government clo... 1541 370 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/math-of-ssh-key-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/math-of-ssh-key-security/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:29:50 GMT The Geometry of Secrets: How SSH Keys Protect the Web Ever wonder why your SSH keys are so secure? Herman and Corn dive into the "trapdoor" math and elliptic curves powering the modern web. 1262 368 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-ai-workspace-orchestration/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unified-ai-workspace-orchestration/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:18:07 GMT Escaping the Chat Bubble Trap Stop hunting through bookmarks. Learn how to turn hundreds of scattered AI assistants into a cohesive, professional productivity suite. 1680 367 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-inhaler-asthma-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/smart-inhaler-asthma-tech/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:46:53 GMT Is Your Inhaler Lying? The Science of Smart Asthma Tech Why do some inhalers lack dose counters? Herman and Corn dive into the physics of MDIs, smart sensors, and how to DIY your own dose tracker. 1254 363 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/personalized-medicine-ai-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/personalized-medicine-ai-future/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:24:18 GMT Why Your Diagnosis Is Just a Bundle of Symptoms Stop treating symptoms and start treating biology. Herman and Corn explore how AI is turning medicine into a precision engineering discipline. 1239 359 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-signature-pki-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-signature-pki-security/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:34:09 GMT The Hidden Gatekeepers of Digital Signatures Think a digital signature is just a picture of your name? Think again. Herman and Corn dive into the math and hardware behind secure PDFs. 1429 349 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/google-workspace-gcp-integration/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/google-workspace-gcp-integration/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:37:08 GMT Bridging the Workspace-GCP Divide Discover how to use Google Cloud buckets and Vertex AI to turn a cluttered Drive into a scalable, AI-powered knowledge base. 1476 347 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serverless-gpu-scaling-efficiency/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/serverless-gpu-scaling-efficiency/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:25:25 GMT GPU Scaling: The "Go Wide or Go Tall" Dilemma Should you use a fleet of cheap GPUs or one powerhouse? Learn the math behind serverless GPU costs, cold starts, and batching efficiency. 1519 346 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/north-korea-red-star-os/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/north-korea-red-star-os/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:14:12 GMT The Operating System That Watches You Explore the walled garden of North Korea’s intranet, from the Mac-inspired Red Star OS to hardware that screenshots your every move. 1451 341 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/worm-technology-immutable-data/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/worm-technology-immutable-data/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:04:53 GMT Why Immutability Is the New Trust In an era of AI and deepfakes, how do we prove data is real? Explore WORM technology: the digital equivalent of carving records in stone. 1250 340 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/underwater-cable-surveillance-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/underwater-cable-surveillance-ai/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:20:21 GMT How Governments Drink from the Internet Firehose Herman and Corn reveal how governments ingest the internet through subsea cables and use Agentic AI to filter the global digital firehose. 1317 334 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speaker-identification-diarization-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/speaker-identification-diarization-tech/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:03:42 GMT Who’s Talking? The Tech of Speaker Identification Herman and Corn break down the difference between speaker diarization and identification to help automate meeting transcripts. 1627 332 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/travel-router-privacy-history/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/travel-router-privacy-history/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:00:50 GMT From Hotel Hacks to Digital Resistance: The Travel Router Discover how a hotel billing hack became a tool for digital resistance and how a Linksys "accident" changed internet privacy forever. 1486 331 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/adhd-workday-transition-ritual/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/adhd-workday-transition-ritual/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:24:45 GMT Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Work After 5 PM Struggle to shut down your brain at night? Discover how a simple voice note can bridge the gap between today’s work and tomorrow’s flow. 1798 322 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esim-future-physical-sim-death/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esim-future-physical-sim-death/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:46:08 GMT Why Are We Still Using Physical SIM Cards in 2026? Corn and Herman explore why the tiny plastic SIM card refuses to die and how carrier politics are slowing down the digital revolution. 1543 317 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bit-rot-cold-storage-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bit-rot-cold-storage-future/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:13:33 GMT Digital Forever? Bit Rot and the Return of Physical Media Why is our fastest tech also the most forgetful? Herman and Corn dive into bit rot, LTO tape, and the quest for 1,000-year digital permanence. 1604 313 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/optical-media-future-storage/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/optical-media-future-storage/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:06:47 GMT Why the Cloud Still Needs Stone Think CDs are dead? Discover why tech giants and hospitals are turning back to "digital stone carving" to save the world's most important data. 1513 312 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mno-mvno-network-priority/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mno-mvno-network-priority/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:54:53 GMT The First-Tenant Advantage: Who Gets Slower Data Ever wonder why your budget phone plan slows down in a crowd? Herman and Corn explore the hidden hierarchy of mobile network priority. 1573 310 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/iot-protocol-evolution-beyond-matter/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/iot-protocol-evolution-beyond-matter/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:40:47 GMT Beyond Matter: Decoding the IoT Alphabet Soup Will Matter replace Zigbee and LoRa? Herman and Corn dive into the physics of radio waves and why one smart home standard can't rule them all. 1432 309 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/passkeys-and-future-authentication/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/passkeys-and-future-authentication/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:05:08 GMT Is Your Typing Style More Secure Than Your Password? Tired of 2FA codes? Herman and Corn explore how passkeys and behavioral biometrics are creating a future of "invisible" security. 