OK Independent developer · Founder of ZART Public record since 2026-10-30 by Owen Jiong
OrangeKnows
Ideas you can check.
I publish what I work on each day, what I learn, and where my judgement was wrong. In an age when models generate convincing artefacts in bulk, the scarce proof is a continuous, checkable human record.
Five drawers
Latest entries
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AI for makers: three jobs worth handing over, one that will cost you
Makers dislike AI for good reasons: it averages taste and homogenises content. Three chores are still worth handing over — and one thing, handed over, destroys your premium.
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Own your domain, site and inbox for under $20 a year
A minimum viable setup for makers: your own domain, a free static site, and a real inbox on that domain. Hard cost is the domain — about US$10 a year.
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Nine questions before you build anything
A self-audit I wrote for myself in 2025: nine questions. If you cannot answer one of them, you are not ready to write code yet.
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Luxury is not efficiency; it is what people endow
Efficiency pushes price to the floor; scarcity and human endowment lift meaning to the ceiling. Handmade goods, content and personal brands run on the same logic — which makes continuity itself scarce.
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Tags are the interface: structured data beats channel lists
A site is caught by the ecosystem not by how many channels it plugs into, but by how complete its structured facts are. Most third-party services are just entry points to the same facts.
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Static-site UI failures never fail the build
Three UI breakages today, every one of them a green build. The fix: assert on the build artefacts, not on the exit code.
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