Notes on software engineering and web architecture.https://abhiigatty.com/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/an-seo-audit-of-my-own-site/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/an-seo-audit-of-my-own-site/A specialist agent crawled abhiigatty.com and surfaced 18 findings. No sitemap. No robots.txt. No structured data. No H1 on the homepage. Here is what landed, what I deferred, and what surprised me about owning the infrastructure of search.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/a-todo-update-notes-and-priority/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/a-todo-update-notes-and-priority/The browser-only todo app now has a collapsible note per row, star and hourglass buttons to float or sink items, and a drag handle to reorder within each tier. Small changes that match how I actually use the list.Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/a-todo-app-that-lives-in-your-browser/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/a-todo-app-that-lives-in-your-browser/I built a minimal todo app that runs entirely in your browser. No signup, no backend, no sync. Here is why, how it works, and the four problems I hit while building it.Sun, 10 May 2026 16:45:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/an-otp-generator-dressed-up-as-cards/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/an-otp-generator-dressed-up-as-cards/I needed a six-digit code generator. Instead of making it boring, I dealt the digits as playing cards, complete with shuffle and flip.Sun, 10 May 2026 15:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/what-i-found-running-lighthouse-on-my-own-site/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/what-i-found-running-lighthouse-on-my-own-site/I ran PageSpeed Insights on my site and got 99 / 91 / 92 / 100. Twenty-five minutes later I ran it again and got 100 / 91 / 100 / 100. One of those score jumps was real engineering. The other was not. This is the difference.Wed, 06 May 2026 17:45:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/the-www-subdomain-i-forgot-about/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/the-www-subdomain-i-forgot-about/A friend tried www.abhiigatty.com and got a connection error. The apex worked fine. What followed was a small lesson in DNS, Cloudflare custom domains, and a Workers gotcha I had never hit before.Wed, 06 May 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/wiring-cloudflare-auto-deploy/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/wiring-cloudflare-auto-deploy/For weeks I was running `npm run deploy` from my laptop every time I changed a paragraph. Today I wired up Cloudflare Workers Builds so a merge to main ships the site by itself.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/semantic-html-helps-ai-read-your-site/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/semantic-html-helps-ai-read-your-site/A short look at what "semantic web" actually means in 2026, why it matters when LLMs are reading your pages, and the small gaps I found while auditing this site.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/devtools-cli-suite/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/devtools-cli-suite/A compact command-line toolkit for streamlining repetitive local development tasks.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/how-ai-tools-fit-into-my-daily-work/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/how-ai-tools-fit-into-my-daily-work/I use AI as a drafting and clarity tool, not an autopilot. It saves time, but the decisions and final words are still mine.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/how-is-this-website-so-fast-built-with-ai/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/how-is-this-website-so-fast-built-with-ai/7.9 KB homepage, 0 trackers, 0 web fonts, built in 1 day. The numbers behind a site I shipped with GitHub Copilot.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/starting-a-startup-with-zero-business-knowledge/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/starting-a-startup-with-zero-business-knowledge/I began with interest, not business training. Here is what it was like to learn legal and operational basics from scratch.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-free-hiring-platforms/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-free-hiring-platforms/“Free hiring” often means free entry, not free hiring. The real cost is usually discovered after setup time is already spent.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/what-i-learned-looking-for-government-grants/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/what-i-learned-looking-for-government-grants/Government grants can help, but the real challenge is navigating eligibility, documents, and uncertainty without burning time.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://abhiigatty.com/blog/starting-a-startup-engineering-student/https://abhiigatty.com/blog/starting-a-startup-engineering-student/What it feels like to start with technical confidence but zero business knowledge, and learn startup basics from scratch.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT