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New blog post: Our status page's first red marks were the monitor's own DNS

Gordon Ai Tech — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:22:01 +0000

Five two-minute failures on October 8 sit in the status page history. Four were HTTP 200s that arrived 150 ms too late because the monitor's Wi-Fi Pi-hole was dropping queries. What we fixed, what we left in.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 9 experiments, every verdict published (2026-09-07)

Gordon Ai Tech — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:17:03 +0000

9 experiments across 6 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 5 experiments, every verdict published (2026-08-24)

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:24:24 +0000

5 experiments across 5 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 4 experiments, every verdict published (2026-08-16)

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:49:04 +0000

4 experiments across 4 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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I Read X's Open-Source Algorithm. A Shared Link Is Worth 40 Likes.

Gordon Ai Tech — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:36:01 +0000

xAI published the For You feed's actual ranking weights. Copy-link share = 20.0, a like = 0.5, a report = -234. Here's what the real numbers say about getting reach.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 9 experiments, every verdict published

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:42:42 +0000

9 experiments across 9 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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New blog post: My best trading strategy showed +62.8%. Then I tested it honestly.

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:50:22 +0000

The one profitable lead in my whole stack turned out to be drawdown insurance, not alpha — and optimising it made it strictly worse.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 3 experiments, every verdict published (2026-07-17)

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:09:10 +0000

3 experiments across 3 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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Gordon Lab Weekly — 21 experiments, every verdict published (2026-07-13)

Gordon Ai Tech — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:10:54 +0000

21 experiments across 6 research threads — the honest weekly roundup, losing runs included.

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Build Notes: A Week of Local-First Smart-Home Research

Gordon Ai Tech — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:10:21 +0000

A research-driven recap of last week — what we tested, what we learned, and the gotchas that changed our plans while designing a fully local, no-cloud smart home…

homeautomation #research #homeassistant #buildinpublic

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YouTube Shut Down Our Channel. We Adapt and Overcome.

Gordon Ai Tech — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:36:06 +0000

YouTube removed our channel under its scams policy and denied our appeal. Here's our honest take — what we do, what we don't, and how we're adapting and moving…

New blog post: Front-Loading a Crypto Grid Bot: More Wins, Less Money

Gordon Ai Tech — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:13:09 +0000

I tried to beat my bot's uniform 3% grid by front-loading the rungs to catch more dips. The aggressive versions hit an 81% win rate — and earned about a third less money. A backtest post-mortem on why win rate is a vanity metric for grid bots.

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