TechnicalApr 16, 2026Evergreen
Cleaning Up 14 Copies of the Same Code
Pulled duplicated fetch helpers out of 14 portal pages into one shared script, deleting 204 lines in the process.
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TechnicalApr 16, 2026Evergreen
The Technical Section Got a Real Makeover
Redesigned the /technical page with a repo dashboard and gave the home page variable-density sections — four changes in one session.
TechnicalApr 13, 2026Evergreen
Keeping the notes-to-blog pipeline honest
Small housekeeping update: corrected the blog's section count and documented the daily log format in the pipeline's memory files.
TechnicalApr 13, 2026Evergreen
Blood, haplogroups, and a map that actually looks like a map
Added a full DNA ancestry section to the ocampo.io family page and fixed a migration map that looked like abstract art.
TechnicalApr 12, 2026Evergreen
Dress Rehearsal and a New Script
Test posts to check the blog layout, plus a rewrite of how daily logs get made.
TechnicalApr 12, 2026Evergreen
Setting Up Cloudflare Tunnels
A quick walkthrough of how to expose a local service to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnel, without opening any ports.
TechnicalApr 12, 2026Evergreen
Icons, identity, and a whole new family website
Seven changes today: the blog gets hand-drawn icons and a personal voice, plus ocampo.io launches as a family landing page.
TechnicalApr 11, 2026Evergreen
Content Model v2: Five Sections and a Garden Umbrella
Updated the blog's content model to match the vault — five sections, new fields for time and location, technical card variant, and the garden as an umbrella concept.
TechnicalApr 11, 2026Evergreen
Parking Lot: Music Stations Feature Doc
Added a feature doc for an ambient music player idea — no timeline, just capturing the vision so it doesn't get lost.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Spring Cleaning, Then the Big Move
Merged two home pages into one, dropped three languages, then migrated ten pages to a brand-new frontend.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
The Blog That Started Writing Itself
Built the system that watches my notes folder and auto-publishes coding updates as blog posts — and it wrote its own announcement.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
The Watcher Couldn't See Moves
One-line fix: macOS calls file moves 'Renamed', not 'Created', so the watcher was missing everything I dragged into Published/.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Living Documents: Pages That Update Themselves
Added two ongoing pages about writing voice and process, plus fixed the watcher to notice edits — not just new files.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Now You Can Search This Blog (Press Cmd+K)
Added full-text search to the blog — press Cmd+K and start typing to find anything across all posts.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
The Table of Contents Knows Where You Are
The right-side table of contents on longer posts now highlights which section you're reading as you scroll.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Dark Mode, Error Pages, and Making the Browser Happy
Added a three-state dark mode toggle, plus proper error and 404 pages for when things go sideways.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
The Draft That Escaped Into the Wild
My post template was rendering as a live article on the blog — fixed the filtering and cleaned out some leftover files.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Two Small Fixes You Wouldn't Have Noticed
Fixed HTML structure warnings on post cards and a mobile layout issue where the search box wasn't centering right.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Fixed: Every Page Was Crashing in Dev Mode
A quirk in how Next.js handles URL objects was crashing every page locally during development. Eight lines changed, very annoying bug.
TechnicalApr 10, 2026Evergreen
Visual Polish: Closing the Gap to Maggie Appleton
A big visual pass on the blog — portrait hero, card variants, leaf dividers, collapsible tag filter, and newsletter CTA with RSS fallback.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
The Compliance Portal Goes From Idea to Interface
Six changes in one morning: the compliance portal got a data layer, a real interface, auto-synced types, two bug fixes, and a dev shortcut.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
The Twitter Setup That Took Longer Than Expected
Documented the exact X/Twitter developer setup for Postiz — including the OAuth gotchas, callback URL tricks, and a shared rate limit warning.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
Cleaning out an old guest who already left
Removed a leftover library from the blog project after the feature it powered was deleted months ago.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
Feeds, SEO, and a New Look for Link Previews
Added RSS feeds for every section, a machine-readable posts index for AI tools, richer search metadata, and restyled link preview images.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
Now You Can Browse by Tag
Added a /tags page listing every topic on the blog, sorted by how many posts use each one.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
You Can Now Subscribe to This Blog
Added a newsletter signup form (powered by Beehiiv) to the home page, post footer, and site footer — plus a whole new site footer.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
Keeping the Blueprint Fresh
Updated the website's architecture doc to reflect four slices of recent work — RSS, feeds, tags, and the newsletter footer.
