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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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38:56

The Missing CRUD Framework for Real Code

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2026/05/14

When you're building yet another internal tool — press invites, RSVPs, credential management — you don't want to write the same boilerplate for the four hundredth time. But what actually exists that gives you a genuine starting point? Not a platform you log into, not a service you subscribe to, but actual code that lives in your repo and handles the boring eighty percent. This episode explores the fragmented middle ground between no-code platforms and raw frameworks, covering Refine, Supabase,

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26:45

Where Is Calligraphy’s Spiritual Home?

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2026/05/14

This episode follows a listener’s prompt from a storage closet paint marker to an ancient question: where is the spiritual home of calligraphy? We trace the full lineage — from Shang dynasty oracle bones (1200 BCE) through Qin standardization, Tang golden-age masters, and the Japanese development of kana and Zen shodo. Then we examine Islamic calligraphy’s theological centrality, where the word of God is rendered as the primary visual art of the faith. We compare the material cultures, the

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44:09

Why People Still Pay for SSL Certificates

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2026/05/14

Free SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare handle encryption for millions of sites. So why does a multi-million dollar market for paid certificates from DigiCert, Sectigo, and GlobalSign still exist? In this episode, we unpack the four layers of value that commercial Certificate Authorities provide: warranty coverage for risk management, enterprise lifecycle management platforms, premium support and incident response, and flexible trust chain options. We also explore how OV and EV

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28:38

The Hidden Crisis in How We Name Life on Earth

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2026/05/14

Most people think taxonomy is Victorian gentlemen with butterfly nets. In reality, it's a quiet revolution that's happened four times since — and the system is under threat. This episode unpacks the working reality of biological taxonomy: how type specimens anchor every species name to a physical object in a museum drawer, how four different naming codes coordinate without a world government, and why it takes an average of 21 years for a collected specimen to be formally described as a new species

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40:16

Measuring Bloating with Cameras: A Self-Experiment

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2026/05/14

After years of post-gallbladder bloating, listener Daniel received a diagnosis of abdominophrenic dyssynergia — a coordination problem between the diaphragm and abdominal muscles. Now he wants to record his stomach before and after meals to see if video analysis reveals which muscles are involved. This episode explores the camera angles, anatomical markers, standardized protocols, and time-lapse speeds needed to turn an N-of-one experiment into clinically useful data. We also discuss whether

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35:17

Video on Static Sites: When to Use a Platform

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2026/05/14

Hosting video on a static site isn't as simple as dropping in an MP4. In this episode, we break down the real technical trigger points—adaptive bitrate streaming, bandwidth costs, and user experience—that determine when you need a dedicated video platform. We compare three major players—Mux, Cloudflare Stream, and Bunny Stream—across pricing, features, and the specific use cases where each one shines. Whether you're building a landing page with a hero loop or a site with hours of lecture content,

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34:05

Serverless E-Commerce: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure

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2026/05/14

E-commerce is the hardest test case for serverless architecture—inventory, payments, user accounts, admin dashboards, cross-session carts. Yet the serverless ecosystem has quietly built a parallel universe that makes it work. We explore three serious contenders: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure. Each takes a different approach to decoupling commerce logic from monolithic servers, and each reveals a different trade-off between polish and customizability. Plus: the build-it-yourself path with Stripe,

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34:21

How to Build a Local Intercom with Zigbee and Snapcast

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2026/05/14

Daniel wants to build a home intercom using his existing Zigbee sirens and Snapcast speakers — but getting push-to-talk audio and TTS announcements to interrupt Music Assistant's stream is a classic smart home puzzle. We break down three approaches: the simple cloud-dependent workaround, the Snapcast meta-stream mixing method, and the hard cutover strategy using Snapcast's JSON-RPC API. We also tackle the microphone side, explaining why Icecast introduces too much latency and how a

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40:37

Your Local Diet Won't Save the Planet

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2026/05/14

We all assume "eating local" is the most virtuous choice for the planet. But what if the data says otherwise? This episode dives deep into the numbers to reveal that food transportation is actually a tiny fraction of your meal's carbon footprint—while production and land use dwarf the "food miles" we obsess over. We explore the surprising truth about heated greenhouses, the hidden emissions in beef, and what a truly local supermarket would look like in the dead of winter. Plus, we confront the

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34:34

Did China's Wildlife Wet Market Ban Actually Stick?