1390 305 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-root-of-trust/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-root-of-trust/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:58:28 GMT The Hardware Vault: How TPM Chips Secure Our Digital World Discover how a tiny chip on your motherboard is becoming the ultimate anchor for security and truth in an era of deepfakes and cyber threats. 1334 304 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-level-content-provenance/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/hardware-level-content-provenance/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:22:07 GMT Hardware Trust: How C2PA is Saving Digital Reality Explore how hardware-level signatures from Sony and Google are creating a "nutrition label" for digital media to fight the rise of deepfakes. 1478 302 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/taxi-driver-phone-networks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/taxi-driver-phone-networks/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:38:05 GMT The Shadow Network Beneath the Taxi Seat Ever wonder who your taxi driver is talking to? Discover the secret "shadow infrastructure" of the global taxi driver community. 1298 298 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/blue-light-sleep-eye-strain/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/blue-light-sleep-eye-strain/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:51:16 GMT Blue Light: Eye Strain Myths and the Science of Sleep Are blue light glasses a scam? Herman and Corn debunk eye strain myths and explore the real science of circadian rhythms and digital sunsets. 993 297 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spatial-audio-room-mapping/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/spatial-audio-room-mapping/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:26:00 GMT How Your Speaker Maps Your Room Discover how spatial audio and room mapping can turn a tiny rental bedroom into a cinematic powerhouse without drilling a single hole. 1386 296 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/starlink-inflight-wifi-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/starlink-inflight-wifi-tech/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:37:52 GMT When Billionaires Feud Over In-Flight Wi-Fi Why is in-flight Wi-Fi finally getting good? Explore the physics of Starlink, phased array antennas, and the Musk-O’Leary corporate feud. 1843 286 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/number-stations-espionage-secrets/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/number-stations-espionage-secrets/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:28:49 GMT The Ghost in the Radio: Why Number Stations Still Exist Why do spies still use creepy radio broadcasts in 2026? Herman and Corn dive into the unbreakable math and physics of number stations. 1485 284 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/invisible-airport-security-tech/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/invisible-airport-security-tech/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:19:41 GMT Can Fiber Optics and AI End the TSA Shoe Line? Explore how AI, fiber optics, and biometrics are replacing "security theater" with invisible, frictionless perimeters for the future of flight. 1465 276 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/command-center-crisis-management-design/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/command-center-crisis-management-design/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:22:26 GMT What Your Crisis Setup Can Learn from Command Centers Discover how high-stakes command centers manage global chaos through specialized design, AI, and the "Common Operating Picture" philosophy. 1567 269 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/telemetry-privacy-data-tracking/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/telemetry-privacy-data-tracking/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:12:46 GMT The Telemetry Trap: Why Your Devices Won't Stop Talking Herman and Corn dive into the hidden world of telemetry, exploring why our devices phone home and whether "anonymous" data is actually a myth. 1418 266 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/semantic-computing-agentic-terminal/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/semantic-computing-agentic-terminal/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:09:07 GMT Stop Memorizing Syntax and Start Describing Results Stop memorizing complex syntax. Explore how AI agents are transforming the terminal into a natural language "Intent-Based Interface." 1362 265 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-vs-vector-databases/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-vs-vector-databases/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:05:16 GMT Why AI Needs a New Kind of Memory Herman and Corn explore why SQL is losing ground to graph and vector databases. Discover why the "edge" is the new gold standard for AI accuracy. 1141 263 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/git-alternatives-solo-creators/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/git-alternatives-solo-creators/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:47:53 GMT Beyond Git: Version Control for the Solo Creator Is Git overkill for your projects? Herman and Corn dive into the "war" that created Git and explore simpler tools for solo developers. 1274 262 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ceno-p2p-internet-censorship/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ceno-p2p-internet-censorship/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:57:32 GMT Breaking the Blackout: CENO and the P2P Fight for Truth When governments cut the internet, CENO turns users into a library. Explore how peer-to-peer tech is bypassing state censorship in Iran. 1464 256 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-shadow-metadata-privacy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-shadow-metadata-privacy/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:34:37 GMT Why Your Metadata Is Louder Than Your Message Every file has a digital shadow. Discover how metadata tracks your life, from ancient libraries to modern AI surveillance. 1088 254 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-encryption-privacy-backdoors/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-encryption-privacy-backdoors/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:16:12 GMT The Quantum-Resistant Mirage Explore the shift to post-quantum encryption and why intelligence agencies rarely need to "break" the math to access your private data. 1445 253 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sfp-plus-fiber-backbone-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sfp-plus-fiber-backbone-guide/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:21:35 GMT Fiber vs. Copper: The Hidden Costs of Your Home Network Backbone Stop the bottleneck! Learn why SFP+ fiber backbones are the ultimate upgrade for modern high-speed internet and future-proof home networking. 