Lockdown Home Lab
How a dining-room table, inherited camera gear, and unclaimed time during lockdown became a photography education.
srand.info is my personal knowledge base: a collection of projects, technical notes, lessons learned, experiments, and occasional detours. My career and interests have crossed software, infrastructure, photography, automotive work, and independent media.
The categories will evolve, but the purpose is simple: document what I build, preserve what I learn, and share anything that might be useful or interesting to someone else.
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The n8n Agent That Called the Same Tool Twenty-Five Times
An n8n AI Agent repeatedly called one tool until its iteration limit, leading to a version workaround and stronger repetition guards.
What 260 Markdown Files Taught Me About Documentation
Documentation becomes a liability when current instructions, decisions, and historical evidence compete for authority.
When AI Context Became the Bug
Large workflow payloads, database results, and repeated documentation turned an AI coding session into a bounded-resource failure.
When the AI Editor Dispatched Yesterday’s Story
A stale identifier in conversational memory showed why consequential operations need structured intent binding rather than model recall.
Fifty-Five Published Stories That the Database Thought Were Unpublished
A partial-success incident exposed fifty-five WordPress posts whose internal workflow state never reached published.
Why I Split an AI Newsroom into Desks
Why SoCalNomad divided research, editorial judgment, publishing, and marketing into specialized workflows instead of one large AI agent.
Teaching an Automated Publisher Not to Look Like a Clock
An early SoCalNomad experiment separated probabilistic publication timing from deterministic editorial rules, quotas, and safety controls.
The Photography Server That Began with Three USB Drives
A practical home-lab experiment using Proxmox, TrueNAS, ZFS, and three USB-attached drives for a photography workflow.
The Day I Almost Deleted the Analytics Identifier
Two strings looked redundant in an automotive email builder, but one identified a campaign and the other identified a saved revision.