Designing a theme around a writer who doesn’t exist
For a newsletter-focused Ghost theme, I wrote a full fake publication with a fake author. That fictional writer broke the grid and forced more honest design decisions.
My writings
Dispatches from a life spent online.
Scheduling 38 volunteer umpires with one spreadsheet
Scheduling 38 volunteer umpires is a constraint puzzle, not a software problem. A simple spreadsheet and a few hard rules often beat a fancy app.
Logging Food by Talking to Claude
Cronometer sits behind a local Claude chat on my Mac Studio so I can log food by describing meals. Staples got faster to track, but quiet errors still need a human check.
I checked who reads my llms.txt. Almost nobody, and most of "GPTBot" wasn't GPTBot
15 days of Nginx logs: llms.txt was fetched 31 times, twice by an AI agent. And 4,334 of 4,565 "GPTBot" requests came from somewhere other than OpenAI.
Two Macs, One SSD, and the Sync I Stopped Trusting
I juggle a Mac Studio, a MacBook Air, and a T9 SSD by giving each type of file a single source of truth instead of trusting sync to do everything.
Who actually reads my llms.txt?
Using Nginx access logs to see which crawlers touch llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and what that does and does not prove about LLM training or GEO.
Deriving a Ghost theme palette from one accent color
Ghost gives themes a single accent color, but you can still get a full palette out of it using CSS color-mix() and oklch for hover, border and background states.
How I Split Social Posts Between Buffer and Manual Updates
How I use Buffer to handle predictable updates for my one-person theme studio, what I still post by hand, and where I draw the line so social does not become a second job.
Upgrading three Tailwind projects to v4 in one sprint
I upgraded three client sites to Tailwind v4 in one week. Most utilities survived quietly. The custom gradient border plugin did not.
Three months after the jump rope protocol
Three months after the August YaoYao jump rope protocol, the strict plan is gone but the rope and the heart rate ceiling stayed. This is what held up.
What I Hand Over To Next Year’s U12 Coach
At the end of a U12 season, not everything should follow the team into next year. This is what survives a season change, and what belongs to this group only.
Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.