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Written by hand, published by pipeline. The same system I build for clients runs parts of this blog. Consider it a living demo.
- 014Adaptive Personality Dials: How I Let Her Tune Herself Without Breaking AnythingLocal Waifu's personality now adjusts from how you behave, through ten numeric dials instead of free text. The design, the safety boundary, and the bug the review loop was built to catch.
- 013I Hit My Claude Code Budget Mid-Feature: Here Is What Happened NextWhat a design-review-implement-review loop with AI subagents actually catches, what it costs, and what building looks like the moment the budget runs out and you finish the job yourself.
- 012Is SEO Dead in 2026? My Analytics Say OtherwiseOrganic clicks really did collapse in 2026. My app still sold four copies overnight from Google. Here is what actually changed, and the test that decides whether a model cites your page.
- 011Local Waifu 1.5.1: Picture Skills and an itch.io Page1.5.1 replaced Local Waifu's image engine with one about 6x smaller and faster, added seven picture skills, and put the app on itch.io. Build notes.
- 010Postsider: One Meta Review Away From LaunchPostsider is built, security-audited, and deployed. The only thing between it and a public launch is a platform app review. Notes from the launch queue.
- 009What's Worth Automating: The Filter I UseA five-gate filter for deciding what to automate and what to leave manual, from someone running 26 n8n pipelines in production. Plus the honest no.
- 008Local Waifu 1.5: teaching an offline app to drawWhat it actually took to make an AI companion generate images on your own machine: a 52 GB memory spike, a portrait reference tuned to 0.15, and the fallback I deleted.
- 007I sell my app like a video game, not a SaaSI removed the $15 a year renewal from Local Waifu and replaced it with nothing. Why a pricing line that scans as a subscription kills a buy-once product.
- 006AI Blog Automation for Business: How the Pipeline WorksHow a real AI blog automation pipeline works in 2026: research, writing against a brief, a human editorial gate, and publishing. Built by a copywriter, not a chatbot.
- 005Blog Content Cost: Agency vs Freelancer vs AI PipelineWhat blog content really costs in 2026. Agency retainers, freelance rates, and AI pipelines compared on the metric that matters: cost per published month, not per article.
- 004Will Google Penalize AI Content? A Straight AnswerGoogle does not penalize AI content for being AI. It penalizes unhelpful content. Here is what the 2026 data shows and how the human-in-the-loop workflow stays safe.
- 003Five products, one personOne sold, one open source, three alive. What actually transfers between projects when you build everything yourself, and what dying products are for.
- 002SEO for Boring Niches: Why Pest Control Wins at ContentBoring niches are the best-kept secret in content marketing. Pest control, supplements, and travel logistics beat trendy startups at SEO. Here is why, from someone who runs their blogs.
- 001n8n Content Automation: Build a Blog PipelineHow to build a blog content pipeline in n8n: the stages, the filter for what to automate, and what breaks at scale. From someone who runs 26 of them in production.