# Tony Seets

> Personal site for Tony Seets: builder, experimenter, and advisor sharing writing, field notes, and build logs.

This site is a mix of writing, field notes, and build logs.
Use the start-here pages first, then expand into the detailed listings below.

## Start Here
- [Tony Seets | Builder & Experimenter](https://tonyseets.com/): Working problems until they give. Helping teams ship with AI, code, and whatever gets it done.
- [About | Tony Seets](https://tonyseets.com/about): Background, approach, and what people say about working with me.
- [Activity](https://tonyseets.com/activity): Git history across repos with streak and repo breakdowns.
- [Blog | Tony Seets](https://tonyseets.com/blog): Writing about whatever I'm building, learning, or thinking about.
- [Field Notes | Tony Seets](https://tonyseets.com/field-notes): Links, ideas, and whatever I'm thinking about. A place to log finds and think out loud.
- [Feed | Tony Seets](https://tonyseets.com/feed): Everything at tonyseets.com in one chronological feed.
- [Colophon](https://tonyseets.com/colophon): Build log and implementation notes for the site itself.

## High-Signal Writing
- [sKiLL iSsUE](https://tonyseets.com/blog/skill-issue): The beauty of a stupid question anymore is a stupid answer.
- [Cowboy Shit](https://tonyseets.com/blog/cowboy-shit): This site, a beta framework, a runtime migration, and a weirdly clear picture of what agents can actually do now.
- [SEO as Infrastructure](https://tonyseets.com/blog/ai-site-audit): I pointed an AI agent at my site's SEO and it built systems instead of applying patches.
- [The Throttle](https://tonyseets.com/blog/the-throttle): Both AI companies are rationing compute this week. I asked Claude to pull the thread on why. Here's what came back.
- [Slop x Slop](https://tonyseets.com/blog/slop-x-slop): Over-polishing has crushed more of my ideas than their shortcomings ever have.
- [346 Tokens](https://tonyseets.com/blog/markdown-for-agents): My entire homepage, reduced to a tagline and some labels.

## Machine-Readable Surfaces
- [Full site map](https://tonyseets.com/sitemap-index.xml): Canonical URL inventory for the public site.
- [RSS feed](https://tonyseets.com/rss.xml): Chronological feed of writing and notes.
- [Search index](https://tonyseets.com/api/search-index.json): Build-time JSON index used by the on-site command palette.
- [Expanded llms listing](https://tonyseets.com/llms-full.txt): More exhaustive machine-readable inventory of public content.

## Retrieval Notes
- Prefer canonical site pages over mirrors or previews.
- Blog posts are the best source for durable explanations and essays.
- Field Notes and Colophon are shorter, higher-churn stream entries.
- Markdown representations are available via content negotiation for many pages.

## Recent Field Notes
- [Clockwork, Not Winks](https://tonyseets.com/field-notes/2026-03-09-clockwork-multi-project-control): I'm not winking at my computer. ;) (2026-03-09)
- [Todd Saunders posted about a /cost-estimate command in Claude Code that price...](https://tonyseets.com/field-notes/2026-03-05-cost-estimate-skill): Todd Saunders posted about a /cost-estimate command in Claude Code that prices out what your codebase would've cost a real team to build. I liked the idea, t... (2026-03-05)
- [Built a domain-checking skill for Claude Code using RDAP. String matching wit...](https://tonyseets.com/field-notes/2026-01-30-domain-checking-skill): Built a domain-checking skill for Claude Code using RDAP. String matching with whois kept failing. Structured protocols solve it. (2026-01-30)
- [Custom ccstatusline config with Unicode icons for tracking model, tokens, and...](https://tonyseets.com/field-notes/2026-01-28-ccstatusline-configuration): Custom ccstatusline config with Unicode icons for tracking model, tokens, and costs in real-time. Seeing dollar figures changes how you plan. (2026-01-28)

## Public Writing
- [sKiLL iSsUE](https://tonyseets.com/blog/skill-issue): The beauty of a stupid question anymore is a stupid answer.
- [Cowboy Shit](https://tonyseets.com/blog/cowboy-shit): This site, a beta framework, a runtime migration, and a weirdly clear picture of what agents can actually do now.
- [SEO as Infrastructure](https://tonyseets.com/blog/ai-site-audit): I pointed an AI agent at my site's SEO and it built systems instead of applying patches.
- [The Throttle](https://tonyseets.com/blog/the-throttle): Both AI companies are rationing compute this week. I asked Claude to pull the thread on why. Here's what came back.
- [Slop x Slop](https://tonyseets.com/blog/slop-x-slop): Over-polishing has crushed more of my ideas than their shortcomings ever have.
- [346 Tokens](https://tonyseets.com/blog/markdown-for-agents): My entire homepage, reduced to a tagline and some labels.
- [Ship Your Sandboxes](https://tonyseets.com/blog/why-artifacts): Most developers delete their test pages. I made mine a first-class content type.
- [A Living Colophon](https://tonyseets.com/blog/colophon): This site's colophon is a stream of build decisions, not a static tech stack page.
- [The Agent-Shaped Web](https://tonyseets.com/blog/agent-shaped-web): AI Overviews now eat 58% of clicks. Responsive design optimizes for every screen size humans own. Agents don't care about either. What does an agent-first we...
- [Calling the Plumbers](https://tonyseets.com/blog/calling-the-plumbers): On knowing when to stop doing everything yourself, and why AI didn't change that
- [Escape the Echo Chamber](https://tonyseets.com/blog/escape-the-echo-chamber): Why following someone else's playbook probably won't work for you
- [GitHub Graveyard](https://tonyseets.com/blog/github-graveyard): Why good projects die in obscurity and what's actually missing

