Just a Side Project

Documenting a fully-automated, zero-cost AI build — one side project at a time.

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Just a Side Project

Oct 14

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Just a Side Project

Oct 12

I Tried to Add Two More Cross-Post Platforms. Both Were Dead Ends.

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Oct 9

Debug Log #8: A Second Burst of Impressions Showed Up a Week After I Requested Indexing. Coincidence or Not?

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3 min read

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Oct 7

Debug Log #7: A Phishing Comment, a Four-Level-Deep Reply Thread, and What Actually Grew This Month

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Oct 5

I Compared My $0 Blog to 5 Blogs That Publish Their Real Income Numbers

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Oct 2

Debug Log #6: I Requested Indexing on 17 Pages. Here's What the Daily Data Actually Shows.

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Sep 30

What a Month of Zero Search Clicks Actually Looked Like Once I Checked the Right Dashboard

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Sep 28

Debug Log #5: I Blamed an API for Being Stale. The API Was Telling the Truth.

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Sep 25

The Internal Linking Cleanup I Kept Putting Off (And What It Actually Took)

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Sep 22

One Month In: The Number That Finally Moved Wasn't the One I Expected

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Sep 20

Debug Log #4: Building a Free Daily Market Risk Dashboard, and the curl.exe Workaround Nobody Warns You About

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Sep 17

Debug Log #3: I Had Claude Code Backtest a Trading Strategy for a Week, and It Found Three Bugs In Its Own Simulation

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Sep 15

What's Actually Automated in an 'AI-Run' Blog, and What Isn't

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Sep 12

Debug Log #2: A Reader Found a Bug in My Pipeline Before I Did

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Sep 10

Three Weeks In: What the Real Numbers Say (Including the Ones I'd Rather Not Show You)

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Sep 7

Debug Log #1: I Fixed the Same Error Twice in One Afternoon, and It Still Wasn't Fixed

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Sep 5

I Registered This Blog With Three Search Engines in One Afternoon (And Discovered IndexNow Doesn't Work on Blogger)

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Sep 2

dev.to Rejected My Cross-Post With a Cryptic Error, and the Cause Was a Picture

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Aug 31

I Wired Google Search Console Into My Publishing Pipeline and Immediately Hit Someone Else's Google Account

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Aug 28

My OAuth Tokens Kept Expiring Every 7 Days, and the Reason Was a Dropdown Labeled 'Testing'

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5 min read

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Aug 26

I Checked Google's Own Billing Console So You Don't Have To: The Real Text-to-Speech Free Tier, Voice by Voice

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Aug 24

What 'Free' Actually Means Across a Multi-Service Google Stack

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Aug 21

My Service Account Key Got Blocked By an Org Policy I Didn't Know Existed

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Aug 20

The Silent Scheduled-Task Failure Nobody Warns You About (And How I Caught It)

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Aug 17

Why I Picked Blogger Over WordPress for a Build-in-Public Blog in 2026

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Aug 14

Reading the Fine Print on 'Free' AI Tools: 5 Questions to Check First

#ai #productivity #buildinpublic

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Aug 13

Google's Free Tiers Compared: Cloud TTS vs. Translate vs. Flow

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Aug 11

The Blogger API Is Still Alive in 2026 -- Here's Proof (and Working Code)

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Aug 9

How I Wired Up Fully-Automated Cross-Posting Between Blogger and dev.to (With Working Code)

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Aug 4

I Compared the Free Tiers of Google Flow, Kling AI, and Hailuo So You Don't Have To

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Aug 4

I Tried to Build a Free AI Shorts Channel. Here's Why I Pivoted to Writing Instead.

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I Tried to Add Two More Cross-Post Platforms. Both Were Dead Ends.

Debug Log #8: A Second Burst of Impressions Showed Up a Week After I Requested Indexing. Coincidence or Not?

Debug Log #7: A Phishing Comment, a Four-Level-Deep Reply Thread, and What Actually Grew This Month

I Compared My $0 Blog to 5 Blogs That Publish Their Real Income Numbers

Debug Log #6: I Requested Indexing on 17 Pages. Here's What the Daily Data Actually Shows.

What a Month of Zero Search Clicks Actually Looked Like Once I Checked the Right Dashboard

Debug Log #5: I Blamed an API for Being Stale. The API Was Telling the Truth.

The Internal Linking Cleanup I Kept Putting Off (And What It Actually Took)

One Month In: The Number That Finally Moved Wasn't the One I Expected

Debug Log #4: Building a Free Daily Market Risk Dashboard, and the curl.exe Workaround Nobody Warns You About

Debug Log #3: I Had Claude Code Backtest a Trading Strategy for a Week, and It Found Three Bugs In Its Own Simulation

What's Actually Automated in an 'AI-Run' Blog, and What Isn't

Debug Log #2: A Reader Found a Bug in My Pipeline Before I Did

Three Weeks In: What the Real Numbers Say (Including the Ones I'd Rather Not Show You)

Debug Log #1: I Fixed the Same Error Twice in One Afternoon, and It Still Wasn't Fixed

I Registered This Blog With Three Search Engines in One Afternoon (And Discovered IndexNow Doesn't Work on Blogger)

dev.to Rejected My Cross-Post With a Cryptic Error, and the Cause Was a Picture

I Wired Google Search Console Into My Publishing Pipeline and Immediately Hit Someone Else's Google Account

My OAuth Tokens Kept Expiring Every 7 Days, and the Reason Was a Dropdown Labeled 'Testing'

I Checked Google's Own Billing Console So You Don't Have To: The Real Text-to-Speech Free Tier, Voice by Voice

What 'Free' Actually Means Across a Multi-Service Google Stack

My Service Account Key Got Blocked By an Org Policy I Didn't Know Existed

The Silent Scheduled-Task Failure Nobody Warns You About (And How I Caught It)

Why I Picked Blogger Over WordPress for a Build-in-Public Blog in 2026

Reading the Fine Print on 'Free' AI Tools: 5 Questions to Check First

Google's Free Tiers Compared: Cloud TTS vs. Translate vs. Flow

The Blogger API Is Still Alive in 2026 -- Here's Proof (and Working Code)

How I Wired Up Fully-Automated Cross-Posting Between Blogger and dev.to (With Working Code)

I Compared the Free Tiers of Google Flow, Kling AI, and Hailuo So You Don't Have To

I Tried to Build a Free AI Shorts Channel. Here's Why I Pivoted to Writing Instead.