1240 246 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bandwidth-vs-speed-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bandwidth-vs-speed-explained/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:20:44 GMT Bandwidth vs. Speed: Decoding Your Digital Plumbing Is your 10-gig plan actually fast? Herman and Corn dive into the difference between bandwidth and speed in the modern fiber era. 821 245 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/passkey-future-security-adoption/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/passkey-future-security-adoption/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:11:44 GMT Goodbye 2FA: Why Passkeys are the Future of Security Tired of hunting for 2FA codes? Herman and Corn explore how passkeys are killing the password and making the internet faster and more secure. 1075 244 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-energy-backup-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-energy-backup-future/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:41:02 GMT Your UPS as a Mini Power Plant Transform your UPS into a mini-generator. Herman and Corn explore sustainable battery tech and the future of home energy resilience. 1342 241 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/phone-call-recording-ban/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/phone-call-recording-ban/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:03:32 GMT Who Decides What You Can Record? Ever wonder why your phone won’t let you record calls anymore? We dive into the legal and technical shift killing this essential feature. 1458 238 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ipfs-digital-permanence-web/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ipfs-digital-permanence-web/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:40:09 GMT Beyond the 404: Building a Permanent Web with IPFS Tired of 404 errors? Explore how IPFS and content addressing are solving the internet's link rot problem to preserve digital history. 1333 237 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/error-correction-code-math/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/error-correction-code-math/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:26:07 GMT How ECC Fixes Your Data: From QR Codes to Cosmic Rays Discover how the brilliant math of ECC allows damaged QR codes and distant space probes to transmit perfect data across noisy channels. 1521 236 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/checksums-data-integrity-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/checksums-data-integrity-explained/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:47:35 GMT Digital Fingerprints: The Secret Math Saving Your Data Learn why those random strings of characters on download pages are the only thing keeping your files safe from corruption and hackers. 1417 235 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/emergency-mesh-network-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/emergency-mesh-network-guide/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:45:15 GMT Building a Data Bridge Underground Learn how to bypass thick concrete walls and bring high-speed internet into deep shelters using portable mesh networks and Starlink technology. 1489 234 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/beamforming-audio-technology-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/beamforming-audio-technology-explained/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:44:51 GMT How Math Gives Microphones Directional Ears Discover how math and physics turn simple microphones into "sound spotlights" that can isolate a single voice in even the noisiest environments. 1368 233 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/command-line-resurgence-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/command-line-resurgence-ai/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:53:36 GMT The Command Line Resurgence: Why the Terminal is Back From punch cards to AI agents, discover why the command line remains the ultimate power tool for modern developers in an AI-driven world. 1476 232 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bgp-hijacking-internet-security-risks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bgp-hijacking-internet-security-risks/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:48:00 GMT When the Internet's Trust Model Betrays You Explore how BGP hijacking allows governments to reroute the web, threatening privacy and exposing metadata despite encrypted apps like Signal. 1222 231 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-industrial-labeling-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/linux-industrial-labeling-guide/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:42:14 GMT Why Your Label Maker Fails: The Physics of Sticky Paper Stop using labels that fade in the sun. Herman and Corn explore thermal transfer printing, heat shrink tubes, and the best labelers for Linux users. 1593 226 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vpn-zero-trust-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vpn-zero-trust-evolution/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:45:17 GMT The Death of the VPN: Moving Toward a Zero Trust Future Is the classic corporate VPN a dying dinosaur? Explore why the "castle and moat" model is failing and how Zero Trust is taking over. 1441 225 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-survival-internet-censorship/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-survival-internet-censorship/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:09:24 GMT The Myth of Unblockable Tech When the grid goes dark, how do you get the truth out? Explore the high-stakes world of BGP hijacking, satellite jamming, and mesh networks. 1508 223 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/data-broker-privacy-protection/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/data-broker-privacy-protection/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:25:07 GMT Your Life for Sale: Navigating the Data Broker Economy Discover how a $430 billion industry tracks your every move and learn the steps you can take to reclaim your digital privacy in 2026. 1169 222 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-monitor-hardware-display-limits/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/multi-monitor-hardware-display-limits/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:19:06 GMT Why Your GPU Can't Drive a Fifth Monitor Hit the four-monitor wall? Herman and Corn explore how to drive massive display arrays using DisplayLink, daisy-chaining, and hidden GPU features. 1418 221 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/encrypted-dns-privacy-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/encrypted-dns-privacy-guide/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:54:04 GMT Beyond HTTPS: Securing Your Digital Shadow with Private DNS Think HTTPS protects everything? Think again. Learn how Private DNS hides your browsing habits from ISPs and advertisers in this deep dive. 816 220 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cve-crowdsec-cybersecurity-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cve-crowdsec-cybersecurity-explained/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:32:07 GMT From Silos to Swarms: Crowdsourcing Cyber Defense Discover the hidden plumbing of the internet, from the global CVE catalog to how tools like CrowdSec create a digital neighborhood watch. 1477 216 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bluetooth-interference-frequency-hopping/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bluetooth-interference-frequency-hopping/ Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:35:39 GMT Why Your Headphones Don't Play a Stranger's Music Ever wonder why your headphones don't pick up a stranger's music at a busy airport? Herman and Corn dive into the magic of frequency hopping. 