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BMD Hodl
22 posts on bmd hodl, guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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I Replaced Five Scheduled Tasks with Codex Cron
On 2026-10-17, I killed five Windows scheduled tasks and moved nightly queues to seven Codex cron jobs. The security audit stayed red across five repos.
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Why I Built a Paid GPU Check and Hid the Buy Button
On 2026-10-24, I shipped a paid GPU purchase review page with the payment link turned off. Here is why dead plumbing beats fake demand data.
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I Rebuilt BMD Desktop Around Queues and Drain
On 2026-10-14, I rebuilt BMD Desktop around queues, cut 63 open requests down to 10, and faced an overnight log full of red security audits.
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Twelve Characters Put My Government Page Live
On 2026-10-03, CI stalled on full disks before a twelve-character string cleared production. Here is how I removed myself from the merge loop.
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Horizon Closed Seven Red, Three Amber, Zero Green
On 2026-10-15, my 90-day horizon closed red across seven bets. Here is what broke in my fleet, what shipped, and how to audit your checks.
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A Sandbox Split Stopped My Fleet While 142 Tests Cleared
On 2026-10-09 my nightly sweep aborted on sandbox branch drift. A green scan checked zero repos. Here is how 142 CI admission tests still cleared.
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My agent leaked an authority key and aborted the sweep
On 2026-10-07, an agent leaked an authority credential at startup. The nightly sweep aborted, and containment comes before any new code.
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A green security check read zero repositories
On 2026-10-06, a green security scan skipped five repos, twenty-one service jobs failed, and an automated repair loop saved my daily post.
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The Merge Trap Opened Without Me While Leads Hit Zero
On 2026-10-04, two PRs broke a strict merge trap without my hands. Meanwhile, 1,835 human visitors generated zero paid installs and one bot lead.
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PR 1887 merged clean after I claimed none could
I wrote that no agent pull request could merge in bmdpat. On 2026-09-30, PR #1887 merged clean with 173 lines. Here is how my sweep caught my mistake.
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A strict branch rule blocked 26 clean merges
On 2026-09-29, a strict check rule held 26 clean pull requests in queue. Here is how my sweep caught the block, corrected itself, and found the fix.
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My P0 decision expired while the doctor showed red
On 2026-09-28, a pending secret rotation expired, 1 suite file failed out of 555, and commit 000b3235f fixed discovery so showwork 0.6.5 could ship to PyPI.
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