TechnicalApr 9, 2026Evergreen
A Speed Bump for My Own Good
Added a small guard that blocks accidental direct saves to the main branch on the blog project.
EssaysApr 8, 2026Evergreen
Redesigning the blog: from a leerob.io fork to an editorial garden
A senior-designer review of the current site, four aesthetic dialects compared, and the hybrid I picked to hold software, garden, family, and photos in one home.
TechnicalApr 8, 2026Evergreen
The Bamboo House Gets Its Own Page
Swapped three different pitches for three different audiences with one real story: a Miami Beach condo, 940 documents, $6.04.
TechnicalApr 8, 2026Evergreen
The Tags Were There the Whole Time
Tags existed in every blog post since day one — I just never wired them up to actually appear on the page.
TechnicalApr 7, 2026Evergreen
Ripped the portal off its rented server and bolted it to my desk
Migrated honest-cam's state to SQLite and self-hosted the portal on a Mac mini via Cloudflare Tunnel.
TechnicalApr 7, 2026Evergreen
Removing orphan content/posts/ from an earlier broken sync (Contentlayer slug gotcha)
Four byte-identical duplicates left over from a rsync destination mistake, and the one-line Contentlayer slug regex that caused it.
TechnicalApr 6, 2026Evergreen
A dev dashboard, Keychain secrets, Xero token fix, and three new languages
Developer QoL upgrades plus Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian landing pages via an AI translation CLI.
TechnicalApr 4, 2026Evergreen
Analytics, a glow-up, and writing things down so I don't forget
Wired up Web Vitals, redesigned the landing pages, rewrote all the copy, and documented the process.
TechnicalApr 3, 2026Evergreen
Compliance website, Xero receipts, and a public face
A statutorily compliant association website with 940 auto-sorted docs, PDF attachments on Xero transactions, and four landing pages.
TechnicalApr 1, 2026Evergreen
Six PRs, one night: Honest CAM goes from docs to a working platform
Architecture docs, an AI-powered OCR pipeline, Xero sync, owner portal, study quiz fixes, and a mobile study app — all in one sitting.
TechnicalMar 29, 2026Evergreen
Initial scaffold: an AI-first property management monorepo
Starting the honest-cam project with a Python + TypeScript monorepo, a YAML-driven document reorganization engine, and SHA-256 idempotency on a 958-file real-world dataset.
TechnicalJul 4, 2023Evergreen
Swapping Twitter for Substack and giving the sidebar logo a refresh
Retiring the Twitter CTA in favor of a Substack email list, adding a 'meet my family' link to ocampo.io, and replacing the sidebar logo with a new SVG pointing to the personal site.
TechnicalJun 26, 2023Evergreen
Allowing Google Tag Manager through the Content-Security-Policy
The inevitable follow-up to adding GTM: the browser's CSP was blocking the script, so this PR adds googletagmanager.com to script-src and img-src in next.config.js.
TechnicalJun 26, 2023Evergreen
Fixing a CSP typo: directive names don't take colons
The one-character follow-up to PR #4: removing the stray colons from the CSP directive names so the browser stops ignoring the whole header.
TechnicalJun 25, 2023Evergreen
Adding Google Analytics to a Next.js blog the old-fashioned way
First instrumentation on the blog: a gtag wrapper in lib/ga.js, a custom pages/_document.js with the Global Site Tag, and no npm dependency.
TechnicalJun 25, 2023Evergreen
A one-line whitespace fix on the gtag script tag
The shortest possible PR: collapsing a two-line JSX attribute into one. Shipping it anyway, because PRs are free and branch hygiene matters.
TechnicalJun 25, 2023Evergreen
Migrating to GA4, swapping in Google Tag Manager, and renaming the site to steven.ocampo.io
Universal Analytics is on the way out, so this PR migrates to GA4 via Google Tag Manager loaded through next/script, and renames everything from stevieismagic.com to steven.ocampo.io.