How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com
I wired Ghost into Make.com so new members hit a proper conditional welcome flow instead of a single bland email. Here is the exact scenario, modules, and gotchas.
Build in Public
The messy reality of shipping personal work. Build logs, SEO experiments, indie projects, and the parts most blogs leave out. 15 posts
My GEO Audit Checklist For Every New Client (With Real Fixes)
This is the GEO audit I run on every new client site. Schema, llms.txt, entities, FAQ structure, and the real fixes that actually move the needle.
How AI Overviews Actually Work (And How I Get Content Cited)
AI Overviews are not magic. They are structured pattern-matching machines. Here is how I use entity consistency, FAQ schema, and llms.txt to get my content cited.
How I Built an llms.txt For My Clients (And Why It Beats Your Sitemap)
I stopped obsessing over sitemaps and started shipping llms.txt files instead. Here is how I built them for real clients and what actually matters for LLMs.
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
Umpiring youth baseball taught me more about production deploys than any DevOps book. Both are about making fast, irreversible calls with incomplete data and living with them.
Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026
I have tried every productivity stack you see on Twitter, but one thing never moved: a weekly paper planning note. Here is what it does that no app can touch.
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
What Is GEO And Why Your Website Needs It In 2026
SEO was for ranking in search results. GEO is for being understood by AI. Here is why that shift matters for your website in 2026 and what to do first.
From Zero To Indexed: How Long My Self‑Hosted Ghost Blog Took To Rank
I launched a self-hosted Ghost blog on a fresh domain and tracked everything. Here is the real timeline from “hello world” to first Google impressions and clicks.
My Anti-GTD Todoist Setup: Flat, Fast, and Review-Free
How I run client work, side projects, and life in Todoist without GTD, weekly reviews, or nested hierarchies. A flat, fast setup that survives real work instead of theory.
The Real Cost Of Self‑Hosting Ghost On DigitalOcean In 2026
I ran the actual 2026 numbers for self‑hosting Ghost on DigitalOcean versus paying for Ghost Pro. This is what it really costs in dollars and in time.
My No-BS Morning Routine After 6 Months Of Experiments
I stress-tested a bunch of morning routines for 6 months while shipping client work, coaching baseball, and trying to stay sane. This is what actually stuck.