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2026/05/14

We dive into two connected questions that most coverage never pulled together: what actually happened with the COVID origin investigation, and did China's ban on wildlife wet markets hold? The WHO's 2021 report landed on "likely zoonotic spillover" — but the investigation hit a wall when China refused a second phase. Meanwhile, wildlife wet markets are evolutionary accelerators for spillover, compressing decades of natural viral interaction into days. We break down the mechanism, the history (SARS,

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32:10

U-174 Connectors: From NATO Specs to Your Desk

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2026/05/14

Ever noticed the chunky, quarter-turn connectors on headsets in NASA mission control or air traffic towers? They're not USB — they're U-174 connectors from the TP-120 NATO spec. This episode dives into the rugged, balanced-audio design philosophy behind these military-grade plugs, and explores what it would actually take to adapt one for daily voice-driven computer use. We break down the signal chain, the bias voltage problem, and the surprisingly affordable DIY path using a Raspberry Pi Pico and

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35:24

How to Add Marketing Email Without Breaking Gmail

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2026/05/14

You've got Google Workspace running perfectly. Now you want to send marketing or transactional emails through a service like Resend or Mailchimp — but the DNS setup feels risky. This episode walks through exactly which records to add (and which to avoid), why a dedicated subdomain is your best friend, and how to prevent your business email from ending up in spam. We cover SPF, DKIM, and DMARC alignment in plain English, plus the one type of DNS record you can safely delete after verification.

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40:04

Do You Need a Window to Be Happy?

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2026/05/14

What does living without natural light actually do to a person? This episode unpacks the science behind why sunlight entering your eye matters for your mood — independent of vitamin D. We trace the melanopsin pathway, the brain's direct line from your retina to your serotonin-producing centers, and why even a technically legal window can leave you biologically starved. From Israeli rental market absurdities to hospital recovery rates and circadian lighting standards, we explore what happens when our

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33:17

Free Cloudflare WAF: Is It Enough for Self-Hosting?

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2026/05/14

Can you secure your self-hosted setup using only Cloudflare's free WAF tier, or do you need Access? We break down the WAF rule cascade order, the five essential free-tier rules, and where webhooks break everything. Learn the exact WAF rules to write for Home Assistant and N8N, plus the hybrid approach that keeps human-facing services behind Access while letting machine endpoints breathe.

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37:00

HTTP Redirects: 301, 308, and When to Use Each

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2026/05/14

HTTP redirects are infrastructure plumbing most developers ignore until a migration goes wrong. This episode unpacks the full 300-series status code family: when to use 301 vs 308 for permanent moves, why 303 prevents double pizza orders, and why 302 is legacy cruft you should stop using. Then we tackle the tactical question of where redirect logic should live — at the Cloudflare edge or on your origin server — and what happens with search engine indexation when you get it right.

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32:04

How Jerusalem Day Went From Thanksgiving to...

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2026/05/14

Jerusalem Day was established in 1968 by the Chief Rabbinate as a religious holiday of thanksgiving — synagogue prayers and a ceremony at the Western Wall. Today it's best known for the flag march: 70,000 mostly religious Zionist participants routing through the Muslim Quarter via Damascus Gate. This episode traces the transformation: from the 1980 Basic Law that constitutionalized unification, through Oslo-era counter-mobilization that supercharged the march, to the current tension between

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33:55

Product Spec APIs and the Israel SKU Puzzle

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2026/05/14

Can you look up technical specifications for any piece of hardware by manufacturer part number? The answer is yes — but the tools were built for procurement engineers, not home inventory enthusiasts. Herman walks through the ecosystem of component databases like Octopart and SnapEDA, consumer product catalogs like Icecat, and open-source solutions like Part-DB. Then the conversation turns to the Israel SKU problem: why products sold in Israel carry unique local part numbers that don't resolve on

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28:41

Cloudflare's Endgame: From CDN to Cloud Platform

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2026/05/13

Cloudflare is known as a CDN and DDoS protection company, but that's only 20% of the story. In this episode, we trace the company's unlikely origin from a Harvard class project and Project Honey Pot to the global network that now spans 330+ cities. We then dig into the strategic moves that reveal their real ambition: R2 object storage with zero egress fees, Workers serverless compute, Workers AI inference at the edge, and the recent acquisition of Replicate. The question at the heart of it all — is

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30:15

What the First Librarian Knew

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2026/05/13

What was the first library, and what can ancient classification systems teach us about how we organize knowledge today? This episode traces the history of libraries from the clay tablets of Ebla (2500 BCE) through Ashurbanipal's comprehensive collection at Nineveh, the legendary Library of Alexandria, medieval monastic libraries, and the classification systems of Dewey and Cutter. We explore how every catalog is an argument about what matters — and what libraries become when physical books are no

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28:24

What Enforcement Leaves Behind

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2026/05/13

This episode digs into the three questions that most border coverage ignores. First, how the U.S.-Mexico border was drawn through an existing community, not between two separate ones. Second, the real numbers on unauthorized immigration during Trump’s second term — encounters have collapsed, but the total population has barely budged. And third, the hidden ruptures: labor markets that don’t heal, families that go underground, and local institutions that become sites of fear instead of trust. A look

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