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.
My writings
Dispatches from a life spent online.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
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.
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.
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.
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.