Tag: tech

All the articles with the tag "tech".

• Rebuilding my wife's website, Part III: the SEO story — and a name Google couldn't find

  21 Jun, 2026

  No meta descriptions, no structured data, junk pages indexed — and her own Chinese name appearing nowhere on the site. How the rebuild of krystle.hk took Lighthouse SEO from 85 to 100 on every page.

• Rebuilding my wife's website, Part II: the UI — same design, an interface that finally works

  18 Jun, 2026

  The rebuild of krystle.hk kept the design pixel-close and replaced every plugin-powered interaction: a hero without a 700 KB slider, a portfolio that can't hide her events, a native-dialog lightbox — and a font bug that mangled her own name.

• Rebuilding my wife's website, Part I: WordPress → static HTML — and the honest pros and cons

  15 Jun, 2026

  Her WordPress portfolio scored 56 on Lighthouse and took 13.8 seconds to paint. One weekend with an AI agent later: 102 pages of hand-rolled static HTML, first paint 1.7s, 5 KB of JavaScript. How we did it — and when you shouldn't.

• Vibe-coding NamLoop: an ad-free YouTube looper, shipped in a weekend

  12 Jun, 2026

  A weekend, some spare tokens, and an itch — I vibe-coded NamLoop: loop any YouTube video, the whole thing or a precise A–B segment, ad-free. What it does, how the looping actually works, and what 'vibe coding' really changes.

• Cutting our cloud bill 90% with Claude and gcloud — safely

  9 Jun, 2026

  An agentic workflow with Claude and the gcloud CLI took our monthly cloud spend from $2,800 to $300 — no code changes, no downtime. The method, and the safety rails that actually matter.

• Why we deploy LLMs on-premises

  6 Jun, 2026

  Privacy, cost control and predictability: when running AI on your own servers beats calling an API — and when it doesn't.

• Hello, world — why this site exists

  3 Jun, 2026

  A personal home on the web: what I'll write about, and how the bilingual blog works.