Archiving Todoist projects so I can see my week again
I archived three Todoist projects, moved everything into one, and set a weekly five-task limit so I can see my week again without deleting anything.
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.
A late start on collecting polymer banknotes
A gifted 50 dobras polymer note at a coin fair nudged a late starter toward banknote collecting, with a few guardrails to keep it curiosity, not compulsion.
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.
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.