1622 215 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/undersea-internet-backbone-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/undersea-internet-backbone-security/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:39:25 GMT When Encryption Meets the Ocean Floor Think the internet is in the cloud? Think again. We explore the 1.4 million kilometers of undersea cables and the global race to protect—or tap—them. 1385 214 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-authenticity-crisis-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-authenticity-crisis-future/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:17:23 GMT Will You Pay a Monthly Subscription for Your Own Reality? In a world of perfect deepfakes, how do we prove what is real? Explore the future of content provenance and the "Proof of Personhood" problem. 1395 212 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/portable-network-moving-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/portable-network-moving-guide/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:07:13 GMT The Portable Fortress: Moving Your Network Like a Pro Learn how to build a "portable digital fortress" using military tactics and roadie discipline to make your next move tech-stress-free. 1549 211 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-shutdowns-satellite-bypass/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-shutdowns-satellite-bypass/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:00:27 GMT How States Kill the Internet and Satellites Bring It Back How do regimes turn off the web? Herman and Corn explore BGP hijacking, sovereign networks, and the satellite tech fighting back. 1539 209 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rise-of-open-source-intelligence/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rise-of-open-source-intelligence/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:46:27 GMT The End of Secrecy: How OSINT is Redefining Intelligence Explore how hobbyists and satellites are revolutionizing intelligence, from tracking tanks on TikTok to high-res commercial space imagery. 1266 207 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/btrfs-zfs-storage-pooling/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/btrfs-zfs-storage-pooling/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:59:36 GMT When AI Agents Build Your Enterprise Storage at Home Explore the power of Btrfs, ZFS, and XFS. Learn how storage pooling and snapshots create a "save point" for your entire computer. 1302 206 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/raid-storage-rebuild-risks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/raid-storage-rebuild-risks/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:41:15 GMT The Rebuild Nightmare: Why 30TB Drives Break RAID Herman and Corn dive into the history and math of RAID, exploring why 30TB drives make classic setups like RAID 5 more dangerous than ever. 1541 205 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/power-of-checklists-and-sops/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/power-of-checklists-and-sops/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:20:34 GMT The Power of the SOP: Why Even Experts Need a Checklist Discover why the world's best pilots and surgeons never "wing it" and how simple checklists can transform your personal and professional life. 1623 203 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unprotected-server-background-noise/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/unprotected-server-background-noise/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:11:19 GMT The Internet's Background Radiation Think your new server is safe? Think again. Herman and Corn discuss why an unprotected server can be found and hacked in under 60 seconds. 1438 201 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-rag-ai-tech-stack/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/graph-rag-ai-tech-stack/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:00:01 GMT Why Graph RAG Beats Flat Vectors for AI Memory Explore how the AI stack is evolving from simple vector search to complex Graph RAG and why the "boring" Postgres database is winning the race. 1482 200 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/white-label-appliance-secrets/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/white-label-appliance-secrets/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:42:56 GMT The Illusion of Choice in Your Living Room Discover the hidden world of white-labeling as Herman and Corn reveal how global giants manufacture your favorite local appliances. 1448 190 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/iso-country-currency-standards/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/iso-country-currency-standards/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:07:31 GMT The Hidden Politics of ISO Country and Currency Codes Herman and Corn explore how ISO decides who gets a country code and why global data standards are more political than they look. 1813 188 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bgp-internet-routing-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/bgp-internet-routing-explained/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:53:53 GMT BGP: The Secret Glue Holding the Global Internet Together Discover how BGP acts as the internet's postal service, managing data across thousands of networks through economics, policy, and trust. 1413 187 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/jfk-airport-networking-infrastructure/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/jfk-airport-networking-infrastructure/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:15:49 GMT How Many Routers Does JFK Actually Need? Ever wonder how thousands of people stay connected at JFK? Join Herman and Corn as they dive into the massive scale of airport networking. 1194 186 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mesh-vs-access-points-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mesh-vs-access-points-explained/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:14:46 GMT The Mesh Myth: Why Wires Still Win in Home Networking Is your mesh system killing your speed? Discover why dedicated access points and wired backhauls outperform the "no wires" marketing hype. 1684 185 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/osi-model-networking-layers/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/osi-model-networking-layers/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:08:04 GMT The Internet Is Just Fancy Plumbing How does data travel from a cable to your screen? Join Herman and Corn as they break down the seven layers of the OSI model. 1091 184 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/legacy-telecom-infrastructure-cleanup/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/legacy-telecom-infrastructure-cleanup/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:11:18 GMT The Multi-Billion Dollar Metal We Leave Underground Millions of miles of toxic copper cables sit beneath our feet. Why is it so hard to dig up our digital past? 1312 183 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-reasoning-models-explained/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-reasoning-models-explained/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:43:12 GMT Why Your AI Is Finally Stopping to Think Discover how AI shifted from instant reflexes to deep reflection through inference-time compute and hidden reasoning steps. 