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Technology May 12, 2026

Part 4: Ethereum and Smart Contracts. Programmable Money

Ethereum isn't just digital money. It's a programmable blockchain that nobody can turn off. Part 4 of the Crypto Education series breaks down smart contracts, gas fees, ERC-20 tokens, NFTs, DeFi, and The Merge in clear, jargon-free terms.

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Software Engineering May 7, 2026

Coupling, Cohesion, and the Discipline of SOLID

Every connection between two pieces of code is a chain. The question is whether you're building a bridge or a trap. This lesson covers coupling, cohesion, all five SOLID principles, and why spaghetti code exists.

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Software Engineering Apr 16, 2026

Blueprints and Instances: A Class Is Not an Object

A blueprint is not a house. A class is not an object. Confuse the two and you'll build on sand. This lesson bridges the gap between thinking in objects and actually structuring them as classes with properties, methods, and access control.

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Technology Apr 14, 2026

OMG Not Another Merge Conflict

Merge conflicts aren't a Git problem. They're a clarity problem. And your repo just exposed it. Here's how to fix them everywhere: CLI, GitHub, VS Code, and Visual Studio 2026.

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Culture & History Mar 26, 2026

When Is Easter, Really? (The Stars Have Been Trying to Tell You)

Growing up Greek Orthodox, the best part of late Easter wasn't the Resurrection. It was the 75%-off chocolate bunnies. But the reason Orthodox Easter moves has nothing to do with retail strategy and everything to do with the moon, a Roman emperor, and a 13-day calendar gap.

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Nutrition Mar 18, 2026

You Won't Eat the Kimchi? Fine. Here's Plan B.

You know fermented foods fix your gut. You know omega-3s fix your cholesterol. But you're not going to eat kimchi and sardines every day. Here's the supplement cheat sheet with real dosing, real science, and the products we actually use at gotHABITS.

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Philosophy Mar 18, 2026

Eleven Traditions. One Tree. Now Meet the People Who Kept It Alive.

Eleven traditions. Six continents. Zero cultural contact. Same architecture. The Tree of Life is real. Now meet the people who kept it alive when the institutions tried to bury it: the Pythagoreans, the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, the Golden Dawn, and the Silver Star. They preserved the blueprint. And the blueprint doesn't care which path you choose.

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Philosophy Mar 16, 2026

The Satanists Understand Christianity Better Than Christians Do (And the Numbers Prove It)

LaVeyan Satanism isn't devil worship. It's a deliberate inversion of Christianity that reveals the original architecture better than the original does. The qliphoth map the shadow of every sephira. Angels and demons aren't beings but frequencies. And the practitioners who study the inversion often become better Christians than people who never left the pew.

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Philosophy Mar 15, 2026

The Flying Spaghetti Monster Is a Better Theologian Than Your Pastor (And That's the Problem)

Pastafarianism was built as satire. It has a creation myth, commandments, an afterlife, prophets, scripture, holy days, and legally ordained clergy. Every structural element of serious religion, perfectly replicated by a noodle deity. When a joke religion is structurally identical to the real ones, the joke stops being about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and starts being about everyone else.

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Philosophy Mar 14, 2026

Zeus Is Chesed. Ares Is Geburah. Your 'Pagan' Ancestors Were Walking the Same Tree.

Zeus is Chesed. Ares is Geburah. Apollo is Tiphareth. Hermes is Hod. Aphrodite is Netzach. The Greek pantheon isn't a collection of stories about beings who live on a mountain. It's a narrative encoding of the same Tree of Life that Kabbalah maps with abstract Hebrew labels. And the Greek system isn't unique. Every pantheon on Earth encodes the same architecture.

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Philosophy Mar 10, 2026

No God. No Soul. Same Tree. (The Buddhist Eightfold Path Mapped to the Sephiroth)

Buddhism has no God, no soul, and no Abrahamic vocabulary. Its Eightfold Path still maps to the Tree of Life with surgical precision. Right View at Malkuth. Right Concentration at Kether. Eight steps covering the same ten nodes that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism encode independently. The Tree isn't theology. It's the structure of consciousness itself.

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Torah scroll open on a wooden reading table with ornate silver pointers
Philosophy Mar 09, 2026

613 Commandments. 10 Sephiroth. One Life. (The Kabbalists Drew the Map. Your Rabbi Might Not Teach It.)

Judaism is the tradition that named the sephiroth. Every lifecycle ritual, from the covenant cut on day eight to the Shema at the moment of death, maps to a specific node on the Tree with an engineering precision the other Abrahamic traditions echo but never match. The Kabbalists didn't invent a mystical add-on. They preserved the original blueprint.

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Raspberry Pi and smart home components
Smart Home Mar 1, 2026

Operation Smart Home: A Father-Son Mission Brief

The plan is drawn. The hardware is prepped. Most of it's been tested. Without a plan there's no path forward - just people talking to hear themselves speak. Better to fail like Zorba than sit on your hands.

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