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Getting started with Speed Insights

December 23, 2025 • 8 min read min read

A guide to getting started with Vercel Speed Insights on your project, showing you how to enable it, add the package to your project, deploy your app to Vercel, and view your data in the dashboard.

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school got easier when I stopped using five apps

December 15, 2025 • 6 min read min read

I wasn't bad at school. I was just managing it in too many places. This is how I finally fixed that.

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why I left linkedin and started blogging

November 23, 2025 • 5 min read min read

LinkedIn was supposed to help us find jobs. Instead it's just another social media platform. Here's why I tried to build something better, failed, and what I learned from it.

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why I had to shut down slate (it cost too much money)

November 21, 2025 • 8 min read min read

Building a startup as a high school student sounds exciting until you see the hosting bills. Here's exactly what it cost me to run Slate, and why I had to shut it down.

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we're outsourcing our brains to AI and pretending it's fine

November 21, 2025 • 13 min read min read

We outsourced memory to smartphones. Now we're outsourcing thinking to AI. At what point did we agree this was a good idea?

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we're in a digital renaissance and nobody notices

November 21, 2025 • 10 min read min read

The Renaissance fundamentally changed how humans thought, created, and organized society. AI is doing the same thing right now. We're just too close to see it.

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I built my own blog generator because jekyll annoyed me

November 20, 2025 • 9 min read min read

Jekyll is fine. Hugo is fine. But sometimes you just want to build something yourself that works exactly how you want it to work.

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