https://nitratex.com/articles/Notes from building with AI agents: problems I ran into, what fixed them, and how I checked.en https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-labs-next-chapter/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-labs-next-chapter/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Dan Wasyluk's Salvor Labs announcement: Salvor OS stays free and open source, Salvor+ becomes a commercial extension, and $SALVOR gets a bigger role, in his own words. https://nitratex.com/articles/jpeg-full-range-washout/https://nitratex.com/articles/jpeg-full-range-washout/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300JPEG frames are full range, video is not, and format=yuv420p alone won't fix it. How ffprobe caught it and how Salvor carried the fix forward. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-explainer-soundtracks/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-explainer-soundtracks/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Codex drew a 40-second Salvor explainer once. The soundtrack was rebuilt more than ten times in one evening, and only I could actually hear it. https://nitratex.com/articles/wait-loop-waited-for-itself/https://nitratex.com/articles/wait-loop-waited-for-itself/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300My AI agent waited 45 minutes for a job that had already finished. One line of shell was to blame. Why the memory layer missed it, and what changed. https://nitratex.com/articles/oauth-testing-7-day-tokens/https://nitratex.com/articles/oauth-testing-7-day-tokens/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300A weekly report agent kept failing on Mondays. The cause was one setting on the OAuth consent screen, not the code. https://nitratex.com/articles/three-agents-one-video/https://nitratex.com/articles/three-agents-one-video/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Claude, Codex and Grok made an animation and its music. None could hear it, so every round was checked by measurement and one human ear. https://nitratex.com/articles/mcp-server-startup-timeout/https://nitratex.com/articles/mcp-server-startup-timeout/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300The server itself was fine. Starting it through npx on every launch was too slow for the client's connect timeout. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-launch-dan/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-launch-dan/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Dan Wasyluk's launch post for Salvor: one very bad /clear, why Git doesn't preserve what a project learned, what Salvor is, the honest benchmark nulls, and the $SALVOR token, in his own words. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-team-conditions/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-team-conditions/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Parallel pull requests, a merge that left memory quietly wrong, Windows line endings, and a close read of the protocol. Plus the pull requests I opened from it. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-setup-field-notes/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-setup-field-notes/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300One setup prompt, four questions, and two projects that didn't fit the template. What the setup caught, what I had to adapt, and where I rubber-stamped. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-more-tests/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-more-tests/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300A blind question test, two planted false memories, and an agent that was never told about Salvor. What went well, and the limit that came with each. https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-repo-memory/https://nitratex.com/articles/salvor-repo-memory/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300Fresh agent sessions forget what the project already learned. Salvor keeps that knowledge as reviewed Markdown next to the code. How I use it, and what my tests showed. https://nitratex.com/articles/ssh-password-without-sshpass/https://nitratex.com/articles/ssh-password-without-sshpass/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300No sshpass, no expect, no sudo. OpenSSH can still read the password from a small helper program. https://nitratex.com/articles/ffmpeg-without-root/https://nitratex.com/articles/ffmpeg-without-root/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0300apt can work out the whole dependency list without permission to install. Download, unpack into one folder, point the loader at it.