git push --force Turned 130 Commits Into 1
Monday morning, my heart literally stopped. git push --force turned 130 commits into 1, permanently. Eight months gone - until I remembered an archive branch from three weeks earlier. 90 commits inside.
Episodes - start at #1
Plans Assume Energy I Didn't Have
Planned: 100+ process definitions, timestamps, two articles. Shipped: the JSON framework and one article. Week one at Zabka hit harder than expected - too tired by evening to write definitions.
Three Issues Closed on Four Hours of Sleep
Planned three issues. Closed all three - after four hours of sleep, starting at 6 AM. Tests rewritten (18 cases, all mocked), process display redesigned, three chart bugs fixed, ~130 lines of dead code gone.
I Planned 3 Issues. I Built a Whole Menu.
Planned three issues. Built an entire new menu instead - 18 commits, two new modules, one production-ready First Setup & Drivers page with an arc health gauge.
I Was Going to Plug in Claude. I Built My Own Engine.
The plan: plug Claude API into the chatbot. Instead I built my own hybrid AI engine from scratch - rule-based, offline-first. Plus auto RAM flush, a dashboard rewrite and a fixed Google login.
30,000 Views, Five Features, One Project I Keep Avoiding
Monday's post hit 30k views; a stranger ran a clean security audit and became a tester. Friday: Startup Manager (3 registry hives), Services Manager (40+ services, 4 tiers), the signed v1.7.2 .exe.
Not Scarred This Week - Everything Shipped
Twelve new AI query types from your feedback, a full DeepMonitor table (SQLite, snapshots every 5 min), a metrics backend, Stripe on GuideAI - and someone from a dream company reached out. Nothing scarred.
I Wanted to Suspend Processes. I Built a Mini Anti-Virus.
I wanted to suspend idle processes. A legitimacy check (does chrome.exe live where it should, or in %TEMP%?) flagged svch0st.exe and expl0rer.exe - and became the seed of an offline anti-virus.
From 26 Stars to 58 — No Ads, Just Shipping
26 stars to 58 in two weeks, no ads. Shipped: stable Polish support (300+ hand-written lines), a fully persistent Settings page, and 23 community-requested intents — with 23 more waiting.
#151 in Poland and the Biggest Update of My Life
v1.7.6 live — 82 intents, DeepMonitor rewritten, a 2.5D component map, 373 process defs. The scar: psutil temperature reads returned None for months and passed every test because the function never ran.
A Quiet Maintenance Week That Lasted 36 Hours
Planned only bug fixes. Noticed a dead GT 1030 still in my registry → Ghost Drivers Hunter. Noticed idle apps burning RAM → Background App Hibernation. Two accidental features in a 'maintenance' week.
Welding Plastics by Day, Deleting 1,326 Lines by Night
Maximized View Mode 100% done, chart tooltips 2.0, 1,326 dead lines removed, thread leaks fixed. The scar: months blaming tkinter for a slowdown that was my own bind_all on 8 pages.
Built a Brain for My App, Forgot to Plug It In
For months PC Workman learned your machine - Welford temp baselines, voltage SPC - and the chat never imported any of it. TURBO read a flag nothing wrote. Startup Manager was blind to Task Scheduler. The week I plugged the brain in, and closed the roadmap that ended at v1.7.9.
Microsoft Store Said No - Over a Blurry Icon and the Wrong Link
My first .msix ever, a full Partner Center submission, v1.8.0 stable - and a rejection. Not for the code: a blurry tile icon and a privacy link pointing at my SECURITY.md. A "fix these two and resubmit" that's really a checklist. The project also turned one year old.
Sixteen Answers That Existed Only on Paper
My AI matched 16 questions with 100% confidence and returned nothing. The first week PC Workman was on the Microsoft Store, and the week a tester found the temperature pipeline broken.
The Optimizer Could Freeze the Desktop. Then a Stranger Sent Me 50 PLN
On Monday my optimizer could freeze the Windows desktop. By Thursday a stranger with a 7950X3D and a flashed RTX 4090 had paid me and offered his PC as a test bench.
My Tests Were Green. The App Was Broken. Both Were True
The engine week: a 6,533-line response layer split into seven modules, a refactor that silently switched the whole AI layer off, and a cleanup pass that sent every sidebar page back to the dashboard.
My First One-Star Review, and I Agreed With Every Word
A one-star review said the GUI needs refining and the learning curve is steep. I read it three times and agreed. The same week I shipped OVERCLOCK, Optimization Receipts and a roadmap to v2.1.0.
My Writing Landed on Spotify. A Post I Spent an Hour On Reached 14 People
HackerNoon turned my monolith article into audio the same week a post reached 14 readers. Sixteen new guides, an offline search, the biggest hck_GPT rebuild yet, and a script that quietly ate 38 commas.
I Fixed the Same Bug Four Times. My Third Fix Was Part of the Bug.
Scaling Laws got a market with memory, and a save test that refused to go green: save in year four, load, play year five, end exactly like an uninterrupted run.
Five Functions Came Back Unreachable. One Was an Entire Progression System.
The node promised curated corpora, took points, cash and four months, and delivered nothing. 526 tests passed because every test called the function directly.
On Wednesday I Wrote About Not Hearing Back. By Thursday Two More People Had Put My Name Forward.
Fourteen months of building did not get me a referral. Admitting I had been waiting did. Plus the tutorial bug my partner found by reading slower than every test.
Somebody Arrived on My Site With a Broken SSD and Left With a Game About Running an AI Lab
23 troubleshooting guides written in summer. By autumn Google shows the site 200 times a day, and twenty people who came about a failing disk downloaded the game.
I Finished It Two Days Early, and I Did Not Choose a Single Thing That Is in It
A stranger found the game, played it and sent four things that were wrong. I gave him a date. Three with a date are finished. The one without has not moved.
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