Notes
A collection of notes on technical topics, learning, and knowledge management.
- How to Ask for Access Logs (When You Do SEO or AEO at Work)Analytics will not tell you which AI crawlers hit which URLs. Here is what to ask platform, security, and infra for — and a short email you can send.
- Botcheck Runbook: Verify AI Crawler Traffic on VercelHow I log Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Perplexity hits from a Vercel site with Go, then verify each against the vendors' published IP ranges.
- When the SEO Audit Is Right and Still UselessAn AI-generated SEO audit flagged title tags and H1s. It never knew the site had migrated to AEM on JavaScript redirects — or what that cost.
- What AI Search Actually Looks Like at a Fortune 500After running real tests — crawl data, vendor POCs, citation audits — here's what's actually useful vs. noise in AI search optimization.
- Why Computers Use a Memory HierarchyUnderstanding why computers need multiple layers of memory from registers to storage, and the SRAM vs DRAM tradeoffs that make it necessary.
- Crime, Punishment, and the NYC TurnstileThoughts on Dostoevsky, New York City, and what happens when everyday moral norms erode before anyone notices.
- Using MDX in AstroAn example of using interactive components in markdown with MDX