Dec 28, 2025: "Teaching Search Engines What This Even Is"
Creating sitemap, schema markup, Open Graph tags, first Docker files. None of it is visible to a person looking at the site. It's the layer that tells Google, Facebook, every crawler what kind of page they're looking at - product, article, homepage. Skip it and even a well-built shop is invisible to search. Built before there was anything to actually sell, because retrofitting SEO into 171 files later would've been worse than doing it once now.
Dec 28, 2025: "Making It Work for Everyone, Not Just Me"
Went through every template adding skip-to-main links, alt text, proper form field labelling so it is ARIA compliance. Nobody testing my own shop day to day would ever notice this work. That's the point of it. If someone using a screen reader can't get through checkout, I've built a shop that only works for people who build shops the way I do. Accessibility isn't a feature you add later, it's infrastructure, same as the database.
The above are notes made after looking through my GitHub and seeing what I have been building.