1883 181 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sip-programmable-voice-hacking/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/sip-programmable-voice-hacking/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:43:00 GMT Escaping the Carrier Trap Tired of rigid phone plans? Discover how to bypass carriers using SIP and Twilio to build a custom voice architecture for your home or office. 1633 180 2 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-computing-reality-check/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-computing-reality-check/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:25:58 GMT Beyond the Hype: The Real State of Quantum Computing Forget Quantum MacBooks. Herman and Corn dive into the move toward logical qubits and why the future of quantum lives in the cloud. 1122 175 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/supercomputing-exascale-home-build/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/supercomputing-exascale-home-build/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:47:12 GMT Why Supercomputers Can't Live in the Cloud Explore the world of exascale computing, why specialized hardware beats the cloud, and if you can actually build a supercomputer in your bedroom. 1249 174 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-resiliency-uptime-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-resiliency-uptime-guide/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:41:08 GMT The Illusion of Redundant Internet Tired of outages? Discover how to build a "five nines" internet setup using fiber, satellite, and bonding tech to stay connected no matter what. 1562 173 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-tool-sprawl-consolidation/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-tool-sprawl-consolidation/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:33:41 GMT Taming the Sprawl: Building Your Cognitive AI Toolbox Drowning in a sea of custom AI scripts? Learn how to turn disconnected "vibe-coded" tools into a unified, local-first cognitive operating system. 1380 172 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-optimization-llms-txt-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-optimization-llms-txt-future/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:30:46 GMT From Digital Fortresses to Machine-Digestible Sites Stop fighting the crawlers and start feeding them. Learn how llms.txt and structured metadata are defining the new era of AI Optimization. 1447 171 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pytorch-inner-workings-history/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/pytorch-inner-workings-history/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:11:28 GMT How PyTorch Beat TensorFlow and Became AI's Backbone Discover why PyTorch is the "oxygen" of AI. Herman and Corn explore its history, the magic of Autograd, and the move to the PyTorch Foundation. 1374 170 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-network-future-proofing-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/home-network-future-proofing-ai/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:10:25 GMT The Incremental Upgrade Trap: Why Category 8 Cables Hurt Your Home Network Stop the lag: Herman and Corn break down Cat 6A, SFP+ backbones, and why Wi-Fi 7 is the ultimate upgrade for local AI. 1471 169 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/air-gapped-ai-security-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/air-gapped-ai-security-future/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:30:07 GMT The Sneakernet Renaissance: Living Without the Cloud Discover why air-gapping is going mainstream in 2026 and how organizations are securing local AI models using "digital vaults." 1164 168 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/state-sponsored-cyber-warfare-apts/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/state-sponsored-cyber-warfare-apts/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:29:40 GMT Why Are Hackers Hiding in Your System for Decades? They don't just hack; they move in. Discover how state-sponsored APTs stay hidden in networks for years and the signatures they leave behind. 1494 167 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/lightweight-linux-router-alternatives/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/lightweight-linux-router-alternatives/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:25:00 GMT The Complexity Tax of Home Firewalls Is OPNsense overkill for your home? Herman and Corn explore lightweight Linux alternatives for a faster, simpler, and more reliable network. 1583 166 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/radio-frequency-spectrum-hygiene/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/radio-frequency-spectrum-hygiene/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:34:37 GMT The Invisible Traffic Jam: Who Owns the Airwaves? Discover the "invisible highway" of radio frequencies and why maintaining "RF hygiene" is critical for modern life and national security. 1073 164 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mainframe-vs-cloud-infrastructure/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mainframe-vs-cloud-infrastructure/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:28:44 GMT Big Iron: Why Mainframes Still Run the Global Economy Think mainframes are relics? Herman and Corn explore why "Big Iron" remains the unbreakable backbone of global finance and high-speed transactions. 1286 163 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workstation-vs-desktop-2026-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/workstation-vs-desktop-2026-guide/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:23:45 GMT When a Fast PC Isn't Enough: The Workstation Divide Is your PC a workstation or just a fast desktop? Herman and Corn break down the hardware that defines professional computing in 2026. 1129 162 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-agentic-systems-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mcp-agentic-systems-future/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:43:21 GMT Beyond the Chatbox: The Power of Model Context Protocol Discover why the Model Context Protocol is the "USB of AI" and how it’s fueling a new wave of autonomous agents and developer communities. 1230 157 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esp32-smart-home-diy/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/esp32-smart-home-diy/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:37:32 GMT Build vs. Buy: The ESP32's Smart Home Reign Discover why the ESP32 is the ultimate brain for DIY smart homes and how AI tools are revolutionizing hardware hacking for everyone. 1404 156 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agentic-workflows-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agentic-workflows-evolution/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:07:49 GMT From Apps to Agents: Building Your Digital Workforce Move beyond simple prompts. Explore the architecture, autonomy, and fiscal guardrails of the next generation of AI agentic workflows. 1429 154 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mesh-wifi-7-networking-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mesh-wifi-7-networking-guide/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:12:42 GMT The Hidden Physics of Wireless Backhaul Tired of losing speed to a mesh system? Herman and Corn break down Wi-Fi 7, VLANs, and how to reclaim your home network's performance. 