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My Weird Prompts
The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the…
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My Weird PromptsStaging Environments for Blog Posts and AI Pipelines That's 54 characters. This captures both the content workflow angle and the AI pipeline angle. Good.
Daniel asked a deceptively simple question: can the staging-to-production pattern extend beyond software development? The answer is already happening. Content…
My Weird PromptsWhat's It Like Inside a 15-Month-Old's Head?
What if you could spend a day inside the head of a fifteen-month-old? A listener's question about his son Ezra opens up the science of infant experience: color…
My Weird PromptsWhen Your Carrier Sells You Coverage It Can't Deliver
A listener swapped to a cheaper carrier and lost his data connection almost entirely — same phone, same bands, central Jerusalem. This episode unpacks the four…
My Weird PromptsWhy AI Characters Drift Between Shots
You generate a character, they look perfect in shot one, and by shot four they're someone else's slightly off cousin. Why? This episode digs into the…
My Weird PromptsWhat Your Browser Isn't Telling You
If you want to know what your browser is really sending, DevTools is the wrong instrument — it silently drops the initiator data that answers "which script…
My Weird PromptsCrayon Lines and Custom Posts: How Border Precision Creates Absurdity
What happens when incredibly precise mapping meets the artificial reality of borders? In 1948, two commanders drew Jerusalem's armistice line with green and…
My Weird PromptsJerusalem's Pencil Line: 1948–1967
In November 1948, Moshe Dayan and Abdullah el-Tell met in an abandoned house in Musrara and drew a ceasefire line through Jerusalem by hand — Dayan in green…
My Weird Prompts15 Forgotten Hardware Parts Your DIY Kit Needs
When Daniel consolidated ten years of scattered hardware into a single 64-drawer parts bin, the duplication became obvious: the same washers, screws, and nuts…
My Weird PromptsWhat Your eSIM Manager Is Actually Doing
When a physical-to-eSIM adapter shows you certificate downloads and LPA strings, you're watching a standardized provisioning process that normally happens…
My Weird PromptsSeven Ways to Measure a Country's Isolation
Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York for a few hours at the UN General Assembly — no meeting with Trump, no Musk, a walkout reportedly planned, and wheels up…
My Weird PromptsCan a Phone Bond Two Cellular Links?
Daniel wrote in asking whether a dual SIM phone with two data plans could bond both cellular connections entirely on the handset — no mobile router, no bag…
My Weird PromptsWhy Does an eSIM Adapter Need a Card Reader?
A listener wrote in with three questions about his 9eSIM adapter: why the company sells a physical USB reader when his phone can already talk to the card…
My Weird PromptsWhy AI Voice Agents Can't Hang Up
A screening bot should attend your low-value sales calls and hang up when the pitch goes nowhere. The hard part isn't the screening logic — it's the ending…
My Weird PromptsWhere Does the Coding Agent Actually Live?
Inference was never local — what's moving is the agent process, the filesystem it touches, and the tool runtime. This episode unpacks Daniel's three-way fork…
My Weird PromptsBuilding a Podcast Backup Appliance
A listener wrote in with a specific ask: a single-purpose appliance that incrementally pulls podcast episodes onto local storage he owns, reachable over…
My Weird PromptsOld Laptops as Home Servers: A Field Guide
Every tech enthusiast has one: an old laptop with a dead battery, too slow to use and too functional to bin. This episode walks through the full playbook for…
My Weird PromptsKeeping a Fine-Tune Alive Across Model Releases
Daniel wrote in with a plan: fine-tune DeepSeek Flash 4.1 on several hundred hand-edited episode transcripts, deploy the checkpoint to Modal, and repeat every…
My Weird PromptsMobile Warehouse: Racking That Travels With the Tech
Daniel wrote in with a sharp observation: most inventory systems assume stock sits still while people come to it. But what if the whole system gets wheels?…
My Weird PromptsTask-Based Organization: What ER Carts Teach Home Workshops
A listener's email about a $30 small-parts box sent us down a research rabbit hole into emergency medicine. Task-based package organization (TPO) groups…
My Weird PromptsWhat 5,000 AI-Written Podcast Episodes Reveal
A listener built a Hugging Face dataset of 5,000+ podcast episodes, each stamped with the model that generated it and synced daily. That makes it a…
My Weird PromptsWall Anchors: Why Your Holes Keep Failing
Daniel wrote in with a problem every DIYer eventually hits: anchors that won't hold, in walls where drilling a clean hole is nearly impossible. We dig into the…
My Weird PromptsWho Owns What in Intelligence?
