Twenty-one hours, thirty-nine PDFs, zero GPU
Extracting text from ~39 image-only Grok chat-export PDFs into Obsidian-vault markdown via a local CPU-only vision model. Three Windows-specific bugs worth writing down.
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Tools don't get co-author credit: the DeWalt rule for git commits
Every AI coding tool wants to add 'Co-Authored-By: Claude' to your commits. Most builders let it happen. Here's why you shouldn't — and a git hook that strips the trailer before it lands.
The sentinel-file pattern: instant fallback when an upstream disappears
When status.jordannewell.com's upstream went down, my first two fixes cut latency from 60 seconds to 1.2 seconds. The third cut it to 170 milliseconds. I should have started with the third one.