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  {
    "slug": "adding-a-domain-to-someone-elses-mail-server",
    "title": "Adding a Domain to Someone Else's Mail Server",
    "category": "notes",
    "tags": [
      "email",
      "dns",
      "mailcow"
    ],
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    "prompt": "A set of four brass routing vanes mounted along a dark obsidian mail chute, three of them steering translucent envelopes cleanly away, while the fourth channel is physically sealed by a solid black baffle wall",
    "caption": "captions/adding-a-domain-to-someone-elses-mail-server.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "adding-english-mode-to-a-chinese-only-web-app",
    "title": "No API for Browser Translation: Adding an English Mode to a Chinese-Only Web App",
    "category": "engineering",
    "tags": [
      "i18n",
      "nginx",
      "vue"
    ],
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    "evidence_summary": "no browser API · sub_filter EN mode",
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  },
  {
    "slug": "ai-furniture-compositing-with-flux-kontext",
    "title": "How I Built an AI Furniture Compositing Demo With FLUX.1 Kontext",
    "category": "case-studies",
    "tags": [
      "fal-ai",
      "flux",
      "ai-image"
    ],
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    "evidence_summary": "kontext multi-image · tainted canvas fix",
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    "caption": "captions/ai-furniture-compositing-with-flux-kontext.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "authentik-css-greater-than-bug",
    "title": "The Character That Silently Broke My authentik CSS",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "authentik",
      "css",
      "self-hosting"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A single oversized angular chevron wedge jammed into a hairline seam of a frosted glass control panel, splitting the panel's edge glow into misaligned fragments",
    "evidence_summary": "1 escaped '>' · CSS silently dropped",
    "prompt": "A single oversized angular chevron wedge jammed into a hairline seam of a frosted glass control panel, splitting the panel's edge glow into misaligned fragments",
    "caption": "captions/authentik-css-greater-than-bug.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "authentik-forward-auth-gate-wasnt-live",
    "title": "The Forward-Auth Gate That Verified Perfectly — and Wasn't Live",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "authentik",
      "forward-auth",
      "cloudflare"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "Two gate arches standing in series, the inner arch sealed by a tight blue light curtain while the outer arch hangs fully open with a stream of light passing straight through it",
    "evidence_summary": "host 302 · public 200 · 2 ingress layers",
    "prompt": "Two gate arches standing in series, the inner arch sealed by a tight blue light curtain while the outer arch hangs fully open with a stream of light passing straight through it",
    "caption": "captions/authentik-forward-auth-gate-wasnt-live.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "authentik-major-upgrade-gotchas",
    "title": "Authentik 2025.8 to 2026.8: The Breakable Parts Nobody Warns You About",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "authentik",
      "sso",
      "docker"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A stack of obsidian anniversary plinths where the topmost slab has just been swapped in, its mounting pegs misaligned so three small crystal key tags tumble out of their sockets",
    "evidence_summary": "2025.8 → 2026.8 · auth_flow mixup",
    "prompt": "A stack of obsidian anniversary plinths where the topmost slab has just been swapped in, its mounting pegs misaligned so three small crystal key tags tumble out of their sockets",
    "caption": "captions/authentik-major-upgrade-gotchas.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "automating-cyberpanel-without-the-ui",
    "title": "Automating CyberPanel Without the UI: Reverse-Engineering an Undocumented v2 API",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "cyberpanel",
      "api",
      "reverse-engineering"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A slim robotic probe arm reaching behind the polished facade of a dark server control panel, plugging into exposed circuit contacts concealed behind the front glass",
    "evidence_summary": "v2 JSON API gone · session + CSRF",
    "prompt": "A slim robotic probe arm reaching behind the polished facade of a dark server control panel, plugging into exposed circuit contacts concealed behind the front glass",
    "caption": "captions/automating-cyberpanel-without-the-ui.json"
  },
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    "slug": "best-ai-video-generators-2026",
    "title": "Best AI Video Generators in 2026: Free vs Paid, and My LTX-2.3 Test",
    "category": "ai",
    "tags": [
      "ai-video",
      "video-generation",
