AI & Local Compute · Photography & Optics · Quant & Alpha Trading · Everyday Savinghttps://cyanlabs.io/enhttps://cyanlabs.io/en/trading/fomc-0916-three-day-recap/https://cyanlabs.io/en/trading/fomc-0916-three-day-recap/Over the three days after the Fed's 9/16 meeting I placed 7 options trades and every one of them made money — $2,211.98 in total. But on one SNDK call I sold at $52 and it closed at $194, a position that would have paid $15,176. Here is every fill, and exactly which step I got wrong.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuant & Tradinghttps://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/united-explorer-card/https://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/united-explorer-card/My parents will be staying a while, so their return date was never settled. I paid cash for the outbound ticket; for the way back I used miles, because award tickets can be cancelled. A $780 cash fare, booked for 49,500 miles as a cardholder instead of 55,000.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday Savinghttps://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/blue-cash-preferred/https://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/blue-cash-preferred/Our grocery cash-back setup runs on two Amex cards: the BCP paying 6% back at grocery stores, and a no-fee BCE catching the spend past the cap at 3%. How much grocery spending makes the $95 annual fee genuinely worth it, and which card fits your family — it's all here.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday Savinghttps://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/amazon-prime-visa/https://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/amazon-prime-visa/My wife opened the Chase Amazon Prime card back in her student days; it sat in a drawer for years and I once complained it was wasting a Chase card slot. Then our baby was born, with just the two of us and her bedridden after delivery, and the card, with Prime's next-day delivery, suddenly earned its keep.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday Savinghttps://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/why-i-wanted-a-website/https://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/why-i-wanted-a-website/The origin story of this site's build diary: a YouTube channel about local LLMs and AI agents, plus an old blog post dug out of a hard drive, made me want a personal website of my own.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & Local Computehttps://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/from-ai-build-to-search-indexed/https://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/from-ai-build-to-search-indexed/The stretch between "it runs" and "it's live and indexed" — the small details that took CyanLabs from build to launch, and the simple SEO steps that got it into Google and Bing.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & Local Computehttps://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/ac-repair-zero-apr-card/https://cyanlabs.io/en/saving/ac-repair-zero-apr-card/From May to August, a compressor slowly destroyed by a string of misdiagnoses, wrong refrigerant charges, wrong parts, and my own procrastination and corner-cutting: a 3.5-ton evaporator coil, an expansion valve bulb sensor, a stranded reclaim... until the outdoor unit finally died completely. A replacement would run nearly $6,000, and the small company had no decent installment plan — so for the first time I truly understood why 0% APR is a lifesaver: I opened an Amex Blue Cash Everyday.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday Savinghttps://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/building-cyanlabs-with-dual-agent-workflow/https://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/building-cyanlabs-with-dual-agent-workflow/No tutorials, no code — a review of what building a site with two AI agents actually taught, distilled into reusable engineering methods: how to divide the work, how to accept deliveries, and how to make AI output trustworthy. Companion piece to 'A CyanLabs Prototype from Scratch in 30 Minutes for Only $0.20': that one is the first-time experience; this one is the method that came out of it.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & Local Computehttps://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/the-8m-token-website/https://cyanlabs.io/en/ai/the-8m-token-website/Not a technical tutorial, but the story of someone who uses AI every day and had agent tools installed yet never put them to real work — until he let AI actually build something: a working website prototype from zero, in 30 minutes and RMB 1.36 ($0.20).Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & Local Computehttps://cyanlabs.io/en/trading/jackson-hole-8128-loss-lesson/https://cyanlabs.io/en/trading/jackson-hole-8128-loss-lesson/A complete, fill-by-fill record of a real intraday options event trade — on the day of the Fed Chair's Jackson Hole speech, I rode the trend to roughly $1,000 of profit in the morning, then refused to cut a losing $580 META call that expired the same day, got force-liquidated by my broker at 2:00, and stacked desperate revenge trades on top in the afternoon — giving back every cent of profit and ending the day in the red. Every buy/sell detail and the full timeline are disclosed.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuant & Trading