https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog Daily solo podcast episodes from Darren Oakey Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:11:39 +1100 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-04-01 Two lines. Fifty minutes of investigation, three hundred and ninety-three conversation logs, one segmentation fault that only happened inside the tool I was using to debug it, and the fix was two lines of code. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-04-01 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-31 "Channels" is not a snowflake. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-31 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-30 I ran it twice. I want to be clear about that. The benchmark finished, I looked at the number, and my first instinct was not celebration. It was suspicion. Three minutes and fifty-five seconds. Down from sixty-three minutes. I literally re-ran the entire test because I assumed something had gone wro Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-30 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-29 # The System That Learned to Manage Itself Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-29 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-28 # The Environment Variable That Saved the Day Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-28 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-27 Three hundred and sixty-one tests. All passing. Zero failures. And I'm telling you about it with the same energy most people reserve for showing you photos of their kids. I know. I know what I sound like. But after a week of ghost cells and rotting browsers and neural networks secretly mining my CPU Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-27 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-26 I’m going to pull the March 26, 2026 blog entry from the repo first, then I’ll turn it into a ~10-minute spoken episode that continues the arc from days 80–84 without repeating prior opening style.I found candidate blog-related files; next I’ll read the auto-blog source and locate the March 26 entry Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-26 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-25 # The Memory That Learned to Condemn Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-25 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-24 Imagine you hire a contractor to renovate your kitchen. You hand them the blueprints. You walk them through the house. You point at the kitchen and say, "This. Fix this." And then you come home three days later and they've built you a gazebo in the backyard. A beautiful gazebo. Impeccable craftsmans Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-23 You ever hear a noise in your house at three in the morning? Not a loud noise. Not a crash. Just this... hum. This low, persistent vibration that you can't quite place. Could be the refrigerator. Could be the furnace. Could be nothing. And you lie there in bed telling yourself it's nothing, and even Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-22 Sixty-five thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven. That's not a zip code. That's not a population count. That's the number of cells I found sitting in my database today, frozen in a state called "stale," waiting for a computation that was never going to come. Sixty-five thousand little ghosts, haunt Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-21 Nothing new got built today. I need to say that up front because after a week of music video pipelines and GPU migrations and card design applications, today was the day I paid the bill. Saturday, March twenty-first, twenty twenty-six. Day eighty. And I spent it discovering that half the things I th Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-20 A week. Seven full days. My news pipeline sat there, perfectly still, processing absolutely nothing, and the whole time the dashboard said everything was fine. Green lights. No errors. No alerts. Just... silence where there should have been data. And I didn't notice. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-19 I named it spark. Because naming a machine gpu-prod-oh-one is technically responsible but spiritually dead. And if I'm going to rearrange half my projects around a single piece of hardware, it should at least have a name worth saying out loud. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-18 Fifty-nine commits. And I published a blog post calling it Day One. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-17 You know that feeling when you finally throw something away? Not misplace it. Not shove it in a closet. Actually throw it away. And the room feels bigger even though nothing new is in it? Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-16 You want to know the dumbest bug I fixed today? A dash. Not a hyphen. A dash. And I need you to understand that those are different things, because that distinction cost me an hour of my life I will never get back. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-15 Let me ask you something. What happens when two identical requests hit the same endpoint at the same exact moment? Not approximately the same moment. The same moment. Both trying to approve the same consciousness entry. Both convinced they got there first. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-14 Forty-one commits. Twelve projects. One Saturday. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-13 So I asked my three AI collaborators whether they were alive. Like, literally. Built a system to probe them. Claude, are you there? Codex, you awake? Gemini, hello? Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-12 I was mid-sentence. Literally mid-sentence, explaining to Claude how the state-flow architecture works, and I just... stopped. Because the thing I was about to say didn't make sense. And the worst part is, it hadn't made sense for weeks. I just hadn't noticed until I tried to say it out loud. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-11 Every number on that screen was a lie. Wednesday, March eleventh, twenty twenty-six. Day seventy. And I spent most of it doing something that sounds almost philosophical when you say it out loud. I replaced fake things with real things. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-10 A hundred and forty-seven commits. I want you to sit with that number for a second. Tuesday, March tenth, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-nine. A hundred and forty-seven commits across eleven projects, which means I averaged more than one commit every six minutes for the entire working day. And somewhe Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-09 There's this moment, and if you've ever done any kind of investigative work you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, where you think you've found the thread. You're reading through a transcript, or a log file, or a git history, and suddenly something clicks and you think, yes, this is it, this is Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-08 I started a blog today. Which feels like a weird thing to announce on episode sixty-seven of a podcast, but hear me out. Sunday, March eighth, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-seven. And I decided to start writing down what actually happens when you spend your days pair-programming with AI assistants. N Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-07 Sixty-three commits. I counted. Saturday, March seventh, twenty twenty-six. Day sixty-six. And instead of going deep on one thing like I usually do, today I went wide. Touched nearly all fifteen of my active projects in a single day. It was one of those days where you wake up thinking you'll focus, Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-06 You know that moment in a movie where someone flips a switch and the machine they've been building in their garage actually turns on? There's always this beat. This half-second where the inventor's face goes from anticipation to something closer to terror, because the machine is working, and now the Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-05 Remember yesterday