Writing
Notes on what I'm building, what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently.
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How my GridPane dashboard works, and where GridPane's API stops
Matchless Fleet is the private app I run my GridPane servers from. A page-by-page tour: what syncs with GridPane, what's display only, and what's still copy and paste.
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Retiring my WordPress speed course for an AI agent skill pack
Holy Grail WP taught WordPress speed by hand for years. It's retiring: the Site Speed Pack has an AI agent do the work and prove nothing broke.
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Two WooCommerce stores redesigned on Bricks, every email redone
A surprise redesign for one of my first clients, and an AK parts store relaunched on Sunday: two WooCommerce stores rebuilt on Bricks, every email redone.
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A Black Friday email signature sale, tracked from ad to revenue
Simple Email Signature's Black Friday sale is live at 20% off the first year, with posts, Meta ads and Stripe revenue tracked in one Google Sheet.
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Campaign tracking for ad leads, and why response time matters
A $39 skill pack that ties every lead and sale to the ad that brought it, and a study on why the first hour after a lead arrives matters most.
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Trying the 8G firewall beside 7G on GridPane, in watch mode
8G Helper names the 8G rule behind a blocked request, and shows how to run 8G in watch mode beside 7G on GridPane, so false positives turn up first.
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I built a 7G firewall exception generator for GridPane
7G Helper reads a blocked request from a GridPane 7G log, names the rule that fired, and writes an exception scoped to that one request. Free, in the browser.
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A dark mode email signature funnel, and 25 codes for testers
An AI audit said Simple Email Signature had no social proof. So I built a free-signature funnel and set aside 25 free codes for honest testers.
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An AI writing workflow with three blind critics
I built a scheduled AI writing workflow where three blind critics must rank a draft above two rival articles before it can publish. Its first run lost.
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A weekly blog post with Claude Code and GitHub Actions
How I write one post a week about what I shipped: GitHub Actions gathers the commits, Claude interviews me about the week, then drafts it for my approval.
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BTC DCA Engine is now listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory
BTC DCA Engine is now listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory. Here's what OpenAI's review asked for, and what a ChatGPT user gets now.
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Why this blog runs on EmDash, and why nothing else of mine does yet
This blog is my first real EmDash site. Why I picked Cloudflare's agent-first CMS for it, what I'm testing, and why I'm not moving anything else yet.