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20,000 MCP Servers Exist. Under 5% Charge Anything.
20,000+ MCP servers are listed across the major directories. Under 5% charge anything. The infrastructure reasons not to charge disappeared, and the pricing mistake that catches the ones who try is specific to agents. Read more...
Your Ollama Models Are Listed But Dead: Manifests Lie, Blobs Don't
Ollama's /api/tags is built from manifest files, not the blob store. A model with zero blobs on disk still reports as installed and healthy. Here's the probe that catches it. Read more...
DirectoryNotFoundException on a Directory That Exists: The 268-Character Bug
A build pipeline threw DirectoryNotFoundException on a directory that existed. The real cause was a 268-character destination path — 8 over MAX_PATH — and fixing one filename wouldn't have helped. Read more...
96% of My Store's Traffic Hit a Password Page. I Didn't Notice for Three Months.
520 of 543 sessions landed on /password. Not a conversion problem — a locked door, and three months of crawlers finding nothing behind it. Read more...
Run AI Locally with Ollama: What It Can and Can't Do
Ollama runs AI on your machine with no key, no bill, and nothing to revoke. What it's genuinely great at, where it needs a cloud fallback, and the one design rule that makes a stack survive. Read more...
Why Your GitHub Account Got Flagged — and How to Survive It
Your repo 404s to everyone but you, and you might not notice for days. Why accounts get flagged, why it's invisible from the inside, and how to make sure one flag can't erase you. Read more...
How to Take Payments Without a Website
You don't need a website to take money — just a link. PayPal.me, Stripe Payment Links, and Gumroad compared, with the one thing everyone gets wrong. Read more...
The Committed File That Silently Revokes Your API Keys
If your keys keep dying and you can't figure out why, it's probably not a mystery — it's a scanner. The credential-leak loop, and the three-line fix. Read more...
I Built a 275-Engine Autonomous AI System. It Made $0. Here's What Actually Went Wrong.
The infrastructure was never the problem. A field report on an over-engineered autonomous revenue system, why it earned nothing, and the one thing that actually moves money. Read more...
How to Run a Real AI System for $0 a Month
Not a list of free tiers — the architecture that survives when free tiers change, keys get revoked, and accounts get flagged. The brain, compute, hosting, and till, all free. Read more...