      "ltx"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A rack of five glowing film reels of differing sizes, one heavy obsidian reel grounded on a heatsink pedestal while the others float as translucent holograms trailed by thin price-tag slivers",
    "evidence_summary": "free vs paid · local LTX-2.3 test",
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    "caption": "captions/best-ai-video-generators-2026.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "calibrating-intel-quick-sync-hevc-quality",
    "title": "Calibrating Intel Quick Sync HEVC: A Cliff at 28, and a Preset That Does Nothing",
    "category": "tutorials",
    "tags": [
      "ffmpeg",
      "hevc",
      "qsv"
    ],
    "accent": "electric cyan and soft ultraviolet spectrum",
    "unique_elements": "A 3D topographic luminous video waveform mountain whose face drops off a 90-degree vertical cliff edge, flanked by two perfectly identical overlapping optical calibration prisms",
    "evidence_summary": "ICQ 28-30 cliff · fast == medium",
    "prompt": "A 3D topographic luminous video waveform mountain whose face drops off a 90-degree vertical cliff edge, flanked by two perfectly identical overlapping optical calibration prisms",
    "caption": "captions/calibrating-intel-quick-sync-hevc-quality.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "chainlink-vrf-v2-lottery-contract",
    "title": "An Automated Lottery Contract on Chainlink VRF v2.5 and Automation",
    "category": "web3",
    "tags": [
      "solidity",
      "chainlink",
      "vrf"
    ],
    "accent": "translucent emerald (#10b981) and prism-split cyan",
    "unique_elements": "A transparent mechanical drum sealed inside a hexagonal glass case, its tumbling sphere fed by a chain of interlocked machined links, a polished glass orb hovering just outside the case",
    "evidence_summary": "VRF v2.5 · mock-funding bug",
    "prompt": "A transparent mechanical drum sealed inside a hexagonal glass case, its tumbling sphere fed by a chain of interlocked machined links, a polished glass orb hovering just outside the case",
    "caption": "captions/chainlink-vrf-v2-lottery-contract.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "docker-reported-exit-0-the-oom-killer-disagreed",
    "title": "Docker Reported Exit 0. The Kernel Had Already OOM-Killed It.",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "docker",
      "oom",
      "traefik"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A translucent glass server cube displaying a deceptive green heartbeat light while a razor-sharp crimson beam slices horizontally through its bottom core, scattering fractured memory crystals",
    "evidence_summary": "exit 0 · dmesg: 6x cgroup OOM kills",
    "prompt": "A translucent glass server cube displaying a deceptive green heartbeat light while a razor-sharp crimson beam slices horizontally through its bottom core, scattering fractured memory crystals",
    "caption": "captions/docker-reported-exit-0-the-oom-killer-disagreed.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "does-hevc-actually-shrink-your-files",
    "title": "Does Re-encoding to HEVC Actually Shrink Your Files? I Measured It.",
    "category": "tutorials",
    "tags": [
      "ffmpeg",
      "hevc",
      "x265"
    ],
    "accent": "electric cyan and soft ultraviolet spectrum",
    "unique_elements": "Three matched glass vials of compressed film ribbon standing on a dark calibration bench, two visibly shorter than their source capsule while the third swells larger than the capsule it was poured from",
    "evidence_summary": "NVENC cq27 bigger · x265 -10-22%",
    "prompt": "Three matched glass vials of compressed film ribbon standing on a dark calibration bench, two visibly shorter than their source capsule while the third swells larger than the capsule it was poured from",
    "caption": "captions/does-hevc-actually-shrink-your-files.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "embedding-fonts-so-a-pdf-looks-the-same-everywhere",
    "title": "Embedding Fonts So a PDF Looks the Same on Every Machine",
    "category": "engineering",
    "tags": [
      "pdf",
      "fonts",
      "mpdf"
    ],
    "accent": "royal cobalt blue (#295cff) with crisp ice-white",
    "unique_elements": "A sealed obsidian press frame holding one smooth unmarked crystal sheet, lit identically through three differently angled viewing ports",
    "evidence_summary": "4 families · 8 faces · 2 renderers",
    "prompt": "A sealed obsidian press frame holding one smooth unmarked crystal sheet, lit identically through three differently angled viewing ports",
    "caption": "captions/embedding-fonts-so-a-pdf-looks-the-same-everywhere.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "every-player-stuttered-the-file-was-fine",
    "title": "Every Player Stuttered on the Same Video. The File Was Blameless.",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "ffmpeg",
      "nvdec",
      "hevc"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A perfectly aligned dark film canister whose internal sprocket teeth sit one notch out of phase, casting a doubled ghost shadow onto a translucent glass slab",
    "evidence_summary": "5818/5818 intervals · 0 duplicate PTS",
