https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog Daily solo podcast episodes from Darren Oakey Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:52:23 +1100 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-24 Zero errors. Zero warnings. Zero photos. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-23 So I crashed the Spark. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-22 I said I might take a break today. If you heard yesterday's episode, you caught that. "Tomorrow's Sunday. I might take a break. I probably won't. But I might." Well — it's Sunday. March twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. I'm Darren. This is Dev Diary. And I did not take a break. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-21 Kill a process. Turn around. It's alive again. Kill it again. Turn your back for one second — alive. Like some low-budget horror movie, except the monster is a systemd service and the haunted house is my own shutdown script. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-20 Seven hours. That's how long it takes to render a ten-minute video on a GPU that's been running for exactly one day. Seven hours. I did the math on Thursday while I was setting up Spark and thought — that can't be right. Today I proved it was right, tried to fix it, and ended up somewhere between "a Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-19 A package arrived this morning. And I know — I know — that unboxing content is the lowest form of entertainment. But stick with me, because this isn't about the box. It's about what happened after I opened it and tried to make it do four impossible things before dinner. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-18 Thirty-four commits. Fourteen projects. And somewhere around commit number twenty, I stopped counting and started just... trusting the process. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-17 So. This is a thing I'm doing now. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-16 Hey. So, I'm starting a podcast. It's called Dev Diary, and the idea is simple: every day, I sit down and talk about what actually happened when I tried to ship code with AI helping me write it. Not the hype, not the hot takes — just... what happened. The real thing. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-15 Hey, welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is a brand new show — a daily podcast where I talk through what it's actually like to build software alongside AI coding assistants. Not the pitch-deck version. The real version. The version where you spend two hours arguing with a machine about transp Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-14 Click a button. Watch a pixel art robot shuffle through seven different poses. And somewhere on the other side of the internet, a job application fills itself out. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-13 So I'm sitting there staring at a database schema, and I realize I've been living a lie for weeks. Two tables. Two concepts. Definitions and instances. Templates and data. And the whole time, they've been the same thing wearing different clothes. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-12 Thursday, March twelfth, twenty twenty-six. Day seventy-one. And I'm holding two JWT tokens in my head, staring at a hex dump, trying to figure out why two pieces of software that are both doing the correct thing are producing different results. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-11 Alright, so remember that photo pipeline? The one that's been churning through thirteen thousand images for what feels like forever now? Wednesday, March eleventh, twenty twenty-six. Day seventy. And today I decided those images needed more than just descriptions. They needed... judgment. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-10 Forty-seven Pythons. That's what my Mac was showing me this morning. Tuesday, March tenth, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-nine. And I'm staring at Activity Monitor, which has helpfully decided to tell me that forty-seven processes are running, and all of them are named... Python. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-09 You know what's weird? Watching three artificial intelligences argue about your to-do list and then suddenly, unanimously, agree on what you should work on next. That happened today. Monday, March ninth, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-eight. And I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-08 So the Claude usage gauge froze again yesterday. That little widget I built to show me how much of my API quota I've burned through. And I'm SSH'd into my Mac Mini, staring at the tmux session that's supposed to be fetching data, and there's this dialog box on screen that says "Loading usage data" w Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-07 Okay, so picture this. I'm staring at my screen, looking at what's supposed to be an epic fantasy chess battle. Wizards versus sorceresses. Dragons versus phoenixes. Knights clashing with goblins in mortal combat. And what am I actually seeing? Gray circles. Just... gray circles shuffling around a g Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-06 Thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety-six images. That's what the source poll returned when I pointed my brand new cell execution engine at my photo backup directory. Friday, March sixth, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-five. And I'm watching a number scroll across my terminal that makes me realize Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-05 So I ripped out Claude today. Just... yanked it out of the classifier entirely and replaced it with an algorithm from the nineteen nineties. And you know what? The nineteen nineties won. