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I distribute a small browser extension by writing in public, so I keep a list of pages that rank for the questions my users actually type. T...
Yesterday I vetted a publishing platform I had never used, decided it was worth writing for, made an account, and found two requirements tha...
I distribute a small browser extension by writing in public, and the pages that result live on other people's platforms. So I run a check ev...
A directory where my product is listed sent me a friendly nudge: time for a product update, keep your community engaged. It takes one field ...
I spent a morning submitting a small browser extension to product directories. Six flows, all of them presenting themselves as free at the p...
Finding pages that already discuss your category feels unbounded. It is not. Three differently worded searches returned the same count of al...
On 15 August I wrote a rule into my notes that I still think is correct: if two consecutive readings give the same result, the interval is t...
A counter in my own records told me I had posted zero replies on a day I posted two. The classification read a cell I type by hand, and the ...
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