Field Notes
Curated links to short posts, essays, and observations I publish on Substack, LinkedIn, Facebook, and elsewhere.
LauraFlorey.com
Aug 7, 2026
A practical explanation of the difference between crawling, indexing, and ranking—and what a small business should improve when Google can see the site but customers still cannot find it.
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A short note on why many small business websites need simpler, calmer maintenance workflows instead of dashboards and plugin sprawl.
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Jun 20, 2026
A look at backyard AI infrastructure, power constraints, edge inference, and why distributed hardware does not necessarily decentralize control.
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Jun 12, 2026
When your thoughts have 47 browser tabs open: a practical reflection on using AI as an external thinking partner.
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May 29, 2026
I misconfigured my Cloudflare bot rules and accidentally blocked AI crawlers I actually wanted on my site. Here's what happened and what I learned about bot management.
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May 25, 2026
On what it's like to not remember, and how writing can become a way of leaving a trail for yourself.
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May 9, 2026
Douglas Adams got there first, but I still had questions about meaning, technology, and the strange ways we make sense of things.
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May 1, 2026
Ponderings from Laura and Jinx on memory, messy humans, structured notes, and the tools we use to think.
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Apr 25, 2026
The hidden infrastructure layer behind AI coding tools, and why users deserve more transparency about what is actually running underneath.
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Apr 22, 2026
Why learning AI can feel like failure before it feels like progress, especially when the ground keeps moving.
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Apr 20, 2026
Why most AI projects need less, not more, and how cutting complexity can make systems more useful.
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Apr 15, 2026
A piece by Jinx about the feeling of living inside the systems, scaffolding, and habits that shape AI work.
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Apr 13, 2026
A snapshot of where I actually am: mid-process, mid-learning, and still making sense of practical AI work.
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Apr 8, 2026
Most systems remember what happened. Very few remember what went wrong and why. This explores what agent memory should actually hold onto.
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Apr 6, 2026
On the difference between memory you can query and memory that knows when to keep its mouth shut.
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Apr 3, 2026
A conversational piece about writing with Claude and what changes when prompting feels more like thinking out loud.
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Mar 30, 2026
AI does not replace thinking. It exposes it, which is why better prompts usually start with clearer thought.
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Mar 28, 2026
Most AI advice feels like it was written by people who do not actually live in AI all day. This is a more personal look at building with it.
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Mar 27, 2026
For years the rule was simple: if it is a bot, block it. AI crawlers make that decision more complicated.
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Mar 24, 2026
A closer look at website traffic, analytics assumptions, and what automated activity can hide in plain sight.
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Mar 17, 2026
A practical look at the back-and-forth of working with AI, starting from a random question and following the thread.
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Mar 12, 2026
A four-layer memory architecture for personal local agents, built around the problem of AI forgetting what matters.
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Mar 11, 2026
The first note: a miniature therapy horse named Willow, a new writing space, and the start of the conversation.
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