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Notes and workMalta · 8 October 2026

Notes · 9 articles

Notes from the build.

Short write-ups of real work on AI in Malta, websites, search and the products I run: what broke, how I found it and what I changed.

AI in practice

AI in Malta2 min

AI in Malta: what runs in production

People ask what AI in Malta actually does for a business. Here is what I run in production, and what I keep away from it.

Search

Keyword research before the first line of copy

Before I rewrote a single title today, I checked what people actually type into Google for each site. Several titles changed because of it.

Products

Launchedly2 min

Pricing a software business for sale

Launchedly lists five of my live apps for sale as whole businesses: code, brand, domain and handover. I had to put a price on each one.

Websites

Web design2 min

105 website templates, no two alike

Craftura shows 105 website templates, one for each kind of local business. Many of them looked like the same page with a new name. Today I rebuilt all of them.

Performance2 min

Self-host your images and fonts

One template scored 77 for Best Practices in Lighthouse. Nothing in its code looked wrong. The photos were the problem.

A Mac desktop as a home page

deskio.org is now a desktop. Icons open windows, the dock grows under your pointer, and the clock ticks. Almost none of it needs JavaScript.

One rulebook for six websites

Today I redesigned the six sites I run in public. They share no code and no look, but they share one rulebook.

A favicon is not a link tag

One of my sites showed the browser’s default globe in its tab. The favicon tag was right there in the page.

Motion without JavaScript

The marketing pages I rebuilt today load no JavaScript at all, and they still move.