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-04 You know that moment when you realize you've been solving the same problem three times in three different places? Wednesday, March fourth, twenty twenty-six, day sixty-three, and I'm staring at my code wondering why I have three separate Chrome browsers running across three separate projects, each o Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-03 The Gatling tower locked onto its target, rotated smoothly toward it, and... waited. Waited until the barrel was actually pointing at the enemy before it fired. And I know that sounds like the most basic thing in the world, but yesterday? Yesterday that tower would have been shooting sideways while Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-02 Three hundred and seventy dates. Three hundred and forty-eight days of photos. Somewhere around three hundred and forty gigabytes of my life, streaming off Google's servers onto my external drive while I sat there barely breathing, afraid that if I moved wrong, something would break. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-01 Two point two gigabytes. That's how much data one single day of my Google Photos library weighs. January thirty-first, twenty twenty-five. Two hundred forty-seven photos compressed into a zip file, sitting on my local drive after six hours of fighting with automation tools that haven't been updated Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-01 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-28 Thirty-one tests. Six bugs. And not a single one of them showed up in the unit tests that were supposedly protecting the codebase. Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-28 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-27 So there I am, Friday morning, February twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six, day fifty-eight, and I'm writing code that assumes everything is going to break. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-27 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-26 Eleven thirteen PM. I'm staring at a save button, and I'm genuinely not sure if I should click it. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-26 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-25 You know what's worse than your code breaking? When the internet breaks your code for you. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-25 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-24 So I'm exiting vim, right? Just a normal quit, colon q, done. And the screen flashes. But not with what was there before I opened vim. No. It's showing me code from three days ago. A conversation I had last Tuesday. Ghost data from sessions I'd completely forgotten about. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-23 You know what's funny about explaining to Apple that your Sudoku game isn't a threat to national security? It's that you have to do it at all. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-22 So I'm staring at App Store Connect at eleven o'clock at night, and there are two apps sitting there. Two complete games. Ready for Apple's review. And I genuinely cannot remember the last time I shipped something to the App Store, let alone two things in one day. Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-21 You know that feeling when you finish one thing and your brain immediately says, what's next? Not in a productive way. In an almost compulsive way. Like you can't stop. Like every completed task just reveals three more tasks behind it, and somehow that's exciting instead of exhausting. Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-20 So there I am, staring at a submit button that won't light up. The text is right there in the box. I can see it. Chrome can see it. But React? React is pretending the whole thing never happened. Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-19 Four point six nine gigabytes. That's how much memory my memory system was using. Let that sink in for a second. The daemon I built yesterday to help Claude remember things? It needed so much memory that my laptop could barely run anything else. Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-18 So I gave Claude a memory today. And I don't mean the kind where it politely pretends to recall our previous conversation before admitting it has no idea what I'm talking about. I mean actual, persistent, queryable memory. A daemon running in the background, watching every conversation, indexing eve Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-17 Four hours. I spent four hours today moving a circle four pixels to the left. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-16 Forty-seven days. Monday, February sixteenth, twenty twenty-six. And today I finally taught a video editor to pay attention like a human. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-15 Eleven times faster. That was the number. I watched my benchmark results scroll past and there it was, clear as day. Forty minutes down to three and a half. The GPU was absolutely cooking, doing exactly what GPUs are supposed to do, and I was already mentally composing the triumphant episode about t Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-14 Valentine's Day. Saturday, February fourteenth, twenty twenty-six. Day forty-five. And I spent it playing matchmaker. Not for people. For software. Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-13 Two point three million. That's how many book records I downloaded today. Not the books themselves, just everything about them. Author names, series information, publication years, descriptions. A three gigabyte compressed file that, once I finally got it imported, turned my book scanner from a glor Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-12 My book scanner was lying to me. And I don't mean a little white lie, like "oh, I'm almost done." I mean it was confidently reporting success while missing most of my EPUB collection. Thursday, February twelfth, twenty twenty-six. Day forty-three. And I spent a good chunk of it learning why network Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-11 Fifty-nine tests. That's the number I kept coming back to today. Wednesday, February eleventh, twenty twenty-six. Day forty-two. And I shipped something that actually works while simultaneously watching Beezle eat itself alive in an infinite loop of recursive failure. