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Now

What I'm focused on right now. Last updated: August 2026.

Currently Exploring

Gemini network analysis. In progress. The last one in the set, and it needed a different method. Gemini answers from two layers, the app's own traffic and the grounding API, so the capture had to read both. The draft is written and I'm re-running probes before it goes out.
GSC MCP v2.3 and image SEO. In progress. v2.3 of the GSC MCP is built, seven image search tools plus a setup wizard, and the release is next. The image SEO guide is being reworked to ship alongside it.
Log file intelligence. Done. Built a real-time log analysis dashboard on a $5/mo Cloudflare Workers setup: verified bot detection by IP, AI-crawler tracking, crawl-budget views. Still need to write it up as a rebuild of my 2020 log analysis guide.
Internal linking. Done. Found an approach that works, embeddings plus a crawl, that beats what's out there. Will publish the writeup later.

Tools and projects I've tested and formed a verdict on. Most recent month shown below. Older entries live in the archive.

Common Crawl Visibility Checker Kept Built and shipped. Reads 12 months of Common Crawl history for any domain or single page, dates the month a CCBot block appeared, and tells you whether a CDN template wrote it. The launch post covers why that archive decides whether you exist in AI training data.

Raising three kids, which remains the only job with no PTO and no performance reviews.
Trying to read more and spend less time on X. One of those is going well.