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One builder learning quantum computing from the ground up, in public. The math, the code, and the unglamorous reality, one verified step after another.

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  1. 19:04 Milestones

    Six defects in a verified n8n node for IBM Quantum

    It passed n8n verification with green tests and 98 percent coverage. Then 121 seconds of real QPU time found what none of that could.

  2. 12:45 Quantum Computing

    Quantum gates are just matrices you can run by hand

    X, H, Z and the rotations: applying a gate is multiplying a matrix by a vector. Literally. Worked by hand, then checked in Qiskit.

  3. 22:08 Quantum Computing

    Active recall for hard technical subjects

    Rereading feels like progress and barely works. The method that actually retains hard material, and why it feels worse while it works.

  4. 19:14 Quantum Computing

    Complex numbers are the gateway to quantum

    Multiplying by i is a quarter turn, Euler's formula is the unit circle, and suddenly the imaginary number is the thing you measure.

  5. 14:11 Quantum Computing

    The version trap that cost me an evening (Qiskit 2.x)

    execute() is gone, Aer moved out, and the tutorials never got the memo. What died in Qiskit 2.x and the modern pattern that replaced it.