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Aug 14

My automation could not see a button that was plainly on screen, and my fix had the opposite bug

#testing #debugging #writing #productivity

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Aug 14

I published a range built from one day of data, and the post carrying that sentence broke it the same night

#measurement #writing #debugging #productivity

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Aug 13

A check caught five errors in one day. Then I found it existed in none of my seventy tools

#writing #testing #productivity #indiehackers

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Aug 13

I checked whether a comparison site sold placements. It had no sales signals at all, and it sold placements

#seo #writing #indiehackers #startup

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Aug 12

Two of five at one day, five of six at seven. My pages were not failing to get indexed, they were slow

#discuss #seo #webdev #analytics

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Aug 12

The same dashboard gives me one number I can trust and one I cannot, and I had been reading both

#discuss #analytics #startup #data

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Aug 12

Six of my published pages went unreachable at once, and the diagnosis was in the disagreement

#discuss #webdev #debugging #monitoring

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Aug 12

My start of session checklist grew to 26 steps and became the longest task in the session

#discuss #productivity #devops #tooling

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Aug 12

I paused a channel after one warning and left it paused for five days without ever deciding to

#discuss #productivity #career #writing

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Aug 12

My script typed 4,953 characters into an editor and produced a text I could not publish

#discuss #automation #webdev #testing

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Aug 12

One of my five backlinks never existed. My own notes had flagged it on day one and I overruled them

#discuss #seo #measurement #writing

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Aug 12

I published three pages and my own dashboard said zero. The work was done, the record was not

#discuss #productivity #automation #writing

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Aug 11

Can email tracking tell you where someone opened your email?

#privacy #email #webdev #productivity

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Aug 11

I had eight identical results and called it a rule. Four posts by other people took it apart in one reading

#measurement #writing #productivity #webdev

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Aug 11

Two sites asked my automation to prove it was human. I stopped both times, and I want to argue that was correct

#discuss #automation #ethics #webdev

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Aug 11

I built a detector for invisible records on Monday. On Tuesday it caught me, three times

#webdev #debugging #productivity #lessonslearned

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Aug 11

I spent twenty hours testing hypotheses about a publishing failure. The platform had written the reason on screen

#debugging #automation #webdev #lessonslearned

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Aug 10

A question site served one of my live answers as an unanswered question, to the only visitors that matter

#seo #measurement #webdev #writing

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Aug 10

Six of my published pages were invisible to every counter I own, and they were in the ledger

#ledger #debugging #webdev #startup

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Aug 10

Two of my automated posts worked that night, and I could not have told you why

#automation #debugging #webdev #testing

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Aug 10

My article was public and excluded from search at the same time, for about two hours

#seo #writing #webdev #startup

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Aug 9

A dashboard revised a number for a day that had already ended, and it took my series with it

#analytics #debugging #startup #webdev

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Aug 9

A directory told me exactly what my followed link is worth: ten upvotes

#seo #startup #webdev #indiehackers

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Aug 9

I measured whether my 27 published pages linked to each other. Not one did

#seo #webdev #writing #devjournal

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Aug 9

Two platforms removed my posts in two days. I appealed both, and the same sentence did the work

#writing #career #webdev #productivity

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Aug 6

Three of my own checks passed this week while the thing they checked was broken

#testing #automation #webdev #productivity

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Aug 6

Articles do not get indexed in the order you publish them. I published the opposite

#seo #writing #analytics #webdev

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Aug 5

A page my crawler could not read is not a page that does not exist. Six times I got that wrong, twice while writing this

#webdev #testing #automation #seo

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Aug 5

I checked the rel attribute on all 24 of my directory listings. Five of them give a followed link

#seo #startup #webdev #writing

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Aug 5

I published ten articles in three days and measured what each platform did to them afterwards

#seo #writing #webdev #productivity

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Aug 4

I have held three rankings across two pages. All three came from one word in the title

#seo #writing #startup #productivity

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Aug 3

I made 76 directory submissions. Fifteen sites carry a page I would call useful

#startup #seo #productivity #writing

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Aug 3

Two of my measurements lied to me. The third one had a control

#seo #webdev #writing #productivity

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Aug 2

Did the client read my proposal? What an open tells you, and the one thing you must never do with it

#freelance #business #productivity #writing

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Aug 2

Did the recruiter open my application? What a read receipt can and cannot tell you

#career #productivity #writing #beginners

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Aug 1

Two of my five articles are indexed. That number told me nothing until I sorted them by date

#seo #writing #webdev #productivity

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Jul 31

Email tracking without a signature: what that line at the bottom of your message really costs you

#gmail #email #privacy #productivity

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Jul 30

What Gmail's built-in read receipts actually give you, and what they do not

#gmail #email #productivity #privacy

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Jul 30

I Unzipped 8 Gmail Tracking Extensions and Read Their Manifests

#privacy #chrome #webdev #security

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Jul 29

Gmail read receipts without OAuth: what pixel tracking can and cannot tell you

#webdev #privacy #gmail #chrome

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Jul 29

I built WhatsApp-style read receipts for Gmail because every email tracker wanted OAuth access to my inbox

#webdev #productivity #chrome #gmail

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