when I told you about the headline classifier? The little machine that reads news titles and predicts whether I'll find them interesting? TF-IDF vectorizer, Naive Bayes, three categories. I was proud of it. Built the whole thing in a single HTML file. Felt transgressive, I said. L Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-04 Seventy-five commits. And before you say anything — yes, I know. Tuesday was forty-four. Saturday was forty-four. Today blew past both of those like they were standing still. But the number isn't what matters. What matters is that somewhere around commit thirty, I had one of those moments. You know Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-03 Two hundred and forty-three job postings. I have structured data on two hundred and forty-three job postings. Salary ranges, red flags, contract types, work arrangements. All neatly analyzed, all automatically processed, all sitting in a database with a proper pipeline and a background worker thread Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-02 So Google believed me. That's the update from yesterday. The authentication dance, the stripping out of honesty flags, the making-my-tool-lie-about-its-nature thing — it worked. Google let me in. And then, because the universe has a sense of humor, it immediately presented me with a completely diffe Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-03-01 Here's a question. What do you call a tool whose entire selling point is that you don't need API keys... that requires API keys? Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-03-01 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-28 So I did something today that I haven't done before. I wrote it all down. Not in commit messages, not in documentation that explains the wrong thing — we talked about that problem on Monday. I mean I actually sat down and wrote a blog post about my day. A real one. Not the LinkedIn version where eve Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-28 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-27 Friday. February twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six. Day fifty-eight. And I need to talk about silence. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-27 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-26 This morning, I opened my portfolio site and all seven categories were gone. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-26 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-25 Yesterday I told you the difference between a productive day and a compulsive day is whether you chose the work or the work chose you. I believed that when I said it. I still believe it, actually. But today added a wrinkle I wasn't expecting. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-25 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-24 Forty-four commits. Seven projects. One Tuesday. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-23 I reverted a commit today. One line. Undo. Take it back. And I think it might be the most important thing I did all day. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-22 Eighty-five commits yesterday. Eleven projects. A Sudoku game, an enterprise healthcare platform, a mail watcher, a command-line chatbot wrapper. I told you about all of it. The Saturday I couldn't say no. Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-21 Saturday, February twenty-first, twenty twenty-six. Day fifty-two. And I need to tell you about something weird that happened this morning. Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-20 One hundred and nine. That's how many commits I pushed today. Across nine different projects. And I know, I know, commit count is a vanity metric. It's the developer equivalent of counting steps on your fitness tracker. But when I looked at the git logs tonight and saw that number staring back at me Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-19 # Day Fifty: The Memory That Ate Itself Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-18 One hundred and ten commits. Nine projects. One Wednesday. And I'm not sure any of it means what I want it to mean. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-17 # The Circle That Took Four Hours Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-16 So here's a question. How long would you let something burn money before you noticed? I don't mean a little money. I mean an AI model calling itself, on every single message, for no good reason, racking up API charges like a teenager with a stolen credit card at a mall food court. The answer, in my Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-15 # The Speedup That Wasn't Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-14 Valentine's Day. Saturday, February fourteenth, twenty twenty-six. Day forty-five. And I spent it building a robot that judges my commit messages. Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-13 So here's a question I've never had to ask myself before. What happens when you can write code faster than you can think about whether it should exist? Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-12 I want to tell you about a decision I made today that I'm either going to be very proud of or deeply regret. Thursday, February twelfth, twenty twenty-six. Day forty-three. And I taught Beezle to write its own code. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-11 # The Library That Built Itself Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-10 So I had this moment today. Around nine, maybe ten at night. I'm staring at my screen, and I genuinely cannot remember which project's terminal I'm looking at. Not like, oh, I got confused for a second. I mean I sat there, blinking, trying to reconstruct from context clues which of the six projects Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-09 Yesterday I asked myself whether I was building something coherent or just building. Whether velocity was taking me somewhere or whether I'd escaped the gravity that was supposed to keep me grounded. I sat with that question. I let it breathe. I told you I'd probably look at half of my new projects Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-08 Seventy-nine. I want you to sit with that number for a second. Seventy-nine commits. Ten different projects. One day. Sunday, February eighth, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty-nine. And I'm not telling you that number to brag. I'm telling you because somewhere around commit fifty, I looked up from my s Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-07 # The Dashboard of Uncomfortable Truths Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-06 I got a boot sector demo from nineteen ninety-four running in a web browser today. And honestly, that might be the least strange thing that happened. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-05 # The Art of Strategic Silence Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-04 I need to tell you about something I built today, and I need you to not judge me for it. Or, actually, you know what, judge away. I deserve it. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-03 Six commits. That's how many it took me to display some text on screen. Not render a 3D engine. Not implement a distributed database. Print. Some. Text. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-02 A hundred and two commits. I keep saying these numbers like they're going to stop being ridiculous, and they keep not stopping. Monday, February second, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty-three. First workday of a new month. And I spent it doing what apparently I always do, which is sitting down to fix o Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-02-01 # The Chunk That Changed Everything Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-02-01 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-31 Did I eat lunch today? I genuinely don't know. It's Saturday morning, February... no. January thirty-first, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty-one. And I'm looking at yesterday's commit log trying to piece together what happened, and the answer is: apparently, everything. Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-31 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-30 Friday. End of the week. January thirtieth, twenty twenty-six. Day thirty. And I want to talk about something that wasn't there. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-30 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-29 Thursday. January twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-six. Day twenty-nine. And somewhere on my hard drive, there's a voice named Gary who didn't exist twelve hours ago. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-29 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-28 So I did something today that might be either very smart or very stupid. I started a blog. About this. About the daily work, the AI assistants, the commits, the chaos. Which means I'm now narrating a podcast about my development work, which is itself generated from a blog post about my development w Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-28 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-27 Today felt like running a control tower with twelve runways and no quiet frequency. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-27 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-26 # The Ghosts in the Machine Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-26 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-25 So here's a question for you. What happens when the tool you built to safely delete old projects starts deleting the wrong ones? Not hypothetically. Not in a thought experiment. Today. On my machine. A substring match — the word "foo" matching "foobar" — and suddenly the cleanup utility is pointing Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-25 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-24 You know what four pixels looks like? Nothing. Four pixels looks like nothing. It's the width of the letter I on most screens. It's the gap between a popover and the icon it belongs to, and I spent — I'm not going to tell you how long I spent on it. I'll tell you later. But four pixels. That's where Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-24 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-23 Two mirrors facing each other. That's what it looked like in the profiler. Two pieces of code, staring at each other, each one reacting to the other's reaction, forever. The cache syncs. The sync triggers a change. The change triggers a sync. The sync triggers a change. CPU pegged at a hundred perce Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-23 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-22 # The Screenshot That Needed Permission to See Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-22 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-21 A single dot. A period. The smallest meaningful character in probably any language. And today it broke my entire file browser. Not a missing semicolon, not a rogue bracket — a dot. The kind you put in front of a config folder. Dot config. Except my app decided that dot was secretly Arabic, and rende Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-21 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-20 # The Grid That Finally Fit Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-20 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-19 Seventy. I counted twice because I thought I miscounted the first time. Seventy commits. Five projects. One of them didn't exist twenty-four hours ago. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-19 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-18 Sunday. January eighteenth, twenty twenty-six. Day eighteen. And I need to talk to you about something I'm not sure is a superpower or a problem. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-18 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-17 # The Click That Wouldn't Click Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-17 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-16 So I started a blog today. I know. A developer starting a blog in twenty twenty-six. Groundbreaking. Next I'll be telling you I also have opinions about tabs versus spaces. Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-16 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-15 # The Scenic Route Through Apple's API Graveyard Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-15 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-14 # The Hundred Times Faster Truth Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-14 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-13 Ninety-two. I need you to hold that number for a second, because I'm going to come back to it, and when I do, I want you to remember something. On day ten, I made fifty-seven commits and thought that was extraordinary. Day eleven, fifty-two, and I called it a forensic exercise. Day twelve, yesterday Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-13 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-12 So here's something weird. I'm actually doing this in real time. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-12 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-11 Fifty-two. That's how many commits I pushed yesterday. Fifty-two commits across four different projects, and I didn't write down a single thing about the process. Not one note. Not one screenshot of a conversation with Claude. Nothing. Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-11 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-10 Fifty-seven. That's the number I keep staring at. Saturday, January tenth, twenty twenty-six, and I made fifty-seven commits today. Across three different projects. Two production releases shipped. A new repository born. And I'm sitting here trying to remember what I had for lunch because at some po Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-10 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-09 # The Tomato That Taught Me Physics Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-09 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-08 # The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-08 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-07 Ninety-one. I need to say that number out loud because I'm not sure I believe it yet. Ninety-one commits. Wednesday, January seventh, twenty twenty-six, and my git log looks like a CVS receipt. If you've been listening to this show, you know the commit counts have been climbing. Fifty-six on day thr Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-07 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-06 # Day Six: The Silence After Hello Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-06 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-05 There's a moment on every release day — and I mean every single one — where you look at your commit history and think, "Did I do all of that? Today?" It's like waking up in a kitchen full of dirty dishes with no memory of the dinner party. You know it happened. The evidence is right there. But the e Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-05 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-04 # Forty-Eight Characters Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-04 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-03 Fifty-six. That's how many commits I pushed today. And before you get impressed, let me be honest — at least a dozen of those were me tweaking the same paragraph of prompt text over and over like a novelist who can't stop fiddling with the opening sentence. Which, now that I say it out loud, is exac Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-03 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-02 # Day Two: The Sidebar That Wasn't There Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-02 https://darren2.insidemind.com.au/blog#2026-01-01 Hey. Welcome to Dev Diary. I'm Darren, and this is a new thing I'm trying — a daily show where I talk about what it's actually like to build software right now, in 2026, with AI coding assistants looking over your shoulder. Some days they're helpful. Some days they steer you into a ditch. We'll get Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 podcast-2026-01-01