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.
Richard Lemon
Richard Lemon is a Creative Web Experience Developer at Ideebv, Maastricht. He writes about frontend craft, AI workflows, and tools that make work feel less like work. Youth baseball coach, chronic self-optimizer, builder in public.
This week on richardlemon.com — October 9, 2026
Hi there,
Here's what went up on richardlemon.com this week:
How I Split Social Posts Between Buffer
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.
When a client asks for SEO and needs GEO
Clients ask for SEO when their real problem is that machines do not understand who they are or where they operate. This is how a small agency sells GEO work without overpromising.
Using the Ghost forum to earn trust before selling themes
Using the Ghost forum as groundwork for a theme studio: picking your questions, avoiding self-promotion, and living with the tension between helping and selling.
Pricing Northline and Azimuth as a new Ghost studio
How I priced Northline and Azimuth for Aftertype’s launch as an unknown Ghost theme studio, and why copying established makers’ prices felt wrong.
The 6:40 AM Morning Kickstart protocol
At 6:40 AM the Morning Kickstart stops being about vibes and starts being about routing. It looks like wellness, but it behaves like project management.