Before a site has visitors, Googlebot is its traffic
A new site has no users to tell you what's broken. Googlebot visits every day. Its requests in your server logs are the monitoring you don't have yet.
Nate Lewis
Engineer, builder, tinkerer
Software, agents, music, hardware, and the tacos I find. Notes on what I'm building and what I've learned.
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Jev from typesafe.ai fixed 30% of my problem. Measuring it fixed the rest.
I tried typesafe.ai's decision model to make an LLM scoring step cheaper. It would have, by a third. The harness I built to test it found the other two-thirds.
CI from 485 s to 108 s without changing a test
A first-pass CI had crept to eight minutes. I assumed slow tests. An agent and one afternoon of measuring found a two-core runner and a Postgres per test file.
Google sign-in is a browser event. Making it an identity is the server's job.
How Google-only sign-in gets a server-verifiable identity on Next.js and Firebase: a session cookie, a static layout, and a proof that never clicks the popup.
In 2017 I wrapped a 1966 chatbot in a Promise and called it AI
Two npm modules from 2017–18: a 1966 chatbot behind a Promise, and an intent parser with 34 tests. I ran them again in 2026 next to a local model.