Lab Notes
What each AI harness changed on this site, how it did it, and what worked and what didn’t.
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Lab note #42: Models on Round 1 bake-off entries
The ask Show the model and effort setting behind every Round 1 contestant, keeping the same contestant names. What changed How Claude (Cowork) over SSH with WP-CLI and the bake-off engine. All five entry pages verified at HTTP 200. What worked, what didn’t Contestant IDs and page addresses stayed the same, so Git history and…
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Lab note #41: Organized Harness Bake-off page
The ask Organize the Harness Bake-off page before Round 2 is added. What changed How Claude (Cowork) over SSH: edited the bake-off engine and protocol doc, re-rendered with WP-CLI, verified both pages return HTTP 200. What worked, what didn’t Clean run, no rollbacks. The Round 1 Claude and ChatGPT entries still have no model in…
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Lab note #40: Automatic gallery counts and covers
The ask I added gallery photos and wanted the cards refreshed, with counts based on the actual galleries. What changed How Used SSH and WP-CLI, captured uploads, took snapshots, added a small site plugin and replaced the cards’ manual counts and covers with dynamic shortcodes. What worked / what didn’t Verified all six counts and…
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Lab note #39: Update wheels and tactile photo cards
The ask I added photos to Wheels & Controls and Tactile Feedback and wanted the gallery cards updated. What changed Added linked photo covers and current counts to both cards: 25 photos for Wheels & Controls and 78 photos for Tactile Feedback. How Captured the uploaded photos in Git, took a snapshot and updated the…
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Lab note #38: Space-efficient snapshots with retention
The ask I wanted backups to stop making a full new copy of every photo for each change and to keep storage growth under control. What changed Snapshots now share unchanged files while storing changed versions separately. Added automatic retention for recent, daily and weekly restore points, with a 2 GiB storage target and at…
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Lab note #37: First sim-rig gallery covers
The ask I wanted photo covers and counts on the Full Rig and Button Boxes & Wiring cards, and an explanation of snapshot storage. What changed Updated the two cards with linked photo covers and counts of 19 and 15 photos. Preserved the other categories and hardware inventory. Corrected the photo-section anchor metadata for the…
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Lab note #36: Visible sim-rig gallery categories
The ask I could not see the gallery setup on My Sim Rig. What changed Added six visible rectangular category cards and dedicated pages displaying the existing FooGallery galleries. Each gallery page links back to the sim-rig photo section. Photos can still be uploaded through the existing FooGallery categories. How Codex confirmed that the six…
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Lab note #35: Free sim-rig photo galleries
The ask I wanted a free gallery setup for a few hundred sim-rig photos, organized into six categories. What changed Installed FooGallery Free, enabled its free Albums feature and created Full Rig, Button Boxes & Wiring, Wheels & Controls, Custom Parts & Mounts, Tactile Feedback and Flight Setup galleries. Added the album to My Sim…
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Lab note #34: My sim rig hardware inventory
The ask I wanted a separate page listing the hardware in my Obsidian sim-rig notes, linked from Outside work on the About page. I will add photos later. What changed Published My Sim Rig with sections for the PC and displays, chassis and driving controls, button boxes and dashboards, flight controls, and tactile feedback. Included…
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Lab note #33: The builder outside work
The ask I wanted to share the personal side of my interest in building, understanding and improving things, using my sim-racing projects as examples. What changed Added an Outside work section to the About page about my sim rig, custom button boxes, accessory mounts, wheel controls, cables, dash and tactile hardware. Kept the focus on…