Blog Building

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 —

10 Days In. Let’s Talk Real Numbers. I started this blog on May 28, 2026. Today marks roughly 10 days of running reapbountifully.com — a blog built almost entirely with AI tools, managed by a solo developer, and designed as an experiment in whether AI-assisted content creation can actually generate revenue. Here’s my promise: I’m

I launched reapbountifully.com on May 28, 2026. By June 3rd — less than a week later — Google had indexed multiple pages and I was already seeing impressions in Google Search Console. This wasn’t luck. It was a deliberate, step-by-step process that anyone can follow. Here’s exactly what I did to get my blog indexed

Ten days into running this blog, I opened my WordPress dashboard and saw something that made my heart skip a beat: “2 comments pending approval.” 첫 댓글이다! (First comments!) Someone actually read my blog. Someone cared enough to leave a comment. Maybe two someones! I was already mentally composing my thoughtful, gracious reply. This was

This is Part 3 of my “Running a Blog from Telegram” series. If you missed the earlier parts: Part 1 covered building the bot and publishing my first post. Part 2 covered the feedback disaster — how the bot started auto-publishing garbage, and how I fixed it with a draft review flow and scheduling buttons.

If you’ve read my guide on installing Claude Code, you know it runs in the terminal. No fancy chat window. No drag-and-drop. Just a blinking cursor waiting for your input. So here’s the question everyone asks: how do you show Claude Code what you’re looking at? When I’m stuck on a WordPress settings page, staring

You don’t need to know how to code. Seriously. If you can open an app on your Mac, you can use Claude Code. The problem is, most guides out there assume you already know what a “terminal” is, what “Node.js” means, or how to type commands. This guide assumes none of that. I’m going to

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