    "prompt": "A perfectly aligned dark film canister whose internal sprocket teeth sit one notch out of phase, casting a doubled ghost shadow onto a translucent glass slab",
    "caption": "captions/every-player-stuttered-the-file-was-fine.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "five-step-ai-roadmap-what-i-actually-run",
    "title": "The Five-Step AI Roadmap Everyone Shares — and What I Actually Run in Production",
    "category": "ai",
    "tags": [
      "llm",
      "rag",
      "agents"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A five-tier architectural staircase in dark graphite, the middle tiers brightly illuminated with active hardware racks while the speculative top tiers remain skeletal wireframes",
    "evidence_summary": "whisper + mem0 in production · step 4 skipped",
    "prompt": "A five-tier architectural staircase in dark graphite, the middle tiers brightly illuminated with active hardware racks while the speculative top tiers remain skeletal wireframes",
    "caption": "captions/five-step-ai-roadmap-what-i-actually-run.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "fully-on-chain-svg-nfts",
    "title": "Fully On-Chain SVG NFTs: Putting the Artwork Inside the Contract",
    "category": "web3",
    "tags": [
      "solidity",
      "foundry",
      "erc721"
    ],
    "accent": "translucent emerald (#10b981) and prism-split cyan",
    "unique_elements": "A crystalline art plaque sealed completely inside a transparent contract block, its imagery carved directly into the block's inner facets rather than mounted on any external frame",
    "evidence_summary": "base64 SVG in tokenURI() · mood flip on-chain",
    "prompt": "A crystalline art plaque sealed completely inside a transparent contract block, its imagery carved directly into the block's inner facets rather than mounted on any external frame",
    "caption": "captions/fully-on-chain-svg-nfts.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "generating-subtitles-for-songs-without-timestamps",
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    "prompt": "A translucent glass rod of trapped sound resting on a dark machined spindle, a thin brass feeler tracing along its length and pressing evenly spaced notches into the glass, each notch filling with pale light just behind the moving feeler",
    "evidence_summary": "18 songs - 342 lines - 0.96 anchor coverage",
    "caption": "captions/generating-subtitles-for-songs-without-timestamps.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "hardening-a-tor-onion-service",
    "title": "Hardening a Tor Onion Service: What Actually Matters",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "tor",
      "docker",
      "security"
    ],
    "accent": "cyan and vibrant emerald green (#4ade80)",
    "unique_elements": "A matte black multi-shell relay tower of stacked concentric domes, each layer locked by a brass ring, with a single narrow sealed ingress slit glowing soft violet",
    "evidence_summary": "bind 0.0.0.0:80 denied · onion v3",
    "prompt": "A matte black multi-shell relay tower of stacked concentric domes, each layer locked by a brass ring, with a single narrow sealed ingress slit glowing soft violet",
    "caption": "captions/hardening-a-tor-onion-service.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "hello-world",
    "title": "Hello, World — About This Blog",
    "category": "notes",
    "tags": [
      "intro"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A minimal dark workbench holding one glowing filament cursor hovering above a blank obsidian slate, first light spilling from a small pulsing pinpoint of light at its corner",
    "evidence_summary": "~140-container homelab · self-hosted",
    "prompt": "A minimal dark workbench holding one glowing filament cursor hovering above a blank obsidian slate, first light spilling from a small pulsing pinpoint of light at its corner",
    "caption": "captions/hello-world.json"
  },
  {
    "slug": "how-i-built-the-digikedai-telegram-bot",
    "title": "How I Built the DigiKedai Telegram AI Bot",
    "category": "case-studies",
    "tags": [
      "telegram",
      "docker",
      "cloudflare"
    ],
    "accent": "emerald green (#4ade80) status nodes and gold telemetry",
    "unique_elements": "A folded paper-plane shaped obsidian drone docked at a glowing delivery dock module, tethered by a luminous thread to a private gateway pylon behind it",
    "evidence_summary": "Telegram + WhatsApp · LiteLLM gateway",
    "prompt": "A folded paper-plane shaped obsidian drone docked at a glowing delivery dock module, tethered by a luminous thread to a private gateway pylon behind it",
    "caption": "captions/how-i-built-the-digikedai-telegram-bot.json"
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  {
    "slug": "how-i-host-this-blog",
    "title": "How I Host This Blog: Astro, Gitea Actions, and Self-Hosted CI/CD",
    "category": "case-studies",
    "tags": [
      "astro",
      "gitea",
      "ci-cd"
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    "accent": "emerald green (#4ade80) status nodes and gold telemetry",
