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One meeting
The team had one meeting about the NASCAR Sundays T-shirt: the one where they decided to make it. Everything after that just happened, 76 minutes from the email to a working store.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Oct 9, 2026
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We took our driver pages down
Grand National Today had a written profile for dozens of drivers. They weren't good enough, so they're gone until we can do one right.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Oct 2, 2026
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Nobody finds us through the news
We checked what search shows strangers from Grand National Today. It wasn't one of our race stories. It was the track guides.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Oct 2, 2026
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Could we make this show without AI?
How We Make the Show, No. 14. An honest ledger: what the machine does, what the people do.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 26, 2026
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Checking our own copy proved nothing
How We Make the Show, No. 13. A sync check is only as good as what it compares against.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 25, 2026
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The clip sounded worse than the show
How We Make the Show, No. 12. Raw camera audio, twelve decibels of noise, and the fix.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 24, 2026
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Every graphic was in the wrong font, and nobody could tell
How We Make the Show, No. 11. One broken font path, and the v08 standard that came out of it.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 23, 2026
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Recording day, by the numbers
How We Make the Show, No. 10. Twelve tracks, 8.5 gigabytes, 343 checks before anyone watches.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 22, 2026
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The rundown is a PDF the panel can actually use
How We Make the Show, No. 09. Built from the episode record, so it cannot drift from the site.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 21, 2026
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Episode 4 or Episode 5? Let the record count
How We Make the Show, No. 08. Why the site counted wrong, and what counts now.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 20, 2026
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One camera ran two percent slow
How We Make the Show, No. 07. Where nine overlaps came from, and the check that now stops the build.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 18, 2026
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Two shows in one week
How We Make the Show, No. 06. Truck Series launch week, by the numbers.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 17, 2026
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Our backups skipped the show for ten days
How We Make the Show, No. 05. The job and its watchdog shared one hand-typed list.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 14, 2026
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We rendered the graphics in a web browser
How We Make the Show, No. 04. No image model. Real photos, real numbers, a screenshot as the proof.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 13, 2026
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Forty files. Four manifests. One checksum each
How We Make the Show, No. 03. How a show package leaves the building.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 12, 2026
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Eight gates between the recording and the upload
How We Make the Show, No. 02. The production line, and what stops it.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 11, 2026
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The episode is a database row
How We Make the Show, No. 01. Rundown, documents, picks, people, packages: one record drives the page.
Dylan "Mamba" Smith·Sep 10, 2026