1492 151 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-control-ai-agents-productivity/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-control-ai-agents-productivity/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:49:49 GMT The Ergonomic Case for Eyes-Free Computing Tired of being tethered to your screen? Herman and Corn explore the future of voice-first productivity and the rise of autonomous AI agents. 1455 145 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-fingerprinting-privacy-tracking/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/digital-fingerprinting-privacy-tracking/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:33:46 GMT Is Your Battery Level Tracking You Across the Web? Think you’re anonymous? Your browser’s unique traits say otherwise. Explore how digital fingerprinting is making privacy nearly impossible. 1330 143 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/steganography-hidden-messages-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/steganography-hidden-messages-ai/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:37:17 GMT Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secrets of Steganography Explore the invisible world of steganography, from secret printer dots to AI watermarking and digital dead drops hidden in plain sight. 1545 141 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/military-parallel-internet-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/military-parallel-internet-security/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:40:35 GMT The Internet You Can't See: Military Networks and the Security Paradox Herman and Corn explore the "shadow internet," revealing how military networks use air gaps, dark fiber, and data diodes to stay secure. 1457 140 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-ot-vs-it-security/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-ot-vs-it-security/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:30:21 GMT The Vanishing Air Gap: IT vs. Operational Technology Explore why industrial networks prioritize uptime over secrets and how the gap between the office and the factory floor is closing. 1039 139 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-infrastructure-fiber-global-connectivity/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/internet-infrastructure-fiber-global-connectivity/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:10:43 GMT When Your Router Light Turns Red: The Fragile Chain of Glass From living room routers to deep-sea cables, Herman and Corn explore the massive, hidden engineering that keeps our digital world connected. 1312 138 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/device-power-restoration-logic/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/device-power-restoration-logic/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:17:43 GMT The Ghost in the Machine: Why Gadgets Wake Up After Blackouts Why does a power flicker turn on your lights but not your TV? Herman and Corn explain the engineering behind post-outage device behavior. 1092 137 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vision-language-models-ocr-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vision-language-models-ocr-future/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:49:45 GMT Is OCR Dead? How Vision AI Is Redefining Text Extraction Are specialized OCR tools obsolete? Herman and Corn explore how Vision Language Models are revolutionizing the way we turn images into data. 1257 135 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-ai-computing-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/quantum-ai-computing-future/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:25:59 GMT When Quantum Computing Becomes Accessible Discover how quantum computing is transforming AI from brute-force scaling to surgical precision in this deep dive into the 2026 tech landscape. 1208 133 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/video-multimodal-ai-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/video-multimodal-ai-evolution/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:01:41 GMT How AI Learns to See Time as a Dimension Discover how spatial-temporal tokenization and 3D world modeling are revolutionizing real-time video-to-video AI interaction. 1326 132 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-roadmap-invisible-agents-robots/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-agent-roadmap-invisible-agents-robots/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:05:37 GMT AI's 2026: From Invisible Agents to Physical Robots Discover how 2026 transforms AI from a digital novelty into essential infrastructure through local agents, reasoning depth, and physical robotics. 1022 131 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-modular-code-indexing-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-modular-code-indexing-future/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:58:13 GMT Modular Code Indexing: Separating AI Memory from Intelligence 0 127 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/real-time-audio-ai-edge/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/real-time-audio-ai-edge/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:40:05 GMT Silencing the Siren: Real-Time AI Noise Reduction How do phones remove sirens and crying babies in real time? Explore the neural networks and hardware making crystal-clear audio possible. 1324 120 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-semantic-understanding-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-semantic-understanding-evolution/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:52:53 GMT From Keywords to Vectors: How AI Decodes Meaning Why can AI write poetry but struggle to find a file? Explore the history and math of semantic understanding with Herman and Corn. 1110 117 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-automation-wireless-bridges/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-automation-wireless-bridges/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:17:20 GMT Why Your Smart Bulbs Fail and Airports Don't Why do airports stay lit while your smart home fails? Herman and Corn dive into industrial-grade tech and the physics of beaming internet. 1496 112 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai-inference-server-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai-inference-server-guide/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:46:40 GMT Why Agentic AI Needs More VRAM Than You Think Learn how to build a high-performance local AI server for agentic coding, from dual-GPU PC builds to the power of Mac's unified memory. 1273 110 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/model-rot-coding-mysteries/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/model-rot-coding-mysteries/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:28:26 GMT Why Your AI Code Assistant Gets Worse Why do AI models lose their edge over time? Herman and Corn explore the "home team advantage" and why telling your AI to "do better" actually works. 1406 108 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-use-agents-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/computer-use-agents-future/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:17:34 GMT From Chatbots to Computer-Use Agents Can an AI actually use your mouse? Herman and Corn dive into the world of Computer Use Agents and the dream of seamless machine interaction. 1626 106 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-coding-benchmarks-truth/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-coding-benchmarks-truth/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:23:57 GMT Beyond Math Puzzles: The Truth About AI Benchmarks Are AI models getting smarter, or just better at memorizing tests? Herman and Corn dive into the controversial world of 2025 AI benchmarks. 