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July 2

  • EssayWhy This Site Needed a Real Chatbot Integration

    I replaced my hand-rolled Ask AI widget with AI Elements and streaming via Vercel AI SDK, not for polish points, but because the old chat broke trust in the first three seconds.

  • EssayThe Same Lie, Twelve Times

    I don't write code. I just built a fact-checker for my own documentation job, and the first thing it caught was a documentation bug hiding in plain sight.

June 5

  • EssayThe Most Expensive Bug Is Indecision

    Our marketing team dared the company to roast our own website. I spent the weekend building my own answer from scratch, and every hard moment turned out to be a decision, not a line of code.

  • EssayHow I Cut My AI Bill Without Talking Less

    Five set-once valves in my Claude Code config, two free ones (one I was quietly leaking), and the subscription-vs-API math that dwarfs them all.

  • EssayHow I Built a Product Promo, End to End, Without Writing the Code

    A documentation manager built a sixty-second product promo end to end, with AI doing the hands-on work and me directing. The full nine-stage pipeline, and why the real skill turned out to be taste, not code.

  • EssayThe 54% Rule: Five Circuit-Breakers I Use to Lead a Writing Team

    Roger Federer won eighty percent of his matches. He won only fifty-four percent of the points inside them. Once that gap sank in, I started managing myself differently.

  • EssayColophon
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    What this site is, who made it, and how it was built.