In Part 1, I showed how I built a Telegram bot that lets me publish blog posts from my phone. Send a topic in Korean, get a polished English article on my WordPress site. It felt magical. That magic lasted exactly one post. The Post That Exposed Everything June 3rd was election day in South […]
How I Run My Blog Entirely from Telegram (Part 2: When Feedback Broke Everything) Read Post »
The Problem: Great Ideas Die in Commute Traffic Here’s the thing about running a blog as a side hustle — the best ideas never come when you’re sitting at your desk. They come when you’re packed into a Seoul subway car at 8:47 AM, holding a ceiling handle with one hand and your phone with
How I Run My Blog Entirely from Telegram (Part 1: Building the Bot) Read Post »
Two weeks ago, I was a developer who thought about starting a blog. Today, I am a developer who runs a blog with 15 published posts, SEO configured, Google Analytics tracking visitors, and a clear monetization plan. The transformation happened almost entirely through conversations with an AI. But this is just the beginning. I want
From Developer to Content Creator: My 12-Month Roadmap Read Post »
I have a graveyard of dead side projects. If you’re a developer, you probably do too. There’s aqt-bs-bot — a Telegram bot I built, used twice, and abandoned. There’s gooyabot, another bot that went absolutely nowhere. There’s 처치테이블, a project whose name I can barely remember the purpose of. And scattered across my GitHub are
I Have $0 Revenue and 5 Visitors a Day. Here’s My Actual Side Project Numbers. Read Post »
Since I started writing about vibe coding, the most common pushback I get (mostly from the developer part of my brain arguing with itself) is: “But is it really coding?” I touched on this in my earlier post about vibe coding, but I think the comparison deserves a deeper look. So I asked Claude to
Vibe Coding vs Traditional Coding: A Fair Comparison Read Post »
Let me be honest about something: when I started this blog, I was not sure if developer blogging was even a viable way to make money in 2026. There are millions of blogs out there. AI can generate content at scale. Why would anyone read mine? So I asked Claude to give me the cold,
Can a Developer Really Make Money Blogging in 2026? Read Post »
I spend $6 a month on hosting this blog. Six dollars. That’s less than a single fancy coffee in most cities. When I started reapbountifully.com, I knew I wanted a VPS (Virtual Private Server) instead of shared hosting or managed WordPress. Not because I’m a masochist who enjoys server management — but because I needed
Best Cheap VPS Hosting for AI-Powered Blogs Under $10/Month (2026) Read Post »
I’ve been using AI coding tools daily for months now. I started with ChatGPT — like most developers did. It was exciting, it was useful, and it genuinely changed how I worked. Then I tried Claude. And I switched. But this isn’t a “Claude is perfect and ChatGPT is trash” post. Both tools have real
Claude vs ChatGPT for Developers: I Switched and Here’s What Happened Read Post »
I spend about $27 a month running this entire blog — writing, SEO, publishing, analytics, everything. No team. No freelancers. Just me and a stack of AI tools that do 90% of the heavy lifting. This isn’t one of those “Top 10 AI Writing Tools” posts where someone clearly just Googled a list and rewrote
Best AI Tools for Blogging in 2026 (What I Actually Use Every Day) Read Post »
Imagine showing up to vote — one of the most basic things you can do as a citizen — and being told, “Sorry, we ran out of ballots.” That’s exactly what happened in Seoul on June 3, 2026, during South Korea’s local elections. And the story only gets worse from there. Voting — a right
When Democracy Runs Out of Paper: South Korea’s June 3 Election Ballot Shortage Crisis Read Post »