Blog Building

I’ve been blogging for about a month now. In that time, I’ve made almost every SEO mistake a beginner can make — and I discovered most of them by seeing red dots in my Yoast SEO panel or wondering why Google wasn’t noticing my content. This post is a real accounting of what went wrong, […]

Let me be completely transparent with you: every single post on this blog was written by AI. All 44 of them. Claude, specifically — Anthropic’s AI assistant. And I’m not hiding it. I’m not pretending to type out these 1,500-word posts while sipping coffee at a Seoul cafe. I’m a Korean developer who uses AI

I run this blog on a $6/month VPS from Vultr. No managed hosting. No security team. Just me, a terminal, and a healthy dose of paranoia. When I first set up this WordPress site, I realized something uncomfortable: I’m responsible for everything. If someone hacks my server, that’s on me. If my blog gets turned

I stared at my WordPress dashboard, then at my Google AdSense page, then back at my dashboard. Something was wrong. “Where the hell is my AdSense verification code?” I had just updated the Astra theme from version 4.13.3 to 4.13.4. A minor update. A point release. The kind you click “Update” on without thinking twice.

This is Part 4 of my “Running a Blog from Telegram” series. Quick recap: Part 1 built the bot and published the first post. Part 2 added draft review, feedback loops, and scheduling buttons after a feedback disaster nearly broke everything. Part 3 introduced the /trending command — Google Trends analysis that suggests blog topics

In about 11 days, I’m planning to submit my blog — reapbountifully.com — to Google AdSense. It’ll be roughly 12 days since launch, with 30+ published posts. Will it get approved? Honestly, I have no idea. But instead of just hitting “apply” and hoping for the best, I’m going through every requirement and recommendation I

In Part 1, I reactivated my dormant Google AdSense account and added reapbountifully.com as a new site. That was the easy part — just clicking through Google’s UI. Part 2 is where the code comes in. And honestly? It was even easier. Scene 5: The Verification Code After clicking “시작하기” (Get Started) on the site

My blog is 12 days old. I have 30+ published posts, $0 in revenue, and maybe 5 visitors a day on a good day. Most advice you’ll find online says: “Wait at least 3-6 months before applying for Google AdSense.” Some say you need thousands of visitors. Others say you need 50+ posts. The numbers

Every developer has seen the “10 Best Prompt Engineering Tips” articles. They all say the same thing: “be specific,” “provide context,” “use examples.” Thanks, very helpful. Here’s the thing — I actually use AI prompts professionally, every single day. Not just for fun experiments or writing emails. I run an entire blog (this one) through

I run this entire blog on a $6/month Vultr VPS. Not a managed WordPress host. Not a fancy cloud setup. Just a bare Ubuntu server in Los Angeles that I configured myself over SSH. And it loads faster than most sites running on $30/month shared hosting plans. This post covers every optimization I’ve done —