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A collection of notes on building thoughtful software, creative work, and the small details that make both matter.
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Things to learn
2026
Since the beginning
Fresh thinking
A realistic guide to Google indexing for new blogs: what to submit, what to expect, and why the silence in the first six weeks is not a sign that something is broken.
A Vite and Astro gotcha: why PUBLIC_ prefixed variables reach the client and everything else does not, and how to fix it without leaking secrets.
Three mistakes that make Astro report an empty content collection instead of an error, and how to diagnose each one.