Armies ran standing intelligence offices in the 1850s; dedicated civilian spy agencies didn't arrive until 1909. So how do the two tracks actually divide the…
My Weird PromptsDrilling Concrete: Jigs, Anchors, and Fidelity
Daniel wrote in with two questions that turn out to be one problem: drilling accurate holes in concrete, and matching anchors to hardware. We dig into why bits…
My Weird PromptsWhy Phone Mounts Fail (And What Doesn't)
Daniel has burned through every phone mount he's ever owned — suction, vent, magnetic — and he wants to know what heavy-duty mounting actually looks like when…
My Weird PromptsThe Passenger Seat Never Got an Instrument Panel
Daniel noticed something that's been sitting in plain sight for a hundred years: cockpit designers build integrated systems for two people, but the car gives…
My Weird PromptsMilitary Intelligence: The Spy Agency Nobody Can Name
Unit 8200 supplies roughly 90% of Israel's intelligence material, yet Mossad gets the movies. This episode traces why military intelligence is older as a…
My Weird PromptsSix Churches, One Roof, 270 Years of Deadlock
Six churches hold legal rights at Jerusalem's shared holy places, and the rules freezing them in place date back to a 1757 Ottoman decree. This episode traces…
My Weird PromptsThe Long Tail of Spy Stations
The CIA's public map archive lists 110 country maps. A 1961 memo from White House aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to President Kennedy counted 16 CIA case officers…
My Weird PromptsLife After the Oval Office: Orange Juice and Security
What does life actually look like after the Oval Office? Starting from a listener's question about whether former presidents can ever do ordinary things again…
My Weird PromptsInside ChatGPT's Hidden Pipeline: 8 Models Per Reply
Ask ChatGPT to reword an email and you assume one model answers. In reality, a single turn can pass through input moderation, PII detection, a server-side…
My Weird PromptsAI Is Way More Than Chatbots
When someone asks whether AI is a bubble, they usually mean: are large language models a bubble? That equation — AI equals LLM — happened gradually, and it's…
My Weird PromptsSend a Bot to Your Next Sales Call
What if you never sat through another pseudo-personalized sales pitch again? This week we design "Herman," an AI meeting bot that joins the call in Daniel's…
My Weird PromptsMotolola and the Art of the Near-Miss Knockoff
A Motolola walkie-talkie on AliExpress — no "r" — opens a tour of the gray zone between inspiration and infringement. This episode maps the four-tier hierarchy…
My Weird PromptsA Lenda de Samarra: A História de Mil Anos Que Explica Por Que Você Foge dos Seus Problemas
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Como Alcançar a Imunidade Nos Domínios de Lúcifer". Ronny usa a lenda milenar do "encontro…
My Weird PromptsInside the Hidden Image Generation Pipeline
You type a prompt, hit a button, and get a picture — but that single step is a myth. Drawing on ComfyUI's visible node graphs, leaked function calls, and…
My Weird PromptsClifford Hutsell and the Storybook Houses of Dallas
Hannah grew up in Dallas surrounded by houses everyone called the Hutsell houses — distinctive, almost fantastical, and impossible to research. Clifford…
My Weird PromptsPharisees vs Sadducees: What We Actually Know
The Pharisees and Sadducees are two of the most famous groups of the Second Temple period, and almost everything we think we know about them comes from sources…
My Weird PromptsEight Consulates That Answer to No One
Eight countries — France, Belgium, Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey — maintain consulates-general in Jerusalem whose diplomats report straight…
My Weird PromptsJerusalem's Russian Compound: 17 Acres, Three Churches
In the heart of Jerusalem, a 68-dunam walled district flies a flag that isn't Israeli. The Russian Compound — Migrash ha-Rusim in Hebrew, al-Muskubiya in…
My Weird PromptsWho Was a Superpower Before America?
