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  • Starting a New Year — A Little Less Invincible
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-20
    Originally posted on my JorgeDiaries Substack | This is a continuation of the journal of my recovery process, since my previous blog, “Doing Embarrassingly Well”. I sit here finally getting down to write about something I’ve been thinking about for a few days now — the start of a new year in my life. As…
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  • The Viral AI Singer Who IS NOT Real
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-19
    In late 2025, millions of people fell in love with a soulful, bearded country-gospel singer named Michael Bennett. His emotional performances — framed as America’s Got Talent auditions — dominated TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube feeds. Viewers cried, shared, and commented that his songs about faith, loss, and fatherhood “felt too real to be fake.” But there was one…
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  • The Night Robots Stopped Being Science Fiction
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-18
    I’ve watched a lot of tech demos over the years — sleek product launches, carefully edited research clips, the usual cycle of “proof of concept” presentations that never quite feel real. But nothing prepared me for the moment I saw a fleet of humanoid robots land synchronized backflips on live television. My jaw didn’t just drop;…
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  • The 2026 Gmail Overhaul: Why Your Inbox Will Never Be the Same
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-16
    I wrote this article a few days ago: The End of an Era for Gmail POP3 or Gmailify in which I outlined one of many different changes Gmail is undergoing in 2026. For twenty years, your Gmail address was essentially “permanent ink.” If you chose skater_kid2004@gmail.com as a teenager, you were largely stuck with it—unless…
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  • Why Your Next AI Assistant Needs to Live on Your Hardware
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-13
    The buzz around Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, but the conversation is shifting. We are moving away from “chatbots in a browser” and toward Local AI Agents—personalized assistants that live on your device and work for your individual productivity. As we enter 2026, the winner in this space isn’t just the company with the smartest code;…
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  • The End of an Era for Gmail POP3 or Gmailify Imports
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-11
    For years, many of us have used Gmail as a “central hub” for all our email addresses. Whether it was a personal, side-project or work address the ability to “Check mail from other accounts” via POP3 or “Gmailify” made life easy. See my other blog posts about gmail However, Google recently announced a major shift…
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  • The Cost of 460 Million Tokens – Understanding Tokens, Token Types
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-08
    I written a few posts about tokens in the past, but as a follow up to my post: LLM Usage Stats on My Development Spree where I spent about $120 during a 45 day period to code using Kilo Code I got curious and dove a little bit more into what the cost of what…
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  • LLM Usage Stats on My Development Spree
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-05
    As technologies, we’re constantly seeking tools that enhance our productivity, accelerate our workflows, and ultimately, help us bring ideas to life faster. Over a period of about 45 days, I embarked on an intense development sprint, leveraging AI models and a specialized coding assistant, Kilo Code, to build four distinct applications now successfully deployed in…
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  • Local AI, Agentic Experiments, and Blown Minds
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-03
    This blog post discusses the author’s journey into the world of local AI and agentic experiments. Starting with “vibe coding” and coding agents last year, the author then discovered AgentZero, a local, self-contained AI agent in a Docker container, which allowed for cloud-independent experimentation. In January, the author moved on to ClawdBot (now OpenClaw), another…
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  • Why is Apple’s Unified Memory So Popular for Local AI
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-01
    Apple’s Unified Memory has been a game-changer for Local AI and Everyone Else is Catching Up.. The buzz around Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, and one of the most exciting frontiers is “Local AI” – running powerful AI models directly on your device, without sending your data to the cloud. If you’ve been following the developments,…
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  • Tonto National Forest Off Roading
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-29
    We went to the Forest Service Tonto National Forest Cave Creek Ranger Station today to find out what we needed to discover the area’s off-road “amenities” So much to explore! Looking forward to it!
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  • Don’t Mess with the Monkeys
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-27
    A Childhood Memory from a Costa Rica That No Longer Exists Originally Published on my JorgeDiaries Substack here I know this is progress, but on a recent vacation to Costa Rica, I was shocked by how little of the old country remains. You can still catch glimpses of it here and there, but so much…
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