Software
Things I got stuck on, and how I got unstuck
How a non-developer owner reads code
Opening code the AI wrote for me showed nothing but characters. Reading it one file at a time by asking made two things visible, what to ask to be changed and what must never be inside the code.
When Your Link Preview Shows Nothing
Getting a bare URL instead of a card means the page never declared og tags. Here is how I generate a preview image for every post automatically.
When Your Blog Does Not Show Up on Google
Not showing up means two different things, and telling them apart first stops you from spending days fixing something that was never the problem.
Why Linux is the final OS choice in the AI era
People say they use a Mac because the terminal is comfortable there. If that is the reason, the answer is Linux, and more so. Written on a machine from 2011.
I Told It to Run Every 10 Minutes. It Ran 17 Times.
A free scheduled job kept missing its time. Counting the runs showed 17 where 128 should have been. How I fixed it without buying a server.
Google Apps Script Already Worked. Here's Why I Added n8n
My quote automation already worked in Google Apps Script. I brought in n8n anyway. Why I added a second tool, and which jobs Google Apps Script still owns.
Wix vs Cloudflare: Moving Off Wix Cut $408 a Year to Zero
Wix vs Cloudflare from someone who switched: two sites moved off Wix to Cloudflare Pages in two days with Claude and Cursor, including one whose source code was gone.