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How English became the language of code

Programming languages use English keywords because the first widely used languages came from English-speaking countries. COBOL, designed in 1959 and 1960, made English-like code an official goal. ASCII, documentation, and online communities then kept English in place. Languages with keywords in other human languages exist, and AI coding tools may widen who can start programming.

Vikki | Oct 25, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Generative AI, It's All About Me

Stop fighting your tools! A good second brain should energize your thinking, not fight it.

A second brain is supposed to free your real brain to do the actual work, not become another thing you maintain at midnight. After watching Notion eat 47 of my pages, I learned the difference between a tool that energizes your thinking and one that drains it. The fix isn’t more capture, it’s radical subtraction.

Vikki | Oct 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Generative AI, Uncategorized

Why AI brand consistency is harder than it looks

This week, AI brand consistency broke down twice on one client project. Generated photos drifted from her actual face, and my writing voice crept into her blog posts. The fix: upload real reference photos and writing samples, name the brand palette and lighting, and check the output regularly instead of noticing drift after it spreads.

Vikki | Oct 12, 2026 | 0 Comments

Generative AI, It's All About Me

Why I’m done with AI tool switching fatigue

Vikki explains why she’s refusing to switch to Grok despite community pressure, breaking down what AI tool switching fatigue costs a small business: scattered work, rebuilt templates, lost context. She contrasts that with the payoff of sticking with one AI workflow, using her Lovable app build and a guest presenter’s Claude filmmaking process as proof.

Vikki | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Generative AI

AI content detectors are broken and I have proof

This week, I typed out a post entirely in my own words and ran it through an AI checker. The checker scored it as 100% AI-generated, and that happened more than once. AI content detectors are broken, and this is going to hurt the wrong people. What happened when I...

Vikki | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 Comments

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It's All About Me, Small business operations

The week I made Claude read my meeting notes back to me

A week inside a small AI consultancy, pulled straight from Notion meeting transcripts: real client work, including a fix for writing wrongly flagged as AI-generated, a business paused on purpose instead of letting it fail quietly, plus a few honest personal notes. Written the way it actually happened, not even polished after the fact.

Vikki | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 Comments

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It's All About Me

Who decides what’s offensive? Both of us.

John Cleese has the numbers on his side. If you scroll through the comments on this Substack post, you’ll find plenty of people nodding along to the idea that comedy should be free to mock anyone, that restricting jokes diminishes laughter itself, and that...

Vikki | Jun 21, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Generative AI

Is AI making content more complicated than it needs to be?

AI can help you remember examples, add nuance, and avoid missing key details. It can also quietly inflate one simple idea into a never-ending “also consider…” list. If you care about being accurate, that feels like obligation. This post gives a finish-line rule and a quick “what goes where” guide.

Vikki | Mar 27, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Health issues

Ankylosing spondylitis: an underrepresented autoimmune disease

Ankylosing spondylitis is more than a stiff back or “everyone’s tired.” It is an underrepresented autoimmune condition that often goes unnamed for years. In this post, I share what AS actually is, how it shows up in real life, why diagnosis is so slow, and how to support people living with it in practical ways.

Vikki | Jan 25, 2026 | 0 Comments

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Generative AI, Life Hacks

How do you know what to do at work when no one gives you a list?

Most overwhelmed business owners are not lazy or disorganized. They are drowning in options. This post shows how one central Notion task list, plus a simple Today and High priority view, turns endless possibilities into a short, humane list so you always know what to do when you open your laptop.

Vikki | Jan 10, 2026 | 0 Comments

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