1345 105 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vibe-coding-agentic-development/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vibe-coding-agentic-development/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:13:26 GMT Vibe Coding & The Rise of the AI Orchestrator Explore the shift from manual coding to AI orchestration. Discover why "vibe coding" is redefining the tech roles of the future. 1455 104 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cognitive-fit-programming-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cognitive-fit-programming-ai/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:03:27 GMT Why Your Brain Might Be Wired for SQL Is programming difficulty objective, or is it all about your brain's wiring? Herman and Corn explore the "cognitive fit" of coding in 2025. 1424 103 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-dictation-microphone-guide/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/voice-dictation-microphone-guide/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:15:40 GMT The Mic That Hears You from Across the Desk Tired of headsets? Herman and Corn explore professional microphone setups for seamless, high-accuracy AI voice dictation from a distance. 1456 99 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-banking-financial-data-access/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/open-banking-financial-data-access/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:58:23 GMT The Fight for Your Financial Data: Why APIs Matter Why is it so hard to get your own transaction data? Herman and Corn dive into the CFPB's Section 1033 and the battle for open banking. 1642 98 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/history-and-math-of-barcodes/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/history-and-math-of-barcodes/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:17:59 GMT How a Sketch in the Sand Became the World's Supply Chain Discover the hidden history and complex math behind barcodes, from beach-side sketches to the high-tech future of retail scanning. 1118 96 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rugged-home-inventory-labels/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/rugged-home-inventory-labels/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:07:17 GMT Thermal Transfer vs Direct Thermal: The Label Showdown Tired of sun-bleached labels? Corn and Herman dive into the science of UV-resistant QR codes and thermal transfer printing for home inventory. 1572 95 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-ai-hardware-evolution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-ai-hardware-evolution/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:58:27 GMT The Accidental AI Engine From video game dragons to digital brains: Herman and Corn explain why your graphics card is the secret engine behind the AI boom. 1337 82 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reverse-turing-test-ai-judges/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/reverse-turing-test-ai-judges/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:51:52 GMT When AI Judges Can't Tell Humans from Bots Can a robot tell if you’re human? Herman and Corn explore the "Reverse Turing Test" and why being "messy" might be our best defense. 1080 81 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-automation-vs-smart-home/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/industrial-automation-vs-smart-home/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:47:17 GMT Why Your Smart Home Isn't an Airport: Industrial Reliability Why can't you run the Louvre on a Raspberry Pi? Herman and Corn dive into the rugged, wired world of industrial building automation. 1590 80 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zigbee-matter-smart-home-future/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/zigbee-matter-smart-home-future/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:23:50 GMT The Local Control Trade-Off Is Zigbee a "reliable old truck" or a dead end? Herman and Corn debate the future of local control in the age of Matter and Thread. 1457 78 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/missile-warfare-tech-navigation/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/missile-warfare-tech-navigation/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:48:16 GMT Why Missiles Don't Trust GPS Explore the hidden world of modern missile navigation, from GPS spoofing to the hyper-precise Inertial Navigation Systems that guide weapons at hyp... 1671 74 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vpns-privacy-myth-reality/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/vpns-privacy-myth-reality/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:55:54 GMT VPNs: Privacy Myth vs. Reality VPNs: privacy savior or marketing hype? We expose the truth behind the grand claims and technical realities. 1351 73 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/dark-web-google-monitoring/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/dark-web-google-monitoring/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:46:43 GMT Why Google Can't Crawl the Dark Web Google's "dark web monitoring" isn't what you think. We reveal the hidden corners of the internet and Google's true capabilities. 1336 71 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gooseneck-mic-ai-power/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gooseneck-mic-ai-power/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:59:01 GMT Why the Gooseneck Mic Beats Studio Gear for AI The gooseneck mic: a humble hero with surprising AI power. Discover its secret to crystal-clear speech-to-text accuracy! 1298 69 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-code-scaling-or-pivoting/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-code-scaling-or-pivoting/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:28:06 GMT Scaling or Pivoting AI for Code Are LLMs truly the future of coding, or do they need a fundamental architectural pivot? We dive into AI's programming future. 1350 67 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/desktop-server-hybrid-virtual-solution/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/desktop-server-hybrid-virtual-solution/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:21:43 GMT When Your Desktop Must Also Be a Server Unleash the power of a single machine! Explore virtualization's secrets to seamlessly blend your desktop and server. 1552 66 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/security-vs-usability-balancing-act/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/security-vs-usability-balancing-act/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:21:11 GMT Security Habits for Casual Developers Security vs. usability: a tightrope walk. Discover practical strategies to protect casual users without sacrificing ease. 1380 65 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-gut-health-beyond-antacid/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-gut-health-beyond-antacid/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:53:41 GMT When AI Spots What Your Gut Misses Unlock a healthier gut with AI! Discover how advanced tools analyze your diet and symptoms for intelligent insights. 1300 63 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fork-or-stay-the-art-of-customizing-open-source/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/fork-or-stay-the-art-of-customizing-open-source/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:58:31 GMT Fork or Stay? The Art of Customizing Open Source Fork or stay? We're diving deep into customizing open source, weighing ownership, contribution, and the hidden costs of going solo. 1501 61 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/clean-audio-messy-reality-noise-removal-for-voice-to-text/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/clean-audio-messy-reality-noise-removal-for-voice-to-text/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:34:48 GMT Clean Audio, Messy Reality: Noise Removal for Voice-to-Text Fussy baby, clean audio? We dive into noise removal for voice-to-text. Discover why cleaner audio can transcribe worse. 1715 58 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-state-cyberattacks/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-state-cyberattacks/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:12:46 GMT AI Cyberattacks Are Doubling Every 6 Months—Here's Why AI cyberattacks are doubling every 6 months. Discover why AI is a force multiplier for threat actors and what organizations can do. 2042 49 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-security-landscape/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/ai-security-landscape/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:14:30 GMT When AI Trusts Too Much: The Art of Prompt Injection AI's Wild West: Battling prompt injection and poisoning. Discover how AI threats are shifting from sci-fi to insidious attacks on the models... 1398 44 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/your-techs-silent-killer-decoding-power-quality/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/your-techs-silent-killer-decoding-power-quality/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:02:14 GMT When an AI Diagnosed My Undersized UPS Unseen forces silently erode your tech. Discover how subtle power issues are killing your electronics and what you can do about it. 1241 43 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/who-uses-local-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/who-uses-local-ai/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:54:26 GMT The Three Tribes of Local AI Local AI: privacy, creativity, and compliance. Discover why keeping AI close to home is more than a trend. 1444 40 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-ai/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:32:04 GMT Why Local AI Inference Is Beating the Cloud AI supercomputers are landing on your desk! Discover why local AI is indispensable for enterprises facing API costs, latency, and privacy. 1278 38 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/secure-messaging-beyond-the-buzzwords/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/secure-messaging-beyond-the-buzzwords/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:06:28 GMT The Privacy Gap: What Your Messaging App Isn't Telling You Is your secure messaging truly private? We expose the hidden truths behind E2EE, cloud backups, and corporate ownership. 1181 35 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/red-team-vs-green-local-ai-hardware-wars/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/red-team-vs-green-local-ai-hardware-wars/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:01:20 GMT Red Team vs. Green: Local AI Hardware Wars NVIDIA's CUDA rules AI, leaving AMD users battling a "green wall." Explore the hardware wars and thorny paths forward. 1373 34 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/how-vad-works/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/how-vad-works/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:22:12 GMT When AI Decides to Listen Ever wonder how your AI knows you're talking? We're diving deep into VAD, the unseen magic behind AI's ears. 1174 33 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-training-ai-models/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/self-training-ai-models/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:33:46 GMT Your AI, Evolving: Beyond the Static Snapshot Is your AI an "old suit" that no longer fits? We explore evolving AI that learns and adapts with you. 1543 28 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/docker-vs-conda-pt2/ https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/docker-vs-conda-pt2/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:28:42 GMT Choosing Your AI Environment: Host, Conda, or Docker? Tired of AI environment headaches on AMD? We demystify Conda, Docker, and host environments to unlock your GPU's full potential. 1236 27 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/gpu-brains-cuda-rocm-the-ai-software-stack/ 074d6916-3eaa-4aa8-916f-c605949d8ead Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Open-Source Battle for AI's Hardware Soul Unraveling how GPUs power AI. We dive into CUDA, ROCm, and the software stack that makes it all think. 1234 25 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/mic-check-mastering-ai-dictation-hardware/ 0163845b-f0b0-4b95-888a-26f3790d4498 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Input Bottleneck: Why Your Mic Matters for AI Uncover the secrets to perfect AI dictation! Corn and Herman explore the ultimate speech-to-text hardware. 1550 22 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/beyond-the-gpu-unpacking-ais-chip-revolution/ e66d8e71-e488-4de4-9120-4edcb946c785 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Beyond the GPU: Unpacking AI's Chip Revolution Beyond the GPU: we're unpacking AI's chip revolution. Discover the crucial, often overlooked world of AI's fundamental building blocks. 1078 18 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/cloud-render-superpowers-local-edit-remote-muscle/ 968d026c-a011-4ed7-a560-87e69835e1ff Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Cloud Render Superpowers: Local Edit, Remote Muscle Unleash cloud superpowers! Edit locally, render remotely with AI-accelerated GPUs like NVIDIA A100s. 1072 17 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/on-deepfakes-synthid-and-ai-watermarking/ 8cfe1473-de81-466f-a5d6-04053b3ba7a1 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT On Deepfakes, SynthID, And AI Watermarking Deepfakes, SynthID, and AI watermarking. Could your AI creations be traced back to you? 1703 16 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/benchmarking-custom-asr-tools-beyond-the-wer/ 57f566e5-c467-47f8-bd8e-ca0ad8b33d41 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Benchmarking Custom ASR Tools - Beyond The WER Benchmarking custom ASR fine-tunes: We're diving deep beyond the WER to truly measure performance. 2160 9 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/how-asr-went-from-frustration-to-whisper-magic/ 50a212cc-f81b-45e0-8774-497601d8b825 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT How ASR Went From Frustration To ... Whisper Magic Speech to text: from frustrating to fantastic. Uncover the magic behind its rapid rise and connection to the AI boom! 2049 10 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/local-stt-for-amd-gpu-owners/ 49bbf946-accb-4695-af5e-6c59d55fa2e3 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Local STT For AMD GPU Owners AMD GPU? No problem! Dive into local AI adventures like on-device speech to text. 1890 2 1 no https://myweirdprompts.com/episode/safetensors-or-something-else-stt-inference-formats-explained/ 5fd965b4-e2a3-4308-8ff3-a1a33082fd46 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Safetensors or something else: STT inference formats explained Unpacking ASR weight formats: Safetensors and beyond. Tune in to understand the distinctions. 1976 3 1 no