How AI Overviews Actually Work (And How I Get Content Cited)
AI Overviews are not magic. They are structured pattern-matching machines. Here is how I use entity consistency, FAQ schema, and llms.txt to get my content cited.
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.
CSS Logical Properties: How I Replaced Left/Right Without Breaking Everything
I migrated a real client project from left/right CSS to logical properties without breaking layout or deadlines. This is what actually worked.
What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing
I logged HRV every day for 90 days and realised my “I’m fine” story was mostly fiction. The data showed stress patterns I never would have blamed.
Using CSS Custom Properties As Design Tokens (Without A Design System)
How I use plain CSS custom properties as a design token system for real projects. Spacing, color, and motion tokens. No Figma. No toolchain. Just code.
How I Built an llms.txt For My Clients (And Why It Beats Your Sitemap)
I stopped obsessing over sitemaps and started shipping llms.txt files instead. Here is how I built them for real clients and what actually matters for LLMs.
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
Umpiring youth baseball taught me more about production deploys than any DevOps book. Both are about making fast, irreversible calls with incomplete data and living with them.
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
I run every new dev tool through the same 3‑question filter before it touches my real workflow. Here is how Cursor, Tower, and SecondsPro managed to earn their place.
Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026
I have tried every productivity stack you see on Twitter, but one thing never moved: a weekly paper planning note. Here is what it does that no app can touch.
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
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Refactoring my blog's tag architecture via the Ghost API, debugging broken automations, and going down a rabbit hole
What Is GEO And Why Your Website Needs It In 2026
SEO was for ranking in search results. GEO is for being understood by AI. Here is why that shift matters for your website in 2026 and what to do first.
The Scroll-Driven CSS Animation I’m Most Proud Of (After 4 Rewrites)
I built a scroll-driven CSS animation that took four full rewrites before it stopped fighting me. This is the build log, including the ugly parts and the final clean setup.