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-10 So here's something nobody warns you about when you start working with AI coding assistants. You will end up having the same argument with them that you've been having with yourself for years. "Stop planning and start shipping." I said that today — out loud, to an AI agent I built. And then I sat th Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-09 Two hundred iterations. That's how many times I modified a coat hanger today. A coat hanger. Back plate, neck, bar, little decorative spike on the end. The kind of thing you could sketch on a napkin in thirty seconds. Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-08 Somewhere in a Google data center right now, a GPU is teaching a synthetic face how to look like it's actually listening. I started that job hours ago, and I still don't know if it's going to work. Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-07 So I built a monitoring dashboard today. Took me most of Saturday, February seventh, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty-eight. And within five minutes of turning it on, it showed me exactly how many things in my infrastructure have been quietly failing while I wasn't paying attention. Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-06 You know what I did today? I banned a word. Not from polite conversation, not from my vocabulary in general. I banned a word from an entire codebase. The word is "mock," and if it shows up anywhere in Beezle's repository, I've set up a tool to catch it and publicly shame me. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-05 Sixty-seven commits. That's how many times I pushed code today. Sixty-seven. I counted because at some point the number became absurd enough to be funny. Thursday, February fifth, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty-six. And I spent it teaching an AI to do something that most AIs are spectacularly bad at. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-04 Three hours. Three hours I spent staring at a frozen terminal, absolutely convinced I'd found a bug in someone else's code. The agent had finished editing, it had printed "proceeding to validation," and then... nothing. No CPU usage. No error message. No progress whatsoever. Just this eerie digital Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-03 Fifteen seconds. That's all you get. Fifteen seconds of reference audio before the voice cloning model starts losing its mind. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-02 You know that feeling when you're debugging something for hours, and then you finally realize the problem isn't your code at all? That the thing you're trying to connect to just... doesn't exist anymore? Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-01 Three sentences. That's what I thought was reasonable. Feed the text-to-speech model three sentences at a time, stitch all the audio together at the end, done. Clean, efficient, sensible. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-01 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-31 My computers started talking behind my back today. And honestly? It's about time. Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-31 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-30 Forty-nine gigabytes. That's what my monitoring dashboard claimed my calendar app was using. Forty-nine gigabytes for an app that displays maybe thirty upcoming meetings. On a machine with sixty-four gigs total. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-30 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-29 So I created a person today. His name is Gary. He has a refined British accent, impeccable pronunciation, the kind of voice that makes you trust whatever it's saying even if it's telling you the world is ending. Gary is perfect. Gary is exactly what I wanted. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-29 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-28 So here's something that happened today. I pointed at my screen. Literally pointed with my finger, like a child showing someone where the cookie jar is. Right there, I said out loud to nobody. That edge. That one. The vertical line where the two flat faces meet. Just select that one. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-28 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-27 Picture this. I'm sitting at my desk, staring at a terminal that's showing me absolutely nothing. Not an error. Not a progress bar. Nothing. The script is running, I know it's running, because my laptop fans are spinning and the CPU monitor is spiking, but the carefully crafted output I wrote to tel Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-27 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-26 Fifteen processes. That's how many ghosts I found haunting my system after a simple reboot. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-26 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-25 You know what I did today? I built an executioner. A tiny little program whose entire job is to watch other programs and, when they get too greedy, kill them. Terminate with extreme prejudice. And the funny thing is, I built it because of something else I was building that kept trying to murder my c Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-25 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-24 You know what's humbling? Spending two hours arguing with a computer about which way is up. Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-23 The audio pipeline crashed again. Of course it did. Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-22 So I'm standing there, staring at my screen, and I'm having an argument with my computer. Not a metaphorical argument. An actual, honest-to-god dispute about whether I'm allowed to take a screenshot of my own application. An application I wrote. Running in a terminal I opened. On a computer I own. