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30 Years Ago Today: The Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines is published
Thirty years ago, I published my first guide to search engines called The Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines. For the anniversary, I dug up the old HTML files from my archives, dusted them off, and have made them available for anyone interested in what the search engine landscape was like back then. I’ve made some…
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WTWN – my simple TV & movie watchlist app – now available for iOS
My What To What Next web app is now available as an iOS app! WTWN is a simple TV & movie watchlist app to track your TV shows, movies, and where they are streaming. No cluttered feeds or auto-recommendations. Just your watchlist. Download it here and enjoy using it on your iPad and iPhone. On…
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My Takeaways From Vibe Coding As A Non-Coder
In part one — How I vibe coded a TV show & movie watchlist web app with no coding experience — I covered the step-by-step process of going from an idea to vibe coding with AI to transform it into a working TV & movie watchlist site called What To Watch Next (WTWN). In this…
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How I vibe coded a TV show & movie watchlist web app with no coding experience
I’ve long wanted a way to better keep track of the TV shows and movies we want to watch other than jotting them down in the notes app on my phone. With all the talk about “vibe coding,” I wondered. Could that let me build my dream app, even though I have no coding skills?…
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The “I Love You California” flag
I love California, my home and native state. I love flags. I’ve combined both of those to create what I call the “I Love You California” flag. It blends two iconic images for my state, our flag and the hugging bear image associated with our state song, into a design I hope shows some love…
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Waiting on the Fisker Ocean, my virtual road trip of delay and uncertainty
The Fisker Ocean seemed like the perfect vehicle for me. A great looking SUV that’s all EV, at a great price and plenty of range? Sign me up! And so I did, back in January 2022. Since then, my future dream ride feels more and more imaginary. Will it ever arrive? And will it have…
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Some thoughts about The Verge article on SEO
I found myself part of The Verge’s article about SEO today, and I wanted to address some of the things that are specific to me. For background, this is my personal blog. What I’m writing here in this post isn’t officially from Google. No one at Google has reviewed it. These are my personal thoughts.…
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Review: Life with the Vestaboard split-flap display
What’s it like owning a Vestaboard split-flap display? Wonderful! This post shares my experience after a year of ownership.