There's no shortage of AI news. What's missing is "okay, but what happened when you actually used it?"
This series is not a news summary. Each week covers only what I actually did:
- Tools and models I used — results from putting them into my projects, not marketing copy
- What I built — what shipped or got fixed that week, how long it took, what it cost
- A verdict — keep, drop, and why
Why this format
Deciding to adopt a tool from its launch announcement usually ends in regret — the gap between the demo and daily use is wide. I work as an engineer at a US tech company and spend my side time building apps and automating business workflows — which means I end up trying new things every week anyway. This series just shares the log.
One promise: nothing appears here that I haven't used myself.
How to follow
This series ships as the newsletter — subscribe to get issues the moment they're out; the blog keeps the archive.
Back issues
- #1 (Week 33) — the week I made this site bilingual and bolted on an SEO engine
- #2 (Week 38) — one month of a self-improving SEO machine, real numbers
- #3 (Week 40) — the freshness rule fires for the first time
- #4 (Week 42) — six weeks of empty buckets, one branded search climbing
- #5 (Week 44) — the post that doubled its impressions and still won't trigger a rewrite
- #6 (Week 46) — my growth streak broke, and Korean beat English for the first time