You ever fix a bug that makes you wonder if your codebase is gaslighting you? That was me today, wrestling with a so-called “optional” field that TypeScript just refused to let go. I was refactoring the ContactForm in one of my Next.js projects. Clean little thing, Zod schema for validation, React Hook Form for, well, […]

I Built an AI That Sorts My Gmail So I Don’t Have To Bottom line up front: I was spending way too much time sorting emails across 5 Gmail accounts, so I built an AI workflow that does it automatically. It runs every 15 minutes, categorizes everything with surprising accuracy, and costs about 70 cents […]

I’ve been building websites and watching Google’s algorithm changes for 17 years. The shift happening right now? It’s bigger than anything I’ve seen before. The Numbers Don’t Lie Here’s what’s actually happening with search. Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 18.76% of search results as of November 2024, up from basically zero two years ago. […]

Bottom line up front: Most AI writing sounds generic because people skip the persona step. I built a Gem that interviews you about your writing style, then creates detailed instructions you can use with any AI system. Takes 25 minutes total, works everywhere. I see a lot of AI content being published without any personal […]

Let’s face it, applying for jobs sucks. Not because we’re not good enough. But because the system is built around broken tools: clunky forms, generic resume templates, and cover letters that feel like you’re trying to guess the right answer on a test nobody explained. Aixon is my attempt to fix that. Where this all […]

The other day I was trying to get ChatGPT to help me write a quick utility script. Something simple, like: “Write a Node.js script that reads a CSV file and outputs it as JSON.” Sounds clear enough, right? But the output I got was messy, missing error handling, no comments, and not very readable. Totally […]

Quick one today! Just something I ran into on a client project that wasted 15 minutes of my time, and figured sharing it might save someone else a bit of head-scratching. I’d set up the initial Prisma schema, ran prisma migrate dev to create the tables, and then used prisma generate as usual. Everything was […]

If you’ve ever typed the same terminal command more than three times in one day, you’re doing too much. And if you’ve ever typed a long git command with half your brain hoping you don’t mess up a flag, yeah, I’ve been there too. I guess in 2008 or so, I started adding aliases to […]

Last month I helped a friend prepare for an interview, resume, cover letter, talking points, the whole thing — and somewhere in the middle of that, an idea clicked. I’ve been quietly working on it ever since, and I think it’s something a lot of people are going to find genuinely useful, especially if you’ve […]

This one’s been sitting in my backlog for a while now, but I finally got around to putting it together the way I actually use it. If you’ve ever wanted to scrape content from a website and then feed that into GPT for analysis, rewriting, or summarizing, this post will walk you through the full […]

Yes, even on self-hosted setups like Railway So this came up again today while I was wrapping up a small feature for the Smart Page Analyzer workflow I’m building for a client with n8n + OpenAI. A while back, I needed to use cheerio inside an n8n Function node to scrape and clean content from […]