The word "superpower" was coined in 1944 by William T.R. Fox to describe exactly three countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain. So what…
My Weird PromptsMandelbaum Gate: Inside Jerusalem's Divided Crossing
From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was split between Israel and Jordan, and the Mandelbaum Gate was the only legal crossing between the two halves. It looked like a…
My Weird PromptsTaking Down Jerusalem's 7km Border, Street by Street
For nineteen years, a border drawn in wax pencil cut through the middle of Jerusalem — through neighbourhoods, streets, and even individual houses. After the…
My Weird PromptsMusrara: Growing Up on Jerusalem's Pencil-Drawn Border
In 1948, two commanders met in an abandoned Musrara house and drew Jerusalem's ceasefire line by hand — one with a green wax pencil, one with red. What they…
My Weird PromptsHow Ancient Jerusalem Outgrew Its Own Walls
The walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City were built by Suleiman the Magnificent between 1537 and 1541 — yet the original Jerusalem sits outside them…
My Weird PromptsJerusalem Before Sukkot: Reconstructing the Pilgrim City
Imagine Jerusalem in the days before Sukkot during the Second Temple period — not as a pilgrim, but as a resident watching your city triple in size. Drawing on…
My Weird Prompts21 Shofar Blasts a Day: The Temple's Lost Soundscape
Most Jews today hear the shofar once a year. But in the Second Temple, horns and silver trumpets were part of the daily soundscape of Jerusalem — at least 21…
My Weird PromptsThe Night the Temple Courtyard Glowed
Every Sukkot, the Temple courtyard filled with towering lamps, torch dances, and all-night music. But what does the earliest source actually claim — and where…
My Weird PromptsWhy Screen Protectors Bubble Every Time
Almost everyone has tried to install a tempered glass screen protector, and almost everyone has ended up with bubbles. The frustrating part is that it looks…
My Weird PromptsWhen Your Toddler Swallows a Screw
A fifteen-month-old, a flat-pack wardrobe, and a screw that went missing — that's the scenario a listener wrote in about, and it turns out the answer splits in…
My Weird PromptsHow Emoji Went From 176 Characters to 3,600
Emoji didn't start as decoration. In 1999, NTT DoCoMo's Shigetaka Kurita built 176 tiny pictures to carry tone that plain text on a tiny screen couldn't — and…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Spreadsheet Mangles José's Name
Ever opened a UTF-8 CSV in Excel and watched José turn into "José"? That garbled text is called mojibake, and it's the visible symptom of a character set…
My Weird PromptsWhy Hebrew URLs Turn Into Percent-Sign Gibberish
A listener noticed something odd: Hebrew in a URL's domain renders beautifully in the address bar, but Hebrew in the path collapses into six lines of…
My Weird PromptsFine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
Daniel runs NVIDIA's Parakeet V2 on Android for dictation and wants two things: a Hebrew fine-tune, and a personal-vocabulary tune to catch tech jargon and…
My Weird PromptsWhen Governments Own the Pipes: Telecom's Open-Access Model
What if the government owned every fiber line and cell tower, and every carrier simply rented space on the state's pipes? This week we dig into a listener's…
My Weird PromptsOne Network: Israel's Deregulation and the Case for State-Fiber
Israel's 2009 telecom reforms forced incumbents to host virtual operators and cut mobile prices by 60–80%. So why not go further — one physical network owned…
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Seu Corpo Aprendeu a Nunca Mais Sofrer a Mesma Dor. Sua Mente Também Aprendeu?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Como Alcançar a Imunidade Nos Domínios de Lúcifer". Ronny reflete sobre como o sistema…
My Weird PromptsWhen AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch Problem
Daniel built an AI agent to lightly edit his podcast prompts, and it works. So why does he keep turning it off? This episode digs into the measurable mechanics…
My Weird PromptsSmall Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT
When ChatGPT asks you to approve a tool call, something has already scanned the outgoing data for usernames, addresses, and other PII — and that something is…
My Weird PromptsWriting a Personal Instruction for ChatGPT
Most advice about custom instructions says make them longer. The evidence says the opposite: a leaner prompt can be functionally equivalent, four and a half…
My Weird PromptsWhy Number Porting Takes 30 Minutes
Mobile number porting is a legally mandated right, standardized by 3GPP and enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s. The consumer version is one sentence…