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Jan 13, 2026 • 6 min read

Chrome, the Clipboard, and Two Buttons

A practical AI workflow: use Gemini to generate one-off console scripts, and use small TamperMonkey buttons to turn web pages into clean Google Sheets rows and predictable Google Drive receipt filenames (Walgreens + HSA receipts case study).

The AI browser future is cool. I still live in Chrome + the clipboard.

I do not use the Atlas or Comet browser yet.

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Coding Jan 7, 2026

Celebrity Death Bot: curation beats detection

A slightly morbid, very practical bot that watches Wikipedia’s recent deaths, uses an LLM to decide what’s actually notable, and sends my family the updates that matter.

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AI Jan 3, 2026

The agent hit a content filter (and fixed it anyway)

Codex built a bedtime-story media API in under 30 minutes—then diagnosed an "Inappropriate Content" error and fixed the pipeline by regenerating the image.

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AI Jan 1, 2026

Hello, Internet (Again)

Starting a blog in 2026 as a time capsule, a public workshop, and a way to connect while AI rewrites the rules.

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