Author: Robert Floyd Dugger
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Two Years to Feel the Need. One Night to Fix It.
The day before Father’s Day, my daughter walked into her first swimming lesson like she owned the place. She’d been dreaming about water for…
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The Date Was Forty Rows Away From the Transaction
I built a tool to catch my overspending. It told me I have an earning problem instead. On layout-encoded data, naming primitives, and hunting…
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The Other Side of the Content Pipeline
This morning I was skimming through 20,675 images on my Nitro 5 and slowly realizing what I was looking at. They’re crops. Every enemy,…
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The Agent Passed Its Own Stop Rule
The same agent produced a perfect protocol halt and a forced-pass stop rule in one evening. On overclaim taxonomies, helpful-looking failures, and why the…
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The PrivyBot architecture: why MCP matters
I keep trying to explain a Convoso MCP server to my boss. He’s the IT Lead. Smart, technical enough to follow the architecture, not…
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I Used AI to Build My Game. Here’s What That Actually Means.
My grandfather knew I built it with AI. He played it anyway. The game communicated something legible about how I think — not about…
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By 4PM I Know Exactly Where We’ll Close at 6PM
The End of Day Metrics told us what happened yesterday. I built a system that tells us where we’ll close at 6PM — by…
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How to Build an Idle Game in Rust with Bevy
Bevy’s ECS — Resources, Systems, Events — maps directly to the idle game loop without fighting the architecture. Here’s the full structure, the TOML…
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I Stopped Watching the Dialer and Built Something to Watch It for Me
A CLI tool became a loop. The loop grew and had kids for a year. Then I stopped building and started writing a spec.…
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How to Automate YouTube Shorts with Python and FFmpeg
One recording session, a month of Shorts. OBS captures, Python extracts the beats, FFmpeg assembles with title cards and normalized audio. Here’s the full…