Working notes. From the keyboard.

Long-form notes on building content-first websites that rank on Google and get cited by AI assistants. Updated as topics warrant, not on a content calendar.

Recent insights

Performance · 2026-05

The opacity:0 LCP killer hiding in your GSAP entrance animation

Why scroll-driven entrance animations sabotage your Lighthouse score, and the transform-only pattern that fixes it without losing the polish.

AEO · 2026-04

Why your answer-engine surface needs a llms.txt before it needs a sitemap

How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity crawlers prioritize llms.txt as a discovery surface, and the canonical shape that gets your facts cited correctly.

Schema · 2026-03

The sameAs graph is more important than your meta description

How Google ties your Wikidata, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile together via sameAs threading, and why a broken sameAs link costs you Knowledge Panel real estate.

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