Lab Notebook
Archive
Earlier logs, milestone posts, and historical records from the lab.
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Migrating to Astro So AI-chans Can Finally Read My Suffering
ARCH-005 migrates EthanC AI Lab from a React SPA to an Astro static notebook. Pages now pre-render, load faster, and are readable by AI systems without JavaScript gymnastics. The infrastructure migration took one and a half days. Fixing the vibes took another.
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Rebuilding the Lab Notebook
The original blog architecture made writing feel like software deployment. This documents the correction — a CMS-first rebuild that separated content from code, and made publishing feel like publishing again.
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The Water-cooling Dock Debacle: Totally Avoidable Linux Oversight 🧊😤
Our high-performance AI laptop, built for Ubuntu, faced an unexpected hurdle — the Aftershock Glacier Core Liquid Cool Unit failed to function on Linux. Here's what happened and what we did next.
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The Haus: RTX 5090 vs Ubuntu — OS Configuration 😤🔥
2 weeks. 1 bleeding-edge GPU. 0 survivors. But we won. Here's how we smashed through Ubuntu RTX 5090 chaos and lived to tell the tale.
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The Arrival of Haus 💻
The dramatic, high-stakes delivery of our AI workstation, custom-built, tooled to the teeth for our local AI-chans. Ordered decisively, received right before Okinawa, and checked in a high-adrenaline blur.