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    <title><![CDATA[I moved my agents brain from a laptop, half of it was one file.]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/10/19/agent-brain-migration-laptop-to-server/</link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A 27B parameter brain does not live well on a machine that has to sleep. My XPS — the box the agent brain had been running on — went Tailscale-offline in September, and a desktop-over-SSH link to a laptop that dies the moment it leaves the house is not a plan, it&#x27;s a hope. So the brain moved to Home]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Backtest Made 11% A Month. It Was Just A Bet On Bitcoin.]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/10/10/trading-diary-bitcoin-bet/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Trading Strategy Diary What this is and is not: a historical backtest on free Binance data (spot daily 2024-01-11 → 2026-10-09; perpetual futures daily 2021-01 → 2026-10, with real funding prints). No positions, no real or paper money, no P&amp;amp;L. Nothing was built or deployed. It failed a pre-regis]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Trading Bot Made Zero Trades in a Month. That Was the Useful Part.]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/09/29/trading-diary-01-zero-trades/</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Trading Strategy Diary, Entry 01 This is a diary, not a promotion. It will publish the flat months and the dead ends on the same terms as anything else. If a month is boring, the entry says so. No P&amp;amp;L that does not exist. The first entry is, by construction, the boring one. The build The system ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Moved My Blog Off WordPress Onto Files on My Own Server]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/08/29/blog-wordpress-static-migration/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I moved my blog off WordPress onto a pile of files living on a hosting box whose keys I hold. No plugins. No database. No admin dashboard to log into. Just… files. And before you laugh, I want to be clear that I didn&amp;#x27;t have a grand architectural vision or a five-year infrastructure roadmap. I g]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[We&#x27;re gonna need a bigger boat!]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/08/25/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat/</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An Atlantic bluefin tuna has been caught and brought to shore on the Yorkshire coast for the first time in an estimated 60 years. The giant fish had not been landed in the North Sea since the 1960s due to overfishing and the depletion of herring shoals, according to researchers from the University o]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[They were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/08/15/they-were-only-supposed-to-blow-the-bloody-doors-off/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Builders renovating a house in Belgium have discovered a stash of gold reportedly worth €9m (£7.6m) sealed into the walls of its cellar. The construction workers stumbled across the hidden trove of gold bars and coins while drilling to lay new sewage pipes in the property in east Flanders earlier th]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Slow and steady wins the race.]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/08/14/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race-2/</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A 15-year-old African spurred tortoise, went AWOL from her Manitoba home and turned up a fortnight later at the Oak Hammock Marsh nature preserve, more than 12 miles away. Nobody has explained how a tortoise covered 12 miles. Read more: UPI Odd News]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trespassing Tortoise]]></title>
    <link>https://barfiesblog.com/2026/08/14/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race/</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Rail operators in England mounted a joint rescue after a wandering pet tortoise was spotted on the tracks near a station. Staff described the escapee as a &quot;trespassing tortoise,&quot; which is the single best phrase in British rail bureaucracy.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Doh!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here is the funny story I found: Italy Lotto Waste-Collection Company Recovers Ticket]]></description>
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