How I'm Optimizing My Small Blog to Get Cited by AI (Based on Actual Research)
AI ate my traffic. Then I found a study of 18,000 pages that shows what actually gets cited.
Olga Braginskaya
Know your tokens. Own your costs.
A few weeks ago someone on Twitter (or it's X.com now) was mansplaining to me that LLM tokens are basically random, that nobody really knows how they are calculated and that there is no way to log or control them. Which was unfortunate for him because at
SQL Interviews in the Age of LLMs: Patterns Over Queries
Stop memorizing queries. Learn to recognize the 12 problem shapes that keep showing up.
AI Gave Us Lemons. We Picked Limoncello
Here's the thing. These days it's become genuinely hard to maintain professional motivation in software engineering. The level of bullshit is off the charts, everyone lies from companies to ChatGPT. AI rewrote this, AI replaced those people, AI this AI that blah blah blah. Today you&
Build in Public: Week 10. Making It Less Fragile
Build in public has a funny way of changing over time. In the beginning you write about ideas, architecture, big plans and bold assumptions. A few weeks later you mostly write about why something broke, how it broke and what you had to fix so it doesn’t break the
Build in Public: Week 9. The Shape of Wykra
Build in public is an interesting experiment overall. You get new readers, some of them even stick around, you start getting invited into different communities, you end up with a proud count of EIGHT stars on your repository and at some point you inevitably find yourself trying to fit into
Build in Public: Week 8. We Finally Deployed This Thing
Last week technically never happened.
We didn’t skip a post, didn’t disappear into Christmas and New Year food comas and definitely didn’t spend a suspicious amount of time eating baked goods instead of shipping software. Let’s assume we simply compressed time and released everything at once.
Week 7: Shipping While Tired (or: Still Alive, Surprisingly)
This week was quiet.
Not because nothing is happening, but because after six weeks of pushing, adding platforms, adding metrics, debugging queues and arguing with reality, we’re tired. The kind of tired where you stop dreaming about new features and start dreaming about “everything still works tomorrow”.
And honestly
Build in Public: Week 6. Trying to Add More Social Platforms
Last week was about observability. We added metrics and dashboards so we could see what the system was actually doing instead of relying on intuition.
So this week wasn’t about inventing something new from scratch. It was about answering a very practical question: can we extend the same idea
Build in Public: Week 5. The Week We Finally Measured Things Instead of Just Hoping for the Best
Last week I ended with a dramatic cliffhanger: “We need metrics!”
And then immediately regretted it, because “metrics” is one of those words that sounds simple until you realize you now have to measure things сonsistently and over time. And then look at the numbers even when you don’t