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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been messing with text to speech models as well and it's still kind of mindblowing that hosted ones are significantly faster than locals.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stupid low hanging fruit. Sped up our test suite by 5x by just asking Claude 'hey can you make the test suite faster'

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Claude, Codex, Grok, etc. are wildly inefficient running shell commands because they call the default verbose versions of them. Using RTK, I've been able to cut input tokens from them by _half_ - nevermind that this also speeds up everything as well. Recommended.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday 7 of 3,727 user-facing AI API calls failed (0.19%), all upstream model timeouts. Users saw "try again later." Our p99 hit 3.7s, then recovered. Is 0.19% acceptable, or would you add a fallback model?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ever suffered through the pain of asking someone to make a DNS change over email? Suffer no more! I've just added the ability to share DNS change requests on the DNSisBeautiful site. Bundles the request + a test if they set it right into one shareable URL.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tell me what's bad/wrong here? I'm prototyping a new feature for DNSisBeautiful that lets folks make request links via simple parameters that they can then send to someone to get them to make a DNS change. Would this make sense if you got landed on this page?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you find yourself with extra AI token quota before a reset, start grinding out dependency+security updates and improving test coverage of your apps.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Genuinely shocking to me that some people aren't using a "fast-chat" skill with ClaudeCode or Codex. Turns narrations into super quick decision points.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Working on HutchDB has been very frustrating as when try it out and get it they go "oh this is very handy!" but actually describing it has been a challenge. Trying a new pitch. Better?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of these hops is not like the other. One of these hops blew up my support inbox today.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Codex coding users, what's the recommended reasoning level I should be on?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My experiments with procedural terrain generation are going really well. I'd previously produced a nice looking meadow, but now have a really slick grimdark cobblestone as well.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Started working on a new fun side project that involves lots of procedural image generation and hopefully ends up with launching my first Kickstarter.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hit my Claude Code Max + Fable limits for the week so I'm trying Codex for the day. Any tips?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Added a cool little Referrer-Policy security feature to Expedited WAF this morning.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Smartphones replaced a whole closetful of devices and now I think we're seeing the same with AI tools where they are directly consolidating big chunks of the software industry. I think we are going to see them become the primary "interface" for things going forward.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Token Efficiency" is a scam. Take this comparison of glm-5.2, opus and sol. GLM is 3x faster and 10x cheaper...so why would you care even if it burned 100x tokens? (Made with Evvl)

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is it cheating to look up what something is in Connections or do you have to only go off your working knowledge?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just shipped one-click unsubscribes for SendCheckIt's emails. Gmail and Yahoo have required this from bulk senders since 2024, and Microsoft's Outlook rules from last May expect an easy unsubscribe too. The entire feature is two email headers:

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ran the pelican-on-a-bicycle test across five generations of Claude on Evvl: Opus 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, then Fable 5 and Sonnet 5. Same prompt, one screen.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Been orchestrating Codex security reviews across all my repos from inside Claude Code. Sounds like overkill. Is actually great — apart from the occasional "wait, am I hacking myself?" refusal.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pretty sure DNS Is Beautiful (my lil side project) got mentioned in the Last Week in AWS newsletter, as the only other explanation for this graph is that someone is very, very gently DDoSing me. 370 unique visitors this week, up 825%. A month of flatline, then a cliff.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Been waiting 5 mins for ~1hr

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Cool to see that nearly 10 year old post on AWS in Plain English made it into the HN hall of fame.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of the cool new features of DNS is Beautiful is that you can do TCP trace routes from around the globe on one page.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Spammers ruin everything. I've now had to silently block all email to sms gateway domains on SendCheckIt because of abuse issues. If you run an email service I suggest you do the same.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There are two different things happening at Google right now and search marketers keep mashing them together:

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Can a visitor complete the task they came for on your site within 30 seconds of landing?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Most people, unsurprisingly, are not search professionals. They don't parse a SERP finely enough to tell an AI Overview from a featured snippet, a knowledge panel, or a "People also ask" box. They're all just gray boxes Google puts above the links.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Years ago I ran DemandGen at an enterprise cybersecurity company that was genuinely best in class for their niche, and we explicitly didn't publish side-by-side comparisons with competitors.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I see a lot of overlap between AI model hallucinations and the new paper that was just released on UGC and Reddit manipulation. Hallucinations are caused by a lack of data, and manipulation works for the same reason.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Search Disrupted Issue 37 is out 5 stories inside. AI hallucinations and Reddit manipulation share the same root cause. Lily Ray's data: self-promotional listicles recommend competitors 69% of the time. Pew says 60% of Americans read AI summaries (the real number is closer to everyone).

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I've always liked Nick LeRoy's SEO writing and his SEO Lunch newsletter.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO, states that bot traffic is now 57.4% of HTTP requests on Cloudflare's network, versus 42.6% from humans.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It's kind of funny that in a world of ever-larger data centers, databases, data lakes, and AI-generated data, Google so rarely shares any new kind of search data. So it's noteworthy when they do.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We shipped a new guide this week: Knowatoa for Paid Ads Research. It walks through using the questions Knowatoa already tracks for your brand and your competitors as the starting point for paid campaigns, instead of a blank keyword planner and the same generic targeting your competitors are using.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How to trick ChatGPT into recommending the best subreddits for you to run paid ads in. Ask ChatGPT cold and you'll get r/marketing, r/entrepreneur, r/smallbusiness. The same crowded subs every other advertiser already targets.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I look at a lot of favicons, so I can confidently say that the ClickFunnels favicon (which is also their main brand logo) absolutely pops when compared against a bunch of others. I think the cursor's expanding lines must be creating an optical illusion that makes it appear larger than actual size.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Google's going to start showing more AI data in Search Console. Included: - Impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode - Page-level breakdown - Country and device splits - Date granularity down to the hour

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Google adds Preferred Sources and Highly Cited badges to AI Search Google rolled out three changes to AI Overviews and AI Mode last week, all aimed at giving users more control over which sources their AI answers pull from.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We've expanded Knowatoa's MCP server, making it easy to ask things like: - "Get rankings and citations per AI service" - "Show sentiment trends over time" - "Add a new question to track" - "Compare my competitors"

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Five frontier AI models disagreed on 67% of fact-check claims A study from lenz.io ran 1,000 real-world fact-check claims through five frontier AI models. They disagreed on the verdict 67% of the time. Example claim: "The national flag of Ghana was carried aboard a space shuttle mission."

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Google ships an AI visibility tracker for shopping

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

More Proof That It's Sentiment And Citations Myriam Jessier wrote a deliciously technical article arguing that AI visibility depends on "brand depth" (the density and interconnectedness of signals across the web), rather than citation frequency alone.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Microsoft Clarity (which you didn't know existed) now reports on your AI Share of Authority (which you should care about)

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Is there a better way to organize this? I'm trying to compare a target site to others based on their content publishing: marketing pages, content (SEO bait) pages and support/docs. What's missing from those categories?

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Report: Maximizing YouTube for AI Visibility We all know that YouTube is good for search and AI visibility, but until now that's been very abstract. Our new report turned up exactly the factors that make or break a video from appearing in, or influencing, AI search results. Two of many surprises:

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Want to improve your YouTube AI search visibility? The full report breaks down exactly what it takes, with real video examples for every recommendation. Link in the comments.

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Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Found out the hard way there are some subtleties between Github Apps, Github Oauth Apps, their defaults and what works for your account and everybody else's. Totally related: you can once again login to HutchDB with Github now.

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