From a Warehouse Floor to the Microsoft Store
A year ago I scanned barcodes and coded every night because I was afraid of disappearing. Today PC Workman is on the Microsoft Store — permanently. The whole story, and the math underneath it.
Read the milestone → ★ Featured · The story behind 1.8.0The Man Who Got Himself Back
Fired three days before Christmas. A 2014 laptop at 94°C. Built after the welding shift. I taught a program to remember your machine — and spent the same year getting myself back. The release note and the confession.
Read the story →Prefer the technical release notes? → 1.8.0 — The Release That Remembers
Grind Blueprint
The week's plan, announced publicly before the work starts. A commitment you can't quietly walk back.
Open series -> WednesdayCode Autopsy
One bug or feature on the table: root cause, dead ends, the actual fix. Code included.
Open series -> FridayShipped & Scarred
Monday's plan vs Friday's reality. What shipped, what died, what scars remain.
Open series ->Grind Blueprint
Every Gaming Tool Picks Your Overlay. Mine Starts Empty.
A configurable in-game overlay, live FPS through RTSS and game-specific greetings. The Monday plan behind the v1.8.0 release.
#10My Biggest Release, Then 48 Hours of Tester Bugs
v1.7.6 felt great for 12 hours. Then three testers spent 5+ hours each. 17 silent intents, psutil scanned 19×/message, CS2.exe topping charts for people who don't play it. This week: cleanup.
#9Building What 28 Real People Asked For
I asked what you'd ask an AI inside your system monitor. 28 answers came back (13 GitHub, 15 LinkedIn DMs). This week every single one becomes real code in hck_GPT.
Full series →Code Autopsy
My AI Had a Brain - It Just Couldn't Reach It
Welford baselines and voltage SPC were running, but the chat never called them. A swallowed NameError kept the connection silent for months.
#11The Bug That Worked Perfectly for 4 Months
snapshot() read live CPU/RAM/GPU flawlessly. Every module called it independently — 19 times per message, no errors, for 4 months. The fix: a 1-second TTL cache. 19 calls become 1.
#10Six Memory Depths, One Dictionary
The answer depends on how far back the AI looks. One dictionary maps each question to a time window — 5 minutes to 7 days — and two lines turn it into the AI's context.
Full series →Shipped & Scarred
Microsoft Store Said No - Over a Blurry Icon and the Wrong Link
The first MSIX submission was rejected over a blurry tile icon and the wrong privacy link. A checklist, not a no.
#11A Quiet Maintenance Week That Lasted 36 Hours
Planned only bug fixes. Noticed a dead GT 1030 still in my registry → Ghost Drivers Hunter. Noticed idle apps burning RAM → Background App Hibernation. Two accidental features in a 'maintenance' week.
#10#151 in Poland and the Biggest Update of My Life
v1.7.6 live — 82 intents, DeepMonitor rewritten, a 2.5D component map, 373 process defs. The scar: psutil temperature reads returned None for months and passed every test because the function never ran.
Full series →From warehouse night shifts to a homemade AI
A 2014 laptop at 94°C, a firing on December 22nd, and the monitor that came out of it.
Who builds PC Workman
Marcin Firmuga — solo developer, HCK_Labs. The person behind every commit.