Decision. For my wine app, all heavy batch work — scraping a dozen shops with Playwright, deduplicating a 100k+ bottling catalog (a full O(n²) similarity pass), and LLM enrichment — runs in Docker on a Mac Mini M4 at home. Cloud Run hosts only the thin API. Because. Cloud Run kills any request at 60 minutes; these…
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"You'll never know if the AI degrades you" — except you can I spent Fable 5's launch day building with it — a whole publishing platform, including the bumps: it…
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Starlink adds a monthly kit fee — boat math changes For a boat the calculation just shifted: the default new-customer path now carries a recurring hardware cost…
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A big build day — +8k lines in The Cloudy Brain alone — but the real story is the reversal in the middle of it. The morning went into autonomous machinery: a curation and rating engine that would harvest my notes, draft posts, and run them past a multi-AI…
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NULL beats a plausible guess TIL
TIL: SignalK tank levels are 0..1 ratios, not liters TIL
On-device AI is free per call — that's the trap