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All AI CSS Frontend Productivity Biohacking Tools Build in Public Thoughts
08 May, 2026
Thoughts
Baseball Analytics For U15 Coaches: Useful Data Without Trackman
08 May
Thoughts

Baseball Analytics For U15 Coaches: Useful Data Without Trackman →

How I track exit velocity, strikeout rate, and walk rate for U15 players using pocket radar, paper, and simple routines. No Trackman, no excuses.
07 May, 2026
Build in Public
How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com
07 May
Build in Public

How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com →

I wired Ghost into Make.com so new members hit a proper conditional welcome flow instead of a single bland email. Here is the exact scenario, modules, and gotchas.
06 May, 2026
Build in Public
My GEO Audit Checklist For Every New Client (With Real Fixes)
06 May
Build in Public

My GEO Audit Checklist For Every New Client (With Real Fixes) →

This is the GEO audit I run on every new client site. Schema, llms.txt, entities, FAQ structure, and the real fixes that actually move the needle.
05 May, 2026
CSS
CSS clip-path Animations I Actually Use For Scroll Reveals
05 May
CSS

CSS clip-path Animations I Actually Use For Scroll Reveals →

How I use CSS clip-path for scroll reveals and hero transitions without ScrollMagic, GSAP, or a single animation library. Just CSS, a bit of IntersectionObserver, and some opinionated patterns.
04 May, 2026
AI
Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work
04 May
AI

Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work →

The worst Make.com scenarios are not the ones that crash. They are the ones that silently stop working. Here is how I design every scenario to make failure loud and obvious.
03 May, 2026
Build in Public
How AI Overviews Actually Work (And How I Get Content Cited)
03 May
Build in Public

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.
02 May, 2026
CSS
CSS Logical Properties: How I Replaced Left/Right Without Breaking Everything
02 May
CSS

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.
01 May, 2026
Biohacking
What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing
01 May
Biohacking

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.
30 Apr, 2026
CSS
Using CSS Custom Properties As Design Tokens (Without A Design System)
30 Apr
CSS

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.
29 Apr, 2026
AI
How I Built an llms.txt For My Clients (And Why It Beats Your Sitemap)
29 Apr
AI

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.
28 Apr, 2026
Build in Public
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
28 Apr
Build in Public

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.
27 Apr, 2026
Frontend
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
27 Apr
Frontend

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.
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Richard Lemon © 2026. Published with Ghost & Rand