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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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20:06

Storrs Secrets: Turbines, Duckpin, and Puppets

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2026/07/16

What makes Storrs, Connecticut genuinely extraordinary? This episode explores the hidden layers beneath the UConn campus and strip malls. Discover the Gurleyville Gristmill, still grinding corn with its original 1860s Leffel turbine; the duckpin bowling lanes where no one has ever bowled a perfect game; and the Ballard Institute’s collection of over 3,000 puppets from around the world. From industrial archaeology to nearly extinct sports to one professor’s decades-long obsession, Storrs reveals

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21:30

Reverse Engineering Android APKs in 2026

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2026/07/15

The old playbook of decompiling Java doesn't work anymore. Modern Android apps hide their logic in monolithic ARM64 native libraries, demanding a new toolchain. In this episode, we break down the three layers of a modern APK, from the hollow Java shell to the obfuscated native code. We explore how the NSA’s Ghidra framework and the dynamic analysis toolkit Frida/Objection are used to trace API calls and disable SSL pinning. We also navigate the murky ethical and legal landscape of reverse

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26:38

The Art of Being Overlooked: Real PI Disguise Techniques

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2026/07/15

Listener Douglas Peterson asked for "everyday disguise assembly" techniques used by real PIs — but his request raised immediate red flags. In this episode, we explore the actual mechanics of low-visibility disguise: the Uniform Effect, silhouette alteration, gait modification, and voice shifts that make you genuinely unmemorable. We also unpack why a "former tenant" wanting a false identity to view a rental property is a textbook warning sign, and where the line between legitimate privacy and

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22:53

Breaking Free from Google Auth Dependency

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2026/07/15

Every "Sign in with Google" button chains your entire app ecosystem to a single workspace subscription. Lose that Google Workspace or GitHub organization account, and you lose access to everything. This episode breaks down the real alternatives: self-hosted identity providers like Dex, Authentik, and Keycloak versus dedicated SaaS auth services like Auth0, Clerk, and WorkOS. We explore the tradeoffs between operational overhead and dependency risk, and why the March 2026 Auth0 outage proves there's

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25:15

Fiber vs Copper: Pulling Cable in a Rental Apartment

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2026/07/15

Daniel's in a rental apartment with fiber to the ONT in the living room, but his workstation needs to be in another room. There's existing conduit with coax, and an electrician suggested a loopback route through the communications cabinet. Should he pull fiber or Ethernet through the wall? We break down bend radius physics, termination costs, tensile load limits, and why the "future-proofing" argument falls apart in a rental. Plus: why copper's analog failure modes beat fiber's digital darkness for

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25:06

The Ladder of Minimal Linux Systems

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2026/07/15

What’s the smallest Linux system that can actually do something useful? This episode climbs the ladder of minimalism — from Docker’s FROM scratch (zero bytes) through BusyBox (one megabyte, three hundred utilities) to Alpine and distroless. We explore the engineering tradeoffs: pull time, attack surface, CVE baselines, debugging access, and the multi-stage build pattern that keeps production artifacts tiny. Plus: why a BusyBox sidecar might be the smartest addition to your Kubernetes stack.

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25:11

How to Build Memory That Survives AI Sessions

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2026/07/15

When you're deep in multi-session technical investigation, AI agents lose context every time you close the chat. This episode unpacks why default memory systems fail and how to build external memory that survives session boundaries using markdown files in a private repo. We explore system prompt patterns that actually work, the difference between reactive and proactive documentation, and whether tools like Obsidian add real value over raw markdown. If you've ever lost hours of agent context between

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22:26

The Research Trap: When Homework Makes You Buy

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2026/07/15

Daniel noticed something strange: the more research he did before buying, the more pressure he felt to actually purchase — even when it wasn't in the budget. This episode unpacks the psychology of sunk costs in consumer research, how AI tools like Claude have collapsed the effort of deep investigation, and a practical system for building reusable spec documents that future-proof your buying decisions. We explore emergency vs. planned purchasing, the "use it or lose it" anxiety that accelerates

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25:58

The Hidden Layer Shaping Every AI Chat

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2026/07/15

Million-token context windows sound impressive, but the real magic happens in the invisible layer between you and the model API. This episode unpacks the AI Agent Harness — the middleware that handles context compression, sliding windows, summarization pipelines, and memory management. We explore how tools like Open WebUI and LangChain automate these decisions, why the distinction between model features and middleware matters, and how users develop superstitions about model behavior based on harness

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23:25

Did You Really Build That App? AI Imposter Syndrome

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2026/07/15

You fire up Claude or Codex, build a working app in a weekend, and people might even pay for it. Then a voice creeps in: "But you didn't really write the code. Who are you to charge money for this?" This episode tackles both sides of AI-assisted building — the objective "how do I know this thing is actually production-ready" question, and the psychological hurdle of feeling like a fraud when the heavy lifting was done by a language model. Corn and Herman walk through a concrete pre-rollout QA

