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Claims Locked to the Google API, Parentheses Everywhere: A Patent That Looks AI-Generated
That Lens Patent the Astronomy Crowd Was Discussing—I Couldn't Resist Taking a Look
While I Was At It, I Turned the JPO Into an MCP Too
Wrapping TIPO Patent Search into an MCP and Hooking It into AI
Writing the Judgment in Your Head into a Document: Context Engineering and a Model's Obedience
Can a Taiwan Passport Clear ID.me? Three Weeks of Wrangling to Reach USPTO's Open Data
Years Later, Rewatching Armageddon with My Kids
Why Do LLMs Hallucinate? A Student Who Can't Turn In a Blank Exam
Code with Claude London 2026: Notes from Two Talks
What AI Gives You May Not Be an Answer, but a Beautifully Formatted Hallucination
The "Sycophancy" of AI Conversations: It Might Just Be Agreeing With You
The 2026 Parent's Homework-Grading Toolkit: Set AI's Boundaries First
NotebookLM, a Regular LLM, or the Two Chained Together? First Figure Out What You Actually Need
Claude for Legal Goes Live: A Taiwanese Patent Attorney's Hands-On Test
The Jagged Intelligence of LLMs: Why AI Is a Genius One Moment and a Fool the Next
From "It Runs, Good Enough" to "Confident Enough to Change It": A Rookie's One-Month Coding Diary
Will AI Replace Lawyers and Patent Attorneys? Box CEO Aaron Levie's Take
When 80% of Drafts Aren't Written by a Patent Attorney, What's Left of This Profession?
Truth and Falsehood in the Starry Sky: Physical Logic and Artistic Expression in Astrophotography
An Outlet for Stress: Using an Engineer's Mind to Have AI Help Find a Solution
The Jevons Paradox: Is AI Making My Life Easier, or Just Busier?
AI Hasn't Made People More Efficient—It's Just Made Everyone Busier: The Red Queen Effect
The "Muddy" Background in Astrophotography: Better Black Than Dirty
Facing the AI Era, My Feelings Are Always Mixed
The Heart of the Heater: The Vaporizer Chamber of an Electronic Kerosene Heater, and Its Upkeep
Eight Years With an Electronic Kerosene Heater
The "Capture the Dark" Photo Contest: Guarding the Night Sky Through the Lens
That Glass of Water That Glows in the Dark: A Luminol Chemiluminescence Experiment
How ChatGPT Sees Me: Deep Space Legal Alchemist
The M35 Cluster Chosen as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: An Unexpected Honor and a Word of Thanks
Cooling a Gen 4 M.2 SSD: One Finned Heatsink, a 10°C Difference
Using an Enterprise-Grade U.2 SSD to Store Imaging Data: A WD SN650 7.68 TB Unboxing
Tilt Aberration on APS-C Sensors: Why Your Stars Always Come Out Skewed
From NT$100,000 to NT$5 Million in Gear, It All Points to the Same Thing: Image Processing
Electronic Focuser Unboxing: FocusCube 2 vs. Senso 2
Harmonic Equatorial Mounts Look Alike—So What Does That Have to Do with Design Patents?
300 GB of Imaging Data Gone Overnight: A Lesson in Accidental SSD Deletion and Automatic Backup
Running Astrophotography from an Industrial PC: A Small, Low-Power Automation Setup
The "Blanks" in Paid Software: You Paid for a Product, Not to Play Minesweeper
Getting the Hang of NINA in a Day: Notes on Automated Astrophotography Control
You Bought a Good Tool—Should the Maker Throw In a Secret Manual of Mastery?
One Year of Learning PixInsight: It's Not as Highbrow and Inaccessible as You'd Think
Murder by Omission: Reflections Sparked by a News Story About an Elderly Dementia Patient
