Twenty-nine days ago I had never owned a machine on Hack The Box. In a month I hit Hacker rank. In the same window of time, I …
A few months ago I turned a pile of Oracle HCM PDF guides into something I could actually search. Convert each PDF to Markdown …
I found an open-source project that builds a weekly cybersecurity briefing for non-technical employees. It pulls a threat-intel …
As I was going through the deeplearning.ai Agentic AI course, Andrew Ng put a loop on the screen: build a quick prototype, run …
Personal AI Infrastructure: Explained for Real What Is It, Actually? Think about your phone. It’s not just one thing — …
Your AI Isn’t Going Off the Rails. It Never Had Any. The most common complaint I hear from people using AI is some version …
The Part No One Mentions When They Hand You an AI Tool When an organization rolls out an AI tool to its workforce, the …
When My Own Tool Couldn’t Handle My Work The error message was easy to dismiss: RapidOCR returned empty result!. It appeared …
If a Script Can Do It, Don’t Ask the LLM When your AI system is spending inference tokens to parse date fields, strip PDF …
Stop Prompt Engineering. Start Building Infrastructure. Last week I opened a terminal, typed six words, and watched PAI spend the …
Front Matter Is the Schema of Your Knowledge Base There is a Dataview query I run at least once a week: TABLE date, author, genre …
Speed Is the Feature. Unexamined Speed Is the Liability. One of the most impressive things about using AI to write code is how …
ProjectDecompose: Breaking Down Complex Projects Into Deliverables Have you ever stared at a project and thought, “This is …
The Promise I Made to Myself In my last post about building the PDF to Markdown converter , I listed some “what’s …
The Problem With Security Books I have a lot of cybersecurity books. PDFs from Humble Bundles, O’Reilly downloads, books …
Connecting PAI to NotebookLM via MCP: Your Research Becomes a Live Knowledge Layer I’ve been using Google’s NotebookLM …
Claude Code Has Skills. PAI Has a Skill System. Here’s the Difference. There’s a word that shows up in both Claude …
The Problem: AI Conferences Are Everywhere and Nowhere If you’ve ever tried to find a comprehensive list of upcoming AI …
RAG, Agents, and Skills: The Three Pillars Inside My Personal AI This site — Augmented Resilience — didn’t get built the way …
The Problem: PDFs Are Knowledge Prisons You know that feeling when you download a brilliant research paper, only to realize you …
I recently deployed my Hugo blog to Namecheap shared hosting, using Obsidian as my content editor and Claude Code with PAI …