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Your Financial Operating System is Due for an Update
I spent last Tuesday staring at my bank statement (and my UPI history) that looked less like a plan and more like a confession. You know that feeling when you check your balance after a busy month? It’s a mix of confusion and mild betrayal. “I spent how much on cafes? Did I really need
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The Finite State Machine of Spending: Debugging Your Financial Source Code
I’ve always found traditional budgeting advice to be slightly broken. It usually sounds something like this: “You spent too much on dining out last month. Stop doing that.” That’s like telling a piece of software that crashed, “Hey, stop crashing.” It’s not helpful. It addresses the output, not the logic that produced it. In my
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Why Your “Read Later” List is Where Ideas Go to Die (And How to Fix It)
I recently opened my “Read Later” app, and it felt like walking into an abandoned storage unit. There were articles from 2019 about productivity hacks I never used. There were “must-read” essays on crypto that aged about as well as milk. There were YouTube videos I saved because I felt guilty for not watching them
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Setting Up Self-Hosted N8n on Linode Using Dokploy: Your Ticket to Automation Freedom
Remember when Tony Stark built his own AI assistant instead of asking Alexa? That’s basically what we’re doing here—except instead of fighting aliens, we’re automating boring stuff like data syncing and notification workflows. And the best part? You don’t need an arc reactor. Today, we’re diving into the world of self-hosted automation by setting up
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How to Sync Your Obsidian Notes Using Linode Object Storage (The Easy Way with Remotely Save)
Because your second brain deserves a cloud home that you control. If you’re an Obsidian user, chances are your vault has become your personal treasure chest—full of notes, references, random late-night thoughts, and possibly that one file named draft_v2_final_realfinal.md. While Obsidian excels at local note-taking, syncing your vault between multiple devices can feel… clunky. You
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The Claude Learning Curve I Cracked—So You Don’t Have To
I was getting frustrated with bland, generic responses that felt like they came from a corporate training manual. So I went down this rabbit hole, experimenting with different approaches, testing weird techniques I found on Reddit, and basically treating every conversation like a mini-experiment. Here’s what actually worked for me, why it made such a