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Monday Grind Blueprint

The week's plan for PC Workman, announced publicly before a single line is written. Once it's posted, there is no quiet walking back — Friday will check the receipts.

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#132026-06-22·4 min read

Every Gaming Tool Picks Your Overlay. Mine Starts Empty.

MSI, Razer and Corsair decide what your overlay shows. Mine shows nothing until you choose - and greets you by the game you just launched. v1.8.0 drops today, the project turns one year old, and your intents become code by Friday.

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#122026-06-15·5 min read

I Spent My Day Off Building a File That Does Almost Nothing

The web is locking AI crawlers out; I opened my whole site to them. For a solo dev with 57 stars, AI isn't theft - it's the only free distribution left. pcworkman.dev went from one messy file to 56 pages, schema, RSS and a robots.txt wide open to machines.

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#112026-06-08·4 min read

Certifying in AI Through the Company Whose API I Avoided

Five weeks of Google's Skills of Tomorrow 3.0, final exam today. I built hck_GPT offline — 102 intents, 9-layer routing, no API. This week: Maximized View Mode across every page + roadmap to v1.9+.

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#102026-06-01·4 min read

My Biggest Release, Then 48 Hours of Tester Bugs

v1.7.6 felt great for 12 hours. Then three testers spent 5+ hours each. 17 silent intents, psutil scanned 19×/message, CS2.exe topping charts for people who don't play it. This week: cleanup.

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#92026-05-25·4 min read

Building What 28 Real People Asked For

I asked what you'd ask an AI inside your system monitor. 28 answers came back (13 GitHub, 15 LinkedIn DMs). This week every single one becomes real code in hck_GPT.

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#82026-05-18·4 min read

I Built Polish Software in English for 10 Months

hck_GPT already speaks Polish (854 lines of bilingual vocabulary) - but the rest of the app was English-only. This week: real Polish localization, written by someone who thinks in Polish, plus a final Settings polish.

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#72026-05-11·5 min read

Teaching the AI to Spot Fake Windows Processes

The TURBO suite goes live: stop non-essential services (3 profiles), suspend idle processes, auto power-plan switching. On the horizon: an offline mini anti-virus that flags svch0st.exe pretending to be svchost.exe.

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#62026-05-04·4 min read

Starting Google's AI Cert, Expanding hck_GPT

First structured tech education since 2023 starts today. The plan: turn your questions into hck_GPT intents, build a HWMonitor-style DeepMonitor table with persistence, and finally wire GuideAI's payment gateway.

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#52026-04-27·5 min read

Most Developers Never Ship an .exe

Most developers never ship an .exe. Today: the second one ever (v1.7.2) - download, double-click, run 800+ hours of work without Python. This week: Startup Manager and Services Manager.

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#42026-04-20·4 min read

A RAM Optimizer at Midnight, Alarm at 4:30

23:50. Alarm at 4:30. Instead of sleeping: custom fonts across the app, auto RAM flush above 75% (first real TURBO feature), and a redesigned Optimization Center.

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#32026-04-13·5 min read

Four Things Shipped Before Lunch

6 AM, couldn't sleep. By 11 AM, four things shipped that weren't even on the list: First Setup & Drivers, Quick Actions, timestamps everywhere, tooltips. Then the real plan.

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#22026-04-06·4 min read

Three Roadmap Issues, Week One at a New Job

Three issues from the road to v1.7.8: missing tests and packaging, a dashboard button redesign, and an hck_GPT cleanup - planned around 9-hour Zabka shifts.

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#12026-03-30·4 min read

Timestamp Everything + a 100-Process Library

When hck_GPT says "Chrome ate 6 GB three hours ago" - which three hours? Week one: timestamp every event and build a 100-process library so hovering any name explains it.

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