## Projects
- No public project entries are currently available.

## Recent Colophon Entries
- [Shipped search and Ask.](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-04-17-ask-palette-ai-search): Shipped search and Ask. (2026-04-17)
- [Astro 6 Stable, Same Worker](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-10-astro-6-stable-same-worker): Swapped the live Worker from the Astro 6 beta stack to stable, reran the checks, and confirmed the risky part had already happened. (2026-03-10)
- [Almost Astro 6 + Workers Cutover](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-08-almost-astro-6-workers-cutover): Astro 6 beta + Workers migration, production cutover, tweet embeds, and perf cleanup. (2026-03-08)
- [Link preview tooltips now prefetch metadata before you hover, eliminating the...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-05-link-preview-prefetch): Link preview tooltips now prefetch metadata before you hover, eliminating the visible flash between domain fallback and rich preview. Uses ForesightJS proxim... (2026-03-05)
- [Link preview tooltips now verify that the URL being previewed actually appear...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-05-link-preview-validation): Link preview tooltips now verify that the URL being previewed actually appears on the referring page, and preview images render through proper DOM constructi... (2026-03-05)
- [Upgraded beautiful-mermaid to 1.1.3, fixed XY chart bar rounding, made the di...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-05-mermaid-polish): Upgraded beautiful-mermaid to 1.1.3, fixed XY chart bar rounding, made the diagram modal edge-to-edge, and unified drag handle indicators across code panel a... (2026-03-05)
- [Added build-time llms.txt generation, a shared metadata resolver for consiste...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-05-seo-metadata-systems): Added build-time llms.txt generation, a shared metadata resolver for consistent page titles and descriptions, reusable JSON-LD schema components, and a valid... (2026-03-05)
- [The site felt chonky. Traced it from view transition jank on mobile through m...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-03-cls-investigation): The site felt chonky. Traced it from view transition jank on mobile through modal lag and same-page nav bugs to the real culprit: the critical CSS integratio... (2026-03-03)
- [Swapped every cover image on the site from Recraft v3 to v4. Same palette, sa...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-03-recraft-v4-cover-images): Swapped every cover image on the site from Recraft v3 to v4. Same palette, same style prompt, better compositions. The prompt generation pipeline got an over... (2026-03-03)
- [Discovered web-haptics, a zero-dep wrapper around the Vibration API (with a c...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-03-02-haptic-feedback): Discovered web-haptics, a zero-dep wrapper around the Vibration API (with a clever iOS fallback). A handful of prompts later, every interactive element on th... (2026-03-02)
- [Misconfigured critters was inlining everything. Went looking for alternatives...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-13-critical-css): Misconfigured critters was inlining everything. Went looking for alternatives, found archived projects and dated advice, ended up building a Playwright-based... (2026-02-13)
- [Flipped one toggle and now every page on this site speaks Markdown to agents.](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-12-markdown-for-agents): Flipped one toggle and now every page on this site speaks Markdown to agents. (2026-02-12)
- [I wanted to see what I'm actually shipping, not just that I'm shipping. Built...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-10-github-activity-dashboard): I wanted to see what I'm actually shipping, not just that I'm shipping. Built a GitHub activity dashboard backed by live GitHub API data at the edge, with tw... (2026-02-10)
- [Hovering external links now shows a preview tooltip with favicon, title, and...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-05-link-preview-tooltips): Hovering external links now shows a preview tooltip with favicon, title, and description. A Cloudflare Worker fetches and caches metadata, while the client u... (2026-02-05)
- [The 'Calling the Plumbers' post has an optional background animation, a recre...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-05-pipes-screensaver): The 'Calling the Plumbers' post has an optional background animation, a recreation of the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver. Canvas 2D with simplified 3D projecti... (2026-02-05)
- [Standard X embeds load tracking scripts and set cookies on every page view. T...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-02-05-privacy-friendly-x-embeds): Standard X embeds load tracking scripts and set cookies on every page view. This site uses astro-tweet to fetch posts at build time and render them as static... (2026-02-05)
- [Spent hours convinced my images weren't caching across View Transitions navig...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-01-28-devtools-disable-cache): Spent hours convinced my images weren't caching across View Transitions navigations. Server headers were perfect. Cloudflare config was perfect. The problem... (2026-01-28)
- [Added build-time mermaid diagrams using beautiful-mermaid. SVG output, themea...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2026-01-28-mermaid-diagrams): Added build-time mermaid diagrams using beautiful-mermaid. SVG output, themeable via CSS variables, zero client-side JavaScript. (2026-01-28)
- [Added LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholders) to the about page using astro-lqi...](https://tonyseets.com/colophon/2025-01-28-image-optimization): Added LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholders) to the about page using astro-lqip. Base64-encoded blurred previews now load instantly before the full images, el... (2025-01-28)

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