Studio Workbench Process cinema, systems forensics, and unscripted desk investigations
Process cinema is not about presenting polished answers as an auteur; it is about working out the problem, discovering what holds together under load, and learning as you go. Recorded live from the desk with terminal, editor, and running systems visible.
From 15-year infrastructure transformations to forensic audio cleanup and distributed Raspberry Pi clusters, Studio Workbench documents the real trade-offs and seams behind calm, autonomous software systems.
The Ship of Theseus: From Wooden Boat to Space Station →
When an engineer replaces every plank of their personal infrastructure over 15 years, from 2010 shell scripts and Raspberry Pi clusters to an autonomous Apple Silicon media platform, does the identity of the system survive because Theseus himself carved every replacement plank?
Studio Workbench Sessions
The Ship of Theseus: From Wooden Boat to Space Station
15 years of personal infrastructure evolution, empirical timeline evidence, and recursive system cartography under the Panoramic View methodology.
The Lost Coderwall Guides: Open Source, Vagrant, and What Survives
Rediscovering the September 2014 Coderwall developer onboarding screencasts, YouTube's 2021 unlisted video lockdown, and what the transition teaches us about onboarding humans and AI in 2026.
Fluffle: Five Raspberry Pis and 1K+ Transcript Pairs
Distributing whisper.cpp across a home cluster of five Raspberry Pi 4 boards to transcribe over a thousand Dead Rabbit Radio episodes, and discovering the operational limits of a small experiment.
Testing the Audio Fix Under the Power Lines
Field recording, electromagnetic interference (EMI) hum removal, 5-stage audio DSP restoration, and verifying repairs directly against the original source tape.