One Man's Blog

Your AI Has Amnesia. Here’s The Cure.

John P. — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:04:28 +0000

There’s a common misconception that with AI, you hand the robot a task and walk away. That’s a recipe for disaster. The magic happens...

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How To Cut AI Token Costs For WordPress Management By 77%

John P. — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Every tool your MCP connector exposes is sent to the model with every message. I measured 70,314 tokens per request on one site, built a tool drawer into my free AI Godmode plugin, and cut it by 77 percent. With the dollar math for Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and Fable.

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ScreenHerder: I Got Tired of Herding My Windows, So I Built a Sheep to Do It

John P. — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Every time you plug a laptop into a different set of monitors, Windows dumps your windows in a pile and scrambles your desktop icons. ScreenHerder is a free little tray app that puts all of it back exactly where it was.

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America Owns 46% Of The World’s Guns – PRAISE BE!

John P. — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Every few months somebody waves a statistic at me like it’s a gotcha: Americans are 4% of the world’s population and own almost half...

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John P’s Weld Shop: Weld It Right and Get Tipped

John P. — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Every crusty weld you’ve ever seen holding a trailer tongue together in a Walmart parking lot was laid down by somebody who thought they...

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For Sale: The Best 2023 Subaru Outback Touring XT You’ll Ever See

John P. — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

I’m selling my Outback, and it hurts. I bought a new vehicle, I have too many cars, and something has to go. This is...

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Learn AI. Your Life Depends On It.

John P. — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

I've watched two technology shifts sort everyone I know into two piles. AI is the third, and sitting it out is a life-altering mistake.

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Ken Paxton’s Own Top Cop Just Endorsed the Other Guy

John P. — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

David Maxwell spent five decades as a Texas lawman and nearly six years as Ken Paxton's director of law enforcement. Paxton fired him for reporting him to the FBI. Now the lifelong Republican is endorsing James Talarico.

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Texas Senate Race Comparison: Paxton vs. Talarico

John P. — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

"Every politician is bought and paid for" is a testable claim, because campaign money is public record. I pulled both donor ledgers in the Talarico-Paxton Senate race, ran the healthcare money through the FEC's own data, and compared. They are not the same.

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Biggest Welfare Recipient in History Claims Welfare Is Bad for You

John P. — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

His companies took $38 billion from taxpayers, his corporation pays a 0.4% tax rate, and he wants you to believe your food stamps are the problem.

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I Built a Free 3D Model Viewer That Runs in Your Browser, and Need Help Testing It!

John P. — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:09:00 +0000

For the last few months I’ve been quietly building something, and it’s finally ready for people other than me to try it: StepFileViewer.com, a...

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The Baptists Invented Separation of Church and State. Then Forgot.

John P. — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

The "wall of separation" wasn't built by atheists. It was built by Baptists with whip scars, and their heirs are tearing it down.

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Southern Baptists Were Pro-Choice. Then Politics Happened.

John P. — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

In 1971 the SBC officially supported abortion access. Their own press praised Roe. Then politics happened, and they spent fifty years and billions erasing it.

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Are You Actually a Democrat or a Republican?

John P. — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

I know you think you know if you are more of a democrat or a republican… but how can you be so sure if...

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AI Will Not Help You Get Rich Quick

John P. — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000

I almost gave an AI $50,000 to trade with. There’s a video making the rounds where a guy claims he let Claude manage his...

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Introducing AlwaysDetour.com

John P. — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000

I've been quietly building a new site dedicated entirely to travel. Here's what AlwaysDetour.com is, how it's organized around Trips and Places, and a few favorite stops to start with.

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I Gave AI $5,000, Then Ignored It for Two Years. Here’s What Happened

John P. — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Two years ago I put $5,000 into a robo-advisor at Vanguard, turned it on, and did the hardest thing in investing: absolutely nothing. No...

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Arnold’s Blueprint To Cut: What Still Works, And What Science Has Passed By

John P. — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:03:25 +0000

The Blueprint To Cut PDF, free and right up top. Then the honest part: which pieces of Arnold's program still hold up, and which ones the research has left behind.

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Meta Has Spent Five Years Banning Me for Impersonating Myself

John P. — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Let me tell you about the dumbest accusation anyone has ever made against me. Instagram disabled my account, the one with tens of thousands...

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Car Window Tint ROI Calculator

John P. — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Tinting Your Car Windows Pays For Itself 100%! I can’t for the life of me understand anyone living in the South not tinting the...

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