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.
#software-engineering
The model was writing 108 blank answers per bill and I never looked
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.
A signed-in browser tells my server nothing
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
I built a voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi in 2017 and put a 1966 chatbot where the brain goes. Ran the whole thing again this year next to a local model.