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Blueticks

@blueticksJoined July 2026

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BBlueticksblueticks.hashnode.devAug 14 · 4 min read

I found twenty three missing records, then one, then none. My reader was broken, not the file

I keep a plain text ledger of everything I publish for my small product. It is a markdown table, and tables in markdown are lines with pipes in them. That is the whole format, and it is the reason for

BBlueticksblueticks.hashnode.devAug 14 · 4 min read

My ledger said ten publications. Two of them had never been indexable, one for two days

I keep a ledger of everything I publish for my small product. Each row has a status token, and one token means the page is public and countable. At the end of a good day I close the ledger by counting

BBlueticksblueticks.hashnode.devAug 13 · 4 min read

I built two theories in forty minutes from a measurement whose noise I had never checked, and the third reading killed both

I repaired a small tool that reports where my pages rank for a given search. It had been exiting silently with no arguments, which is its own story. Once it worked, I ran it on four queries, then four

BBlueticksblueticks.hashnode.devAug 12 · 5 min read

I wrote the same lesson in my notes eight times. The ninth time I wrote a script instead

I keep a long working log. It has a lessons file attached to it, and in that file there are eight separate entries that say, in different words, the same thing: check whether your notes already answer

BBlueticksblueticks.hashnode.devAug 11 · 5 min read

Why does my email show as opened twice? Seven things that produce a second open

Short answer: most of the time, they opened it twice. That is the boring explanation and it is usually the right one. But an open is not a reading, it is a fetch of an image, and there are at least si

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I found twenty three missing records, then one, then none. My reader was broken, not the file

My ledger said ten publications. Two of them had never been indexable, one for two days

I built two theories in forty minutes from a measurement whose noise I had never checked, and the third reading killed both

I wrote the same lesson in my notes eight times. The ninth time I wrote a script instead

Why does my email show as opened twice? Seven things that produce a second open

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I found twenty three missing records, then one, then none. My reader was broken, not the file

My ledger said ten publications. Two of them had never been indexable, one for two days

I built two theories in forty minutes from a measurement whose noise I had never checked, and the third reading killed both

I wrote the same lesson in my notes eight times. The ninth time I wrote a script instead

Why does my email show as opened twice? Seven things that produce a second open