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21:40

Why Speech-to-Text Still Fails at Its Own Name

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2026/07/15

When OpenAI's Whisper transcribed its own name as "Wispr," it exposed the fundamental flaw in speech-to-text: models that hear perfectly but understand nothing. This episode unpacks why homophone errors, dropped negations, and hallucinated punctuation survive even low word-error rates — and explores two competing architectural solutions. We compare the two-pass pipeline (Whisper + LLM cleanup) against unified multimodal models like GPT-4o that process audio and reasoning in a single pass. Which

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25:16

How Your ATM Counts Cash in Milliseconds

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2026/07/15

When you shove crumpled banknotes into an ATM, a robotic vault with more sensors than a lab instrument validates each one at eight notes per second. This episode traces the origin story from 1967's radioactive-cheque machine to today's sensor-fusion marvels — optical, magnetic, and ultrasonic checks all happening in parallel — and reveals how predictive maintenance keeps error rates below one in a hundred thousand transactions.

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23:47

What Actually Happens When You Tap Your Phone to Pay

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2026/07/15

When you tap your phone to buy coffee, no money actually moves. Your bank just adjusts its IOU to you, and later settles with the merchant's bank through central bank reserves. In this episode, we trace the full path of a digital payment — from the cryptographic token sent by your phone to the final settlement on Fedwire — and explore what gives this entire system legitimacy. Drawing on the Bank of England's framework of money as a three-layer stack of IOUs, we examine how tax obligations, legal

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24:29

Where Does Your Money Go During Those Three Days?

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2026/07/15

Ever wondered why your bank transfer sits in "pending" for three days while crypto moves in seconds? It turns out the technology for instant settlement has existed for decades — banks just choose not to use it for your money. This episode traces your hundred dollars from Chase to Barclays, through correspondent banks, SWIFT messages, and the mysterious nostro/vostro accounts that make international transfers possible. We explain why the delay isn't technical but economical, why remittances to

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23:17

Inside the Secret World of Pyrotechnicians

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2026/07/14

Most people assume fireworks shows happen by magic. But behind every display is a tiny workforce of licensed explosives handlers working 18-hour days, building shells by hand in off-season workshops, and navigating a graying talent pipeline. This episode explores what pyrotechnicians actually do for a living — from the ATF licensing process to the precise choreography of a thousand-cue firing system — and why the ten-second pauses between explosions are the most deliberate part of the show.

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28:22

What Destroyer Crews Actually Do During Negotiations

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2026/07/14

Most coverage of the Iran situation shows either dramatic strike footage or boring diplomatic lulls. But the operational reality on a US Navy destroyer is neither. This episode unpacks what life actually looks like for the 300-person crew of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during negotiations, strike operations, and crisis standby — the watch rotations, the constant drills, the maintenance that never pauses, and the psychological weight of being weapons tight while sensors stay hot. We trace the

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24:50

Bowen Family Systems & Narcissism

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2026/07/14

What if narcissistic abuse isn’t just about individual pathology but a deeper structural problem in the family system? This episode explores Murray Bowen’s groundbreaking family systems theory—developed in the 1950s at the Menninger Clinic—and how its eight core concepts reveal the hidden emotional physics behind narcissistic families. We break down differentiation of self, triangulation, the family projection process, and why the “identified patient” may just be the symptom of a system fighting to

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24:25

How the Cascade Spiral Turns Crisis into Chain Reaction

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2026/07/14

What happens when war, housing crises, and displacement collide into a single chain reaction? This episode explores the cascade spiral — the structural failure mode that preparedness advice almost never addresses. Using a family's real experience navigating two Iran wars, a landlord dispute, and six months of displacement in Israel, we unpack why single-event preparedness misses the real danger. We also draw on aviation's "aviate, navigate, communicate" framework and cognitive depletion research to

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27:34

Rhetoric for Interviews and Pitches

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2026/07/14

Can the rhetorical strategies that make political speeches unforgettable be ethically adapted for everyday professional situations? This episode breaks down three specific mechanisms—the trinary structure, conversational framing, and repetition with variation—and shows exactly how to apply them in a job interview or an architecture firm's pitch to a developer. No ideology, just the craft.

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24:44

How Land Became a Commodity — Israel’s Rental Paradox

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2026/07/14

When Daniel and his family moved to Israel, they expected the same social safety net they saw in healthcare and animal welfare. Instead, they found a rental market where landlords can evict with 30 days' notice — no reason required. This episode traces the historical arc from biblical land redistribution and Jubilee laws, through England's Enclosure Acts, to modern Israel's unregulated rental market. We explore why a country that owns 93% of its land has chosen not to regulate tenancy, what Jewish

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