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Founder log

A short, roughly weekly note on what I am building, reading, or breaking.

Jun 12, 2026

Three sites, one design DNA

Finished moving the override pattern out of me/ and into the shared package docs. The corporate, lab, and me sites now share tokens, atoms, and i18n helpers. Each keeps its own voice. The total LOC for shared design system is under 600 lines, which is the right size.

May 30, 2026

Why I'm betting on the monorepo

Three repos would have been simpler to start. Three repos also would have been three places where tokens.css diverges. The monorepo is more setup now, less drift later. That trade is worth it for a one-person team with three sites.

May 12, 2026

Switched back to Astro after Next

Tried Next 15 for two weeks. The DX is good, the deploy story is good, and the bundle is bigger than it needs to be for a static site. Astro gives me the same templating with zero runtime. Going back.

Apr 28, 2026

AeoX v2 beta opens

Closed beta of AeoX v2 went out to the first 30 customers. New: llms.txt generator, AEO audit, entity-graph view. The beta is free for 90 days; the conversion to Pro is the bet.

Apr 10, 2026

First profitable month

YAOLUMEN TECHNOLOGIES LTD cleared its operating costs for the first time in March 2026. The number is small. The fact is not. The next 11 months need to be at least this good.