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38 episodes
#3538: Car Manuals Are 700 Pages: Find Your 20
Your VIN isn't enough. PR codes and engine codes are the real keys to finding the right manual for your exact car.
#3477: What Belongs in Your Car Emergency Kit
LED flares, tourniquets, and tire plug kits — the gear that actually makes a difference between inconvenience and danger.
#3428: Logistics Careers That Survive AI
The jobs in logistics and warehousing that are actually growing — and the skills you need to get them.
#3294: Job Hunting Systems That Actually Work
Why CRMs fail for job seekers and three lightweight systems that don't.
#3169: Why Your Phone Betrays You to a Nursery Speaker
Android’s Bluetooth still can’t manage multiple devices. Here’s why—and what actually works.
#3099: How Car Mechanics Master 50 Vehicles a Week
The hidden systems thinking that lets mechanics fix any car and how you can apply it.
#3098: The Pilot with the Flashlight: Inside Aviation's Pre-Flight Walkaround
Why pilots still physically inspect planes before every flight — and what a 1979 crash taught us about trusting machines.
#2935: Notebooks vs Scripts: The Real Tradeoffs
Why data scientists love notebooks but engineers distrust them — and who's right.
#2920: What Actually Kills an Older Manual Car
Brake fluid, timing belts, and coolant — the cheap things people skip that cost them an engine.
#2603: Defining the Agentic Workspace
How composable AI agent skills turn tedious media tasks into one-instruction operations for creatives.
#2567: Beyond Pixels: Controlling Apps Without Vision
How MCP agents can use accessibility APIs and COM to control Windows and macOS apps at the protocol level.
#2554: Bluffer's Guide to Car Talk: Sound Like You Know Engines
Stop saying "it went clunk." Learn the phrases that make mechanics think you know what you're talking about.
#2545: Visual AI Pipelines: Beyond Python Glue Code
From ComfyUI to Dify — a tour of visual tools for building modular AI workflows without writing glue code.
#2536: Self-Hosted Zapier Alternatives in 2026
n8n, Huginn, and Dagu compared for personal automation on your own hardware.
#2477: Stop Polling: Push-to-Deploy for Solo Devs
Why your cron job is obsolete. Push-to-deploy with GitHub Actions and deploy keys — the simplest setup that actually works.
#2473: GitHub Actions Beyond CI/CD: What You're Missing
Cron jobs, self-hosted runners, NPM publishing, and self-healing repos — GitHub Actions does way more than run tests.
#2401: Designing Data Models That Mirror Your Work
Why 60% of small businesses hate off-the-shelf SaaS—and how to build tools that actually fit your workflow.
#2391: When Anti-Bot Defenses Break Accessibility
How browser automation hits a wall with Israel's strict geo-restrictions and anti-bot measures—and what practical workarounds exist.
#2390: The Low-Grade Digital Arms Race
Discover how browser automation is reshaping web interaction, from job applications to navigating geo-restrictions and anti-bot measures.
#2361: The Cognitive Load of Logs
How Claude Code transforms Linux system administration by automating log analysis and proactive maintenance.
#2359: When the Sandbox Doesn't Fit: Sysadmins Using a Dev Tool
Discover why Claude Code excels as a sysadmin tool despite being designed for developers — and the challenges that come with it.
#2332: Voice-to-Task: Building the Claude Task Planner
How does a voice note turn into a completed task? Dive into the architecture and tradeoffs of building a Claude-powered task execution system.
#2278: Visual Programming's Enduring Tradeoff
Why do visual programming tools keep resurfacing—and why do power users keep hitting their limits?
#2255: Typst vs. LaTeX: The AI-Ready Document Engine
Can Typst succeed LaTeX as the go-to tool for programmatic typesetting, especially for AI agents? We compare the two and explore what makes a docum...