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Monday Grind Blueprint

The week's plan for PC Workman, announced publicly before a single line is written. Once it's posted, there is no quiet walking back — Friday will check the receipts.

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#132026-06-22·4 min read

Every Gaming Tool Picks Your Overlay. Mine Starts Empty.

MSI, Razer and Corsair decide what your overlay shows. Mine shows nothing until you choose - and greets you by the game you just launched. v1.8.0 drops today, the project turns one year old, and your intents become code by Friday.

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#122026-06-15·5 min read

I Spent My Day Off Building a File That Does Almost Nothing

The web is locking AI crawlers out; I opened my whole site to them. For a solo dev with 57 stars, AI isn't theft - it's the only free distribution left. pcworkman.dev went from one messy file to 56 pages, schema, RSS and a robots.txt wide open to machines.

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#112026-06-08·4 min read

Certifying in AI Through the Company Whose API I Avoided

Five weeks of Google's Skills of Tomorrow 3.0, final exam today. I built hck_GPT offline — 102 intents, 9-layer routing, no API. This week: Maximized View Mode across every page + roadmap to v1.9+.

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#102026-06-01·4 min read

My Biggest Release, Then 48 Hours of Tester Bugs

v1.7.6 felt great for 12 hours. Then three testers spent 5+ hours each. 17 silent intents, psutil scanned 19×/message, CS2.exe topping charts for people who don't play it. This week: cleanup.

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#92026-05-25·4 min read

Building What 28 Real People Asked For

I asked what you'd ask an AI inside your system monitor. 28 answers came back (13 GitHub, 15 LinkedIn DMs). This week every single one becomes real code in hck_GPT.

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#82026-05-18·4 min read

I Built Polish Software in English for 10 Months

hck_GPT already speaks Polish (854 lines of bilingual vocabulary) - but the rest of the app was English-only. This week: real Polish localization, written by someone who thinks in Polish, plus a final Settings polish.

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#72026-05-11·5 min read

Teaching the AI to Spot Fake Windows Processes

The TURBO suite goes live: stop non-essential services (3 profiles), suspend idle processes, auto power-plan switching. On the horizon: an offline mini anti-virus that flags svch0st.exe pretending to be svchost.exe.

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#62026-05-04·4 min read

Starting Google's AI Cert, Expanding hck_GPT

First structured tech education since 2023 starts today. The plan: turn your questions into hck_GPT intents, build a HWMonitor-style DeepMonitor table with persistence, and finally wire GuideAI's payment gateway.

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#52026-04-27·5 min read

Most Developers Never Ship an .exe

Most developers never ship an .exe. Today: the second one ever (v1.7.2) - download, double-click, run 800+ hours of work without Python. This week: Startup Manager and Services Manager.

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#42026-04-20·4 min read

A RAM Optimizer at Midnight, Alarm at 4:30

23:50. Alarm at 4:30. Instead of sleeping: custom fonts across the app, auto RAM flush above 75% (first real TURBO feature), and a redesigned Optimization Center.

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#32026-04-13·5 min read

Four Things Shipped Before Lunch

6 AM, couldn't sleep. By 11 AM, four things shipped that weren't even on the list: First Setup & Drivers, Quick Actions, timestamps everywhere, tooltips. Then the real plan.

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#22026-04-06·4 min read

Three Roadmap Issues, Week One at a New Job

Three issues from the road to v1.7.8: missing tests and packaging, a dashboard button redesign, and an hck_GPT cleanup - planned around 9-hour Zabka shifts.

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#12026-03-30·4 min read

Timestamp Everything + a 100-Process Library

When hck_GPT says "Chrome ate 6 GB three hours ago" - which three hours? Week one: timestamp every event and build a 100-process library so hovering any name explains it.

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#142026-06-29·4 min read

Two Machines Rejected Me This Week. Neither Read a Line of My Code

Microsoft bounced the app over a blurry icon and a wrong link. Then LinkedIn shadowbanned the post about it because a filename looked like a suspicious link.

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#152026-07-06·4 min read

I Spent the Weekend Trying to Break My Own App on Purpose

100% CPU, 100% RAM, thermal throttling. It broke and froze my entire computer. Good. Better me than you. v1.8.2 ships the guard that makes it impossible.

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#162026-07-13·4 min read

My Assistant Is Not Allowed to Guess Whether That CPU Fits Your Board

Most AI assistants are trained to sound useful. Mine is not allowed to guess. One collector, shared hardware state, and four roadmap issues built from real power-user feedback.

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#172026-07-20·5 min read

Opening One Menu Took 2 Seconds. It Now Takes 17 Milliseconds

Ten days of adding almost nothing, spent hunting the four places my own code had been lying to me. Plus Upgrade Readiness, which refused to wait for a calm week.

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#182026-07-27·4 min read

Everyone Says Take the Leap. I Am Staying in Radom and Driving a Taxi

Every piece of advice says move to the big city and bet on yourself. This week I am doing the opposite, on purpose, because a bridge is not a leap.

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#192026-08-03·5 min read

Every Guide Says Finish What You Started. This Week I Started Two Games

In the month I could least afford distraction, I opened Unity. Scaling Laws is an AI company tycoon built on the real Chinchilla scaling law and 22 real accelerator generations.

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