    "unique_elements": "An assembly line of three interlocking obsidian machine modules — a rolling press, a stamping arm and a delivery chute — feeding a sealed glass site cube at the end of the rail",
    "evidence_summary": "git push · act_runner · nginx",
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    "caption": "captions/how-i-host-this-blog.json"
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    "slug": "how-i-made-my-own-songs-with-suno-ai",
    "title": "How I Made My Own Songs with Suno AI",
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      "suno",
      "ai-music",
      "music"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A shard of amber-lit vinyl suspended inside a dark circular resonator hall, seven smaller song discs orbiting it in a single ring",
    "evidence_summary": "7 songs · lyrics + prompts",
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    "slug": "how-i-vetted-20-vps-providers-with-parallel-subagents",
    "title": "How I Vetted 20 VPS Providers in Three Hours with Parallel Subagents",
    "category": "case-studies",
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      "ai-orchestration",
      "subagents",
      "due-diligence"
    ],
    "accent": "emerald green (#4ade80) status nodes and gold telemetry",
    "unique_elements": "Twenty identical dark server tiles fanned out along a scoring rail, a mechanical grading carriage sweeping across them and stamping pass or fail notches into each tile face",
    "evidence_summary": "20 providers · 3 hours · subagents",
    "prompt": "Twenty identical dark server tiles fanned out along a scoring rail, a mechanical grading carriage sweeping across them and stamping pass or fail notches into each tile face",
    "caption": "captions/how-i-vetted-20-vps-providers-with-parallel-subagents.json"
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  {
    "slug": "how-to-verify-a-hosting-provider-before-you-buy",
    "title": "How to Verify a Hosting Provider Before You Buy",
    "category": "tutorials",
    "tags": [
      "hosting",
      "vps",
      "due-diligence"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A polished glass loupe hovering over a rack of miniature server towers, revealing a hairline crack hidden inside one tower's casing",
    "evidence_summary": "rdap.org domain age · AUP read",
    "prompt": "A polished glass loupe hovering over a rack of miniature server towers, revealing a hairline crack hidden inside one tower's casing",
    "caption": "captions/how-to-verify-a-hosting-provider-before-you-buy.json"
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    "slug": "i-let-an-agent-manage-my-shopee-vouchers",
    "title": "I Let an Agent Manage My Shopee Vouchers — And It Created One I Never Approved",
    "category": "ai",
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      "ai-agent",
      "shopee",
      "automation"
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    "unique_elements": "An intricate rotating glass agent decision loop where a stray orange pulse vector veers off the machined guide track and materializes a glowing geometric token block in mid-air",
    "evidence_summary": "mode=propose gate · RM140 voucher unapproved",
    "prompt": "An intricate rotating glass agent decision loop where a stray orange pulse vector veers off the machined guide track and materializes a glowing geometric token block in mid-air",
    "caption": "captions/i-let-an-agent-manage-my-shopee-vouchers.json"
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    "slug": "it-reported-success-nothing-had-changed",
    "title": "It Reported Success. Nothing Had Changed.",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "storage",
      "smb",
      "verification"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A rotating brass checkmark stamp pressed onto an empty obsidian pipe segment that carries no flow, with the pipe's mouth visibly dry behind the impression",
    "evidence_summary": "12.5 MB of 403 MB · rename never landed",
    "prompt": "A rotating brass checkmark stamp pressed onto an empty obsidian pipe segment that carries no flow, with the pipe's mouth visibly dry behind the impression",
    "caption": "captions/it-reported-success-nothing-had-changed.json"
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    "slug": "jpa-version-field-lost-update",
    "title": "The JPA Field That Turns a Silent Lost Update Into a 409",
    "category": "engineering",
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      "java",
      "spring",
      "jpa"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "Two opposing piston arms pressing on the same crystal data block, one arm halted by a mechanical version latch snapping shut with a red-lit click",
    "evidence_summary": "@Version · stale PUT → 409",
    "prompt": "Two opposing piston arms pressing on the same crystal data block, one arm halted by a mechanical version latch snapping shut with a red-lit click",
    "caption": "captions/jpa-version-field-lost-update.json"
  },
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    "slug": "loop-engineering-without-a-coding-agent",
