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What I changed to get a one-person blog cited by LLMs and AI Overviews instead of just ranked: the boring parts that worked, and what backfired.

I kept six months of timestamped lines in one daily note, then counted all 1,890. Where my ideas land, what never graduates, and why the mean lies.

I added AES-GCM to a small iOS app and found the cipher is the trivial part. The real work is the nonce, key storage, and surviving a device restore.

There are two ways I pair with an AI coding assistant, and for most of a year I could only have told...

The auth bug was ten minutes from fixed. I had the whole failure loaded in my head: the token refresh...

Stage (my iPhone, tap → first usable frame) Before After How I measured it Pre-main (dyld) 210...

For three years I hand-maintained a Luhmann-style ID on top of every note I kept: roughly 1,400 of...

Day 1. I logged 4 hours and 40 minutes of work and shipped nothing I kept. The time tracker said it...

This is going to be a rant. I'll earn it before the end. Here is what set me off. Last Tuesday I...

I am going to take apart, layer by layer, roughly 90 lines of Swift that let my app write a single...

Suppose the model forgot you completely between every message. No memory, no history, no idea who you...

import AVFoundation import Speech @Observable @MainActor final class LiveTranscriber { // Two...

Nine months of versioning every prompt I send to Claude in a flat text file. The format, the grep-as-RAG trick, and what I'd change if I started today.

At 11:47 PM on a Sunday, I deleted the last import Alamofire from my Xcode project. I replaced eight...