The Cheap Fix Card
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A log you never reread is a diary. Here is the five-slot card I use to turn an entry into something that actually gets seen again.
Read →Notes on building, learning, and helping people put AI to work.
Showing posts tagged process (11)
Show allWhy You Should Keep One
1 min readChecking your AI's work is the part nobody has a method for. A running log is the cheapest one I have found, and you can start it this afternoon.
Read →What the Pattern Says
1 min readSorting a month of AI near-misses into classes turned up one that keeps repeating, and it is not the one I expected.
Read →What a Cheap Fix Is
1 min readA cheap fix is a small change you earn from something that nearly went wrong. Here is the bar I hold them to, and two that made it.
Read →The Fix Was Framing, Not Editing
1 min readOur avatar dissolved on light backgrounds. Boosting the contrast made it worse. A moss-green disc behind it fixed the problem without touching the artwork at all.
Read →Any Folder Can Be Its Own Vault
1 min readMy Obsidian vault holds about eight hundred notes. To build this project in public I needed to show eighteen of them. A vault is just a folder, so I pointed it at one.
Read →I Was Wrong About My Own Files
1 min readMy AI assistant flagged two files as migration casualties, on the evidence that one was newer and twice the size of its replacement. We opened them. Both were fine.
Read →One Tool, and What It Missed
1 min readVideoI ran a free accessibility checker over two sites I own. One came back with a single problem and no warnings; the other had eleven. They failed differently, and the useful part is what the tool could not tell me either way.
Read →Two Numbers That Do Not Fit Together
1 min readPeople are asking AI tools for local recommendations. People almost never click the links inside an AI answer. Both of those were measured, and neither one cancels the other out.
Read →That Deadline Email Is Not About Your Shop
1 min readIf you got an email warning that a federal web accessibility deadline is coming for your business, there is a good chance it was describing a real rule that does not apply to you. Here is how to tell.
Read →Forty Thousand Letters, One Candle
1 min readEvery night before 1840, London clerks held letters up to a candle to see how many sheets were inside, because the price depended on it. The reform that followed did not speed that up — it deleted it.
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