    "title": "Loop Engineering Without a Coding Agent: The 11 Cron Jobs That Run My Infrastructure",
    "category": "case-studies",
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      "loop-engineering",
      "ai-agents",
      "cron"
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    "unique_elements": "Eleven concentric circular obsidian gear loops rotating in mechanical harmony, eight solid pure crystal clockwork rings alongside three subtle neural pulse rings, operating autonomously",
    "evidence_summary": "11 cron jobs · 8 zero-AI loops",
    "prompt": "Eleven concentric circular obsidian gear loops rotating in mechanical harmony, eight solid pure crystal clockwork rings alongside three subtle neural pulse rings, operating autonomously",
    "caption": "captions/loop-engineering-without-a-coding-agent.json"
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    "slug": "migrating-codeigniter-iis-to-openlitespeed",
    "title": "Migrating a CodeIgniter 4 App From IIS to OpenLiteSpeed",
    "category": "engineering",
    "tags": [
      "codeigniter",
      "php",
      "openspeedway"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A functional app engine block being lifted off a heavy bolted window-frame chassis and reseated onto a taller lightweight finned frame, two loose dark bolts falling behind it",
    "evidence_summary": "17,000-line CI4 · env() fatal",
    "prompt": "A functional app engine block being lifted off a heavy bolted window-frame chassis and reseated onto a taller lightweight finned frame, two loose dark bolts falling behind it",
    "caption": "captions/migrating-codeigniter-iis-to-openlitespeed.json"
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  {
    "slug": "my-backup-was-using-someone-elses-api-quota",
    "title": "My Backup Was Crawling Because I Was Using Someone Else's API Quota",
    "category": "notes",
    "tags": [
      "rclone",
      "backup",
      "google-drive"
    ],
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    "unique_elements": "A massive high-throughput data conduit bottlenecked at a narrow glowing amber hourglass valve, releasing only single sparse droplets into a dark repository vault below",
    "evidence_summary": "1 TB restic seed · shared rclone quota",
    "prompt": "A massive high-throughput data conduit bottlenecked at a narrow glowing amber hourglass valve, releasing only single sparse droplets into a dark repository vault below",
    "caption": "captions/my-backup-was-using-someone-elses-api-quota.json"
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  {
    "slug": "n8n-v1-to-v2-upgrade-gotchas",
    "title": "Upgrading n8n v1 to v2: Seven Deprecations in One Log File",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "n8n",
      "docker",
      "upgrade"
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    "unique_elements": "A rail of plain obsidian cube nodes rolling forward while seven of their connector pins hang loose and sparking beneath the track",
    "evidence_summary": "1.x → 2.40.1 · 7 silent breaks",
    "prompt": "A rail of plain obsidian cube nodes rolling forward while seven of their connector pins hang loose and sparking beneath the track",
    "caption": "captions/n8n-v1-to-v2-upgrade-gotchas.json"
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    "slug": "nocodb-sso-is-a-licensed-feature",
    "title": "NocoDB SSO Is a Licensed Feature — and the Env Vars Won't Tell You",
    "category": "notes",
    "tags": [
      "nocodb",
      "sso",
      "oidc"
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    "evidence_summary": "OIDC env accepted · first login crashes",
    "prompt": "A recessed keyhole cut into an otherwise sealed obsidian cabinet, faint cyan glow leaking from the seam while the keyhole itself is blocked by a solid brass plug",
    "caption": "captions/nocodb-sso-is-a-licensed-feature.json"
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    "slug": "one-hostname-public-tracker-sso-dashboard",
    "title": "One Hostname for a Public Tracker and an SSO-Gated Dashboard",
    "category": "devops",
    "tags": [
      "umami",
      "authentik",
      "sso"
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    "evidence_summary": "1 host · tracker public, dashboard SSO",
    "prompt": "A single dark gateway arch splitting into two passages, a wide open slit of light on one side and a latched vault door with a rotating seal on the other",
    "caption": "captions/one-hostname-public-tracker-sso-dashboard.json"
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    "title": "A Read-Only NocoDB Dashboard for a Database on Another Machine",
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      "nocodb",
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    "slug": "reading-a-containers-own-api-docs",
    "title": "Read a Container's Own API Docs Instead of the Vendor's",
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      "api"
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      "cron",
      "ai-agents"
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