Writing
Essays and notes. Long-form ideas and quick takes, newest first.
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EssayWhy This Site Needed a Real Chatbot Integration
viewsI 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.
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EssayColophon
Updated:viewsWhat this site is, who made it, and how it was built.
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EssayThe Same Lie, Twelve Times
viewsI 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.
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EssayThe Most Expensive Bug Is Indecision
viewsOur 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.
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EssayHow I Cut My AI Bill Without Talking Less
viewsFive 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.
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EssayHow I Built a Product Promo, End to End, Without Writing the Code
viewsA 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.
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EssayThe 54% Rule: Five Circuit-Breakers I Use to Lead a Writing Team
viewsRoger 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.