Blog Building

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 […]

I knew nothing about SEO before starting this blog. I mean, I knew it stood for Search Engine Optimization. But the actual mechanics of how to get Google to show my posts to people? No idea. So I did what I always do — I asked Claude. And what followed was basically an SEO crash

This blog has been live for three days. That is not a typo — three days. And already there are things I did not expect, problems I had to fix, and actual data to look at. Here is the unfiltered recap of my first few days as a blogger. The Numbers (So Far) I asked

Up until today, this blog was running the default WordPress theme. Twenty Twenty-Five. It worked — the posts were readable, the layout was functional — but it looked like every other default WordPress site on the internet. Not exactly the first impression I wanted to make. So I told Claude: “The design is terrible. Fix

After setting up the blog, SEO, and Google Search Console, I realized I was missing something important: I had no way to see who was actually visiting my site. Search Console tells me about Google searches, but it does not show me real-time visitors, page views, or where my traffic is coming from. So I

People keep asking about the tools behind this blog. And I get it — when someone says “I built this with AI,” the natural follow-up is “which AI?” So here are the tools I am actually using for this side hustle. Not a sponsored list, not “top 10 AI tools you NEED in 2026.” Just

One of the most common questions I expect to get about this blog is: “How do you write in English so well if you are Korean?” The answer is simple — I do not write in English. I write in Korean. Claude writes in English. But it is not as simple as hitting a translate

Before setting up my blog, I needed to pick a platform. I had a conversation with Claude about this, and what happened was kind of interesting — it turned into a mini research project where the AI did the legwork and I made the final call. Here is how that went. Me: “I want to

I have been putting off starting a blog for months. Today I finally opened Claude (an AI assistant) and typed: “If I give you Linux server credentials, can you install WordPress on it?” Claude said yes. And that kicked off a 30-minute conversation where I basically just followed instructions, took screenshots, and asked “what next?”