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The $0 directory build, written down.

Real software, real numbers, including the flat weeks and the week the whole thing was quietly broken. The running example is a directory of nearly 600 LA dentists, built with an AI coding tool on a free database and a one-dollar domain.

  1. 4 min read

    The week the site was quietly broken

    A directory of 600 dentists threw a 500 on every database page for seven days, and nothing told me. Here is how it happened and what I changed.

  2. 4 min read

    Slicing work so the AI stops inventing things

    The single habit that made an AI coding tool useful on a real project instead of a confident liar.

  3. 5 min read

    A directory of 600 dentists on a free database and a dollar domain

    What the stack actually is, what it really costs to run, and why most of the hard part was not the code.

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