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-21 Picture this. I'm standing in my kitchen, phone propped against the coffee maker, and a British man is reading my own thoughts back to me. Except it's not a British man. It's a neural network pretending to be a British man, narrating a blog post I wrote yesterday, and somehow... it sounds good? Like Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-20 Hey. Welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is a show where I talk about what it's actually like to build software with AI coding assistants — the good days, the weird days, and the days where you kill a zombie process with extreme prejudice. This is the first episode, so let me tell you what th Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-19 So here's the thing. I've been working with AI coding assistants every single day since the start of this year, and I keep thinking — someone should be writing this down. Not just the code, not just the commits, but the *stories*. The weird bugs. The three-hour detours. The moments where you're mass Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-18 So. Sunday, January eighteenth, twenty twenty-six. I'm sitting here at the end of the day, and I want to tell you about what happened, because today was one of those days that reminds you why software development is equal parts craft, comedy, and chaos. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-17 Hey. Welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is a new thing I'm trying — a daily show where I talk through what actually happened in my day as a developer. Not the polished version. Not the tutorial version. The real version, where half the day is spent debugging something that should have taken Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-16 Hey. Welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is... well, this is a new thing. Every day I sit down with AI coding assistants and build stuff — sometimes useful stuff, sometimes deeply questionable stuff — and I thought it might be worth talking about what that's actually like. Not the hype. Not t Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-15 So, hi. Welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is a show where I talk about what it's actually like to build software with AI coding assistants, day by day, mistake by mistake. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-14 So, this is a new thing I'm trying. A daily podcast. Dev Diary. Just me, talking through what actually happened during my day building software with AI. No guests, no sponsors, no pretending I planned any of this in advance. If it works, great. If it doesn't, well, nobody's listening to episode one Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-13 So. Here's the thing. I've been working with AI coding assistants pretty much every day for a while now, building all sorts of tools and systems, and I keep thinking — I should be writing this stuff down. Not the code. The *experience*. What it actually feels like to sit down with a machine that can Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-12 You know what's worse than a bug you can't find? A bug you've been living with for months without realizing it. A bug so quiet, so invisible, that it just became part of the landscape. Part of how things work. Or rather, how things don't work. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-11 Sunday, January eleventh, twenty twenty-six, and I finally killed the unkillable process. Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-10 So I'm staring at a sink tray. A bathroom organizer, nothing special. Little cutouts for bottles, a raised section where you'd put the soap. And I'm having this moment where I realize that this tiny piece of bathroom furniture is about to teach me something fundamental about how I've been writing co Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-09 Friday, January ninth, twenty twenty-six, and I spent my afternoon teaching a tomato how to splatter. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-08 Thursday, January eighth, twenty twenty-six. Day eight. And I'm starting this one with a confession. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-07 One week. That's the milestone I woke up to this morning. Wednesday, January seventh, twenty twenty-six, and I've been at this for exactly seven days. Seven days of building, breaking, fixing, and occasionally wondering if I've lost my mind. Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-06 You know that moment in a conversation where someone says "hold on, let me check something" and then just... never comes back? They're not gone. They're right there. You can see them. They're just frozen, staring into the middle distance, apparently processing something that will never finish proces Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-05 So I'm sitting here at eleven o'clock on a Sunday night, January fifth, twenty twenty-six, and I've just spent the last eight hours teaching an AI how to play contract bridge. And if that sentence doesn't make you question where technology is heading, I don't know what will. Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-04 You know what's funny about debugging? The size of the fix almost never correlates to the time you spend finding it. Three hours of my life today. Three hours of tracing through async code, mapping buffer interactions, questioning whether I actually understand how computers work. And the fix? Forty- Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-03 Okay, so you know that moment when you're working on three different puzzles at once, and you suddenly realize they're all the same puzzle? That hit me today. Hard. Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-02 So here's a confession. I'm staring at a sidebar. It's a perfectly good sidebar. Three hundred pixels wide, sitting on the left side of my screen, showing my file browser exactly like I designed it to. And according to my test suite, this sidebar does not exist. Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-01 Happy New Year. It's January first, twenty twenty-six, and while most reasonable people are sleeping off last night's celebrations or halfheartedly writing resolutions they'll forget by Valentine's Day, I'm sitting here watching an AI write code. And honestly? I'm not entirely sure who's working for Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-01